Dont have a cell phone that works at my house. Had a customer bring her laptop over with a sprint wireless 3g card and my dialup was faster than it, only reason i got a signal was cause it was overcast and it kept cutting out. To use a cell phone you have to go about a mile and a half away to get a signal.
What makes it worse is that im paying $35 a month for this to. $25 for the phone line and that is the cheapest plan they have through verizon, and then $10 a month for the dialup access. The only other alternative is satalite, but that is triple the cost of what i pay now, and i couldnt game on satalite like i can on dialup. Lets just say i have a hell of a lot of temporary internet files cached so FF loads things that i visit frequently almost as fast as broadband.
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I feel for you. My parents are out in the middle of nowhere. Thus far they have had the choice of satellite or dial-up. They are on sat because they don't use any latency sensitive apps, but there have been a few problems (some websites timeout, etc). Ping times are so bad that I just get timeouts when I try to remotely log in to help them out.
Having said that, I believe the telecom towers have just been upgraded - I am sending them a 3G card to test the reception. With any luck, that will work.
Back on topic - I have a 13Mb/1Mb ADSL2+ connection here. I think my modem is suffering a little from age - or maybe there are more people these days. Either way, I used to get about 16Mb down.
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50/50 fibre over here, amazing ping, no packet loss and great stability and speed.
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Boy that info was old. As am I. Currently my kids have taken over my desktops. They are both sporting matching GTX1080's. Last Christmas I got everyone Oculuses and thus GTX1080's. My eldest is some sort of CSGO champion gold label something or other. Me I work and shoot real guns. Build Comps as needed.
1.5 mbit up, 1.5 mbit down, nothing spectacular. Around $30/month. I could pay much more to get a bit faster connection, but nah...
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15mbps down, 1mbps up. This was tested at the peak hours of the day (18:47). Otherwise it is around 150 Mb/s during off peak hours thanks to powerboost which gives me unlimited download (w/e the network supports) for the first few minutes of each download- it goes to around 6-9 MB/sec. uTorrent torrents go up to around 2.1 MB/sec but they can't use powerboost. That's for 45$/month.
60Mb/s is = 7.5 megabytes per second but that's only because of powerboost, after the first 2 minutes it goes down to around 15Mbps (2 MB/sec).
This below is my best result so far. Yes i know its impossible, i think my Ethernet controller can't even dream of such speeds since it is 100Mbit limited but it looks cool tho.
330 Mb/s is = 41.25 megabytes per second which is complete nonsense...
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Does anyone have experience with wireless T1 or anything else similar?
main line from Rogers, the most expensive lame internet. $57 for 10mbit down/0.5mbit with a 60GB cap, up to $50 extra when you go over 60GB.
torrent line (goes through SSH) from acanac, unlimited 5mbit down/0.8mbit up, $320/year dry loop included.
Taken during peak hours, ~7-8pm.
i think i'll stick with my metro ethernet
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Cable connection here and right now it's 20Mbit down / 1Mbit up with a traffic limit of 45GB
Sometime this month they're changing it to 30 / 1,25 with a limit of 50GB limit and in july they're making the limit 80GB
I'll do a speedtest when I'm home, can hower show speed at work
20/20 fiber
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System 1 (mine):
CPU: i7 920 D0 stable at 4.0 GHz cooled by Scythe Mugen 2000
GPU: PowerColor HD5850 (950/1250 1.2V)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Memory: 6GB DDR3 GeiL @ 1528 MHz
System 2 (gf's):
CPU: i7 920 D0 currently at 4.2 GHz cooled by Noctua NH-D14 (needs more tweaking/testing)
GPU: Club3D HD5850 (awaiting OC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Memory: 6GB DDR3 Corsair @ 1600 MHz
Nothing special here just a bit more uncommon connection type. Been using 5/5Mbit (~600KB/s is the max) G.HSDSL since last summer, fibre internal network connected to external network with that type in this student appartment area. Previous school year I had 1/1 - 2/2 Mbit still so this is a nice free upgrade for me concidering I got internet, water and electricity expenses all included in the rent (268 EUR/month) so it's always a static monthly price and very low rent as well comparing to other places and the rent wasn't raised this year. \o/
No b/w caps ofc, at least I've uploaded like maybe 300 ~ 400GB a month (I don't download that much at all, maybe 50GB, without any complaints so I'm not complaining.
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Just got FiOS 15/5 a couple days ago, $60./mo. with phone, no install fee.
Much better and more consistent pings than previous Roadrunner 15/2 copper, no slow down at peak times, and went from $163./mo. to $130./mo. including TV service from Time-Warner. Still waiting for FiOS TV here tho'.
Hey whaddaya gonna do...they're still gouging us.
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I'm paying for 10mbps down I believe, although It could have been upgraded to 12mbps.
So here's what I get locally:
Here's what I get connecting to other places far and wide. Shocked at what I am actually getting:
I'm pleased with what I pay for and what I get. I just don't recall the cost off hand lol.
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Does anyone have a good ISP in California that gives good service and bang for the $$?
Mine sucks.
at home I have AT&T pay 33/month and get 2.2 down and .45 up
I paid of 3200 and what I got is around 2300... It also fails occasionally, and it gets really annoying sometimes.
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