Can my cable modem be that fast??

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I had RoadRunner for the longest time and was getting and average of 3mps on a wired lan connection. I moved to a new apartment with optimum online - i assumed the technology was the same but I benchmarked the WIRELESS connection - up to 9mbs! It was consistantly between 7 and 9 - is that real or are the benchmarks skewed somehow?
 

KLin

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try downloading something. If it finishes 3x faster than your old RR, then you'll know it's for real.
 

upsciLLion

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Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: junkerman123
optimum is fast as hell, at least until they start capping :)

Will they cap if they see heavy usage from me?

Only if the heavy usage is from uploading more of those whacky movies of yours!
 

Viper GTS

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Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Only if the heavy usage is from uploading more of those whacky movies of yours!

Anybody here work for Optimum?

I've got $100 to anyone who can cap his upload at 300 baud.

Viper GTS
 

tami

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that sounds about right. i also have OOL and those are the approximate speeds i get. OOL > RR. only downside is OOL blocks ports 25 and 80, which means no more webserver or sendmail server :(
 

Hossenfeffer

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Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Only if the heavy usage is from uploading more of those whacky movies of yours!

Anybody here work for Optimum?

I've got $100 to anyone who can cap his upload at 300 baud.

Viper GTS

BWHAHAAHA! You owe me a new keyboard, damn it. Just spewed pop out my nose.
 

LeiZaK

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Originally posted by: tami
that sounds about right. i also have OOL and those are the approximate speeds i get. OOL > RR. only downside is OOL blocks ports 25 and 80, which means no more webserver or sendmail server :(

just run them on a different port?...
 

Dean

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I also have a 10/1 download and upload connection. Whats wierd that in many cases it is not useable.

"P2P apps and NNTP (newsgroups) are rate limited to 5 megabit DOWNLOAD. ALL other DOWNLOAD traffic types (FTP, HTTP etc) are wide open up to 10 megabit.

UPLOAD is provisioned up to 1 megabit, except P2P apps (bittorrent, ares etc) which are rate limited. 30 kilobyte/s is to be the max upload speed for this apps."

At least my total uploads and downloads don't get capped after an alloted use of bandwidth, but those conditions above still seem to be a start of a trend I don't like.
 

thomsbrain

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cable modems are 10mbps devices, and can provide that full bandwidth if they are not artificially limited. the providers just limit them down from there according to what service you are paying for. back in the good old days they didn't limit them at all. :D
 

aircooled

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Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Only if the heavy usage is from uploading more of those whacky movies of yours!

Anybody here work for Optimum?

I've got $100 to anyone who can cap his upload at 300 baud.

Viper GTS


ahhh.... 300 baud. my first modem on my commodore 64... memories....