Goodbye 6 mb inernet, hello 200 mb

[Red Squirrel]

Nice, hopefully its uncapped though, otherwise it's kind of pointless. I have 50/30 uncapped which is nice. So glad fibre came here. Never would have thought I'd see the day.

I wish ISPs would quit it with the whole "no servers" bullshit as well as crippling the upload speed though. Connections are getting so fast now I would rather have something symetrical and have several IPs and be able to host stuff. Ex: I'd rather have 100/100 than 200/50 or something. Heck ISPs could make money off this as they could provide only 1 dymaic IP by default, and ability to buy static blocks. I've even offered my ISP to pay extra so I can get a static and be exempt from the no servers rule and they won't budge. They also wont serve businesses unless there's an apartment in the same building. Some weird political crap.

 

[thesmokingman]

I got it installed and ran some speed tests, was getting 180-190 down and 20/or so up. I changed DNS settings to Google's and the rest were 210 or so down and 20 up

Grats. Now all you need is a good anonymous vpn or anon proxy!

 

[Scarpozzi]

I paid $45/month for a long while and got decent 30Mbit service with rare outages...then moved to a new city and got $30/month at maybe 20Mbit down...it was fine, but did have some latency occasionally. Eventually they started charge $65/month for the same service and wouldn't give me anymore discounts....for the service/cost and the fact that I wasn't online enough, I cancelled service and just share wifi when I need it from my phone. I've been doing this for over a year and a half now.....so $1200+ in my pocket so far. I'm not a fan of the cable/DSL monopoly....I have really bad options where I live. I'll revisit options in another couple of years when I'm forced to change off unlimited cellphone data. (I'm sure it's coming)

 

[blankslate]

I just don't know what people do with those speeds. I currently pay $25/mo for 30mbps and see no need for faster.

torrenting pr0n for the NAS while experiencing no latency in mmo games... um... I guess...



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[Homerboy]

Nice, hopefully its uncapped though, otherwise it's kind of pointless. I have 50/30 uncapped which is nice. So glad fibre came here. Never would have thought I'd see the day.

I wish ISPs would quit it with the whole "no servers" bullshit as well as crippling the upload speed though. Connections are getting so fast now I would rather have something symetrical and have several IPs and be able to host stuff. Ex: I'd rather have 100/100 than 200/50 or something. Heck ISPs could make money off this as they could provide only 1 dymaic IP by default, and ability to buy static blocks. I've even offered my ISP to pay extra so I can get a static and be exempt from the no servers rule and they won't budge. They also wont serve businesses unless there's an apartment in the same building. Some weird political crap.

Just use something like FreeDNS or the like to get a domain name (theirs) routed to your your IP address. There are scripts that will auto-update your IP if it happens to change.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just use something like FreeDNS or the like to get a domain name (theirs) routed to your your IP address. There are scripts that will auto-update your IP if it happens to change.

Not really reliable especially because my ISP has a lease time of like 10 minutes. I've actually lost my IP in the middle of large transfers before because the lease expired and the DHCP packet did not make it through (I was saturating it pretty good, my host server is 100mbps both ways). That, and if they say no servers, and they find out they could order you to shut down everything. It can take several days to change a DNS server IP as well.

I already have a DNS name for my home and a script that updates it with my DNS server but it's mostly for my game server (those are allowed) and for me to be able to reconnect if I lose my IP while I'm remote.

 

[brianmanahan]

Wow, what part of Ohio are you in?

north ohio, but rural area

can't even get cable TV out here

 

[Sonikku]

I paid $45/month for a long while and got decent 30Mbit service with rare outages...then moved to a new city and got $30/month at maybe 20Mbit down...it was fine, but did have some latency occasionally. Eventually they started charge $65/month for the same service and wouldn't give me anymore discounts....

This kind of behavior frustrates me to no end. The same number of mpbs should be cheaper to deliver over time. Yet the telecoms seem to charge more and more for the same speed one year to the next.

All I get from Time Warner is internet. Yet I get the letter in the mail "explaining some changes in my bill" that assures me they did everything they could to keep my bill low, but networks are charging more money for their television channels. So...my... internet bill went up? WTF Time Warner...

 

[thesmokingman]

This kind of behavior frustrates me to no end. The same number of mpbs should be cheaper to deliver over time. Yet the telecoms seem to charge more and more for the same speed one year to the next.

All I get from Time Warner is internet. Yet I get the letter in the mail "explaining some changes in my bill" that assures me they did everything they could to keep my bill low, but networks are charging more money for their television channels. So...my... internet bill went up? WTF Time Warner...

Rates go up whenever their costs of operations go up. Yay! Try threatening to leave them, that usually means transferring to dept authorized to cut deals... forget what they were called again?

 

[Carson Dyle]

1 Gigabit symmetrical for $49.95 per month