No high speed internetz for me

[paulney]

Well, apparently I live too far from the CO, so my best speed is 3Mbs down.

- U-verse not available (and they can't tell me if and when)
- No Verizon FIOS
- No Fusion from Sonic (they just rolled out SF, no plans for SJ yet)
- Comcast is teh debil! (but looks like my only choice)

This seriously sucks!

/rant
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[Ns1]

I would move ASAP

 

[grohl]

meh, 3mbps? could be worse. Some still use dial-up.

 

[Ruptga]

I'm on 3mbps right now. It's so much better than my college's shit LAN it's unbelievable.

 

[Gerbil333]

You'll live. My uncle is on dial-up, my mother has 1.5mbps DSL, and my sister has 1mbps DSL in Florida.

 

[shortylickens]

3 megs is great. Quit crying.

 

[paulney]

You'll live. My uncle is on dial-up, my mother has 1.5mbps DSL, and my sister has 1mbps DSL in Florida.

I actually lived with it for quite a while, but now with Netflix finally upgrading the quality of streaming, I was hoping for at least 6Mbs down. Not so fast.

To add slight insult to injury, AT&T charges an extra $5 for a dry loop.

 

[Newbian]

If 3 megs is not enough then you are using torrents way to much for illegal dling.

 

[paulney]

If 3 megs is not enough then you are using torrents way to much for illegal dling.

TBH, since all the 'tubes' came to life, I stopped torrenting anything except for exceptional stuff. But when you can't watch a promo-trailer off Sony's PS3 store without it pausing every 5 seconds, that's very annoying.

 

[Kanalua]

Ahhhh...the day has come when 3 mbps is considered "slow."

You should go back to the days when you would have to schedule your downloads on a download manager to run at night when everyone was sleeping and hope no one in the house would pick up the phone or need to use the phone in the middle of the night, and kick your connection off...especially if you have a non-resumable link!

 

[paulney]

Ahhhh...the day has come when 3 mbps is considered "slow."

You should go back to the days when you would have to schedule your downloads on a download manager to run at night when everyone was sleeping and hope no one in the house would pick up the phone or need to use the phone in the middle of the night, and kick your connection off...especially if you have a non-resumable link!

I remember those days
I started off with Fidonet (not many of you probably even know what it is) & BBS stuff.

 

[Rubycon]

3Mbps?

Spoiled!

I lust when I have 3G or wifi ashore!

 

[Newbian]

Ahhhh...the day has come when 3 mbps is considered "slow."

You should go back to the days when you would have to schedule your downloads on a download manager to run at night when everyone was sleeping and hope no one in the house would pick up the phone or need to use the phone in the middle of the night, and kick your connection off...especially if you have a non-resumable link!

Thank god for programs like getright that let you resume them.

 

[MovingTarget]

Heh, we didn't even have DSL service available until 2006. Best we can realistically get is 768kbps.

It could be worse...you could be using dialup...shared via router with the rest of the family computers. I still have nightmares to this day...

 

[chedrz]

You could have crappy satellite internet. My parents can only get satellite internet for high-speed since they live 10 miles out of town. 1 Meg down, 200MB cap/day. If the cap is exceeded, the bandwidth drops to 56K for 24 hours. If the cap is exceeded multiple days in a row/multiple times in a week, that bandwidth is halved each time.

Try doing anything with a 28K connection.

 

[pontifex]

i tohught high speed internet was anything over 56k?

 

[Leros]

3Mbit is really enough. It'll be fast for browsing, you can get largish files at a reasonable rate (minutes) and you can just wait for huge files.

 

[mjrpes3]

- No Fusion from Sonic (they just rolled out SF, no plans for SJ yet)

I'm with Sonic and have been following their Fusion product. You won't ever be able to get it ever because you have to live very close to a CO. However, Sonic is playing around with fiber to the premise in Santa Rosa and I hope it will expand to other parts of the Bay Area someday (maybe with cooperating with Google).

 

[rockyct]

I had to live for 2 years recently on .5 Mb down/up. It actually wasn't sooooo bad. I could actually play TF2 with it but having to buffer even youtube videos sucks.

 

[ahenkel]

I swear to the dark lord I will sacrifice one of my lambs if I ever have to go back to my old 1mb connection. Having to share that with 2 house holds was too much.

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

I thought my 30mbps/10mbps up from crapcast is slow. ...waiting for fiber optic price to drop.