Purdigital Internet

[erub]

I'm renting a condo in Midtown Atlanta, it comes with free (well paid for by the guys' homeowner fee, included in my rent)..not sure what type of pipe that they have running in here but there is about 90 units in my building, but I bet none of them are heavy users

Here's my test results, speakeasy from Atlanta:
Download Speed: 29207 kbps (3650.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 18505 kbps (2313.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Dallas:
Download Speed: 20595 kbps (2574.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 17442 kbps (2180.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

I wonder if I am maxing out some of these servers, especially on the west coast cause its peak time!?

 

[silverpig]

Wow, nice.



edit: if it's a condo that might be the building's line you're testing. So they might have some crazy fibre running to the building which is shared amongst the tenants.

 

[TuxDave]

omg wtf

 

[spidey07]

Probably just a fast ethernet connection. 100 megabits both ways.

 

[BunLengthHotDog]

Yep, probably Metro-E of some sort...enjoy it while you can

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: BunLengthHotDog
Yep, probably Metro-E of some sort...enjoy it while you can

luckily for me that time will be at least 17 months, maybe longer

i forgot to put in the OP that my television also comes thru this same wire, ive never seen a TV hooked up this way - the decoder box is small, and it hooks up to the TVs via composite

i have to get a new switch though because of the crazy way that they wired my apartment, palced two jacks in the bedroom and one in the living room, and i need my computer in the living room (bedroom is tiny) so yeah

 

[NanoStuff]

No it's not fast, you're living back in 2003 with those transfer rates.

If you want fast internet I suggest you move to Paris. 300MB downstream/150MB upstream for 70 Euros through France Télécom.

Your pitiful 3MB isn't looking so hot anymore, is it?

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
No it's not fast, you're living back in 2003 with those transfer rates.

If you want fast internet I suggest you move to Paris. 300MB downstream/150MB upstream for 70 Euros through France Télécom.

Your pitiful 3MB isn't looking so hot anymore, is it?

Yeah.....I somehow doubt they're giving out 2.4tbps connections for 70 Euros. Got a link to back it up?

 

[intogamer]

Thats like flipping connections for company servers

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
No it's not fast, you're living back in 2003 with those transfer rates.

If you want fast internet I suggest you move to Paris. 300MB downstream/150MB upstream for 70 Euros through France Télécom.

Your pitiful 3MB isn't looking so hot anymore, is it?

Yeah.....I somehow doubt they're giving out 2.4tbps connections for 70 Euros. Got a link to back it up?

2.5 Gbps down 1.2 Gbps up

 

[mchammer]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
No it's not fast, you're living back in 2003 with those transfer rates.

If you want fast internet I suggest you move to Paris. 300MB downstream/150MB upstream for 70 Euros through France Télécom.

Your pitiful 3MB isn't looking so hot anymore, is it?

300MB down, lol. MAYBE 300mb.

 

[Descartes]

I have Purdigital and I live in midtown Atlanta. Given that there are only a few buildings with Purdigital (maybe even only one?) we might live in the same damn building!

I agree that it's insanely fast though.

 

[everman]

The U.S. is lagging way behind in this area, just look at S.Korea, Japan, some euro countries.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
No it's not fast, you're living back in 2003 with those transfer rates.

If you want fast internet I suggest you move to Paris. 300MB downstream/150MB upstream for 70 Euros through France Télécom.

Your pitiful 3MB isn't looking so hot anymore, is it?

Yeah.....I somehow doubt they're giving out 2.4tbps connections for 70 Euros. Got a link to back it up?

No I don't, I also doubt they're giving out 2.4tbps for 70 Euros

One day certainly, but you're just being silly there.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Wow

<-- 7 Mbps/512 Kbps, pays out the azz for it ($44.99)

 

[spidey07]

Yeah right.

Like their countries are like the size of one of our states.

jeez.

It's coming. You can't just wave a magic wand and have fiber to every single home in the US.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: Kirby64

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
No it's not fast, you're living back in 2003 with those transfer rates.

If you want fast internet I suggest you move to Paris. 300MB downstream/150MB upstream for 70 Euros through France Télécom.

Your pitiful 3MB isn't looking so hot anymore, is it?

Yeah.....I somehow doubt they're giving out 2.4tbps connections for 70 Euros. Got a link to back it up?

2.5 Gbps down 1.2 Gbps up

I was going through the france telecom website, and saw that they only have the 18mb/800k up/down connection at the moment. But that's for a not bad price of 39.90 EUR per month (here

They don't have the high speed internet up yet.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Yeah right.

Like their countries are like the size of one of our states.

jeez.

It's coming. You can't just wave a magic wand and have fiber to every single home in the US.

It's not size that's relevant, but population density. USA is much larger but also contains many more people, thus while they have to span across more land than any European country, the also have equivalently more resources to do so.

Face the facts, American telcos are giving you the shaft. As long as they have no competition, they have no reason to promptly deliver a higher level of service. They'll get paid either way; getting paid for not doing a damn thing however is healthier for the wallet.

But then again, considering that America is turning into an economic shithole slowly but surely; hesitation in expanding fiber networks could be understandable. Ofcourse failure to do so will effectively cause a feedback cycle by reducing economic competitiveness even further, which further increases difficulty for funding expansion, which once again causes the American market to fall further behind the rest of the world. A chain reaction of doom.

Penny pinching, poor corporate ethics and republican fundamentalism and favoritism my friend, that's why you're still on shitbps DSL.

 

[spidey07]

I don't want to have to go into this again.

The majority of people with broadband access have a choice. So we can quit with the no competition stuff.

Not only that, at last count the US telcos are headed down the GPON path (the 2.4 Gig one), with asia on the much slower EPON, europe split between EPON and an active platform like ethernet.

There is such fierce competition in the US in this arena it will blow your mind. Every single telco wants to give you IPTV(HD as well), phone and data. It's coming. And given the competition cable is giving them, it's gonna be awesome.

 

[BRObedoza]

sign up with a Usenet provider.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: spidey07
I don't want to have to go into this again.

The majority of people with broadband access have a choice. So we can quit with the no competition stuff.

Not only that, at last count the US telcos are headed down the GPON path (the 2.4 Gig one), with asia on the much slower EPON, europe split between EPON and an active platform like ethernet.

There is such fierce competition in the US in this arena it will blow your mind. Every single telco wants to give you IPTV(HD as well), phone and data. It's coming. And given the competition cable is giving them, it's gonna be awesome.

I wish AT&T would hurry the hell up and roll out something like FIOS in Central California :|.

 

[spidey07]

at&t is going GPON and skipping the slower fios (epon)

AFAIK, verizon will be deploying the 2.4 gig gear 1st quarter 2007. AT&T and the bells will follow shortly after.

 

[Tangerines]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: spidey07
Yeah right.

Like their countries are like the size of one of our states.

jeez.

It's coming. You can't just wave a magic wand and have fiber to every single home in the US.

It's not size that's relevant, but population density. USA is much larger but also contains many more people, thus while they have to span across more land than any European country, the also have equivalently more resources to do so.

Face the facts, American telcos are giving you the shaft. As long as they have no competition, they have no reason to promptly deliver a higher level of service. They'll get paid either way; getting paid for not doing a damn thing however is healthier for the wallet.

But then again, considering that America is turning into an economic shithole slowly but surely; hesitation in expanding fiber networks could be understandable. Ofcourse failure to do so will effectively cause a feedback cycle by reducing economic competitiveness even further, which further increases difficulty for funding expansion, which once again causes the American market to fall further behind the rest of the world. A chain reaction of doom.

Penny pinching, poor corporate ethics and republican fundamentalism and favoritism my friend, that's why you're still on shitbps DSL.

Good lord you are horribly misinformed. Since when is America an economic shithole?

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: Tangerines

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: spidey07
Yeah right.

Like their countries are like the size of one of our states.

jeez.

It's coming. You can't just wave a magic wand and have fiber to every single home in the US.

It's not size that's relevant, but population density. USA is much larger but also contains many more people, thus while they have to span across more land than any European country, the also have equivalently more resources to do so.

Face the facts, American telcos are giving you the shaft. As long as they have no competition, they have no reason to promptly deliver a higher level of service. They'll get paid either way; getting paid for not doing a damn thing however is healthier for the wallet.

But then again, considering that America is turning into an economic shithole slowly but surely; hesitation in expanding fiber networks could be understandable. Ofcourse failure to do so will effectively cause a feedback cycle by reducing economic competitiveness even further, which further increases difficulty for funding expansion, which once again causes the American market to fall further behind the rest of the world. A chain reaction of doom.

Penny pinching, poor corporate ethics and republican fundamentalism and favoritism my friend, that's why you're still on shitbps DSL.

Good lord you are horribly misinformed. Since when is America an economic shithole?

Since 2020 possibly. Mr. Bush has been spending money the government doesn't have and the US dollar has been steadily and significantly dropping below major currencies since he took power. A coincidence possibly; whatever the case economists suggest by decade's end the US dollar will fall below the value of a Canadian dollar for the first time in over three decades. In the past 4 years it's dropped from 1.1 to 0.78 against the Euro.