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Speakeasy SDSL 768/768kbps is up and running

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Leo V

Diamond Member
Yes, after over a year of Bell Atlantic 640/90kbps ADSL, I decided to pay for the big switch to SDSL. I've just recently had it installed, and here are my observations so far:

* Lower latency--I now ping my friends' campus machines at 20ms, compared to 50-60ms with ADSL

* Comparable downloads--with ADSL, I could get just over 60KB/sec from the best servers; now I max out around 75KB/sec. However, from most servers I never reach this speed (thus no advantage is experienced).

* Bandwidth is utilized more readily--when I had ADSL, the downloads would begin at lower speeds, around maybe 10KB/sec; then the speed gradually increased, approaching the limits. With SDSL, I seem to instantly get full bandwidth, which sometimes accelerates web browsing a lot.

* WAY faster uploads--my previous ADSL connection tested at 520kbps down, 70kbps up; the new SDSL tests at ~650kbps both ways.

Overall I'm satisfied, but I hoped to get "fuller" bandwidth utilization (I wished for consistent >70KB/sec downloads, but oh well). The true test will be when I run domain/DNS, FTP, email, website, and game servers on a dedicated machine. We'll see what'll happen then 😉
 
Speakeasy is most likely way better than BA at the same speed. I love speakeasy's game servers. Glad you're happy.
 
Hey Leo could you do a quick trace Route and tell me what you ping at this server, Quake.kersur.net? I'm getting radsl @ 768/408 and just wanted to get a general idea of how much of difference the connection is from your old BA dsl to your S.ez dsl.
 
Ultima200 Run that by me again, with SDSL you are only garenteed 80% of the speed, how about RADSL and whats the difference between RADSL and ADSL?
 
Ive been a speakeasy customer here since last year, and they simply rock. No other company that i have used has had this level of tech support and customer service, all i get is quick responces to my questions!

Oh, and if your a counterstrike player they host several servers at their East and West coast gateways
 
Hey guys,

Sorry for the belated response.

Ultima200 and Viper-Frag:
SDSL guaranteed at 80% is the "better" deal, because ADSL is usually NOT guaranteed at any rate, and may in fact dynamically slow down anytime. Although Bell Atlantic did guarantee about 25-50% ADSL bandwidth, but you get the idea. To find out more, check here.

ReMeDy{WcS}, I've run the Tracert and here are the results (I'm retyping):

1 20ms 20ms 10ms gw-081-113.dsl-isp.net
2 10ms 10ms 20ms border9.fe4-0.speakeasy-6.nyc.pnap.net
3 10ms 20ms 20ms core1.ge3-0-0-bbnet2.nyc.pnap.net
4 10ms 20ms 10ms sl-gw9-nyc-3-3.sprintlink.net
5 10ms 20ms 20ms sl-bb11-nyc-4-0.sprintlink.net
6 31ms 40ms 40ms sl-bb13-pen-4-0.sprintlink.net
7 40ms 40ms 40ms sl-bb11-pen-11-0.sprintlink.net
8 40ms 60ms 40ms sl-gw12-pen-8-0-0.sprintlink.net
9 40ms 50ms 50ms sl-dnetny-1-0-T3.sprintlink.net
10 40ms 40ms 40ms lightband-1.usnycm.savvis.net
11 30ms 30ms 50ms kti-gw11.kersur.net
12 40ms 40ms 40ms quake.kersur.net
 
Hmmm...I'll take my cable thanks. 😉 Though, I dunno about my exact upload speeds, I have uploaded a 2MB MP3 in about 20 seconds or so (to tripod). Also, I haven't gotten below 100KB/sec. in a long time. Usually I get around 200. Only problem, is it was flaky for a few weeks, so I did a reg. tweak to stabilize it so I could play online games without warping again, but now I think its back to full speed and the reg. tweak slows it down, so I can't host 16 player games in rogue spear any more (just 10 or so now...maybe 12 if they are all nice connections). 🙁 I'll have to find out what I editted a few weeks back and delete it...I'm just so lazy though. 😉 j/k, I'll do it tomorrow. 😉

What I would get if it came to my area is 1.5Mbps DSL (virtually a T1!)...however, I live so far from the phone company that that is never going to happen...well, at least not before I go to college. 😛

Glad you're happy with it though, I remember how frustrated you were with your old service! 🙂
 
This is mine from Wisconsin with ADSL and it is now at peek time, not bad for me. I ping my Tribes server at around 65ms all the time.
1 70 ms 70 ms 80 ms d1.rback0.milw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.230.1]
2 60 ms 70 ms 60 ms 11.ge-0-0-0.rtr0.milw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.2
.1]
3 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms 446.at-0-0-0.rtr0.chcg0.il.voyager.net [169.207
24.109]
4 71 ms 70 ms 70 ms 35.ATM11-0-0.GW1.CHI6.ALTER.NET [157.130.118.13

5 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms 111.ATM3-0.XR1.CHI6.ALTER.NET [146.188.208.74]
6 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms 191.at-2-1-0.TR1.CHI2.ALTER.NET [152.63.65.94]
7 101 ms 100 ms 90 ms 126.at-5-1-0.TR1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.1.46]
8 100 ms 110 ms 101 ms 187.ATM6-0.XR1.BOS1.ALTER.NET [152.63.20.185]
9 100 ms 100 ms 110 ms 191.ATM9-0-0.GW2.BOS1.ALTER.NET [146.188.176.24

10 120 ms 110 ms 110 ms kersur-gw.customer.ALTER.NET [157.130.5.46]
11 121 ms 100 ms 110 ms kti-gw11-s20.kersur.net [216.129.150.238]
12 100 ms 100 ms 111 ms quake.kersur.net [199.79.199.138]
 
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