It was two years ago this Month and nearly to the day that my life changed forever. After years of wishing, praying, begging and pleading with my local phone company, they at long last installed Remote terminals that allowed me to have broadband after 11 years of dialup use when I first started working with computers.
Since that day, I have beloved my 1.5/896 DSL connection. I think back now to having to dial up through my parents phone line to play DAOC for 5 hours after school and work only to have it disconnect during raids, gatherings or someone yanking the phone line to get a damn phone call. For 3 years after building my first PC in 2001, I had to deal with the worst bottleneck to any gamer, 56k connection. It left me with only being able to go to LAN parties to enjoy the awesome T1 speed of broadband.
However, it wasn't all glamorous after the DSL was activated. I soon realized that Qwest did line correction on the DSL and which in turn created a 32ms increase in ping delay. The result, my servers either BF1942, HL2, UT2k4, Counterstrike, BF2 were all 100ms or more. Granted, I adapted and did pretty well, but facing off with people in the low 30's made me realize that I was still handicapped. Within the past 6 months I got heavly into BIttorrent collecting movies and shows that I remember from my youth. Sadly, the bottleneck of 1.5meg began to show its face and sans moving to the other side of town, Qwest was not upgrading RT feed connections.
Not only that, but Qwest Actiontec modem were the biggest POS''s i've ever had to deal with. Constant reconnections, overheating, VPN problems ect...ect.... I was anxious to be rid of actioncrap from my network setup.
Today, after fighting with Qwest even more to get more speed and less game latency, I decided to move to cable. I was concered with the shared loop bandwith with cable technology but I was assured that my local Bresnan company had made infanstructre changes and was planning on upping their 3.0/256 to 8.0/512 this summer for the same price! Count me in!
THis morning after some drilling and poking from the cable installer, I was lit up with a cable connection with a new Motorola Surboard 5120 and with a heavy breath, I tested my connection speed.
7543mbps down / 513 mpbs up!!!!!!
OMFG!!!!!!! It was incredible! I have never seen websites load so fast in my life. Streaming movies were done instantly instead of waiting for buffering. My pings in my game were literally cut in half!!! Last night I was playing a gamespy BF91942 server at 130ms. This morning, I was getting 70ms!!! WOW!!!!!!
All I can say is, im gonna be very very busy and happy tonight!!!
Since that day, I have beloved my 1.5/896 DSL connection. I think back now to having to dial up through my parents phone line to play DAOC for 5 hours after school and work only to have it disconnect during raids, gatherings or someone yanking the phone line to get a damn phone call. For 3 years after building my first PC in 2001, I had to deal with the worst bottleneck to any gamer, 56k connection. It left me with only being able to go to LAN parties to enjoy the awesome T1 speed of broadband.
However, it wasn't all glamorous after the DSL was activated. I soon realized that Qwest did line correction on the DSL and which in turn created a 32ms increase in ping delay. The result, my servers either BF1942, HL2, UT2k4, Counterstrike, BF2 were all 100ms or more. Granted, I adapted and did pretty well, but facing off with people in the low 30's made me realize that I was still handicapped. Within the past 6 months I got heavly into BIttorrent collecting movies and shows that I remember from my youth. Sadly, the bottleneck of 1.5meg began to show its face and sans moving to the other side of town, Qwest was not upgrading RT feed connections.
Not only that, but Qwest Actiontec modem were the biggest POS''s i've ever had to deal with. Constant reconnections, overheating, VPN problems ect...ect.... I was anxious to be rid of actioncrap from my network setup.
Today, after fighting with Qwest even more to get more speed and less game latency, I decided to move to cable. I was concered with the shared loop bandwith with cable technology but I was assured that my local Bresnan company had made infanstructre changes and was planning on upping their 3.0/256 to 8.0/512 this summer for the same price! Count me in!
THis morning after some drilling and poking from the cable installer, I was lit up with a cable connection with a new Motorola Surboard 5120 and with a heavy breath, I tested my connection speed.
7543mbps down / 513 mpbs up!!!!!!
OMFG!!!!!!! It was incredible! I have never seen websites load so fast in my life. Streaming movies were done instantly instead of waiting for buffering. My pings in my game were literally cut in half!!! Last night I was playing a gamespy BF91942 server at 130ms. This morning, I was getting 70ms!!! WOW!!!!!!
All I can say is, im gonna be very very busy and happy tonight!!!
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