When will faster internet access be available..

[Tab]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Move to Canada. 10mbit cable connections go for the same as American 1.5mbit cable, and the government doesn't see anything wrong with stealing American DirecTV - anything transmitted over the air in Canada is free for public consumption, and you're not allowed to encrypt anything for transmission over the air in Canada unless you're a government agent.

Moving to Canada

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: hdeck
move to sweden and you can get >10 Mb/s for $20/month

And an enormous selection of DC++ hubs with which to use that 10mb/s.

 

[Doggiedog]

You'll probably have to wait til VDSL comes out. You'll know when they start hauling fiber optic cable to your back yard.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
For a good price?

I want like 5-10meg a sec dls!

yum, DLS.

 

[BatmanNate]

What is this Insight everyone is talking about?

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
What is this Insight everyone is talking about?

InsightBB.

Part of Insight Communications. They provide service for Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.

 

[tokamak]

currently the University of Texas provides me with a phat pipe - $20 a month. its gonna be a big letdown when i move to apartment next year, will they run a T1 to a private residence?

 

[TheVrolok]

DSL at home gets like 100k down/15k up.. just became available like 2 years ago. Two-way cable still isn't available in my home area. Get around 3-4 mbs down/up here at college.

 

[DurocShark]

My Adelphia is $40 a month, I'm paying for 1.5 down, 256 up. DSL reports average around 2 down and 250 up. So I'm happy...

 

[Regs]

I use to have a 3 mbit down and 1.5 mbit up cable connection. Then RCN sold out to Patriot media and brought our ass's down to 1.5/256 . Man Do I miss those 300-400KBs downloads; RCN had to spoil us.

RCN showed that the network could handle such bandwidth requirements with ease considering the 70 million dollars they invested in central Nj to re-build the network. All that money wasted.

 

[Turkish]

Blacksburg, VA.... only service provider is NTC, which bases their connection on Virginia Tech Servers, which blows, because we are paying for 10 mbit ethernet and cant get over 1 mb/s.... mothersuckas

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: tokamak
currently the University of Texas provides me with a phat pipe - $20 a month. its gonna be a big letdown when i move to apartment next year, will they run a T1 to a private residence?

Sure, but it's spendy, and a T1 is only 1.5Mbps. Only advantage over cable is that it's a dedicated line instead of shared.
And it's 1.5 up and down.

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: conjur
I'll be getting about 3mbps down in about a week

Going with Insight?

Time Warner overs 3mbit also.

They recently bumped up the speed... seeing consistent 400k/s, not just bursts.

 

[LordJezo]

When I was at Rutgers I would get 1 megaBYTE per second transfers.

Whats that end up being in mb/s?

 

[SXMP]

Internet Speed

That's University of Illinois's dorm access speed.

Only downside, only 750MB of bandwidth every 24hr.

Good thing is any network activity within the campus doesn't count towards that.

Feel free to drool now.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: spidey07
just get cable.

10 Mbs here.

10mbps?? No way!! What does DSLReports report?

I agree


Ausm