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Post by Robin Hood on Aug 22, 2012 18:52:41 GMT -6
Not bad for a little town in the middle of nowhere Texas!!  |
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Post by Chicago Jake on Aug 23, 2012 0:22:23 GMT -6
Not bad at all!
Is that cable, DSL, or 4G?
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 23, 2012 5:32:03 GMT -6
Not good. This is what my $100/month gets me... and its the best available where I live. (The ping I understand, its 24K miles up to the satellite, back down to the ground, hit the server, and make the return 48K miles to my disk... a trip of 100,000 miles takes a few hundred milliseconds even at the speed on light.) On the plus side, I am just about getting what I am promised 1.5Mb/sec down, 256 Kb/sec up.  Hence my avoidance of downloading movies. On the plus side, Verizon is putting up a 4G tower this fall that may improve my cell reception. If it does, a switch may be in the air. |
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Post by Robin Hood on Aug 23, 2012 6:47:26 GMT -6
Jake that is Cable One, the system is only a few years old and beats the crap outta what we had in IL. In IL I had 20Mb/s down and about 1.5Mb/s up... so this is effectively TWICE the bandwidth at about the same cost as what we had in IL.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Aug 23, 2012 7:39:20 GMT -6
With cable, my understanding is that performance depends on the number of users simultaneously online, no? If so, wouldn't that mean that if you take two cities with similar technical infrastructures, the smaller city would, by definition, have better speed because there are fewer users. Anyone have information otherwise?
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Post by New Mama on Aug 23, 2012 7:56:43 GMT -6
I hate it when you guys start talking in another language.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 23, 2012 8:15:55 GMT -6
Being guys, I think we are probably always talking another language.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Aug 23, 2012 8:20:23 GMT -6
When it comes to bandwidth, size matters.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 23, 2012 8:50:20 GMT -6
Bandwidth whore
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 23, 2012 8:50:47 GMT -6
Its not the size of your bandwidth, its what you do with it
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Post by New Mama on Aug 23, 2012 8:58:48 GMT -6
NOW you're talking my language!
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Aug 23, 2012 9:00:48 GMT -6
Its not the size of your bandwidth, its what you do with it In that case, it's good that you only use it to post here. |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 23, 2012 9:09:46 GMT -6
Its like having an industrial strength condom over my modem
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Aug 23, 2012 9:25:38 GMT -6
Actually, I was thinking it's more like having a modem that's a eunuch. I bet you can still get a dial-up modem on Craig's List.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 23, 2012 9:34:04 GMT -6
Either way, nothing gets out.
Actually, the added advantage of a dial-up is that if I connected 24/7, it would stop annoying political phone calls
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Post by Irish Stu on Aug 23, 2012 11:37:39 GMT -6
Mine :  |
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Post by Chicago Jake on Aug 23, 2012 13:49:43 GMT -6
With cable, my understanding is that performance depends on the number of users simultaneously online, no? If so, wouldn't that mean that if you take two cities with similar technical infrastructures, the smaller city would, by definition, have better speed because there are fewer users. Anyone have information otherwise? Yes, but only the users on your own loop can slow you down. If the cable company doesn't get greedy, and doesn't put more than a reasonable number of people on your loop with you, you would get the same speeds in either sized city. I think the maximum users per loop is in the 100 range, but I'm hardly an expert. |
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Post by Chicago Jake on Aug 23, 2012 15:45:28 GMT -6
This is at my office......  At home, it's more like 4 down and 1 up..... |
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Post by Merlot Joe on Aug 24, 2012 0:51:13 GMT -6
here's mine  |
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Aug 24, 2012 17:20:06 GMT -6
Road Runner in my area has three tiers of access - 10 MB, 20MB and 40 MB downloads (I think it's 40 . . . it might be 30) with 1 mb, 2 or 3 mb uploads.
I just upgraded to the 20 MB downloads (often it's close to 30) with 2 mb uploads so I can watch my Dish TV remotely, as it needed a higher upload speed to work well.
I'm on the road or I'd post my home speedtest . . .
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Post by Tex on Aug 24, 2012 18:09:28 GMT -6
If the ping continues, try a higher octane fuel or test your thermostat to see if you are running too cold.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 24, 2012 18:46:38 GMT -6
... or maybe the oxygen sensor has gone bad
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Post by Tex on Aug 27, 2012 20:10:59 GMT -6
Our internet is decent for a lake place outside the city limits. Attachments:
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Aug 27, 2012 20:28:09 GMT -6
I'd post mine, but my browser has been trying to load the page for that site since around 7:30.
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Aug 27, 2012 21:14:30 GMT -6
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