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I just got broadband..... - 2/26/2008 8:23:21 PM

Griswold

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I just (finally) got broadband up in my little section of dogpatch...we were promised 768k (6 megs "for sure"...after they test, build and verify..."no later than December 2008"...

If I recall, I've been promised broadband since 2003 "no later than 6 months from now....honest")..I'm getting 86k so far...I haven't figured out how to set up (my email) on the new ISP yet....so I may not be as diligent at checking my email...but I'll do my best.

I just got my first bill, and it's a number just slightly lower than 12 kabillion $ a month...but...I now get 17,364,811 TV channels....I have 27 cooking channels, 22 "Flip this house" channels", I currently have 11 channels on my "Favorites" for "You can do this with Vitamin D, and you ARE a winner....I believe in you...you should too...yor prostrate should matter!!!!", and of course, the National geographic channel is doing their best to convince me that the Aborigine channel is so "close to the playboy channel as to suggest continuity...but NO....Hef will NOT be stopping by (nor will the last 3 Centerfolds of the month).

So...there we are.

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/26/2008 8:34:05 PM

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December 2008 happens in another 10 months.

The "bandwidth" of broadband is a fixed number. Router hops slow down traffic. Amount of traffic slows down traffic. Prioritized service slows down traffic. The phone line in your house. The router modem. Your neighbors downloading the latest Paris Hilton quest for venereal disease, Etc., Etc.

System performance complaints are almost invariably user perception based.

Are you having slow speed downloading?

Accessing your email?

Bringing up google or yahoo?

Or are you sitting in a dark room staring at a packet sniffer to see if the number gets up to 786kb for traffic speed?

If it is the latter, you will probably not get much support from your provider. If it is the former, have them do line speed tests to your modem to see how the line measures up.

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/26/2008 8:39:25 PM

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broadband is only slow if you are not on the highest package. if you are on the highest package you will get that 768.

here we get 1000 with the VIP package on rogers which is comcast in usa. it is never slow. not even if the neighbours were downloading or someone else in the house.

old broadband worked that way...but not since fibre optic cable.

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/26/2008 8:46:40 PM

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broadband is only slow if you are not on the highest package. if you are on the highest package you will get that 768.

here we get 1000 with the VIP package on rogers which is comcast in usa. it is never slow. not even if the neighbours were downloading or someone else in the house.

old broadband worked that way...but not since fibre optic cable.

You have fibre optic going all the way into your house?

Nice.

I have ADSL where the fibre optic gets pushed over to copper and to routers at some point, and then into my place.

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/26/2008 8:56:30 PM

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quote:

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ORIGINAL: faerytattoodgirl

broadband is only slow if you are not on the highest package. if you are on the highest package you will get that 768.

here we get 1000 with the VIP package on rogers which is comcast in usa. it is never slow. not even if the neighbours were downloading or someone else in the house.

old broadband worked that way...but not since fibre optic cable.

You have fibre optic going all the way into your house?

Nice.

I have ADSL where the fibre optic gets pushed over to copper and to routers at some point, and then into my place.

Sinergy

yes i asked the tech the other day if they were getting fibre..and he said we had already changed everything to fibre last year and he told us that they cap our speed at 10mb even though we could get 100mb which is why its never slow because we're not using the full capacity...so everyone gets good speed. his words..not mine...

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/26/2008 9:03:08 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: faerytattoodgirl

yes i asked the tech the other day if they were getting fibre..and he said we had already changed everything to fibre last year and he told us that they cap our speed at 10mb even though we could get 100mb which is why its never slow because we're not using the full capacity...so everyone gets good speed. his words..not mine...

Well, I used to install networks before I found my calling staring into space, expressing my morpheme.

Im not really going to argue the point too much. The term Broadband is loosely applied to Fibre, DSL, ADSL, Cable, etc., networks. Each of these have different technical aspects to them which impact how fast they transfer information.

My point remains that to the average user, the difference between 512k, 1Mb, 100Mb or whatever is undetectable by the user until you get to massive data transfers of things like real time video, graphics, or whatever., and even then the bandwidth is spec'ed out so high that lots and lots of traffic to different users and applications gets interleaved into the signal.

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/27/2008 6:25:59 AM

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-on the flip this house channel line up, did you see the "strip the unattended dwelling of copper" chanel? how about the "steel the street light for cool recycling" loveyour post!

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/27/2008 1:58:38 PM

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Do you also get the cable channel that shows you how to hook up your cable ?

All kidding aside, if you just Google for speed test there are a few out there. They use a fast path to you, that is why they ask for your location. They do a little pinging or something and weight the numbers accordingly. Even though their speed may vary, other sites can vary more. Also if you are looking in the corner of a P2P program, that speed depends on the sender(s) of the file(s). The only way to get a halfway reliable number there is to set your limits to the max, and max files at once and download about 50 popular songs at once. Check make sure plenty of people have them first.

There is one other thing that may or may not apply to you, I have DSL and when I first got it I found in the instructions to try not to unplug it or the connection for a couple of weeks because the modem has to "train" itself. I do not know if that applies to cable or not.

If you don't have a P2P I would recommend Bearshare. I get music faster than you can listen to it, and popular stuff I get in seconds literally. Movies of course take longer, but if they are popular you get them faster than their running time, usually. Usually MPEGs you do, but an AVI file is not as compressed, so it's bigger.

And actually 768K is slow for cable. They must have alot of customers and you are probably waiting for them to upgrade their system.

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RE: I just got broadband..... - 2/27/2008 2:02:11 PM

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Gris, just send me your damn credit card before you max it out with pay-per-view porn. Sheesh. Hurry up or I'll make you GO WITH ME shopping.

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