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I can't post my Fiber from home, but its 100mbit up / down. 40$ a month. I live within 2 miles of the ISP's service station, not to mention its 1ms. :)


Also, I have un"limited" bandwidth. Couple months back, I believe it was April or June, I burned 2.25TB of bandwidth, and they said nothing. I stress tested some website security for a friend by bombarding it with LOIC. They said nothing. (My family watches a lot of Netflix, and I download a lot. :) )


Edit: I thought I should post my ISP for those in the area.

LocalTel Communications & LocalTel Communications


It's quite amazing internet. :)
 
jcgriff2 said:
Fast here too, but 75 Mbps d/l is a ways off!

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At those speeds I wouldn't be complaining...

Sadly, Verizon or any other sane ISP in my area is out of the question...

I had a choice between century link at horrible speeds or Comcast at decent speeds...

I pay for 25/5 which is more than enough to get me by



Will probably reevaluate my ISP situation next year when my contract is up but until then this works well :grin1:
 
Laxer said:
jcgriff2 said:
Fast here too, but 75 Mbps d/l is a ways off!

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At those speeds I wouldn't be complaining...

Sadly, Verizon or any other sane ISP in my area is out of the question...

I had a choice between century link at horrible speeds or Comcast at decent speeds...

I pay for 25/5 which is more than enough to get me by



Will probably reevaluate my ISP situation next year when my contract is up but until then this works well :grin1:
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That's why I like LocalTel. They have no contracts. It's Pay or Cancel. No extra charges for it. It's pretty sweet.

The only problem with MY Home ISP is, its a shared connection, I don't get a full 100Mbit connection to myself, sadly. When my family was the only ones with Fiber on the block, I did, but Verizon FiOS is here, as well as the "Charter" Fiber they have. :( I'm going to look into getting a better service, or host my dedi somewhere else.
 
Triple Helix said:
In Canada where I live my ISP has a 250/250 plan but I'm paying $200.00 bucks a month for it as a home user. :eek:

TH
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To be quite honest, you truly aren't getting those speeds. When you break down the packets properly, you have the header, and the "footer".


So HHHHHH(Frame Information Here)FFFFFF is how it looks. The header includes information like the mac address, amongst other information.

ISPs base their speeds off the "middle" part of the packet/frame. My cousins fiance used to work for iFiber, and he broke it down to me awhile back about how they truly "test" your speeds.
 
DreadStarX said:
Triple Helix said:
In Canada where I live my ISP has a 250/250 plan but I'm paying $200.00 bucks a month for it as a home user. :eek:

TH
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To be quite honest, you truly aren't getting those speeds. When you break down the packets properly, you have the header, and the "footer".


So HHHHHH(Frame Information Here)FFFFFF is how it looks. The header includes information like the mac address, amongst other information.

ISPs base their speeds off the "middle" part of the packet/frame. My cousins fiance used to work for iFiber, and he broke it down to me awhile back about how they truly "test" your speeds.
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So in that case what is the actual speed?
 
Triple Helix said:
DreadStarX said:
Triple Helix said:
In Canada where I live my ISP has a 250/250 plan but I'm paying $200.00 bucks a month for it as a home user. :eek:

TH
Click to expand...


To be quite honest, you truly aren't getting those speeds. When you break down the packets properly, you have the header, and the "footer".


So HHHHHH(Frame Information Here)FFFFFF is how it looks. The header includes information like the mac address, amongst other information.

ISPs base their speeds off the "middle" part of the packet/frame. My cousins fiance used to work for iFiber, and he broke it down to me awhile back about how they truly "test" your speeds.
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So in that case what is the actual speed?
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For yours specifically, I don't know. As for my 100Mbit connection, I know I'm only pulling 30/30Mbit. My connection is a shared 100Mbit, so with that said, if you're sharing the connection, or if its a dedicated. You truly never get the speed thats advertised. You have latency, and other variables or factors that prohibit those speeds.

Also, thats Mbit not MB. There is a tremendous difference. 8 bits = 1 byte.

I would explain more, but I'm currently in the middle of a test on Cellular devices and how they influence the network operations of a network admin. :thumbsdown2:
 
Tekno Venus said:
jcgriff2 said:
FIOS is moving along nicely tonight -


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I don't have anyone to keep my slow internet company now! :p

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Oh yes you do! Although I'm actually flying along today compared to sometimes, still not very fast though:

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Oh yeah, forgot you were on the slow speeds too!

Noticed you have Orange (EE) as your provider. Same here. Hoping to change to Sky soon - Orange's customer support leaves very much to be desired. Any surprise they are worst for customer complaints? The UK's best and worst broadband providers or how about Broadband speed: Orange tops table for most customer service complaints | Mail Online

We had to ring them up once because of issues. Their remedy was to change the encryption on the router from WPA/2 to WEP. Didn't solve the issue, and it took customer support >30 minutes to 'guide' us through those steps.
 
Tekno Venus said:
Oh yeah, forgot you were on the slow speeds too!

Noticed you have Orange (EE) as your provider. Same here. Hoping to change to Sky soon - Orange's customer support leaves very much to be desired. Any surprise they are worst for customer complaints? The UK's best and worst broadband providers or how about Broadband speed: Orange tops table for most customer service complaints | Mail Online

We had to ring them up once because of issues. Their remedy was to change the encryption on the router from WPA/2 to WEP. Didn't solve the issue, and it took customer support >30 minutes to 'guide' us through those steps.
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Yeah, I'm not happy with Orange but I don't see that changing will help me so just stick. In our local exchange there is only BT hardware. Not a single other ISP has rival equipment, so whatever provider we choose it will still go through the same BT hardware and will give the same speeds unfortunately.
 
Glad to hear I'm not alone!

It's the same situation here - it's all BT hardware along my road. If I turn left out my house and walk 200m, I can get Virgin Media fibre optic at 100Mb/s. But because I live on a main road, they can't fibre it, and I'm too far away from the cabinet for FTTC.

We're only gonna change from Orange to Sky because it works out cheaper, because we have Sky for TV etc.

I want this :p https://www.hyperoptic.com/web/guest/home
 
I've just got an email from EE today telling me that our internet connection is being upgraded over the next week! I don't know by how much, probably by not very much, but if it stabilises it so that images arrive properly every time, and downloads don't regularly crash (so much), even if there is no speed improvement at all, I will be so happy! Just have to wait and see though whether anything materialises. After all, it could be the copper network at fault, and not the exchange to green box connection after all.
 
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