Author Topic: What's your Internet Speed?  (Read 1995 times)

Offline SilverZ06

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Re: What's your Internet Speed?
« Reply #75 on: May 23, 2012, 11:03:47 AM »
and exactly who is Rodders???

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Re: What's your Internet Speed?
« Reply #76 on: May 23, 2012, 11:12:58 AM »
and exactly who is Rodders???

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Offline curry1

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Re: What's your Internet Speed?
« Reply #77 on: May 23, 2012, 09:47:40 PM »
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Interesting that my upload is faster 1200 miles away?  I think my upload is capped basically around 10mbps
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Offline RedBull1

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Re: What's your Internet Speed?
« Reply #78 on: May 23, 2012, 09:51:20 PM »
You are still 10 times faster.  I really am not complaining.  It is what is.  If I was not so hard-headed about AT&T raping me with their pricing, I could have faster Internet.
Use that language again and Ill slap a rule #6 on you skuzzy!  :O


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Re: What's your Internet Speed?
« Reply #79 on: May 23, 2012, 09:51:33 PM »
"When the student is ready the teacher will appear."   I am not a teacher.

Offline eagl

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Re: What's your Internet Speed?
« Reply #80 on: May 23, 2012, 10:09:28 PM »


Time Warner Cable in Wichita Falls.  They have a faster tier of service for an extra $10 or $15 per month but I turned that off after the free trial ended.  Also, I think speedtest.net may be exaggerating the download speed a bit.  I think I'm actually getting around 10Mbps but the test shows higher because Time Warner has a speed boost feature that starts off every download at nearly triple the sustained speed, for a few seconds.  That lets smallish files download really fast and makes the connection seem faster than it otherwise would.  After a few seconds of the burst speed it drops to around 10Mb/s for the remainder of the dl.

Overall I'm happy with the service, but they do have a bit more downtime than I would have liked.  Every month or two the network simply goes down for a while.

And it's expensive.  Oh well.  At least my area isn't saturated so I almost never see the big slowdowns that people get in over-subscribed cable internet areas.  Local DSL is 1/10th the speed at the same price and the new fiber to the door services aren't here yet so there aren't really any decent alternatives.

Everyone I know, goes away, in the end.