Author Topic: USA is LAGGING in BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY!!! (Read 782 times)

vorticon · « **Reply #15 on:** September 07, 2003, 12:24:32 PM »

$45/mo for 1.6 Mb cable here...its great for any tcp connection...but absalutly **** for udp...

naturally us and canada are lagging to the japanese...were lagging behind in EVERYTHING to tha japanese

Tarmac · « **Reply #16 on:** September 07, 2003, 12:38:27 PM »

SOB, you're paying 10 (or 20 if you count the 10 bucks you're saving on your internet bill by subscribing to caTV) for cable? What company?

I'm paying 25 a month for my 512 down 128 up connection, plus another 10 for not having cable TV service. I would get basic cable, but that tacks another 33 bucks a month onto my bill.

On top of this, my connection goes down about once a day. I've had 3 service techs come out in about 2 weeks. Each time, it's a problem on their end.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #17 on:** September 07, 2003, 12:58:57 PM »

I'd guess me and SOB have the same deal (comcast). my speed is great though. (most of those benchmark sights rate me at about 10% over expected t1 line speed).

I got very lucky though, when the guy came to hook me up I had an unexpected day off.

so I didn't need him to do the installing in my pc, just hook up the wires, and give my the card and info.

he'd never done the pc part of the install before (was going to have them talk him through it by phone) and I was his last call for that day.

so I installed the card, drivers etc.. myself and showed him how. that also finished him up early and he didn't want another call, so he checks the lines from my house, he says they are within tollorance but just barely, so he runs all new wire from my wall-jack to the wires thy just strung 2 weeks before.

anyway combine that with very few other users in my area and I get a pretty good deal.

btw- maybe the reason they can do it cheaper in japan is that the people are a lot closer together and they don't have to run/maintain as many feet of cable per customer.

Ike 2K# · « **Reply #18 on:** September 07, 2003, 01:32:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Fishu
Stupid finnish goverment went with the born-to-be-dead digital TV....

We are the only 1st world country that havent switch from analouge TV to digital in full scale.

Manedew · « **Reply #19 on:** September 07, 2003, 02:40:17 PM »

It's the laws surrounding telecommunications.... still feeling the waves of the govement sanctioned AT&T monopoly ... many laws are still in place that keep these services from becomeing more wide spreade ... also .. japan is much more densely populated .... Expect the US the be behind in broadband for some time to come.

SOB · « **Reply #20 on:** September 08, 2003, 01:31:57 AM »

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Originally posted by capt. apathy
I'd guess me and SOB have the same deal (comcast). my speed is great though. (most of those benchmark sights rate me at about 10% over expected t1 line speed).

Yep, definitely can't bag on the speed too much. I do miss the old days of AT&T using @Home though. No bandwidth cap, and 450+KB/sec downloads! Plus it was only $40/mo. Not bad for a 3.6Mb connection.

Comcast raised the cap a bit from what AT&T had it set at (after @Home flopped), but my Internet connection goes down at least 5 times a month now. That rarely happened with AT&T with their network or with @Home's network.

Tarmac...I'm talking basic basic cable. I have the local broadcast channels, public access, cspan, all the home shopping channels, Hallmark and the "Give us Money" network (TBN), and for some reason E! and Discovery. Thank god for the discovery channel. Basically, the way they have it set up, I'd be paying $55 whether I have the basic cable or not. I haven't quite figured out what they're up to. Hell, even if I still had the dish, I'd make 'em come out and install the basic cable even though I'd never watch it.

SOB

capt. apathy · « **Reply #21 on:** September 08, 2003, 02:35:30 AM »

I hear comcast is soon going to have the service where your phone can go through the cable tv line instead of regular phone lines(haven't heard a exact time frame though, just soon). it's be interesting to see if service gets any better with qwest when they have to compete with comcast for my phone dollar.

Ghosth · « **Reply #22 on:** September 08, 2003, 08:13:27 AM »

yes and who designed those DSL circuits for Korea? Who Developed that technolegy in the first place?

I can tell you because I happen to have a friend who did just that.

Made 125k a year designing DSL & Broadband, first in US, then canada, etc.

He was halfway round the world when they brought in some people from India to train. Now he's back at school while some sweatbox in India cranks out the same work for 1/8 the $$

udet · « **Reply #23 on:** September 08, 2003, 08:21:20 AM »

like I care. I don't even have Internet at home

Maniac · « **Reply #24 on:** September 09, 2003, 02:48:37 AM »

Well right now im cutting our companys "data communication" costs with 2/3, we have offices at 23 different locations in Sweden and up till now we had to use "point to point" rented "data communication" lines,

We paid aprox 14 000 $ an month totally for connecting all our offices to eachother.

Now with the new ADSL/VPN solution wich i am implenting we are gonna have an total monthly cost of 2 300 $ an month.... And the performance we gain is djust incredible, like 10 times the speed of the old system...

And the time we save when we support our "clients" (about 170 workstations) also is great, we can remote controll the computers and it really feels like your sitting at the remote controlled computer if you have an good conx...

Yes my boss likes me very very much

Maniac · « **Reply #25 on:** September 09, 2003, 06:28:07 AM »

After an bit of thinking i realized i save more than 2/3 with the ADSL/VPN solution...

I may be great at computers but i suck at math

-dead- · « **Reply #26 on:** September 09, 2003, 08:52:33 AM »

US$34 per month 6Mbps/512 ADSL (no bandwidth cap, unlimited access) - about a month a go my ISP upgraded pretty much everyone I know on the ISP from 3Mbps to 6Mbps for free (probably so they can keep charging us the top price - you can get 3Mbps/256 now for about US$12 less - $22). There's no cable on my Island, so I dunno how much that costs.