Originally posted by indy007Psssst. You have no control over the caching aspect.
4361 down
850 up
houston to dallas on a commercial cable account. no caching.
Originally posted by McFarland
Download: 41 kbps
Upload: 213 kbps
Diagnosis: AOL dial up is very slow.
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Psssst. You have no control over the caching aspect.
Originally posted by eskimo2
It?s worse than slow, it?s practically a virus. Dump them no matter what they say or offer you, delete all AOL from your system and go with anything else.
Originally posted by McFarland
Don't I wish I could, it's 24.95 a month to boot. But I can't get BellSouth, and that's the only other provider in the area. And I would still be stuck with dial up.
Originally posted by Elfie
I used the Dallas server and got 7406 kbps download and 818 kbps upload on Comcast cable. Pretty good compared to most of the rest of you except for that braggart Steve. :D
Originally posted by SteveBailey
I recently changed my wireless router and found I have some blazing speed. I'm quite pleased. This is through Cox:
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d191/AZC4guy/fastcox.jpg)
What's yours?
Here's the link to Speakeasy speed test. I used San Francisco.
Speed test (http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/)
Originally posted by boxboy28
Columbus NC to Atlanta GA.......
Last Result:
Download Speed: 4035 kbps (504.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2231 kbps (278.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
thats suppost to be fiber optic.
Originally posted by ForrestS
Do you live in Glendale Arizona?:t
Originally posted by McFarland
Download: 41 kbps
Upload: 213 kbps
Diagnosis: AOL dial up is very slow.
Originally posted by MiloMorai
On the news yesterday they interviewed a guy here in Sweden that made his own modem and network card for his computer. He ended up with a speed of 40Gbit/sec (not Mbit as most broadband connections). Apperently its the fastest speed ever made for download in the world today. it took 2 secs to download a Dvd movie he said...
mmmm future...
Originally posted by McFarlandI bet there's a discount ISP nearby. If AOL has a dialup, somebody else will too.
Don't I wish I could, it's 24.95 a month to boot. But I can't get BellSouth, and that's the only other provider in the area. And I would still be stuck with dial up.
Originally posted by Vulcan
LOL... swedens calender is messed up, its not April 1st dude.
Originally posted by WilldCrd:rofl You got lots to catch up. Just about any cable provider offers 15/2 or more in areas where it competes with Verizon FIOS. Current DOCSIS 1.x limits bandwidth to 42/10, DOCSIS 2 provides upstream channel bonding for total of 42/30 and DOCSIS 3 is good for 480/120.
As for steves claim of 15+mps on cable.....sorry but cable isnt able to provide that kinda speed. As the skuzzmiester said....cache :(
Originally posted by WilldCrdBandwidth is always shared. Cable, DSL, FIOS, all the same, just the point from which your bandwidth is shared differ.
Aslo cable shares its bandwidth with everyone in the neighborhood. at 3am you might get 8mps but during the day when everyone is on your lucky if you can get half that.
Originally posted by WilldCrdWe need competition. That means several providers per household to chose from. In areas where there's no competition (majority of USA), there's no incentive for ISPs to offer significantly more than that we already have.
The FIOS buildout contiunes and will continue for a looooong time.
We are also testing new GPON cards. This will allow up to 100mps and many more HD chnls for the video side
Originally posted by WilldCrd
As for steves claim of 15+mps on cable.....sorry but cable isnt able to provide that kinda speed.
Aslo cable shares its bandwidth with everyone in the neighborhood. at 3am you might get 8mps but during the day when everyone is on your lucky if you can get half that
Originally posted by MiloMorai
A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.
Someone asked about FIOS. I have it and i also work for verizon installing it.
In the US you cant get a faster more reliable connection.
I have the 15/2 pkg for reg<49.00> i pay 29 due to being a employee.
I think it's a shame the US is near the bottom in internet infrastructure, but near the top in price. Some competition instead of franchising areas would help.
Originally posted by WilldCrd
Someone asked about FIOS. I have it and i also work for verizon installing it.
In the US you cant get a faster more reliable connection.
I have the 15/2 pkg for reg<49.00> i pay 29 due to being a employee.
As for steves claim of 15+mps on cable.....sorry but cable isnt able to provide that kinda speed. As the skuzzmiester said....cache :(
Aslo cable shares its bandwidth with everyone in the neighborhood. at 3am you might get 8mps but during the day when everyone is on your lucky if you can get half that.
The FIOS buildout contiunes and will continue for a looooong time.
We are also testing new GPON cards. This will allow up to 100mps and many more HD chnls for the video side
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Psssst. It's called caching. :)
Originally posted by McFarlandMcFarland, what town do you live near? I will find you a better dialup than AOHell, unless you just enjoy paying more for less.
Wow, I live just outside the city limits, and can't even get DSL or anything other than dial up. If I could get BellSouth dial up, it would run faster, a few of me friends have that, and it runs very much faster on their computer. AOL ranges from 25kbps to 41kbps. BellSouth stays at pretty much 44kbps and up.
Originally posted by 0thehero
But how is Verizon rolling it out? What is their plan? I don't seem to be able to get it here in Boston, in the city itself, but relatives in the sticks have been able to get it for over a year. Have they just not run the fiber yet or what?
If we had a population as small, as urban and as centrally located as that of Sweden (or South Korea), we could do that. But we have 300 million people, in places like Kansas and Alabama and Montana with populations spread in rural areas over huge distances that make regular market forces inapplicable for most utilities; if companies didn't have franchises, they wouldn't bother with Americans located out in the sticks and even in many suburbs. I'm all for competition, but this is an expensive business and FCC requirements for service availability don't make it any cheaper. And the courts keep shutting down co-op networks started by localities, which is friggin' criminal.
That said, I'd love someone to actually provide a viable threat to Comcast and/or Verizon. Thanks to the myopic Telecommunications Act of 1996, our cable rates have increased at double the rate of inflation every year since 1996. And we just don't have any choice.
Originally posted by rpm
McFarland, what town do you live near? I will find you a better dialup than AOHell, unless you just enjoy paying more for less.