Finally fiberglass!
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Well, for basic browsing, as long as you have a decent video card and memory, and maintain your computer with some common sense and regularity, the speed difference is negligible.
But when downloading and uploading the difference between standard broadband and fiber-optic is very noticeable.
But when downloading and uploading the difference between standard broadband and fiber-optic is very noticeable.
I've got a WiFi router here as well. Now that I think of it, every single person I know has WiFi in their house. I actually don't know a single soul who doesn't. Strange, that. And cumbersome, seeing as the channels are utterly and utterly filled to the brim in the neighborhood.
I don't have wi-fi in my house.
Spent three full weekends laying LAN cable to all the rooms. Of course, this was six years ago when Wi-Fi wasn't what it was now, so I probably wouldn't do it again.
But, all in all, I'd still rather have a hard LAN line to Wi-Fi so I have no real reason to change.
Even with my laptop, all the rooms in the house that I ever use it have an easily accessible port to plug into.
Spent three full weekends laying LAN cable to all the rooms. Of course, this was six years ago when Wi-Fi wasn't what it was now, so I probably wouldn't do it again.
But, all in all, I'd still rather have a hard LAN line to Wi-Fi so I have no real reason to change.
Even with my laptop, all the rooms in the house that I ever use it have an easily accessible port to plug into.
If I was in a neighborhood that densely packed, I'd get everybody together and sprint for a T1 or something, then place several repeaters. No more channel collision, high speed for everyone!
I did cover half my neighborhood in Indiana using Cantennas and repeaters. Just couldn't get enough people interested to spring for the T1.
DSL with (naturally) a wifi router at home, and I would like it to be faster. Currently I manage 0.9 uploading, 5.5 down, but for some bizarre reason my telephone exchange is closer to the place I used to live than where I am now. Maybe it's to do with me keeping my phone number when I moved house nearly 4 years ago.
It's pretty good in any case, although since I download music a lot and podcasts, it could be a little nippier.
It's pretty good in any case, although since I download music a lot and podcasts, it could be a little nippier.
All you need to do is buy a WiFi router and hook it up to your existing internet. I got mine at Walmart. It's not an extra service or anything.
Yep. It's for lazy asses like me who don't want to run cables through the house!
Oh, I'm sorry - I should have said that wireless internet isn't available at my house (at least it wasn't available the last time I checked - could be by now). I garbled my techno-talk. I know I could connect "all" our computers without wires, but right now, we've only got one, so...that's not an issue.
That would be networking your computers. It's not the same as wireless internet.
I have WiFi in my apartment so I can move my laptop around from room to room and stay online.
I have cable and it's fine:
Looks like at my job it's 4.5Mbps, both ways. But my ping was 4 milliseconds. 
That's exactly the reason I want to get rid of Chello:
The speed is horrible; the test says 20Mb/sec, but I can hardly reach 2Mb/sec. It's probably Mbit/sec.
It wasn't so bad 11 years ago, even if the speed has gone up by 20%, but nowadays it just doesn't do with all the streaming movies and stuff. And while I can get a faster, more expensive contract, it still doesn't weigh up to the new alternative, which is 50MB/sec (400Mbit/sec) for exactly the same price I pay now, and 100MB/sec for 1,5 times the price.
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I have VDSL which is a sort of hybrid. They lay fibre to various small boxes littered around neighborhoods and you have just a couple hundred meters at most of copper cable for the rest. I think they call that fibre to the node/curb or something like that.
The ISP restricts the speed to around 50 mbit/s down and 10 mbit/s up (from the ~125 mbit/s my line could deliver).
That sort of speed is really enough for me. I'd rather they had more hdtv channels than sd available in the multicast iptv.
Net of overhead, this is roughly the speed:
I've had this connection for over a year now and I love it.
(in practice, the limit is roughly 5.56 MiB/s)
The ISP restricts the speed to around 50 mbit/s down and 10 mbit/s up (from the ~125 mbit/s my line could deliver).
That sort of speed is really enough for me. I'd rather they had more hdtv channels than sd available in the multicast iptv.
Net of overhead, this is roughly the speed:
I've had this connection for over a year now and I love it.
(in practice, the limit is roughly 5.56 MiB/s)
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You know what pisses me off? Other countries are making their Internet faster and faster. Here in the US, everybody's being capped and having their speed throttled.
At least, those of us on cable and wireless broadband seem to be in that boat.
At least, those of us on cable and wireless broadband seem to be in that boat.
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