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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: JoeLo on February 24, 2006, 09:22:01 pm
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I just switched over to Optonline, its $30 a month, which is pretty pricey, but a "bad day" I get a MBS and on a good day I can get 1.5mbs it also comes with eztrust security suite.
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Grats man. Grats.
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I just switched over to Optonline, its $30 a month, which is pretty pricey, but a "bad day" I get a MBS and on a good day I can get 1.5mbs it also comes with eztrust security suite.
Optimum online........ where do you live? That's my home ISP. AFAIK they're only LI, Rockland, Orange, and Westchester counties.
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The only thing available in my area is Comcast ($70/month for a 6m/768k connection and a cable TV package), although their service has actually been pretty good for the last six months. Had a ton of problems with them earlier last year though.
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We've got Zen Internet. They require a BT phone line, unfortunately, and our cable is so old we're lucky to get 1Mbit/sec out of it. Eagerly awaiting ADSL2...
The reason we didn't go for Telewest or whatever is that Zen gives us our own 3-bit subnet for free. This includes the router IP, the broadcast address and the subnet address, though, so practically speaking we only have 5 usable IPs, but that does mean one each plus one for my server.
IIRC, most other ISPs charge through the nose for unique IPs if they even provide the option. Not only that, you always get a whole load of bull**** like X megs of webspace (on a crap server that doesn't even support PHP) along with your Internet connection and the free modem always sucks.
So although we're paying £30 a month for a 1Mbit connection, we do at least get to run our network the way we want. Zen provides the bandwidth and the basic info we need to configure our router's WAN interface, then steps aside and lets us do the rest. Although they do provide network hardware if we want it, we thought it best to buy our own kit. That decision has paid off, I think.
Zen is probably one of the few remaining IAPs out there...
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I'm trying to upgrade my 1Mbit NTL cable line to a 10Mbit line.
But it's ****en expensive and I got a ton of other **** I need to buy too....
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I live in CT. Actually I get more than 3mbs, but its usually capped below that. So thats not my ISPs fault.
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They require a BT phone line, unfortunately, and our cable is so old we're lucky to get 1Mbit/sec out of it.
Don't you just love old infrastructure that will probably not get replaced anytime soon......
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http://www.tgtel.com/ <<<< Curent ISP DSL 512kb down 256 kb up
http://www.tvscable.com/ <<<< Soon to be ISP on monday 6 meg down 768kb up
Sad part is both are restrictive port wise and don't allow me to attach a server to the network, and both are owned by the same family, the Grigsby's. Fortunately the cable is at a reasonable price.
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They require a BT phone line, unfortunately, and our cable is so old we're lucky to get 1Mbit/sec out of it.
Don't you just love old infrastructure that will probably not get replaced anytime soon......
lol - the apartment complex I live at right now isn't wired in the way for DSL to work right, according to the Qwest goonies, so I'm STILL without a high-speed connection.
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We have Starband satellite internet. :ick: It lags horribly and only seems to work properly half the time. The rest of the time it's either not cooperating with Firefox, going super slow, or just plain not working and I end up spending all kinds of time trying to fix it. Of course, it's either that or dial up. :sigh:
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They require a BT phone line, unfortunately, and our cable is so old we're lucky to get 1Mbit/sec out of it.
Don't you just love old infrastructure that will probably not get replaced anytime soon......
I'd say you're about to lose your $!@%ing mind too, right?
lol - the apartment complex I live at right now isn't wired in the way for DSL to work right, according to the Qwest goonies, so I'm STILL without a high-speed connection.
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Four computer geeks on 1Mbit ADSL is difficult. The other three play games and use BitTorrent a lot, so the bandwidth left over for me is fairly minimal.
Which is why I'm so glad that the computer doing routing for our local subnet is my own. Since I'm currently the one paying for the bandwidth, I think I'm well within my rights to drop certain connections when someone's UT2K4 game is preventing me from even browsing the web.
Being the Network Operator is fuuuuuuun...
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I'm looking at upgrading to a 24MBit connection atm, there aren't many options in the UK, but we've found one company offering it, busy checking it out at the moment :)