How fast is your interwebs???

[Turf1600]

WTF is fios?

[Jscotty]

If the local lines are shitty, if the repairman constantly put together loose connections because they suck at life, etc...

My house is over 100 years old and this was one of the first neighborhoods in the area to have telephone service so I can imagine that the CO is a real shithole. I don't know if the history of this house goes back to the reciever and ear piece being 2 separate parts but I am sure that whoever lived here originally had one of those phone numbers like, "ABerdeen4-3205" or "KLondike7-1315"

FIOS is comming soon so I am not really that concerned.

[Jon325i]

Surewest is my ISP - broadband connection. Test run at 12:31pm PST.



Jon

[nando]

@ work

[JasonC]

[JGood]

I had DSL a long time ago but I was unhappy with the amount of times it kept going down. I had to call Verizon at least once every couple of days to have the line reprovisioned. I ended up having to take the fractional T1 because of the reliability and consistency of the signal was better. I have had DSL at other times in other locations over the last few years and I have had nothing but bad experiences with it. Once FIOS is available in my area, I am getting that at both the office and at home.

I've had DSL from a LEC for 2 years now, can't think of anytime I've ever been disconnected. It depends on who ya got and where ya got it from. If the local lines are shitty, if the repairman constantly put together loose connections because they suck at life, etc...

Weird that you had so many issues though, that sucks.

[Jscotty]

I had DSL a long time ago but I was unhappy with the amount of times it kept going down. I had to call Verizon at least once every couple of days to have the line reprovisioned. I ended up having to take the fractional T1 because of the reliability and consistency of the signal was better. I have had DSL at other times in other locations over the last few years and I have had nothing but bad experiences with it. Once FIOS is available in my area, I am getting that at both the office and at home.

[WlknGenius]

Testing with the san fransisco thingy:


Using San Jose:


New York:


Yokohama, Japan:


Nuremburg, Ger:


Repeat of SF test:


I think once you get up above 1mb, it starts getting limited by how robust the network is in your region, beyond how your house/neighborhood is wired.
I'm in a crappy old building with ancient wiring. I'm sure the rest of the university gets better results.

[Car Addict]

i pegged the download gauge against the redline.

[Turf1600]

ehhh, 6 meg down?

6 down 1.5 up lol

[BenM]

[JGood]

im buying 6k down and 1.5 up

ehhh, 6 meg down?

[Turf1600]

im buying 6k down and 1.5 up

[JGood]

Anyone in here have DSL? I'm about to get DSL at my house - want to know what im looking at.

I have DSL, I'll check it when I get home. My service is slow as balls though, my LEC has 3 different plans and I have the "middle" one. IIRC it's like 768k up / 256k down.

[Turf1600]

Anyone in here have DSL? I'm about to get DSL at my house - want to know what im looking at.