smurf you Broadband

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Originally Posted by Dante WolfWood

I actually work for a cable company (SPOILER)(charter) and we get the higher tier ( I believe its 20 MB now?) for nothing. we are soon going to be updating our QAM and start "Narrowbanding" to each nodes to give more bandwidth and speed so I am actually hopefully looking at 50 MB for nothing soon. Plus My service is great! My connection never drops off and I havent had an outage yet. plus if I ever do have a problem, its nothing I can't handle on my own or call in a system tech to check on for me for free.

and the only problem with DSL over cable is the shared bandwidth but I live way WAY out in the country and I am actually on the last port of the cable plant so my speed is always topped out any time of the day.

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Every word of that post made sense to me until you said 'last port of the cable plant' -- how is that relevant to distributed bandwidth?

I pay quite a bit for my internet access, as it is no longer subsidized by my employer. But the service is pretty good. There's a download limit but I blame myself and everybody like myself who downloads a lot every month. The funny thing is I don't download any more, and by Sept I don't expect to ever run into problems with that (I used to go over the limit and they charge you an arm and a leg for moar).

All the same, I don't remotely get close to 50 Mbps and so I'm jealous. Also I didn't think such speeds were possible except in other countries like Japan...wow

our headend is located in a town that is maybe...75 miles away. so I live in a small rural town that has hubs situated so far from each other to communicate between the nodes and the headend. The bandwidth is distributed by the hubs to the nodes. well, I seem to be one of the very few customers on this node on the end. hell, there's not another customer for miles on this hub.

Internet under BT was great. Pipex were terrible and now this Dongle thingy from T-Mobile is terrible because I live in an area without 3G (though were I a mile up the road, I'd be fine). As such I have a speed at the moment of... 7 kb/s and I absolutely hate it.

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Originally Posted by Jiro

Pretty much all Australian internet is either :bou::bou::bou::bou: or overpriced.

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sadly this is true, my net is quite terribad, it's okay for what i pay for it though :p

I use Time Warner because I HATE AT&T, but it's the lesser of two evils. I'd love to have VZ Comm internet.