Omg i haz comcastz :p

[RJARRRPCGP]

Originally Posted by shovenose

Is that good or bad?

That's good, for what I have been seeing. But where's the 50 Mbit+?

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by Topcat

Careful doing that, that's a good way to get your contract nullified and your server reclaimed (if leased) or returned to you (if its a colo).....plus tons of fines and other fees the DC will stick on you because of your stupidity...they dont take kindly to being sued.

We own the datacenter. We own the server(s)... Nothing to worry about there...

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by RJARRRPCGP

That's good, for what I have been seeing. But where's the 50 Mbit+?

LOL!
I'm limited mostly by the download speed of most websites at this point I think... but it's so amazing to me that it works 100%, no "The DSL Modem could not connect to your Internet Provider", and it takes like 2 minutes to download a huge file that would have taken 2 years on my DSL

Oh, and (escept for this site) it's my computer that's the speed bottleneck when I'm web browsing I think :P

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by c_hegge

As for 56K, that just needs to die. .

That's probably the truest thing anybody's said to me in a week!

[c_hegge]

Well, in Australia, it will die soonish. The Gov't is rolling out their own Boradband network, mostly using Fiber to the home (up to Gigabit). For those than can't get it, they will have Mobile and Satellite. Once the rollout is complete, the copper network gets decommisioned, so bye bye dial up.

[Topcat]

Originally Posted by shovenose

We own the datacenter. We own the server(s)... Nothing to worry about there...

...but you don't own the connection... Any other stupid things you care to reply with?! ...and when they come after you, the first thing they do is find out who's leasing the IP's....and that's it...you're cooked.

Ohh, and BTW, a server sitting in a someone's closet somewhere does not constitute a 'data center'.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Originally Posted by c_hegge

Well, in Australia, it will die soonish. The Gov't is rolling out their own Boradband network, mostly using Fiber to the home (up to Gigabit).

Same type of deal in Vermont. It's already mostly dead, at least since 2008!
The majority already dumped POTS internet service many moons ago!
In 2007, most people already had broadband and I was one of the last!

I finally got ADSL on May 17, 2007!

In fact, FTTH is already around the corner! Supposed to be available in 2012!

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by Topcat

Any other stupid things you care to reply with?!

The connection is under my friends roommates name :P
(You asked what other stupid things I could say, I said one)

Originally Posted by Topcat

Ohh, and BTW, a server sitting in a someone's closet somewhere does not constitute a 'data center'.

Sure it does
Wanna buy some hosting? We're gonna have a free plan available, I'm sure you could host this entire site on it!*
just kidding...

*This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to cure any diseases, including but not limited to uptime, available, and customer satisfaction.

[Topcat]

Originally Posted by shovenose

The connection is under my friends roommates name :P
(You asked what other stupid things I could say, I said one)

Yea, real smart..... You need to grow up man.

Originally Posted by shovenose

Sure it does
Wanna buy some hosting? We're gonna have a free plan available, I'm sure you could host this entire site on it!*
just kidding...

*This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to cure any diseases, including but not limited to uptime, available, and customer satisfaction.

Case in point...

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Topcat

Not the case anymore. Hughsnet satellite is bi-directional through the dish. no longer requires a dialup or other connection for its upstream.

Didn't know that.

However, satelite dishes don't handle rain very well... or has that been fixed too? (if so, the local BW3 needs to fix that )

[mariushm]

There are bi-directional systems and if it handles it well or not it kind of depends on where the satellite is and the band it's running the internet services at. It would be spotty in heavy rain though.

Also... satellites have... i don't know... about 15-30 transponders with about 25-50 mbps each.... upload to them from users is very limited bandwidth... so the point is you have about 2-3 gbps on the satellite which gets shared with all customers.

If you're lucky you can get high burst speeds but generally all satellite plans are like mobile plans... you get a few GB and then you're capped at 1 mbps or less, or something like that.

The download is also broadcasted across the area the satellite is, nowadays it should be encrypted... I remember I had friends about 5-8 years ago who used to aim their dishes to satellite dishes and use a software to dump the unencrypted traffic people made.. 200-400 mbps down speed, filled drives over the night lots of usenet file transfers and and other crap downloads.


If you really need internet bad, there's also Iridium.. which is basically a constellation of satellites placed at much lower height so there's no need for dishes. BUT... the prices are horrible: 100-450 kbps, 7-10$ per MB ... or 2500$ a month unlimited plan. See http://www.tempestcom.com/services/s...iew.aspx#plans


If you live about 2-5 miles (maybe more if you're lucky) from a city of some sort with Internet, it's basically more efficient to rent a house with view to your place there and just install some unidirectional antennas that see each other..

[Topcat]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

Didn't know that.

However, satelite dishes don't handle rain very well... or has that been fixed too? (if so, the local BW3 needs to fix that )

In rain, its ok. Severe weather, forget it.....it aint workin... My dad has it. It will hang on longer than DirecTV in bad weather, but when it gets too thick, its done.

[Junk Parts]

My TV Dish Network blows Doggie Things! It goes out in any form real rain. It even dies when the wind blows. The dish has been mounted on two different locations on my roof and it has made no difference. When my contract runs out with "The Dish Network" they are out of here!
I also had problems with the people who came to install the system. I told them to not use any of the older cables that were in my walls because they had been eaten up by rats while this house was a "Crack House" before I bought it. They plumed into this older stuff anyway. The system only worked one day before it died. The repair guy tried to say my system died because I have rats in the walls...LOL I told him "No" there are no live rats at this address. The damage you see is old damage. Your installers didn't hook into the right cable system even after I told them.
Now as for dial up its still needed by some. I say this because I have few people in Southern Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the Mountains of West Virginia where DSL isn't happening as of yet. Most of these people just don't have the extra money to buy a Sat type setup so dialup is it for them.
My wife changed our home DSL to one if the Business Plans that Verizon offers. I don't know its speed now but it is kick ass fast over the plan that we had before.

[Scenic]

Originally Posted by Junk Parts

My wife changed our home DSL to one if the Business Plans that Verizon offers. I don't know its speed now but it is kick ass fast over the plan that we had before.

http://speetest.net will give you a rough idea of what the speeds currently are.
Once the test is done, click on "Share this result" to get a link to a little image of your test result.

like so (my home connection)


..or my rented server

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by Scenic

http://speetest.net will give you a rough idea of what the speeds currently are.
Once the test is done, click on "Share this result" to get a link to a little image of your test result.

like so (my home connection)

OUCH that's quite lame!

..or my rented server

Haha nice connection, but that's cheating LOL!