My poor internet connection

[shovenose]

Sometimes I feel sorry for it...

[lti]

Re: My poor internet connection

What connection speed are you supposed to have?

Even with a properly working Internet connection, downloading six disc images at the same time while listening to online radio might take a while.

Also, I don't think your laptop needs a 350W power supply.

[shovenose]

Re: My poor internet connection

Pingtest.net hates me...

And i've fixed my siggy :P

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: My poor internet connection

Looks like you should check the outside telephone wiring and use a real short telephone cord between the jack and the modem.

You can get one at a Radio Shack.

[shovenose]

Re: My poor internet connection

Lol. The AT&T tech came out and screwed it up even more. They're not ever coming back. It's not the phone line, it's just because we're not in a big city.
Mind you, it's not that bad when I'm not downloading 6 huge ISOs, etc...
I usually score a B on Pingtest.net...

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: My poor internet connection

Sounds like you don't have UVerse. UVerse would easily get you 10 + Mbit download.

[Topcat]

Re: My poor internet connection

listening to eminem is the reason. It makes the lines melt with embarrassment for humanity to have to carry the data that compiles the annoying noise known as eminem...

Furthermore, I have no sympathy for you. Spend a day on my rural DSL connection and then whine about what you have... I can't stream anything. My average download is 80k/sec

[ratdude747]

Re: My poor internet connection

listening to eminem is the reason. It makes the lines melt with embarrassment for humanity to have to carry the data that compiles the annoying noise known as eminem...

Furthermore, I have no sympathy for you. Spend a day on my rural DSL connection and then whine about what you have... I can't stream anything. My average download is 80k/sec

then what is BCN supported by?

[Topcat]

Re: My poor internet connection

^
A DS3 at a remote datacenter.

[shovenose]

Re: My poor internet connection

Oh! I thought you home-hosted badcaps.net!
Now it's all clear to me...you having internet outages at your house but badcaps.net still loading.
Anyway, I think you should move it to a different datacenter...I often have trouble loading BCN when all other sites load fine...or it's just really slow...
You're not on shared hosting are you?

[ratdude747]

Re: My poor internet connection

Oh! I thought you home-hosted badcaps.net!
Now it's all clear to me...you having internet outages at your house but badcaps.net still loading.
Anyway, I think you should move it to a different datacenter...I often have trouble loading BCN when all other sites load fine...or it's just really slow...
You're not on shared hosting are you?

He part owns the datacenter iirc. he and a friend went halfsies on it. There are pics somewhere on the forum of it.

[c_hegge]

Re: My poor internet connection

My average download is 80k/sec

I will not settle for anything less than 5mbps, period.


^^Oh dear, my Internet is slow today . It's usually around 15mbps

[shovenose]

Re: My poor internet connection

He part owns the datacenter iirc. he and a friend went halfsies on it. There are pics somewhere on the forum of it.

That's cool! I'll do some digging for the pics...

[Topcat]

Re: My poor internet connection

I will not settle for anything less than 5mbps, period.

When you're given no choice, yes you will. It's this or dialup....

Yes, a buddy and I own the datacenter. I havent home hosted in a couple years.

[c_hegge]

Re: My poor internet connection

I'd rather move away than settle for slow internet, but here in Aus, there's something faster than 5mbps available just about everywhere

[Topcat]

Re: My poor internet connection

I'd rather move away than settle for slow internet, but here in Aus, there's something faster than 5mbps available just about everywhere

Meh....a blazing internet connection isnt really needed for here. I did all my downloading when I was sitting on a T1 back in the day. There's nothing I really want to DL anymore anyway. If I want an ISO or something big, I start the DL, and it'll be done in the morning.

[mariushm]

Re: My poor internet connection

I'm picking other mirrors for stuff when the downloads come slower than 1-3 MB/s ....

It sucks for you... US has the biggest amount of dark fiber but the ISP people take advantage of the monopoly or duopoly and deals they have with the cities and bleed you dry...

Naturally, I agree there are places where it's not profitable to pull fibre for 50 people in a remote village or something like that but that's no excuse to not be able to offer good connections in big cities.

This is what competition does... I can probably pick between 5 ISPs here in this town of a bit less than 2 million people.




100/6 cable, no transfer limits etc ... even across the ocean i can reach about 60-75 mbps with several simultaneous downloads if I want to.

This is about 25$ a month, tv is about 15$ separately.

[shovenose]

Re: My poor internet connection

$25 a month? OMG I am going to move to Romania tomorrow (well not really). That's a super good deal!

[ratdude747]

Re: My poor internet connection

$25 a month? OMG I am going to move to Romania tomorrow (well not really). That's a super good deal!

no, that is supply and demand.

in the us:

the supply is limited to what company x puts out. the demand is how much consumers are willing and able to pay for the connection at a given number of connections sold. consumers, as a whole are willing and able to pay more because if not, they would have the connection cut. since there is a lack of competition, consumers have no substitutes to got to, and thus, it is pay or do without.

in Europe:

the supply is much greater, reducing costs and increasing connections sold. the demand is still how much consumers are willing and able to pay at a given number of connections sold. since there are more substitutes due to more competition, if the price goes too high, consumers will choose a different company to get the connection.

also factoring in is that Europe has less places "in the boonies"; in the US, there are more rural places where getting a connection costs the company a larger amount. In fact, some areas are so far out that the only connection they can get is dial up (had it not been for the rural electrification act, the phone and power lines to do such wouldn't exist either).