VeeshanVault

Wow!

http://www22.verizon.com/FiosForHome/ch ... =&variant=

That's fast. Faster than those Swedes have it even! The problem is I don't have a land line phone number to enter to see if I quality. Lame. I need to find a local phone number in my residential area to try out.

For 199.95/month you can get 30Mbps/5Mbps. !!!

Not bad. I'm paying $45 for 6Mbp/680k (or thereabouts).

Not available in my area. But it's Verizon and I've heard bad things about them anyway.

The good news is that other companies may try and follow.

Yeah, Cox recently upped their standard package to 5Mbps/500Kbs (I get about 650k) from 4Mbps/350k. Upload speeds need to go much higher though.

for 2Mbps upload speeds I'll try out this new service if I can.

they only offer 3 Mbps/768 in my area...which is very strange considering i live in NJ/NYC metro area

oh well, i'm sure they will expand it here soon

They're pulling fiber north of me, it should be availlable in my area sometime next fall. "Cable" TV service as well, though I'm not sure how much traction that's gotten. The newspaper said 15Mb bidirectional for $39.95, appears they were off a bit.

I've had no trouble at all with Verison DSL, it worked the day they hooked it up and never burped through 4 hurricanes and lots of lightning storms. In marked contrast with Bright House\Roadrunner, their data service is miserable. Still have cable TV from them, it sucks too.

I log everything, I've only had 2-3 port scans with Verizon, when I was on cable the scans and outright attacks were essentially continuous.

I prefer putting in friend's phone numbers.. for fear of spam.

Therefore, i'm 99% sure it's not available to me.

i'm paying $33 for 1.5/.5

Winnow wrote:Yeah, Cox recently upped their standard package to 5Mbps/500Kbs (I get about 650k) from 4Mbps/350k. Upload speeds need to go much higher though.

for 2Mbps upload speeds I'll try out this new service if I can.

I thought it was uped to 8Mbps/768k?

Stragi wrote:

Winnow wrote:Yeah, Cox recently upped their standard package to 5Mbps/500Kbs (I get about 650k) from 4Mbps/350k. Upload speeds need to go much higher though.

for 2Mbps upload speeds I'll try out this new service if I can.

I thought it was uped to 8Mbps/768k?

Nay

http://www.cox.com/highspeedinternet/

Although the preferred option actually performs at the 5mb/650k level for the 40.00. I might be legacy'd in though. I pay the preferred rate and get the higher premier speed.

I had changed to verizon DSL in January,- i was told that i was given the 3Mbps service upgrade for free, (which in fact i wasnt able to receive anyway because i was too far away from the co ) but they had an outtage last month that lasted about 11 days . Our whole area code was "down" - We were getting only 100k as opposed to the 1.5 which we were supposed to have. I thought it was totally unacceptable for their service to be "down" for so long in the market we're in (NYC) - on like the 9th day of the outtage, i had a CSR rep tell me that "the parts were on order" and it would be fixed soon

Later that week, i went back to RR

Verizon DSL standard 1.5Mbps -- $29.99 w/1 year or 34.99 month/month
RR Cable 2.8Mbps -- $44.95/month

Sweeeeet! : )))

Cox just upped their service:

-Up to 9Mbps downstream

-Up to 1Mbps upstream

Oh joyous day! I'm pulling down a cool 9Mbps off Giganews and that 1000Kb/s upload is the biggest help.

I'm coming for you Swedes!

The 9Mbps isn't available nationwide yet for Cox. Phoenix and Na. Virginia so far have it.


FIOS is still the best deal if it's available in your area:

http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome/ch ... ackage.asp

1118KB/s (11Mbps) is my record on giganews so far! (nerd alert!)

Not sustained though. It seems to bounce around from 700-1000KB/s and sometimes drops 300-500 range. Giganews has been excellent for the few months I've used them. Reliable, excellent retention ~50 days and fast. I'm going to have to start kicking in the news servers from Cox if the post is under 3 days old though to maximize bandwidth.

Winnow wrote:Sweeeeet! : )))

Cox just upped their service:

-Up to 9Mbps downstream

-Up to 1Mbps upstream

Oh joyous day! I'm pulling down a cool 9Mbps off Giganews and that 1000Kb/s upload is the biggest help.

I'm coming for you Swedes!

The 9Mbps isn't available nationwide yet for Cox. Phoenix and Na. Virginia so far have it.


FIOS is still the best deal if it's available in your area:

http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome/ch ... ackage.asp

whoa wait, what package is this? mine is still like 4.3 (

Stragi wrote:
whoa wait, what package is this? mine is still like 4.3 (

It's the premier package. More expensive but finally worth it now that there's a big difference in speeds.

http://www.cox.com/phoenix/highspeedint ... ricing.asp

Twice the upload and download speeds is worth it. I get 1Mbps up and 10Mbps down. Cox gives a little extra than the advertised speed. It's a 5 minute phone call to Cox to upgrade and be operating at the new speed.

I am pissed I only have two choices Comcrap Crable at 65.71 a month or SBC Yahoo at 59.99 a month, and both at 128kbps up, and Comcrap lying and saying 4m down.

Kylere wrote:I am pissed I only have two choices Comcrap Crable at 65.71 a month or SBC Yahoo at 59.99 a month, and both at 128kbps up, and Comcrap lying and saying 4m down.

Seems expensive for SBC! Their 3/(not sure on up) should be going for $29.99 a month.

Boohoo, at least you don't have to pay for submarine cables

Aslanna wrote:

Kylere wrote:I am pissed I only have two choices Comcrap Crable at 65.71 a month or SBC Yahoo at 59.99 a month, and both at 128kbps up, and Comcrap lying and saying 4m down.

Seems expensive for SBC! Their 3/(not sure on up) should be going for $29.99 a month.

Yes this is true but add in land line charges and boom. The onyl phone lines I have are cellular.

Check by address

http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome/ch ... _entry.asp

I have FIOS... you have to live pretty close to a POP to qualify.

It's still pretty new. Uptimes are not as good as they should be, but damn its fast!!

I am pissed I only have two choices Comcrap Crable at 65.71 a month or SBC Yahoo at 59.99 a month, and both at 128kbps up, and Comcrap lying and saying 4m down.

I also have Comcast, whom I absolutely fucking detest, but I'm always in the 3-4m range at all times. I pay 49.98$ a month. I just fucking hate thier customer service, thier installers, thier shit rates, and well, pretty much everything about them. As soon as a viable alternative comes along, Comcast can eat my asshole. I'll jump ship so fast it will make thier head spin.

Kylere wrote:

Aslanna wrote: Seems expensive for SBC! Their 3/(not sure on up) should be going for $29.99 a month.

Yes this is true but add in land line charges and boom. The onyl phone lines I have are cellular.

Ah. Ok. Got it!

SBC doesn't offer the 6/608 anymore that I got. So if I move (which I will be doing end of Aug) I'm out of luck. Will have to drop down halfway. Which kinda sucks.

I've been extremely pleased with the upgraded Cox speeds. While they advertise 9Mbps/1Mbps, I'm getting 10-11Mbps/1.25Mbps. Zooooom! That = ~600MB in 10 mins or ~3.6GB/hour.

I've discovered that VeeshanVault server's max upload is about 70Kb/sec though. Has anyone else that uploads to the server gotten faster speeds?

Here's another speed test:

http://test.lvcm.com/

This one's out of LasVegas.

My download was off the charts at 9.1Mbps. Upload was around 1.1Mbps. 100MBs > 2 mins.

Seems to vary so run it a couple times.

Pr0n at Blitzkrieg speeds from the Germans!

50Mbit/s Broadband

Everything in life is better when it is free, especially torrents of your favorite fetish porn downloading at a blazing 50Mbit/s. Calm down you silly porn-loving American, this is only happening in Germany. Deutsche Telekom apparently has a pocket full of amphetamines. The project, titled Lightspeed, plans to have this new fiber line run to 2.9 million households a year from now. The freeness I speak of is currently available via their site and will run at just 25 Mbit/s for the time being. The free offer is only taking place in Hamburg and Stuttgart.

Got fios installed today, getting a consistant (so far) 12Mb/sec download and close to 2Mb\s upload for $39.95 a month. Supposed to be 15 and 2, close enough as I'm just testing to SpeakEasy in Atlanta.

Phone is on fiber too, can't tell any difference from the copper lines really.

They put an Optical service unit on the side of the house, it's got 4 copper phone drops, 100Mb ethernet data and a 100Mb (I think) IPTV terminal. The incoming line is OC3. There's a battery backup unit installed in the garage that powers it during outages, and a wired 100Mb ethernet jack in my laundry room and a ethernet\wireless router mounted on the wall.

Pretty spiffy.

Winnow wrote:Wow!

http://www22.verizon.com/FiosForHome/ch ... =&variant=

That's fast. Faster than those Swedes have it even! The problem is I don't have a land line phone number to enter to see if I quality. Lame. I need to find a local phone number in my residential area to try out.

For 199.95/month you can get 30Mbps/5Mbps. !!!

Not faster than the Swedes Winnow. They are rolling out Gigabit broadband connections as we speak!

...fucking Swedes and their Mbps! Those horny pr0n leeching bastards must have access to alien technology!

oh this isn't right....the French can't be out bandwidthing us! Move over Swedes! The Frogs are blowing right by you!

"Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s Internet connections to select cities in the Paris region. For ... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): 'The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.'"

I pay 50 a month for 10/10 mbit, could pay 100 and get 25/25, you americans must have sucky companies!

Tegellan wrote:I pay 50 a month for 10/10 mbit, could pay 100 and get 25/25, you americans must have sucky companies!

I also get 10/1.25 (the uploads sucketh) mbit, the article above is talking about gbits

1,000 bit/s = 1 kbit/s (one kilobit or one thousand bits per second)
1,000,000 bit/s = 1 Mbit/s (one megabit or one million bits per second)
1,000,000,000 bit/s = 1 Gbit/s (one gigabit or one billion bits per second)


unless i read it wrong, that's freaking fast for a net connection.

I don't know what that will end up being to the end users in their homes though.

I'd like to get up to 15/5 or 25/10 mbit and would be happy.

I am stuck on Charter adn their best 5 MBps download. I am using their 3MBps download right now and can usually cap out my download speeds off newsleecher. Still costs me about $45 per month thougha nd the upload is really shitty.

Deward wrote:I am stuck on Charter adn their best 5 MBps download. I am using their 3MBps download right now and can usually cap out my download speeds off newsleecher. Still costs me about $45 per month thougha nd the upload is really shitty.

yeah, the nice thing about giganews is that I can always max out my bandwidth downloading from them. (~10-11mbit) so paying for the premium package from Cox isn't a waste. I keep six download streams open on Newsleacher but really could get away with less...just nice to have several open in case one stream hangs for some reason. I don't see a reason to max it out at 10 download streams unless it starts dropping below max in the future.

I've had FIOS for about 6 months. Used the test linked above, did it 5 times, cleared temp files after each attempt. Average of the 5 tests was 15.4 down and 1.81 up.

It's been stable for me, and always seems real fast compared to my prior provider comcast. Definitely recommend FIOS if you can get it in your area.

SBC (now AT&T) is offering 6000/768 now so I switched the plan I had and was paying $45 for. So down is still the same but a little faster up than what I had. And for $30 a month. So saving $15 a month. Bonus!

Can we even get FIOS in arizona? :/ The stupid checker says I have to have a verizon phone line and checking by address says I'm not in their database.

I tried that checker recently and ran into the same issue. Could have sworn it worked properly when this thread was started.

*~*stragi*~* wrote:Can we even get FIOS in arizona? :/ The stupid checker says I have to have a verizon phone line and checking by address says I'm not in their database.

No FIOS in AZ yet but when it does come to the valley, COX will up their Premium Cable to 15mbit so I'm hoping they show up soon.

Aslanna wrote:I tried that checker recently and ran into the same issue. Could have sworn it worked properly when this thread was started.

Yeah, it worked by address before, but I recently tried it and went through a loop due to it not finding my address too.

Hmmm, Cox is increasing downstream bandwidth to 7Mbps on the standard package Oct first and raising the rate $5.00. That closes the gap between premium (9Mbps) and standard to 2Mbps for 15/month difference.

There are two other big changes. One, downstream speeds (at least here in the Phx valley) will be increasing from 6Mbps to 7Mbps on Oct 4. (Past experience says it'll actually roll out a bit before that.)

Two, ^cost^, +$5/month.

I hope that means the premium downstream is going up as well. It's hard to complain when I already get 11Mbps but some Japanese are getting 100Mbps for ~35.00 U.S now (which really tops out around 25Mbps). We need to get with the times!

Just to keep the concerned readers updated about my bandwidth, I got a letter in the mail a few days ago. The important part states:

Over the past three years we have increased your Premier High Speed Internet speeds from 5Mbps to 9Mbps without affecting your price. On October 4th, 2006 we are also increasing your download speeds up to 12Mbps. You'll be able to download photos, music and internet files faster than ever before.

I'm actually getting ~10-11Mpbs down and 1.25 Mbps up right now so hopefully with this increase I'll be in the 13-14Mbps down, 2.5Mbps up range if lucky. (75mb/minute, 4.5GB/hour, 108GB/day)

I'm coming for you Euros and closing in on the initial speed posted in the topic of this thread!

Adelphia has a monopoly up here. I use Directv for my TV, so for cable modem I pay 59.99/month for...

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-09-13 11:00:04 EST:
3659 / 842
Your download speed : 3659 kbps or 457.4 KB/sec.
That is 6% better than an average user on adelphia.net

Your upload speed : 842 kbps or 105.3 KB/sec.
That is 60.3% better than an average user on adelphia.net

In NJ we have optimum running the cable, tv, and phone services. Right now they got a service called Optimum Online Boost. 30mbps down 2mbps up for $44.90

Sionistic wrote:In NJ we have optimum running the cable, tv, and phone services. Right now they got a service called Optimum Online Boost. 30mbps down 2mbps up for $44.90

Damn, that's nice : ) I'd pay $100.00 for that if it was an option here.

Sionistic wrote:In NJ we have optimum running the cable, tv, and phone services. Right now they got a service called Optimum Online Boost. 30mbps down 2mbps up for $44.90

Downside? New Jersey.

Sionistic wrote:In NJ we have optimum running the cable, tv, and phone services. Right now they got a service called Optimum Online Boost. 30mbps down 2mbps up for $44.90

Shit where the hell do I get that? I think I'm still on regular Optimum..

right here

I'm not sure exactly what mine is, as its provided through my apartment complex, but I've been able to download at up to 13 megs \ sec and I've had this for the past year or so. This shit blazes...faster would be cool and all, but I really don't have any need to get anything faster in the near future.

we get raped in north carolina only local cable provider in Chapel Hill is time warner, who are probably the worst company i've dealt with.
It's something to the tune of $49.95 for 5 down/384 up

I thought I had found the speed limit for Giganews Most won't care about this but...

Since yesterday, my cable internet bandwidth has had bursts of 20-30Mbps. I don't know why. Nothing's been announced. I was downloading a movie on giganews and noticed my Mpbs climb up to 27Mbps for a few seconds and then dropped down to a steady 12.67Mbps.

After I had sex with my modem, I performed a speed test and sure enough, got a steady 23+Mbps. I tried Newsleecher again and got the spike to 27Mpbs, and then drop to 12.67Mbps.

I increased my pipes from 10 to 12 and got the burst but still dropped down to ~12.6

I added 4 Cox Newservers pipes at 4X512Kbps...so had 16 pipes total using Newsleecher but still got burst to 20+Mbps and then it settled to 12.6Mbps.

The good news is that I know my modem and Giganews are capable of 20+Mbps and that Cox has implemented what they had promised long ago for premium users which is a short 5-10 second 20+Mbps speed burst so basically whenever I open a pipe to the net, it's at 20+Mbps and then drops to 12.6Mbps. Nice for quick page loads!

The Cox tech said while he was fixing my gap issue that the limit would probably be going up to 20Mbps by the end of this year after some fiber upgrades.

Aslanna wrote:I tried that checker recently and ran into the same issue. Could have sworn it worked properly when this thread was started.

Lame checker still doesn't work. Why do they make it so hard for people to find information? How about just a map that shows coverage areas. Even that's better than their crappy address lookup thing that doesn't work (for me).