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Best thing is to keep quiet!
Your internet connection?
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Best thing is to keep quiet!
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I am moving house tomorrow, that means, after 3 long years at this house I am FINALLY moving off my ADSL 1 connection.
Here it is now, I will post again when the internet is put into the new house in a few days
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The same old 1.3mbs it has been in every other post in this thread xD. According to this, it's slower than 86% of Australia
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Here it is now, I will post again when the internet is put into the new house in a few days
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The same old 1.3mbs it has been in every other post in this thread xD. According to this, it's slower than 86% of Australia
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what? no choice for satellite internet on the poll??? 
my local phone company (frontier) is finally expanding dsl into my area and surrounding areas. the problem is that frontier is running into extremely old copper lines that Verizon neglected to maintain before they sold all their landlines to frontier
my local phone company (frontier) is finally expanding dsl into my area and surrounding areas. the problem is that frontier is running into extremely old copper lines that Verizon neglected to maintain before they sold all their landlines to frontier
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To the city (Where I am)
To San Jose (South of me)
Upload is a bit slow though, but it's pretty nice.
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Just replaced the old dlink router with a ASUS router(installed the DD-WRT firmware onto it) and it's a lot better than what has been happening recently. Was getting under what my ISP gives me. The ISP normally gives me 10mbps(or more depending on the neighborhood internet activity) but recently I have been getting under that with the dlink router. I figured that the router was the problem since it got better after I restarted the dlink router clean and the speeds jumped back to normal.
Test in Moscow, Russia just for fun:
Test in Moscow, Russia just for fun:
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Slower than 91% of Australia can never be a good sign. If you're wondering it's an ADSL 1 connection since that is all the local exchange can take
To add to this frustration, my parents think that this is high speed (!) and the ISP has good customer service (even though we've never had to contact customer service), so there is no way that I'll be able to get a faster internet connection any time soon, especially since we recently got a "loyalty" bonus, which was an upgrade in the download limit from 10GB to 40GB.
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This is the result I got for a CLOSE server, but I think to keep things fair, we should all test to one place, that will give a REALISTIC idea of how quick or connections are.
This is my connection to Tokyo, Japan:
And this is a server in Rapid City, Iowa...1200 miles away...
And just for kicks, this is my connection to London, UK:
And, although a high download rate is important, the ping is more important. No matter what we do we're limited to the speed of the web and servers and sites and traffic. Right now it's 8:10am EST, and EVERYONE on the eastern seaboard is logging into the internet right now. This has a dramatic effect of the speed at which I can access web sites. If you open your browser, and Google opens in under 2 seconds, you're fine. Anything longer than that, and you may want to check what's up (assuming you've got broadband of some sort).
This is my connection to Tokyo, Japan:
And this is a server in Rapid City, Iowa...1200 miles away...
And just for kicks, this is my connection to London, UK:
And, although a high download rate is important, the ping is more important. No matter what we do we're limited to the speed of the web and servers and sites and traffic. Right now it's 8:10am EST, and EVERYONE on the eastern seaboard is logging into the internet right now. This has a dramatic effect of the speed at which I can access web sites. If you open your browser, and Google opens in under 2 seconds, you're fine. Anything longer than that, and you may want to check what's up (assuming you've got broadband of some sort).
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So, I just upgraded my TV/Internet package....
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i think i have fiber optical if thats
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Ok I pay NOTHING for this. Landlord switched to AT&T U-verse and while I won't be able to get my wireless going, (I'm using my old wireless hub as a switch point), I still didn't lose much speed, maybe a MB/S at most.
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This. The best internet service in Europe(best optical fiber)!
This. Interesting stuff!
11-02-2011
"The best fiber optic network in Europe belongs to PT
PT has just been awarded the Innovation Award in the "FTTH Deployment and Operation of Networks", corresponding to the best and most innovative implementation of Fiber Optic Network in Europe.
The award was given during the FTTH Innovation Awards in Milan, an initiative that is promoted by the FTTH Council Europe. The award, which the PT has applied to the project "Ultra Broadband Business and Network Transformation in Portugal Telecom, has recognized the company's commitment to modernize the infrastructure of telecommunications in Portugal through the implementation of a fiber optic network that to customers' homes.
Zeinal Bava, CEO of Portugal Telecom, attended the ceremony of FTTH Innovation Awards and emphasizes that "Portugal Telecom has always positioned itself at the forefront of the development and implementation of leading technologies. For us, the investment in fiber optics was never a question of "if" but "when", since we believe this is the only proven technology capable of ensuring the future provision of broadband services to high speed to our business and residential customers. Moreover, the transformation of our business model has been strongly supported by an aggressive deployment of fiber to the home even, an essential part of our offer of cloud computing to enterprise customers and our supply of Meo for residential customers. The award recognizes the high level of outstanding work, commitment and dedication of teams of PT, and the success of the strategy we adopted, which focuses on innovation, operational implementation and partnerships with industry leaders, so that we can offer our customers in Portugal the best and most advanced services available in the market. "
Recall that PT currently has more than one million dwellings covered with fiber optics, following a significant effort to implement a network FTTH (Fiber to the Home), started in April 2009. In 2011, the operator aims to strengthen this network with 600 000 additional houses, which represent the use of about 300,000 kilometers of fiber and the involvement of around 1,500 people, including PT employees and external suppliers. To reach 1.6 million homes, the operator will further enhance the penetration of homes with this technology, which will stand at about 50% of households in Portugal.
The widespread use of Internet, the exponential growth of data traffic, coupled with a growing need for higher bandwidth access, meant that the PT anticipate trends and invest in fiber in its fixed network and also on the mobile network with preparation for the 4th Generation Mobile, as well as providing storage services and data processing capability through the creation of one of the largest data centers in Europe, to be built in Covington.
This cross-cutting strategy and sustained investment have now been recognized by the FTTH Council Europe, which examines the work of companies and industry organizations Fiber Optic who have distinguished themselves by their innovation, creativity and capacity for technology implementation. The nominees are selected annually by an independent jury of experts from academia."
