Your internet connection?

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Your connection?

  • T1, T3, OC-12, OC-48, or faster :D

    Votes: 198 19.2%

  • Cable modem

    Votes: 420 40.7%

  • DSL

    Votes: 346 33.5%

  • Dial-up modem (56k or slower)

    Votes: 69 6.7%
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Err... is this bad?
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Well this is an interesting turn of events... :L

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EDIT: And after a router reboot:

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WT:censored: is this 🤬. It's 10:30PM so I'm not about to go ringing my ISP, but they'll get a nice phone call in the morning. It won't be that nice, especially since I'll make sure to call them before I have my morning coffee. Get my drift?

EDIT2: Now this is just un-bloody believable...

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You need to record your phonecall. I would love to hear a 14 year old go ballistic before his morning coffee. :lol:
 
Dennisch
You need to record your phonecall. I would love to hear a 14 year old go ballistic before his morning coffee. :lol:
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:lol: Well as it turns out, I had the modem in my room (we've got two telephone jacks in our house, one in my room and one in the lounge room). That's when I was getting the crappy connection. Brought it out to the lounge room today since I'd finished with the Linux build (installed drivers and updates), and I'm back to:

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Still not what it should be, I'll still give my ISP a call, but at least I can use it for now. Unfortunately...you won't hear me going ballistic.
 
^^ ...I...I don't know how to respond. Which is weird for me, since I don't shut my gob much... "You mean son of a 🤬", be alright? :lol:


Rang Optus. Around 5 - 6MBS is spot on according to them. Apparently with my ADSL2+ connection, I'm paying for bandwidth allowance (500GB) not speed. That ticks me off. But I was nice too them and all... :grumpy:
 
tlowr4
Rang Optus. Around 5 - 6MBS is spot on according to them. Apparently with my ADSL2+ connection, I'm paying for bandwidth allowance (500GB) not speed. That ticks me off. But I was nice too them and all... :grumpy:
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I highly doubt that. You're paying for the speed and they, as a bonus, throw in a data cap for free. Regarding the speed, if you're paying for a 7 meg connection, never expect to see anything north of ~5.5 megs for your actual speed. There's a reason they always say up to...
 
tlowr4
^^ ...I...I don't know how to respond. Which is weird for me, since I don't shut my gob much... "You mean son of a 🤬", be alright? :lol:


Rang Optus. Around 5 - 6MBS is spot on according to them. Apparently with my ADSL2+ connection, I'm paying for bandwidth allowance (500GB) not speed. That ticks me off. But I was nice too them and all... :grumpy:
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Do you know when the NBN will be in your area?
 
TB
I highly doubt that. You're paying for the speed and they, as a bonus, throw in a data cap for free. Regarding the speed, if you're paying for a 7 meg connection, never expect to see anything north of ~5.5 megs for your actual speed. There's a reason they always say up to...
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I don't actually know what speed connection I'm paying for, but I know it's not as slow as this. Their claim is that I'm paying for the data allowance (since it's not the same in Australia, we have to pay extrodinate amounts for crappy internet), not speed, and the things thrown in on top are that we get free local, national, and mobile calls on the phone. For anyone that's interested, this is my plan: https://www.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/fusion/broadbandplan/109

korza493
Do you know when the NBN will be in your area?
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No idea what the NBN is, let alone when they're here. :guilty:
 


Meh. It works for what I do on this PC.
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The NBN is the National Broadband Network in Australia.
 
tlowr4
No idea what the NBN is, let alone when they're here. :guilty:
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Searching for things on the internet can be a phenomenal way to learn but you have to actually search for things on the internet to be able to learn. ;)
 
TB
Searching for things on the internet can be a phenomenal way to learn but you have to actually search for things on the internet to be able to learn. ;)
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Yes yes, I was getting there. Googling "NBN" is a fairly broad term though, I got everything from porn links to "Rent a Ferrari TODAY!". Still dosn't help me find out when the NBN are in my area.
 
The second result was the wiki page and the third was NBN's own website, on which it shows that *your city* has an optical fibre footprint and transit links listed but according to this map, it's not looking good for at least a year for actual service.
 
TB
The second result was the wiki page and the third was NBN's own website, on which it shows that *your city* has an optical fibre footprint and transit links listed but according to this map, it's not looking good for at least a year for actual service.
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OOOOOHHHHH!!!! *lightbulb moment* Right, gotcha now. You may now sigh, and shake your head slowly...

It says they're in stage 1 of working in Gladstone, but there's nothing even on there for Rockhampton. Hmm...
 
Even I knew what the NBN was.

That aside, go cable Internet. We aren't going to get a Fios setup for a long time of any sort I swear, but at least I don't have to worry about datacaps.

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Well after screwing with some network and modem settings, this is the most I can seem to squeeze out of it. Still not happy :grumpy:

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ROAD_DOGG33J
Comcast does have a cap for their residential internet. It's 250GB.
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They've never contacted me about it, and from what it says, seems to require repeated doings and interference with others in the area. This place isn't that high demand for service (yay, "the sticks") but I guess I'll keep that in mind then.

Thanks for the heads up though. I believe I asked a few people this when I was signing up with them and they said "no." Should have figured they had no clue what they were talking about.
 
If it was users, then I wouldn't doubt most of them don't even know about the cap. Comcast and employees probably don't want to wave the cap flag too high either. I think it was within the last year or two that they put the 250 down on "paper".
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
If it was users, then I wouldn't doubt most of them don't even know about the cap. Comcast and employees probably don't want to wave the cap flag too high either. I think it was within the last year or two that they put the 250 down on "paper".
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Naw, was people with Comcast when I asked, but again should assume they don't know much beyond their workflow scripts.

Average users will never hit that cap, period. Hell, I doubt I come too close most of the time even with my endless video and music streaming and so forth. Needs all the things in HD, ya know :P
 
Last time I was getting about 2 MB/s for download. Now...

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Last time was January 23rd, nearing the end of the month when we've used loads of data, maybe that has a big effect. :lol:
 
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Took another test when my sister was on Tumblr - 5.51 down :lol:

Looking back on some of my old results, I still have no idea how I got 30mb/s :confused:
 
^^ Hmm. Yes, all my tests have been through WiFi and Ethernet and there's little to no difference whatsoever. Then again I am using a $280 router...
 
I just gotta post this... we just got upgraded to a gigabit network connection here on the campus and the results to other servers are simply staggering.

 
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