Over Two-Thirds of U.S. Broadband Internet Connections aren't actually Broadband!

[caleb]

Oh my got US is gonna invade Sweden because theres internet!

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I'd really like more upload speed. I doubt atlantic bb can provide it, considering during peak hours pings go up to 200ms. They don't even try to invest in the network. Why bother when you have a monopoly and there's no price to pay for inefficient business.

 

[theonedub]

Or just have the Cable companies start charging slightly less for their packages and force the DSL providers to step up and start offering decent speeds at reasonable prices. The cable company in my area(Comcast) just started offing "economy broadband" for $30 a month that is 1.5Mb/s download. IMO, if they started offering a 4Mb/s Down 1Mb/s Up package for $10 they would put the DSL providers in my area out of business. And considering they are charing $45 a month for 15 Mb/s Down 5Mb/s Up, $10 for 4MB/s Down and 1 MB/s up shouldn't be a problem considering they would steal an assload of customers from DSL.

I agree, some pricing changes could definitely spark some great changes for the lots of consumers.

There are those, including myself, who are at the mercy of copper due to living in a rural area. Small towns with one Telco as the only option for reasonable service are stuck with slow speeds not because of ignorance or non competitive pricing, but because of the crappy copper wires fed into their homes.

A handful of emails, a couple phone calls, a few trips into the local office, and about 100ft of wire later, my DSL is just about up to par:

Before:

After:

 

[INSTG8R]

I really do get aggravated when I see the tactics and prices ISP's. The price for the so called "service" is pretty shocking sometimes

Now granted I have been living in Norway the past 6 years and have been rather spoiled

This is the base package available to me(Fibre to Building) Like AltecV1 I also get TV and phone all on the same modem.



I can now have up to 400/400 Mbit on the same line! That is overkill but hey I can have it.

 

[Sensi Karate]

Woah, how can Americans complain?

Australia are on plans are 1000000x worse. For the last two years I was on a 5GB Wireless Modem with download speeds of around 200kb and lets not talk about upload. Finally got for $100 (which is also around $100 US) 100GB of around 16+mb/s of download and around half that upload speeds and seen a MASSIVE increase in everything I've done.

I lol whenever Americans complain about their internet.

 

[Mussels]

Woah, how can Americans complain?

Australia are on plans are 1000000x worse. For the last two years I was on a 5GB Wireless Modem with download speeds of around 200kb and lets not talk about upload. Finally got for $100 (which is also around $100 US) 100GB of around 16+mb/s of download and around half that upload speeds and seen a MASSIVE increase in everything I've done.

I lol whenever Americans complain about their internet.

get yourself on dodo these days, they fixed their issues and have unlimited adsl2+ for about $90 a month, with phone.

 

[H82LUZ73]

Test your connection :: http://www.speedtest.net

lol im getting what i pay for lololol [URL=http://www.speedtest.net] [/URL]

 

[Over_Lord]

wow Australians are fucked then, 90% of people are on 256/64, 512/128 or 1500/256 connections around here.


most of those get shaped to 64/64 after downloading measly amounts like 10GB per month, as well.


that $10 a month plan newtekie mentioned is his first post WOULD BE FUCKING AWESOME.

Umm, Indians even worse, a few percent (less than double) are on INDIAN STANDARD broadband, which is 256Kbps, and we pay about 10-15$ equivalent for that..

I'm on a 1Mbps UP 512Kbps down and I pay close to 25$, compared to you guys, we are being LOOTED

 

[Mussels]

Umm, Indians even worse, a few percent (less than double) are on INDIAN STANDARD broadband, which is 256Kbps, and we pay about 10-15$ equivalent for that..

I'm on a 1Mbps UP 512Kbps down and I pay close to 25$, compared to you guys, we are being LOOTED

uh... no. you are not being looted. we are

i highly doubt your plans have a mere 2GB limit, and massive fines for disconnecting before 2 years are up.

 

[remixedcat]

 

[Mussels]

lets not turn this into another speedtest thread. we already have one of those.

 

[remixedcat]

San francisco LMAO!!!!!!!!!



Ok OK LOL

 

[newtekie1]

i highly doubt your plans have a mere 2GB limit, and massive fines for disconnecting before 2 years are up.

Comcast just tried to hit my co-worker with a $1900 contract termination fee. And he was terminating the service because in the first month he had it it was out 10 times, twice for 2+ Days.:shadedshu And of course he had his cable TV, Internet, and Phones through Comcast, so when it was out all three were out.

 

[Mussels]

Comcast just tried to hit my co-worker with a $1900 contract termination fee. And he was terminating the service because in the first month he had it it was out 10 times, twice for 2+ Days.:shadedshu And of course he had his cable TV, Internet, and Phones through Comcast, so when it was out all three were out.

ouchies. thats just like telstra is here.



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its a little off topic, but god DAMN i hate marketing BS.

 

[remixedcat]

Comcast=Fail (these are my pings from them in 2005!!!! the main reason I will never move to an area that only had comcast for broadband!!!)

These were pings I had on an average day too, not a bad day. an AVERAGE day.

A good day would be 300 some to 600 some.

 

[Mussels]

Comcast=Fail (these are my pings from them in 2005!!!! the main reason I will never move to an area that only had comcast for broadband!!!)

http://img.techpowerup.org/101212/tracert22.gif

These were pings I had on an average day too, not a bad day. an AVERAGE day.

A good day would be 300 some to 600 some.

thats the kind of thing i see on a network where someones choking the upload (usually a torrenter)

 

[remixedcat]

Nope we had no torrents running, and only one pc connected at the time (the other was powered off for a RAM upgrade) and the router was fine.

We had a tech out every week and what's funny is that one day...... to fix OUR problem he DISCONNECTED THE ENTIRE APARTMENT COMPLEX'S internet to help "figure out the problem'. This tech was a joke.

I went to the leasing office the next day to drop off a paper and HOLY SHIT THERE'S 50 PEOPLE in there complaning about what happened the night before!!!!!

 

[DRDNA]

Nope we had no torrents running, and only one pc connected at the time (the other was powered off for a RAM upgrade) and the router was fine.

We had a tech out every week and what's funny is that one day...... to fix OUR problem he DISCONNECTED THE ENTIRE APARTMENT COMPLEX'S internet to help "figure out the problem'. This tech was a joke.

I went to the leasing office the next day to drop off a paper and HOLY SHIT THERE'S 50 PEOPLE in there complaning about what happened the night before!!!!!

lol...thats some funny snit there.

 

[newtekie1]

to fix OUR problem he DISCONNECTED THE ENTIRE APARTMENT COMPLEX'S internet to help "figure out the problem'.

I can tell you the problem right now, everyone in the apartment complex was eating up bandwidth. Remember, cable is shared with your neighbors. Poor cable performance in apartment complexes is almost unavoidable due to the standard way apartment complexes are usually connected. A single cable is run to the building, and then split to every apartment, and that single cable usually becomes the bottleneck pretty quickly.

 

[remixedcat]

I know but I've lived at 700+ some unit apartment complexes (2) that I've had pings of anywhere from 30 some on a good day to max of 300 some on a bad day and better speeds.

the complex I lived at with the bad pings had 550 units.

Comcast just FAILS LIKE MAD-BAD-SAD at what they do. LMAO!!!!!!

 

[Mussels]

I know but I've lived at 700+ some unit apartment complexes (2) that I've had pings of anywhere from 30 some on a good day to max of 300 some on a bad day and better speeds.

the complex I lived at with the bad pings had 550 units.

Comcast just FAILS LIKE MAD-BAD-SAD at what they do. LMAO!!!!!!

i'm with newtekie, the problem was with the cable in the complex. for whatever reason, it was totally oversaturated - maybe some smart cookie bypassed whatever limiting system they had in and was eating the bandwidth for all the users himself.

 

[newtekie1]

i'm with newtekie, the problem was with the cable in the complex. for whatever reason, it was totally oversaturated - maybe some smart cookie bypassed whatever limiting system they had in and was eating the bandwidth for all the users himself.

Agreed, I wouldn't be surprised if someone uncapped their modem and killed the connection to the building. And to find the person they tech had to disconnect every person and connected them one by one until he found the person sucking down the bandwidth.

 

[Mussels]

Agreed, I wouldn't be surprised if someone uncapped their modem and killed the connection to the building. And to find the person they tech had to disconnect every person and connected them one by one until he found the person sucking down the bandwidth.

each apartment complex would have its own router, and it would be accesible by whoever works there.

EG, janitor gets in, runs 5 cables to his room (or hooks up his own M-ITX torrent box direct to the external WAN connection, and then shares the rest for everyone else )


i think this whole shared cable shiz is why american internet is so poor in some areas, they just run one fast line and do very poor control to make sure everyone gets a 'fair share' - they oversell the available bandwidth thinking that people wont max their lines out for long periods of time.

 

[Steevo]

I just switched back to these bozos, this is "speed plus". varying download speeds, and crap upload speeds. but its cheap for the first twelve months.

Cable, Phone, and internet for $119 per month.

 

[remixedcat]

Agreed, I wouldn't be surprised if someone uncapped their modem and killed the connection to the building. And to find the person they tech had to disconnect every person and connected them one by one until he found the person sucking down the bandwidth.

Prolly, but still LOLz.

Boy those people were pissed though. I was but at least I had mobile internet for a while.

Plus I went out for some retail therapy after that ordeal and got some cool threads LOL.


But this apt complex had 18 buildings. LOL