best providers

youngster775 · January 27, 2011, 09:15:58 AM

Quote from: TWF on January 26, 2011, 09:01:45 PM
Just switched, be done in couple weeks. In mid time you guys get off porn sites so I can surf internet until they switch it

Did you go with charter?

TWF · January 27, 2011, 10:24:11 AM

yes

dub · January 27, 2011, 02:14:37 PM

I've been happy with Charter up here at the lake. I have the "Plus" which is advertised as 16Mbps, but I can actually see 20+ during off peak hours.

youngster775 · January 27, 2011, 04:36:55 PM

Quote from: TWF on January 27, 2011, 10:24:11 AM
yes

so far, are you happy with the switch?

TWF · January 27, 2011, 06:32:01 PM

Trouble with reading youngster?

Next week they doing switch, still on old one.

youngster775 · January 27, 2011, 09:47:18 PM

I must have been in the garage huffing race fuel...

let me know how it works out for you.

A DRAGON · January 28, 2011, 11:07:05 PM

Mine too

GreenMachine · January 29, 2011, 11:54:32 AM

Best? They're all evil in my book; tracking who goes where and when, then giving it to unknown government agencies without oversight or cutting bandwidth to competitor Web sites. They're just evil.

dub · January 29, 2011, 12:37:03 PM

puh-lease. You think it's bad here? How about China where Skype is illegal? You need proxies and VPNs just to get out to the open internet; you can't get to many blogs, BBC, Facebook, Twitter, etc straight from an ISP inside China. Or how about Egypt, where the government recently shut down the entire internet in the wake of protests. In terms of electronic freedom and net neutrality I'd say we have it pretty good.

edit: actually, I don't disagree with you that they are evil. but only because they put profits ahead of serving thier paying customers. but in that sense they aren't any different than any other american corporations.

n10sive · January 29, 2011, 12:54:05 PM

This graph speaks volumes:

Scott · January 29, 2011, 01:45:32 PM

probably has somthing to do with this. . .
Egypt may have turned off the Internet one phone call at a time

TWF · February 02, 2011, 01:09:19 PM

Quote from: Scott on January 25, 2011, 11:03:33 PM
if you get charter and a DOCSIS 3.0 modem you may be eligible for speeds up to 60Mb/s
this is what i use, i pay 49.99 for their Max service at 25Mb/s
in reality with a DOCSIS 3.0 modem this is what i get.

How you see that when that shows Seattle? Where is Reno?
btw. finally got switched and much better.

Scott · February 02, 2011, 01:54:29 PM

Quote from: TWF on February 02, 2011, 01:09:19 PM
How you see that when that shows Seattle? Where is Reno?
btw. finally got switched and much better.

www.speedtest.net gives you an option of which server to test your connection between. here i tested between my house (reno) and a Seattle server. unfortunately they don't have any servers in northern NV. you actually get more accurate results the farther away you test.

here are results from my crappy AT&T work connection to New Zealand .

bansheeseat$$ · February 09, 2011, 05:37:11 AM

Here's mine from HI
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1149734611.png
and from Mammoth lake
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1149739506.png
and from new Zeilend
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1149746193.png
Mine gets faster the farther away I go

Scott · February 09, 2011, 12:07:50 PM

its because theres a direct Fiber line from LA to Aukland with a pass through in Honolulu. i think its OC3c which is 155Mb.