Golly, why bother with highspeed connect...

2.5meg dl 400 uploads.
The damn cable modem works half of the time =(
The cable company keeps sayings it’s my computers. I’m like ***, you come out here and take a look. the guy goes to the attic. 15min later the guys is like heres your prob, it will only cost another 400 bucks to fix... *** installation was like 99 bucks. Before they figuired out the prob they came two times a month. I'm waiting for dsl to get in my area. where i live i'm 100 feet outside dsl... We had Sdsl @192/192 at one point but i'm not sure how they got it to work... "its impossible according to the other internet companies"

too tired for it to make sense

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Originally posted by Momaw
I think you're all working at proving my point quite nicely. You're quite attached to high speeds.. now what if your service suddenly stopped? Would you:

A) Go insane
B) Kill someone
D) Take it out on your hardware

I'm not saying that high speeds are BAD, I'd love to be able to download faster :) Just saying why not wait until the technology and more importantly the service has settled out into a range of expected/accepted standards.

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So your telling me that it's better to use 56k because of the possibility of losing your high speed connection? Why don't you just stay inside all day because you might as well be afraid of getting hit by lightning when you go outside. Not to try to insult you but really that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. If you can get it do it and enjoy it. If it becomes unavailable then deal with it when the time comes, there is no point in not getting it because you might lose it one day.

Your download speed : 297755 bps, or 297 kbps.
A 36.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 161030 bps, or 161 kbps.


I don't really trust that bandwidth test, because I routinely download files at 100KBps+ (800Kbps)..the upload is a bit low as well - I typically upload at 26KBps (208Kbps).

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Originally posted by CadetLee
Your download speed : 297755 bps, or 297 kbps.
A 36.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 161030 bps, or 161 kbps.


I don't really trust that bandwidth test, because I routinely download files at 100KBps+ (800Kbps)..the upload is a bit low as well - I typically upload at 26KBps (208Kbps).

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Well that might be the bandwidth allowed by the place you are downloading from.. I mean even on my connection I sometimes get 300KB/Sec continuous and some are 5kb/sec. :(

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Originally posted by Indus


Well that might be the bandwidth allowed by the place you are downloading from.. I mean even on my connection I sometimes get 300KB/Sec continuous and some are 5kb/sec. :(

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That was DSLReport's bandwidth test...they shouldn't limit it, or it's not accurate. ;)

hmm.. well do you have cable or your own dsl? If its cable, it might be saturated since its a weekend..

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Originally posted by Indus
hmm.. well do you have cable or your own dsl? If its cable, it might be saturated since its a weekend..

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1.5Mbps/256Kbps BellSouth ADSL.

I do know what I'm talking about, really :p ;)

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1.5Mbps/256Kbps BellSouth ADSL.

I do know what I'm talking about, really :p ;)

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No I believe you.. that's just weird though.. guess the test really is wrong.. I have yet to download any at my speeds myself, 300KB/s is the best I get.

How poor is this speed.(and why ??)
On a cable modem (blueyonder) Broadband


2002-04-20 11:07:06 EST: 293 / 121
Your download speed : 293547 bps, or 293 kbps.
A 35.8 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 121580 bps, or 121 kbps.

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Originally posted by gryps
love my attbi downstream close to 2mbs

but upstream is @#$#$% slow at around 114kbs

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LMAO that is because its capped @ 1.5Mbps :rolleyes: so of course it will be easy to hit since AT&T's networks were built to run at uncapped 8-10Mbps speeds. Or at least I got there here before the cap.