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Lenophis

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How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« on: August 25, 2009, 03:33:37 AM »
Note that this is blatantly copied from the RHDN post, but not all of you may go there...

I'm seriously getting ripped off! Know the terror of dialup! :eek:

Get yourself tested, immediately! :cycle:
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2009, 11:33:07 AM »
I hate Time Warner and RoadRunner.  We are supposed to have a 5Mb line but as you can see we don't.

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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2009, 03:57:37 PM »


Slightly better!
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2009, 04:17:05 PM »
Quote from: JCE3000GT on August 25, 2009, 11:33:07 AM
I hate Time Warner and RoadRunner.  We are supposed to have a 5Mb line but as you can see we don't.

Comcast is on the same lines at times. IIRC, there were recent updates to the cable modem standard (DOCSIS), so you may want to upgrade and see if that helps.
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2009, 04:27:39 PM »
Quote from: Dragonsbrethren on August 25, 2009, 03:57:37 PM


Slightly better!

I've never understood how the upload on dialup is magically faster than the download on dialup... I guess it could simply just be modem compression, but it is seemingly lopsided. For text websites on dialup, those can be breezy fast for obvious reasons... I think that their test is somehow borked though for uploads on dialup.
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2009, 08:52:42 PM »
surprisingly, we aren't at all...

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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2009, 06:29:01 AM »
Quote from: Deathlike2 on August 25, 2009, 04:27:39 PM
Quote from: Dragonsbrethren on August 25, 2009, 03:57:37 PM


Slightly better!

I've never understood how the upload on dialup is magically faster than the download on dialup... I guess it could simply just be modem compression, but it is seemingly lopsided. For text websites on dialup, those can be breezy fast for obvious reasons... I think that their test is somehow borked though for uploads on dialup.

Their test is broken for uploads period. I can get at least 60 KBs upload a second, up to roughly 80 or 90, and yet barely got a 0.47 Mb.
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2009, 10:24:52 AM »
60kb = 480 kilobits/1024 = .468 = .47mb
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2009, 12:17:57 PM »
Quote from: bond697 on August 25, 2009, 08:52:42 PM


Corncast! :laugh:

I've seen "rn" look like "m" before, but never the opposite...
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2009, 01:36:29 PM »
oh wow, yeah.  i didn't notice that.  what an oddly-shaped "m".
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2009, 04:23:46 PM »
Got my new DSL modem:



This certainly doesn't seem right... I'll have to test it again later.
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2009, 04:28:28 PM »
Test a download. :hmm:
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2009, 04:53:09 PM »
It's definitely slower than normal, I'm just not sure why. Outside of the modem, nothing has changed on this end. The modem is the same model, so I doubt that's a problem. It's probably just an issue on their end, so like I said I'll give it a try again later once everything is back to normal. If it doesn't go back to normal, tech support will be getting a call, since I got fairly decent speed before this.

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That's better.
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2009, 09:19:16 PM »
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Re: How badly are you getting ripped off for internet?
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2009, 06:08:19 PM »


I missed my 10d/1u from florida that was cheaper than what I pay now. When I lived in boston, I lived one block away from being able to get fiber
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