[QUOTE=TrafficMan;45077630]The fastest possible speed I can get to my house is 150/20 and it's $250/mo[/QUOTE]
Best I can get is 50/10 for $30-$50, depends on which plan i choose on comcast.
someone in my city(small, just 15,000 residents) decided to start a movement in local government to have free wifi installed throughout the city, and it was quickly shot down because, I shit you not, "it would attract tourists"
[QUOTE=altern;45077856]someone in my city(small, just 15,000 residents) decided to start a movement in local government to have free wifi installed throughout the city, and it was quickly shot down because, I shit you not, "it would attract tourists"[/QUOTE]
Wow what a bunch of retards. Tourist mean more money for the City.
The USA is a weird place.
[QUOTE=Skanic;45077889]Wow what a bunch of retards. Tourist mean more money for the City.
The USA is a weird place.[/QUOTE]
yeah that's exactly it. And they wonder why the "mall" they demolished half of main street in the 80s to build is vacant except for the stupid JCPenny that is the only clothing store in town. There is such little incentive to open a store in the city, I've seen small mom and pops open up and disappear in two months
[QUOTE=Skanic;45077774]I dont understand that shit you pay 250 dollars and you only get 150 down but 20 up?
20 up is retarded. Why do they not give 150/150?[/QUOTE]
In the case of cable, I believe its for bandwidth reasons. You pay for a certain amount of bandwidth, and they tend to adjust it in favor of download, since most residential connections are going to spend more time downloading anyway. Granted, they could adjust it to 85/85, but your average user has no need for 85 Mbps of upload, nor do they really care. 150 Mbps down looks a lot better to market too.
Also, considering cable internet is a shared broadcast medium (everyone in the neighborhood is competing for bandwidth), uplink from tons of cheap consumer modems is a lot less efficient use of bandwidth then the high end enterprise grade node they have sending the downlink to every modem in the area.
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[QUOTE=Skanic;45077889]Wow what a bunch of retards. Tourist mean more money for the City.
The USA is a weird place.[/QUOTE]
The irony is that in my state, agriculture and tourism are the largest sources of income. We love tourists in So. Dak. Well, economically at least.
[QUOTE=Skanic;45077774]I dont understand that shit you pay 250 dollars and you only get 150 down but 20 up?
20 up is retarded. Why do they not give 150/150?[/QUOTE]
American ISPs generally restrict symmetric links to their "business" offerings. For example, Verizon's "Small Business FiOS" is 25/25 for $75/mo, while their "Home FiOS" is 15/5 for $50/mo.
[QUOTE=Demache;45077920]In the case of cable, I believe its for bandwidth reasons. You pay for a certain amount of bandwidth, and they tend to adjust it in favor of download, since most residential connections are going to spend more time downloading anyway. Granted, they could adjust it to 85/85, but your average user has no need for 85 Mbps of upload, nor do they really care. 150 Mbps down looks a lot better to market too.
Also, considering cable internet is a shared broadcast medium (everyone in the neighborhood is competing for bandwidth), uplink from tons of cheap consumer modems is a lot less efficient use of bandwidth then the high end enterprise grade node they have sending the downlink to every modem in the area.[/QUOTE]
It's probably more like "We could give them 150/150 but why should we, it's not like they have a choice"
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[QUOTE=gman003-main;45077992]American ISPs generally restrict symmetric links to their "business" offerings. For example, Verizon's "Small Business FiOS" is 25/25 for $75/mo, while their "Home FiOS" is 15/5 for $50/mo.[/QUOTE]
Also the 150/20 IS business class
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Anything faster than that is "call for quote" which basically means thousands of dollars up front to lay fiber to your house/business
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;45078002]It's probably more like "We could give them 150/150 but why should we, it's not like they have a choice"
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Also the 150/20 IS business class
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Anything faster than that is "call for quote" which basically means thousands of dollars up front to lay fiber to your house/business[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.sdncommunications.com/business-solutions/broadband-internet/internet-speeds/[/URL]
They don't even list the price of an OC192 connection cause the answer is: "you can't afford it".
[QUOTE=gman003-main;45077992]American ISPs generally restrict symmetric links to their "business" offerings. For example, Verizon's "Small Business FiOS" is 25/25 for $75/mo, while their "Home FiOS" is 15/5 for $50/mo.[/QUOTE]
I'm about to become a "small business" for some damn symmetrical links
Well... My truck blew up. So there goes the hope of selling it and moving out of the country. At least I'll have a savings built up from scrapping it now. I'm hopefully just going to get a part time job about a mile from home here soon so I'll just walk there/catch a ride with my mom or step father when the weather is bad.
Cant post wtf
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Right...
Fuck, what happened?
I was going ghost hunting up in Parish NY, about 40 miles away from my town. I was about half a mile from the abandoned church/graveyard we were headed to, crested a hill and BOOM my truck went and it had no power. When I gave it gas instead of speeding up it slowed down. It's fucked. Thing barely runs at all now. Basically, moral of the story is I'm sticking with Fords.
The real moral of the story is buy Chevy
"Head gaskets? Pffft, I don't need one those I'm a truck, lol"
-Deeps' truck, shortly before finding out it needs those.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45075235]Since that one fire at the hynix plant[/QUOTE]
Not at all, that didn't affect RAM prices at all, that plant didn't even have that great an output. It's been steadily going up over the past 18 months. For the longest time all the stock was sitting at docks in shipping containers because no one was buying so manufacturers produced less and less and moved the cost up to cover the lack of demand.
So... Anybody planning to buy a Surface Pro 3? I'm probably gonna get one.
apple and its problem with messaging androids are cock-blocking me
[QUOTE=BlueAndGray;45080295]So... Anybody planning to buy a Surface Pro 3? I'm probably gonna get one.[/QUOTE]
I was considering it but it turns out they swapped out Wacom for an N-Trig for the digitizer. And there's a ton of driver issues because of it, so I'll probably hold out.
[QUOTE=wingless;45080494]I was considering it but it turns out they swapped out Wacom for an N-Trig for the digitizer. And there's a ton of driver issues because of it, so I'll probably hold out.[/QUOTE]
What kind of driver issues are we talking here? Incompatibility with certain programs?
[QUOTE=BlueAndGray;45080622]What kind of driver issues are we talking here? Incompatibility with certain programs?[/QUOTE]
Well it is incompatible with a bunch of programs (For different reasons but that hole is quickly filling, thankfully) but the problems with the N-Trig drivers range from shitty install experience to just not working. At all. They're just generally half baked.
When it works it's supposed to be much better than the bamboo digitizer and pen but I'd rather have something reliable than something slightly better.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;45078002]It's probably more like "We could give them 150/150 but why should we, it's not like they have a choice"
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Also the 150/20 IS business class
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/EQaYuGs.png[/img]
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Anything faster than that is "call for quote" which basically means thousands of dollars up front to lay fiber to your house/business[/QUOTE]
wow i pay $25 for 75 up/down
in RUSSIA
what the hell
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these fucking prices make me wonder if it's viable to just ditch isps completely and get an unlimited lte sim card
cause in new york i paid $70 for unlimited internet on t-mobile (it also had calls and text but i never used those lol)
and i basically just used that for all my internet needs and it worked well (even though my phone didn't support their 4g bands)
100/100 fiber is included in my rent :v:
[QUOTE=Levelog;45077146]I think I die a little inside every time I hear a my clean pc or similar ad on the radio.[/QUOTE]
Do they seriously advertise such junk on the radio in the US?
Holy shit don't they actually check if those ads are legit.
I honestly don't understand why but in US and Canada, the ISPs here are being huge jews with uploading speed. It's always a very tiny fraction of your max downloading speed, which is absolutely stupid.
At home we have 100 mb/s download speed, and our upload is 10 mb/s
It's pathetic knowing if I get around to purchase a Nexus 5 along with a decent LTE subscription that I can upload files faster than through our static network. :v:
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45080855]I honestly don't understand why but in US and Canada, the ISPs here are being huge jews with uploading speed. It's always a very tiny fraction of your max downloading speed, which is absolutely stupid.[/QUOTE]
I'd MUCH rather have 10/10 over 20/2. I will never understand why good upload speed is so hard to come by, and I dread the day when I no longer have my current connection :(
Welp, last night I had 3GB of RAM. This morning, I'm apparently down to 2GB. Maybe that Memtest I ran was right.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45080855]I honestly don't understand why but in US and Canada, the ISPs here are being huge jews with uploading speed. It's always a very tiny fraction of your max downloading speed, which is absolutely stupid.[/QUOTE]
Cable has fewer channels reserved for upload. DSL also has less frequency allocated for upload.
[QUOTE=BlueAndGray;45080295]So... Anybody planning to buy a Surface Pro 3? I'm probably gonna get one.[/QUOTE]
I'm considering one right now - as long as the apparent throttling issues don't come up in general usage, I'm good.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;45081507]I'm considering one right now - as long as the apparent throttling issues don't come up in general usage, I'm good.[/QUOTE]
Evidently the Surface Pro 2 had throttling issues, but Microsoft patched that sometime after release.
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