[QUOTE=Reagy;51174156]Just hope it lasts and they don't get absorbed.[/QUOTE]
Eh, doesn't seem like it'll happen any time soon.
The basic plan ($50) is in everyone's HOA regardless if they use them or the only other provider out here (Comcast). The basic plan is just 10/10, but for $10 more you get bumped up to 100/100, and then for $20 it's 1000/1000 with a one time installation fee if you're eligible.
Yea, me and a few other people want to get a house for just youtube stuff. But most of them are in canada. Combined like 10million subs I'd say.
I'd be the main infrastructure IT guy for the group/company. Would let me spend a bunch of money on storage servers and streaming.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;51174184]Yea, me and a few other people want to get a house for just youtube stuff. But most of them are in canada. Combined like 10million subs I'd say.[/QUOTE]
so just go to canada then
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51174077]I've had 200+ before honestly its overkill for most people but i guess you're paying for the upload right?[/QUOTE]
With this data cap now I'll probably just go for the 150/15. I really don't need too much upload now that I have that dedicated i7 box.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51174205]Remember that time when his flag dog was Canadian?
Man we can go back to talking about those hockey games.[/QUOTE]
Ducks #1
[QUOTE=Makol;51174190]so just go to canada then[/QUOTE]
But I want to make america great again
[QUOTE=Makol;51174182]Eh, doesn't seem like it'll happen any time soon.
The basic plan ($50) is in everyone's HOA regardless if they use them or the only other provider out here (Comcast). The basic plan is just 10/10, but for $10 more you get bumped up to 100/100, and then for $20 it's 1000/1000 with a one time installation fee if you're eligible.[/QUOTE]
The utility company in my parents old city did fiber. 30/30 for $30, 60/60 for $60, and gigabit for $100. No hard cap but I did hear some people got a pretty kind "please cool it" letter for going in the high 10's of TB levels (like 60-70)
[editline]8th October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Makol;51174217]Ducks #1[/QUOTE]
Funny
[QUOTE=Levelog;51174228]
Funny[/QUOTE]
rude
[editline]8th October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Brt5470;51174226]But I want to make america great again[/QUOTE]
Through he power of YouTube
[QUOTE=Makol;51174240]rude
[editline]8th October 2016[/editline]
Through he power of YouTube[/QUOTE]
Sorry I'm a Detroiter so it's just cute when someone else thinks they have a team worth rooting for.
Ew, Red Wings.
Red Wings and Penguins fans are like Patriots fans. Terrible.
Charter has some shitty speeds (60/4) but at least they're pretty cheap and reliable. $30/month isn't too bad, and I don't get fucked constantly by Time Warner)Comcast antics v:v:v
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51174331]Charter has some shitty speeds (60/4) but at least they're pretty cheap and reliable. $30/month isn't too bad, and I don't get fucked constantly by Time Warner)Comcast antics v:v:v[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but now Charter owns said Time Warner antics now so we'll see what way that swings.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51174318]Sorry I'm a Detroiter so it's just cute when someone else thinks they have a team worth rooting for.[/QUOTE]
Living in Buffalo Bills territory, I agree
[QUOTE=Xanadu;51174430]Living in Buffalo Bills territory, I agree[/QUOTE]
I come from a Bills and Sabres household. They're the most painful teams to watch.
Well the Bills are at least, at times the Sabres can be pretty good.
[QUOTE=Makol;51174329]Ew, Red Wings.
Red Wings and Penguins fans are like Patriots fans. Terrible.[/QUOTE]
I just spent an unreasonable amount of time in red wings shoes, does that count?
[QUOTE=Makol;51174481]I come from a Bills and Sabres household. They're the most painful teams to watch.
Well the Bills are at least, at times the Sabres can be pretty good.[/QUOTE]
I grew up in the southeast so hockey has never existed to me at any point, and after moving to the north, I can't say anything has changed
I keep seeing more and more [URL="https://www.metronetinc.com/"]fiber trucks[/URL] in the neighborhood working on poles. Please, please, please let me get something other than Comcast.
Like who do I have to bribe to get this stuff set up faster?
Been doing more research on them. Here's a reddit post in our university subreddit from a year ago with interesting insight.
[quote="Metronet Employee"]That is our goal, to be better than comcast. We aim for cities where the current provider is crap.
There are no traffic limits, throttling, ect. You can max out your connection all day every day and we do not care. Of course that is subject to change, but 8years going and we have never cared how much anyone has used their net. No monthly caps.
Sorry, sales people suck. They are comission so they lie and are stupid. This is true of any company these days. Never trust a sales rep at ANY company.
You can run servers, feel free. You can get a static ip address if you want one but it costs a little bit of money. No ports are blocked.
We are ipv4. No ipv6 and it will be quite some time before we switch.
No cable card/tivo ect. Not going to work on our service. Don't ask.
How it works: You have a box on the outside of your house, fiber optic line comes into box. Box changes fiber optic signal into your standard phone, cable net, pretty standard stuff.
We use the same equipment as AT&T uverse for the most part.
We are now offering wireless cable boxes so thats pretty neat.
You are leased a linksys e1200 or linksys e1700 depending on if you order more than 100mb of net. Our standard speed is now 200Mb. If you don't want our router, you still charged an equipment fee. Sorry.
Just like every other cable provider prices go up every year, we do ours january 1st. Sorry. We are not being greedy. Each year tv shows cost more and more to produce/broadcast as money is being siphoned off by investors who only care about profit. So we have to keep paying more for the channels. It sucks and the quality of tv is going way down due to greedy channel owners/their investors. Cable tv is dying.
If you call/email/ect you will speak to someone in the US. No out of country call centers.
I think I answered all the questions here, maybe a bit out of order but meh. Throwaway account, don't bother pming me.[/quote]
Most people I've talked to say they're an overall great company. A lot of the IT/CS majors love them so I feel like that's worth something.
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);51171741]I accidentally googled "timer" and turns out it's a google feature
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I should've realized this would be a feature when it already has a calculator build in :v:[/QUOTE]
realizing I can just type "timer 5m" in the chrome omnibar was the sole reason I can drink hot tea/coffee every morning
[QUOTE=papkee;51174917]Been doing more research on them. Here's a reddit post in our university subreddit from a year ago with interesting insight.
Most people I've talked to say they're an overall great company. A lot of the IT/CS majors love them so I feel like that's worth something.[/QUOTE]
ipv6 not being anywhere on their roadmap feels wrong and makes me not want them
[QUOTE=mastfire;51173551]cox is a great service in phoenix and centurylink tend to rip people off 50$/month for 3 down and 1.5 up[/QUOTE]
CenturyLink is the biggest pile of trash ISP in my area. Comcast is one of the lowest rated ISPs in my area yet CenturyLink is somehow even worse than them. You can't use your own router (even if you pay extra), their routers are complete trash, they seem to completely ignore your DNS server settings as far as I can tell, Youtube will frequently refuse to buffer videos any faster than dial-up speeds despite other websites (and Youtube itself) working perfectly fine, and at times their network is so shitty that it takes me 15-20 mintues just to submit a post on FP. This isn't because of packet loss (at least according to Pingtest's packet loss test) or their network being slow. It just seems to be that their network will flat out occasionally start eating data. Like I'll click submit and the page will try to load for a minute or two then just give up with no errors or anything. We're paying $50/month for a 15/5 connection and while our download fairly often is at least somewhat close to that speed, often about half that though, our upload never even comes close to what we're paying for. It seems to max out at around 125kb/s at most.
Edit: Freaking finally. It took me ten minutes to submit this post.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;51176238]CenturyLink is the biggest pile of trash ISP in my area. Comcast is one of the lowest rated ISPs in my area yet CenturyLink is somehow even worse than them. You can't use your own router (even if you pay extra), their routers are complete trash, they seem to completely ignore your DNS server settings as far as I can tell, Youtube will frequently refuse to buffer videos any faster than dial-up speeds despite other websites (and Youtube itself) working perfectly fine, and at times their network is so shitty that it takes me 15-20 mintues just to submit a post on FP. This isn't because of packet loss (at least according to Pingtest's packet loss test) or their network being slow. It just seems to be that their network will flat out occasionally start eating data. Like I'll click submit and the page will try to load for a minute or two then just give up with no errors or anything. We're paying $50/month for a 15/5 connection and while our download fairly often is at least somewhat close to that speed, often about half that though, our upload never even comes close to what we're paying for. It seems to max out at around 125kb/s at most.
Edit: Freaking finally. It took me ten minutes to submit this post.[/QUOTE]
When my grandparents moved into town, I told them to get Midco cable. They are a bit more pricey, but they at least have good service.
They decided to go to CenturyLink to save $20 a month. Big mistake. Half the time it didn't work. Downloads were insane slow (like when he had satellite is was 10x faster bad). Router wireless barely left the room. It was ridiculous.
He then took my original advice after awhile and guess what? Zero problems. Went from 1 Mbps to 60 Mbps. Even the crappy Cisco combo Midco gives you absolutely destroyed the CenturyLink one. And at least Midco gives you the OPTION to get something else.
Lesson? Sometimes you do get what you pay for. And maybe you should listen to the person that knows quite a bit more about this than you.
I fucking swear to god....
Last night I spent five hours with someone fighting to get networking working on an old mac. The OS saw the ethernet card but the card itself was dead to the network and internet. He kept fraying hairs and moaning on why the hell he just bought the thing for so much money and how much of a waste of time it was. He won't fucking let me near the machine because he's constantly reinstalling the OS or trying different cables and adapters and fucking with drivers.
I get up this morning and first thing I do with coffee in hand is pop the network card out.
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You see that labeled EPROM in the lower right? That's what holds the MAC address.
It's missing on his card. Well no fucking wonder it ain't talking to the network. That took two minutes to troubleshoot.
[QUOTE=pentium;51177216]I fucking swear to god....
Last night I spent five hours with someone fighting to get networking working on an old mac. The OS saw the ethernet card but the card itself was dead to the network and internet. He kept fraying hairs and moaning on why the hell he just bought the thing for so much money and how much of a waste of time it was. He won't fucking let me near the machine because he's constantly reinstalling the OS or trying different cables and adapters and fucking with drivers.
I get up this morning and first thing I do with coffee in hand is pop the network card out.
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You see that labeled EPROM in the lower right? That's what holds the MAC address.
It's missing on his card. Well no fucking wonder it ain't talking to the network. That took two minutes to troubleshoot.[/QUOTE]
Is the MAC address stored in 'plaintext' on the EPROM or is it obfuscated in any way?
And is the EPROM itself common or is there common drop-in replacements?
Pfft. It's $2 to get another network card that has drivers for Classic.
[QUOTE=pentium;51177325]Pfft. It's $2 to get another network card that has drivers for Classic.[/QUOTE]
So it's a "buy a dozen otherwise postage makes it not worth it" scenario, got it.
My mother and brother called me during the weekend because the internet was dead for whatever reason.
They're both pretty inept at network troubleshooting, and honestly I didn't want to deal with trying to guide them through... well, it could be anything so I'd be sitting there for hours.
I come home some days later and sure the wireless and cabled internet connection is damn near dead, super slow response times and bytes per second of speeds.
I notice that the router is blinking like no tomorrow, turns out it's the indication light for the cable leading to the printer.
Turns out we're being DOS attacked by our own printer.
Never trust printers.
[QUOTE=paul simon;51178094]My mother and brother called me during the weekend because the internet was dead for whatever reason.
They're both pretty inept at network troubleshooting, and honestly I didn't want to deal with trying to guide them through... well, it could be anything so I'd be sitting there for hours.
I come home some days later and sure the wireless and cabled internet connection is damn near dead, super slow response times and bytes per second of speeds.
I notice that the router is blinking like no tomorrow, turns out it's the indication light for the cable leading to the printer.
Turns out we're being DOS attacked by our own printer.
Never trust printers.[/QUOTE]
Gotta love IoT [sp]Internet of Trash[/sp]
I'm sad, upgraded to 1000mbit Internet and its great on laptop with ethernet cable, but the wireless is still max 50mbit and I can't get a cable from my desktop pc to the router due to family not wanting a long call.
[QUOTE=Starship;51178209]I'm sad, upgraded to 1000mbit Internet and its great on laptop with ethernet cable, but the wireless is still max 50mbit and I can't get a cable from my desktop pc to the router due to family not wanting a long call.[/QUOTE]
802.11AC router and network adapter for stationary.
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