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FiOS - very cool
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+1, im stuck w/ 7 mbps down and like .9mbps up. it sucks... its okay but it isn't fast. the cable companies need to get their heads out of their *** and start offering cheaper better services that or Verizon fiOS has to come to wisconsin..
Which part of Southeast Louisiana. I am in New Orleans. I have gotten from iTunes 5.4MB/s which is more or less 43.2Mb/s (I have 50/30 Mb/s from college).
I dare someone to find an ISP worse then mine.
Download: 128 kbps (It almost never gets that high)
Upload: 8 kbps
Price? $100 a month. Hopefully will be switching to WildBlue in October...
Download: 128 kbps (It almost never gets that high)
Upload: 8 kbps
Price? $100 a month. Hopefully will be switching to WildBlue in October...
so THATS why you only draw stick men
you dont have enough bandwidth for higher res photoes! what bandwidth do u get?
We actually get a fairly decent 35 GB per month. I'm happy with it. (And I draw stick people simply because I'm a terrible artist.so THATS why you only draw stick men
)About 30 miles northwest of San Antonio, Texas. Not too far out.
The funny thing is, I live about 50 feet away from a cable connection where I could be getting 20 mbps/6 mbps. But the company refuses to extend the cable down our street.
So we have very limited options.
We actually get a fairly decent 35 GB per month. I'm happy with it. (And I draw stick people simply because I'm a terrible artist.
wow thats more then me (at 25gb)!!! i doubt you would come close to that though lol..
The funny thing is, I live about 50 feet away from a cable connection where I could be getting 20 mbps/6 mbps. But the company refuses to extend the cable down our street.
Double ouch! Lazy corporate companies...
I live about 50 feet away from a cable connection where I could be getting 20 mbps/6 mbps. But the company refuses to extend the cable down our street.
If that were the case I'd roll out my own wires and do the installation myself.
I don't get much better than that. I pay HughesNet $85/month for a maximum 500 kbps down 50 kbps up. With a 200MB/day bandwidth cap, which when exceeded drops the speeds to 1 kbps total for 24 hours. Thankfully I have a free dial-up account with my university that I use for a backup connection.
Cable stops less than a mile from my land, and DSL and cell service are non-existent.
What does bypassing the DHCP do? Is it just to let you use your own router?
Verizon FiOs 20/5
I get 250GB per month on Comcast. I am constantly worried that I will go over this limit. Since I sometimes watch many hours of HD content from ABC, CBS and FOX when new episodes of the shows I watch are rolling out. I don't watch a single major network show when they air rather via their websites when I actually feel like watching the shows.
If you don't mind, what's that cost you.
Then you would really hate my friends who have FTTH (100Mbps fiber) here in Japan.
Then you would really hate my friends who have FTTH (100Mbps fiber) here in Japan.
Yeah.
My friends and family in various different countries have 100Mbit service and most of the year, I'm lucky if I have 512k satellite when I'm working or 2Mbit here in the states when I'm not.
are you for real!?!??! 250gb!!!! does that include uploads/? because mine does . i want to move to Thailand 
I want to thank those who made me feel better about my terrible connection speeds by showing me their WORSE speeds
Verizon installs their own router/wifi basestation with their FiOS equipment. I wanted to continue to use my own and the DHCP/NAT server in theirs was screwing up mine. So I had to call tech support to get their box disconnected (since their box wont release the IP address without a command from them). Plus, you'll see a coax, not an ethernet cable, coming from the ODN to their router. To use your own equipment, they have to (remotely) activate the ethernet port on the ODN and release the IP address so your own equipment can be assigned one. Took about 20 minutes on the phone, but made me much happier in the end since I don't have to deal with Verizon's router.
Still, Gretna is in the New Orleans metro area and there should be no distinction between your download and mine. Check with your ISP or check your connection via SpeedTest.net.
I find it weird you can't download faster. Although maybe traffic in your area might be high.
I was sort of in the same camp up until a few weeks ago... I waited almost 3 years for FiOS to come to my area from the time they started advertising it around me (placards in the shopping mall, a display at the local Verizon wireless store, etc.).