100Mbit Symmetrical Internet connection

[Jammrock]

I have tried several ports, and it is the same deal.. and I have had protocol encryption forced on for months, with no change .. hopefully you americans, which actual choice for high speed will be spared the madness, which has become Canadian Internet connections

Yuck, that really does suck. This is one reason why I like having a small ISP. They don't care what I do as long as I pay the bill.

[Tjalfe]

the sad truth is that here we have 4 ways of getting internet delivered

Satellite.. Stupidly expensive, and with ping times in the seconds
Wimax, which is still slow, and severly limited for downloads

then we have our phone and TV cables.. one provider controls the Coax, and while other providers are allowed to resell ADSL on bells lines, the lines are so out dated that they really are not much of an option. Most ADSL packages are "up to 7Mbps" but in reality less than that. My house could only be certified for 560Kbps on ADSL.
The best part with throttling is thatBell, the owner of the phone lines, still throttle usage done by the ADSL resellers, because , well, they can. And I suppose it is cheaper than buying better equipment

There has been no talk of pulling Fiber around here, so if we want internet, throttled Cable modem is the better option, even if it sucks

So now that the internet provider can throttle individual services, I wonder if they will start going after VOIP, to force people to switch to their home phone package.. or maybe even throttel internet videos, to make people buy more TV from them?

[cjolley]

Hey, I'd be happy if our dsl modem didn't disconnect every time someone leaves us a message on the phone.
I love AT&T.

[Dilitante1]

[jealous]
may you find the download of your dreams, and not have the space for it! (evil grin)
[/jealous]

[High_Jumbllama]

Hey, I'd be happy if our dsl modem didn't disconnect every time someone leaves us a message on the phone.
I love AT&T.

Even with DSL Filters? ?

[cjolley]

Even with DSL Filters? ?

Yup.
My theory is that they have some wires crossed on the pole or at the wire/fiber junction.
Maybe someday they will send out someone who knows what they are doing.
Sigh...

[Technoid]

Technoid, welcome to the real internet, nice to see more of us joing the real speed club

Thank you

Yup.
My theory is that they have some wires crossed on the pole or at the wire/fiber junction.
Maybe someday they will send out someone who knows what they are doing.
Sigh...

At work we cut the wrong wires and ended up having adsl that still working just by having the wires lying close to each other but not actually being electrically connected

we got disconnected all the time and downloading was near impossible, but web surfing worked fine

[ZokesPro]

I have a 66% employee rebate and even so, I get only 1/8th the speed Technoid gets and it's still 50% more expensive mbit per mbit.

Damn. North America has no competition, there are 2 or 3 major ISP's and the rest are resellers. There's no market. In Quebec, DOCSIS 3.0 will come out soonand speeds and caps will increase, just hope it'll be a decent increase.

[cjolley]

Well, problem solved.
A new guy came and spent a couple of hours checking the wiring and couldnt' find anything amiss.
Then, just for heck, he replaced the fresh out of the box filter that the very first guy had installed and: problem solved.
The filter came from the factory defective.

I guess you never know...

[Dr Mordrid]

I get just over 7700 kbps for d/l's on an 8000 line.

AT&T DSL and unlike CJ our lines never interfere with the DSL. We of course use filtration but a central filter/splitter, not the crappy cheapo's that you get from AT&T or at Home Depot etc. that fail if you look at 'em wrong. Required because of our security system and the number of faxes and other devices in the house. Small damned brick with some decent sized inductors and caps, not the tiny things. Cost ~$55 USD but worth it.

It's wall-mounted right where the line comes into the service room in the basement, about 1 meter from the security and emergency lighting box, and its outputs go to a plug-in style distribution box - no crappy crimp splices, screw-type terminal strips etc. which IMO cause a lot of DSL problems. To add another line we just plug it into a standard jack on the box and run the line to the new location. Fish it through then plug it into the jack in the back of the new plate. All very neat.

DSL has it's own I/O on the distro box which goes to the router and that's uplinked to our gigabit network switch less than a foot away on a short line, and both are in a central location nearly over the service room. Short runs help.

[Fat Tone]

I'll be working from home a bit more in a couple of weeks, and upload speed will be more important to me. I'm currently on a 10/512 cable service, which costs £40/m bundled with lots of tv, telephone line rental and free evening/weekend national calls.

As from Nov 26th (the earliest date they could do!) I'll be on FTTH at 50/1.5 for an extra £20/m.

They insist on giving you a free wireless router when they come. That'll be straight on ebay

[Fluff]

On a side note just noticed www.pingtest.net have a line quality test. Same people that did www.speedtest.net

I'm on the same virgin media 10/512 service. Let me know if the 50Mbit much better...

[Fat Tone]

Thanks Fluff, and will do.

Is it just me or did Speedtest.net get less reliable a good few months back. I suspect Virgin of caching to skew the numbers.

[cjolley]

AT&T DSL and unlike CJ our lines never interfere with the DSL. We of course use filtration but a central filter/splitter, not the crappy cheapo's that you get from AT&T or at Home Depot etc. that fail if you look at 'em wrong.

That's what made it so odd. It was the brand new central filter that was bad.

Our connection is fine now, but I still suspect something is mis-wired out on the lines.
They don't have fiber to the house yet in my neighborhood, but we will sign up as soon as they do...

Well, this doesn't look like bad lines, so who knows?

[Fat Tone]

My current line: