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Posted by: coius on 2008-02-25 12:46:07
Well, after having problems with Cox Communications with Internet and TV where we were getting intermittent interruptions, Cox came out and checked a few things. The Box on the pole in the ally was failing, and was causing everyone in the whole neighborhood trouble. Well, I can now tell you what our speeds were going up and down:
previous:
Up: 700Kbs, Down: 11Mbps
now:
Up: 3.5Mbps, Down: 24Mbps
They said there was a HUGE gap in the up and down transmissions, as well as a lot of noise. So they replaced the ENTIRE wiring up and down the poles, as well as to the houses, and replaced the boxes on the poles. I couldn't be any happier ^_^
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Posted by: wood_e on 2008-02-25 12:49:43
NICE
I'm lucky to get 5mbps down on mediacom (mediacunts) cable
Luckily at work I have 35mbps down and 20mbps up
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Posted by: coius on 2008-02-25 13:04:30
yeah, it's so much nicer. I frankly thought we were stuck at 70KB/s up max. But it turns out that the cable outside the house and going down the poles are like 30 years old ^_^ That's what happens when you live in an old area of town. Businesses just sort of "Forget" you in their maintnance. It's a PITA. When we had an ice-storm in '98, we were like the last in the city to get our power brought back up. That sucked. we were like 1 month without power. They got the NEWER areas up first though!!!
Meh, I am just happy to have faster upload speeds. I am getting sick of having to take about 3 hours to upload a website. Just not fair :-/
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-02-25 13:31:52
Lucky you, I get 170KB down and 40KB up.....
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Posted by: chris on 2008-02-25 13:46:03
Lucky all y'all. I have 70KB down/15KB up.
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Posted by: macintoshman on 2008-02-25 13:54:17
i hate you all...
i get 70kb down/5kb up
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Posted by: Bolle on 2008-02-25 14:07:00
heh...
DSL with 17Mbit/s down and 1Mbit/s up here 😀
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-02-25 16:03:25
I hate you all - I get about 3.5 kbps down and 1 or so kb up!
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Posted by: Temetka on 2008-02-25 21:13:33
2Mbit/s Down 768kpbs up.
Verizon DSL.
I envy you guys with your 30Mbit/s down. I miss cable internet.
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-02-25 22:06:27
Verizon FiOS. Not sure of the rates, but I know it's quick. I bought a 52 song album on iTunes a few weeks ago and I had it all within a few minutes.
I don't really care about upload speed, the only time I use it is when I put photos up--and I hardly ever even do that.
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Posted by: Torbar on 2008-02-26 08:43:43
http://www.speedtest.net/result/239104526.png
supposed to be much much faster though 🙁
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Posted by: Patrickool93 on 2008-02-26 12:10:58
http://www.speedtest.net/result/239196562.png
Sounds about right, I guess.
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