beaston

...brag....I <3 Comcast!

Taken today...

catwoman

Stupid here again.! Um, what is that, and what does it mean Beaston??

You should know better by now, you can't post this stuff without explaining to "the stupid one" what the hell it is??

LOLLLLLLLLLL

Dyno_Don

I think he's trying to brag about his new high speed comcast connection.




Now that it's faster than mine, he has to show it off.

I still Rank better!

propiper

Just means they are FAST!

Nice speeds.


Mine coming soon - FIOS on the way (Everyday I see them out getting closer and closer )

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beaston

I wish I could have FIOS, but the fact is, I seriously doubt they'll ever have it in our town.. But comcast is just as good, as they are racing to match Verizon's FIOS speeds, and have already rolled out 22mb/5mb & 50mb/10mb service in a few cities already, and they'll have it in my area this summer!

The only problem with comcast is that for residential plans, they limit your bandwidth to 250GB/mo. I tried to get business class service without the restrictions (and a dedicated line so you're not sharing bandwidth with the whole neighborhood), but due to the fact that I'm in a residential apartment building, there's no way to run 2 lines in (1 for business [internet], and the other 1 so I can keep my residential TV plan), so I'm stuck with what I have now..guess I'll just have to make sure I don't go over that 250GB mark...lol It would be fine, but one of their stupid policies is that they will not provide commercial TV service (same plan as what I have now) to residential buildings. How stupid is that?

btw, regarding the BW limit....Here's a great tool that I use that keeps track of how much you use, and keeps great stats...hourly/daily/monthly, etc...just install it and have it start every time you start windows. It'll just sit itself out of the way near the clock...It also has a nice feature that allows you to plug in your ISP's bandwidth limit, and will warn you when you're getting close.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network...tmeter-2.shtml

beaston

It's a guy thing. We ALWAYS love to show off how big...errr how fast our Internet connections are. You can get in on it too, if you want. The best site to use is www.speedtest.net .. it's pretty straight forward, and once it's finished it'll pull up an image that will list the code needed to post it here in the forum...just click on it, and it'll copy it for you, and you'll only need to paste that code in a post here

Dyno_Don

Thanks beaston.
I also noticed my Global and Local Ranks dropped after being on here a day, and guessing that your ranks were pretty high when you first posted them.

beaston

yea, I'm not sure why that happened. When I first posted, they were 96% and 97%...

Dyno_Don

About the same here; 98% and 97%.

Thought I had ya beat in one thing, but it's about the same, other than your speeds are a bit faster.

I've got about a half-second of wait time for a web page to load, and sometimes it's instant.
This is much better than when I first got cable internet.

beaston

There's been times where I've downloaded files that were around 5mb or less, and as soon as I clicked on them, they were already finished....

I remember having dual channel ISDN back in 1996, which was the fastest residential option available at the time. We're talking 128k/s, which worked out to a blazing fast 16K/s downloads! The ISDN router was pretty damn expensive at the time, considering. I think we paid about $250 for it

The great thing about it was that I was working for an ISP at the time, so one of my fringe benefits was that I didn't have to pay a penny for the service. Bell Atlantic (yes they were still around at the time..lol) actually charged about $100+ per month for an unlimited ISDN plan, since you had to pay for both the line and service at the time. I guess this is because ISDN is purely digital, and not ran over POTS (plan old telephone service - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POTS) lines. I lived close enough to where I worked, so we were able to have it setup for 4 digit dialing (basically, being in the same office and not having to dial the full 7 digit phone number), and get around this, altogether. We never had to pay a penny for extra ISDN line charges.

It sure beat the hell out of 14.4k modem we had right before that

Wow, a blast from the past. This is the ISP I worked for, which was based out of Newark, DE:

http://web.archive.org/web/199612182...tp://inet.net/

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.inet.net

They were since bought out by http://www.conectiv.com/ , but I'm not sure if they still have an internet division.