Net connection and ping

[ackack]

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I'm actually quite a way from London about an hour I guess I only went cable about 3 years ago and I'm bloody glad I did, BT was just shocking, giving me crap speeds for lots of money the only problem I face now is when/if I move I'm going to have to make sure I can get cable cos I'm NEVER going back to BT. Browsing is a lot better but downloading a game takes about 5 mins which feels like an age.

[redrider]

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Cable is really not that great. You can get amazing speed but its a shared connection, eithernet! So if 10 people are on you share the whole connection with 10 people, you get about 10% of the total band width. If 100 people are on you get to share the connection with 100 people, which gives you 1% of total bandwidth. Wait, it gets worse. They have the users divided into tiers, a business has priority over you, a home user and you are allowed to use and share whats left over when they dont need it, so if all the businesses decide to do a upload to the main office, usually happens on Friday afternoon, your net speed may almost come to a stop.

Every type of connection has its down side. Im running DSL and it could be faster but at the level Im paying for there is a cap, software or hardware, on the top end. The speed is almost always constant, it slows down during bad thunder storms but is at that speed otherwise. I see the test you ran was at night on a Tuesday, I wonder what it looks like on Friday afternoon? I ran mine at about noon on a Wednesday, I will run another on Friday afternoon at about 3 in the afternoon, and post it, just to show the difference.

Im not trying to say my connection is better but just passing along some info. I have found, that on other Forums, we shared info and got better deals for less money, I bought a vehicle that way and saved 5 thousand dollars in the process. Living in the middle of Kentucky, Its not at the end of the earth but you can see it from here, I can use all the help I can get. Good Luck. . . . . . . . . . . .Red

[« R²» HKS]

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Net costs in Oz are rediculous. We are rated at like 40th in the world on price. My connection is 8Mbit down/384k DSL with 12gig downloads. Wait for it, uploads are included with the downloads grr. For this fantastic /end sarcasm plan it costs $89.95 AUD ($75.5944 USD) p/month.

[weeyoo]

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[¤VeYrOn¤]

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My home internet.

[Kurt_Cobain]

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[ackack]

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Cable is really not that great. You can get amazing speed but its a shared connection, eithernet! So if 10 people are on you share the whole connection with 10 people, you get about 10% of the total band width. If 100 people are on you get to share the connection with 100 people, which gives you 1% of total bandwidth. Wait, it gets worse. They have the users divided into tiers, a business has priority over you, a home user and you are allowed to use and share whats left over when they dont need it, so if all the businesses decide to do a upload to the main office, usually happens on Friday afternoon, your net speed may almost come to a stop.

Every type of connection has its down side. Im running DSL and it could be faster but at the level Im paying for there is a cap, software or hardware, on the top end. The speed is almost always constant, it slows down during bad thunder storms but is at that speed otherwise. I see the test you ran was at night on a Tuesday, I wonder what it looks like on Friday afternoon? I ran mine at about noon on a Wednesday, I will run another on Friday afternoon at about 3 in the afternoon, and post it, just to show the difference.

Im not trying to say my connection is better but just passing along some info. I have found, that on other Forums, we shared info and got better deals for less money, I bought a vehicle that way and saved 5 thousand dollars in the process. Living in the middle of Kentucky, Its not at the end of the earth but you can see it from here, I can use all the help I can get. Good Luck. . . . . . . . . . . .Red

I hear what your saying but bearing in mind 7:03 is classed as peak time in the UK, admittedly I have had my speed drop to 17000 when the kids finish school but my ISP almost guarantees hardly any speed loss as I am on the top tariff. The lesser tariffs aren't capped in usage but they are not able to UL/DL at the advertised speeds during peak times due to the leaching/torrents problem. The good thing about Virgin, is that if your speeds drops to unacceptable levels and it isn't a fault you are refunded some money.

I used to chuckle at my clan mates who were always losing connection or it would slow down so much it became unplayable what did they have in common? DSL. I've been there and I'll never go back. If you can find a good cable ISP then go for it. 3 years of always on and no dropouts with damn near advertised speeds. I do disagree with your comment about shared lines getting divided up, as nearly all my road is on cable and my UBR(sp) covers
2000+ people.