They really did improve my speed a bit

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:20 am

I noticed an improvement in in my internet a while back on and off. I never dips below 10Mb DL now, but gets over 20 fairly often. About twice what it was a year ago.

www.speedtest.net

better ping time on this one

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:34 am

That is smokin' compared to my phone line at home! Laughing

Our cable company abandoned us after Hurricane Ike! Crying or Very sad

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:01 am

TimeWarner has been quietly upgrading it's speed in most markets but oddly not really telling anyone about it. If you have TimeWarner (AKA RoadRunner), you need to reboot your router to get the increased speed...

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:24 am

I'm slow. I know that I don't pay for the maximum bandwidth available; my cable bill is high enough as it is.

Edit: I just checked my bill and I'm paying for 10 Mbps so at least I'm getting what I'm paying for.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:35 am

groesbeck wrote:

I'm slow. I know that I don't pay for the maximum bandwidth available; my cable bill is high enough as it is.

I'd be happy if I got those speeds!
Can't get cable where I live so still using phone lines.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:59 am

Yeah, Time Warner's pricing is ridiculous. I actually replaced my router recently. My last one was old and the wired side was stuffed.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:52 am

CjKit wrote:

groesbeck wrote:

I'm slow. I know that I don't pay for the maximum bandwidth available; my cable bill is high enough as it is.

I'd be happy if I got those speeds!
Can't get cable where I live so still using phone lines.

The UK is behind the rest of Europe in general. The US isn't doing so well in bandwidth compared to other countries. This graph is a little old but I think it's still close.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:08 pm

groesbeck wrote:

...The UK is behind the rest of Europe in general....

No change there then! Wink

That speed in Japan is just insane. 60mbps!!

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:18 pm

I have a friend here in L.A. with a fiber connection provided by Yahoo, he's a programmer for them. I didn't run speedtest there, but it's insane. I transfered a few hundred MB in a few seconds. All it takes is money, and lots of it.

Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 1:52 pm

I went from a phone line connection of 32Kps to wireless of 100Mps. I've been down the last few days since they upgraded their equipment to make even the basic service faster (they just forgot to tell me my new address) Not bad for only 29.95 @ month

Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:23 pm

Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:26 am

Fitz wrote:

Jeeberz! That's abysmal! That ain't right. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:08 pm

genesound wrote:

Fitz wrote:

Jeeberz! That's abysmal! That ain't right. Evil or Very Mad

Yeah, this is Studio City, Los Angeles. It is an upper middle class neighborhood less than a mile from CBS studios.
You would think we should have fiber optics by now but, no.
Not for our street because the power/phone/cable lines all run through our backyards and the utility people don't have access to get te trucks in there with spools of wire, rigs to work from and what not.
They did not have cable in this neighborhood until 1986.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:29 pm

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:05 am

my cable internet sucks Sad

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:33 am

Now I do not feel so bad!

Phone line. We are an isolated island out in the sticks. All around us have cable options.

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:37 am

Ray, check your wire connections. You might have a knot in one of the cords! :spidey:

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:58 am

his cords were cut years ago Razz

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:22 pm

Time-Warner just got done installing my new internet connection.

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:38 pm

Damn, this site is even moving a little faster.
Check out my speed now as compared to the other day

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:50 pm

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:33 pm

Warp drive!

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:04 am

...oneday, this is at work... i'll try and check at home tonight... interesting...

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:34 am

Wow! Ray, somehow I missed your post the other day.

That's about as good as it gets here in Studio City. I have a friend that lives out in Northridge where he has Verizon FIOS, fiber to the house. Yahoo pays for a really high speed pipe for him and it's like 5 times faster than here. It really hauls ass if you can find a server that can keep up with it.

My speed varies a bit here, sometimes it drops to around 10Mb/sec, but that's still about 20 times faster than what you had with the crappy DSL. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:42 am

Californiaman wrote:

...oneday, this is at work... i'll try and check at home tonight... interesting...

How big is the local network at work? Sometimes they throttle down users on company LANs, so no one person can hog the whole thing and bring everybody's access to a halt.