New Internet speeds coming down the pipe - pun
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I've got a friend who lives about 1 mile past city limits, and has access to the exact same Internet as me. It is sad that the best places to get Internet is almost any place that doesn't have an incumbent ISP, including far far outside of cities and deep in the woods.
My ISP is about as old as AT&T, so they kind of had their foot in the door, which allowed them to compete locally. It's also entirely owned by local people.
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@KOM:
Sheesh, I'm paying $65/m for 25/5.
Sheesh, I'm paying $65/mo for 1000/1000.
http://kxan.com/2014/02/09/grande-pushes-forward-in-austins-internet-speed-races/
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I love how people on that link are saying stuff like "who cares about gig, no one can use it". That's the point, your Internet is so fast, that you can't use it all.
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Ohhhhh - I'd love to have it but thats just not about to happen anywhere I'm running private use equipment.
100Mbps Internet available to 59% of US, while gigabit still at just 3%
Most of the places I'm concerned with max out at like 25/5
And, no surprise here - I'm part of the small number of Americans (97%) who just have no access to gigabit internet at home.
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You could move.
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I get that alot… )-: haha
(usually from neighbors)
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@gonzopancho:
You could move.
HAHAHA! You forgot to put "/s"
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@gonzopancho:
I'm paying $65/mo for 1000/1000.
That's surprisingly cheap. I guess there's a genuinely competitive market in Austin.
I pay £25/m (~$38 at current rates) for 80/20 including a phone line that I don't use but am forced to take.
Steve
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Austin is one of those tiny specs on the map of the usa offering google fiber.
Google has a big glass bowl full of the names of American cities.
Every so often they stir it around, pick one at random and laugh at all the people living in cities not picked.
Then they build it.
Infrastructure by lottery.
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Haha! System working well then. ::)
Steve
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Yeah - Its the bomb… We should handle bridges, water, telephone, electricity etc the same way.
The USA still isn't treating internet like critical infrastructure.
The government talks about it alot, but its still pretty much at the whim if ISPs as a function of pure profit.
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Yeah - Its the bomb… We should handle bridges, water, telephone, electricity etc the same way.
The USA still isn't treating internet like critical infrastructure.
The government talks about it alot, but its still pretty much at the whim if ISPs as a function of pure profit.
couldn't have said it better
I have 3 different sources fiber in front of my house that unlimited money cant tap with no internet at my house I have to jump it from my dads with wireless and this is on a state highway that goes from coast to coast in the us
and the internet available at dads isn't good but its all thats available through cable thats very over sold -
I know what you mean…. haha
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You can either complain about the situation, or move to where the situation is improving.
pfSense HQ is in Austin. IJS…
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Austin?
I guess I'll have to complain a while….
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According to the new marketing literature, my 100Mb/100Mb "dedicated" connection is good for web hosting, but they don't list Ecommerce until 500Mb.
I just ran a speed test with traffic shaping set to 950Mb and my bandwidth slowly oscillated between 96-98 according to a separate network graph and my ping to an internet server jumped up from 11ms to 23ms. Buffer bloat!
My upload test oscillated between 97-98 and again my ping jumped from 11 to 23. Buffer bloat every where!
I set my traffic shaping to 96Mb and now my ping remains a flat 11ms.
Seems my ISP's self-hosted speedtest server seems to be not entirely up to the task. I get 1Mb higher to a New York test server that is 1,000 miles away.
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Use Google fiber and the state watches you everywhere :D
