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ISP Bandwidth Limits
Tatsujin:
Upgrade to business class. Call your current ISP and other ISP's around your area and see if they'll give you a Business Class ISP connection. Business class has no bandwidth restriction (confirm it with them), more speed, all ports open (very good for torrenting and gaming), dynamic or static IP (you can choose one or the other, confirm it with them) and some of them offer 24/7 Business Customer Services - really good experience with Comcast. They fucking leave their business cards with me at my house whenever I have a problem and say "You got a problem, contact me at this number or my boss. We'll be here for you the same day or next day". They work on Sundays too for Business only. The downside is the extra dollars your gonna spend (roughly 10 dollars more for Comcast) and a possible contract.
krumm:
--- Quote from: Stsin on September 11, 2011, 06:43:14 AM --- (click to show/hide)I currently don't have any caps. But checked out how much I was using each month:
Gah, my account would have been suspended already...getting close to 1TB per month. Only have 20Mb/s down and I wasn't even trying as you can see the on and off days. 250 gigs is way too low.
BUT my provider: Insight, has just been bought by Time Warner ($3 Billion). So I'm dreading the worst. Anyone using Road Runner? How are the caps if any and service? We already have DOCSIS, but costs twice as much for 50Mb/s down ($100). How are the prices?
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I did not think Time Warner had caps, but then I'm also in an area with 2 isp's. When I was on road runner there was no caps but that was a year ago. The customer service is good for an isp, but the uptime and the latency suck. I'm now using WOW(Wide Open West). No caps, good latency, and high uptime. price is the same tho
Stsin:
Thanks. I feel relieved.
Though I feel we'll all have to upgrade to some business class in the future, that is for those in the US. Really bothers me that we are so behind compared to other parts of the world. Yet, costs much more.
lothar863:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on September 11, 2011, 09:36:52 AM ---Upgrade to business class. Call your current ISP and other ISP's around your area and see if they'll give you a Business Class ISP connection. Business class has no bandwidth restriction (confirm it with them), more speed, all ports open (very good for torrenting and gaming), dynamic or static IP (you can choose one or the other, confirm it with them) and some of them offer 24/7 Business Customer Services - really good experience with Comcast. They fucking leave their business cards with me at my house whenever I have a problem and say "You got a problem, contact me at this number or my boss. We'll be here for you the same day or next day". They work on Sundays too for Business only. The downside is the extra dollars your gonna spend (roughly 10 dollars more for Comcast) and a possible contract.
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That is why I went to business class. And I work from home so I can kinda justify it and it will help with the tax write offs :P
The USA is HORRIBLE on ISP speed, cost, and availability. But this is what we get when we pretty much allow companies to bribe lawmakers in the form of lobbyists.
In TN where I live the state GAVE $100 million to Bellsouth to expand broadband into rural areas. What happened? They did nothing At&t bought Bellsouth and got a free $100 million. And no one even got a slap on the wrist.
Or a person over seeing if comcast and NBC are allowed to merge gets a job with comcast right after voting to allow the merger.
Just sucks :(
karakurared:
Yeah the U.S. is seriously dropping the ball when it comes to broadband.
When I was in Japan 10 years ago we got what the average American citizen gets today (which is around 10meg). And Europe practically mandates that their people get good service. This chart pretty much says it all.
That being said, I recently upgraded my service to 60/6 and it's pretty descent. Cost me $100/month. Got a 500gb monthly cap but I've been breaking it a lot and they haven't cut me off yet. Keeping my fingers crossed though.
Looked into the business service. It's almost double the money for the same speed. No caps though.
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