I have 1GBit/1Gbit in my apartment, don't know what to do with all that bandwidth... I pay the equivalent of 15 dollars a month for it
what isp do you use for home labs
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- your dorm admin will be super happy about it.
Atm we'r on a 30/10 dsl paid for, by my old job. Moving into our new house in ~1½ month and will have 300/300 fiber connection - hopefully some of it paid by, by my new job
Actually, most of DK has vdsl, or cable connections available.. and more and more fiber available aswell.
Cable goes 300/100 at the moment, and going to be 1g downstream by the end of next year afaik. DSL they are working on making quite fast aswell.... guess theres some upsides in living in a country this small
- your dorm admin will be super happy about it.Atm we'r on a 30/10 dsl paid for, by my old job. Moving into our new house in ~1½ month and will have 300/300 fiber connection - hopefully some of it paid by, by my new job
Actually, most of DK has vdsl, or cable connections available.. and more and more fiber available aswell.
Cable goes 300/100 at the moment, and going to be 1g downstream by the end of next year afaik. DSL they are working on making quite fast aswell.... guess theres some upsides in living in a country this small
Haha good I don't have a dorm admin it's like a condo I guess rather than a rental
I'd like my job to pay for most of my stuff but they're too cheap. A raise would be nice too...
it's like a condo I guess rather than a rental I'd like my job to pay for most of my stuff but they're too cheap. A raise would be nice too...
While my homelab is non-existant except for one mac mini, I use a regional ISP, which happens to be the best in Canada, voted by J.D. Power. I'll give you a cookie if you can guess who.
They are expanding from A/V DSL tech to GPON, but our home isn't on the list yet. Only have DSL 5/0.6 atm. (OW THE FEELS)
They are expanding from A/V DSL tech to GPON, but our home isn't on the list yet. Only have DSL 5/0.6 atm. (OW THE FEELS)
I have Charter and made sure I didn't rent a place that was under Comcast. I get 60 down and 7 up. It's not too bad but I really want them to increase the upload speed. A few issue I've had
For paying around $50 a month I'm a pretty happy customer but that's because I have the best ISP for my area and the monopoly system really doesn't drive innovation. I'm hoping that our next move puts us near 100+mb/s, I've seen some buildings with 1 gb/s which would be incredible.
- My neighbor got Charter and they came out while we were out of town and messed up our connection. Took a few days to solve that but since we work from home periodicity it ended up being a miss timed hassle.
- The internet goes down for a minute multiple times a week (3 -4). It doesn't normally impact end user experience but Sophos sends out an email every time it comes back up. I'm not sure this is normal for residential ISP.
For paying around $50 a month I'm a pretty happy customer but that's because I have the best ISP for my area and the monopoly system really doesn't drive innovation. I'm hoping that our next move puts us near 100+mb/s, I've seen some buildings with 1 gb/s which would be incredible.
Oh man yeah that's rough. Does anyone know if there is a technical reason that ISPs kill upload speeds? I'm guessing because there isn't any demand from residential customers
So businesses don't get the cheaper home plans. Plus, they don't want you running a web server out of your house.
Even the 5GHz band in my building is getting crowded. Working on getting a house so that should help a lot.
Cable/DSL use one physical medium for upload and download and basically max out the utilization of the medium. At a given signaling rate on a simplex medium, the only way to increase upload speed is to reduce download speed. In general, consumers don't use (essentially any) upload bandwidth and only really care about download bandwidth--so prioritizing download speeds is a no-brainer. Verizon can provision symmetric service relatively easily given how much headroom there is on fiber and because they have finer grained control over upstream allocation, and is doing so as a marketing win over the cable providers who can't do the same thing for technical reasons. In practice, it doesn't matter to the end user. (And anyone who does actually max out their upload will likely run afoul of the TOS unless they're business class.)
Currently on Verizon Fios 75/75 real world speeds I get around 85/82 as Verizon adds a nice fluff for VOD usage. was going to move to 175/175 but need to figure out why my run from the ONT to router is only negotiating at 100mbit. 300/300 is to rich for my blood.
Older ONTs only negotiate 100Mbps. If you order a higher service tier they should install a new one. The other possibility is a bad cable, you can test that with a laptop at the outside interface.
I have the newer ONT. I think its the cable run. When I get a free weekend I will pull everything apart. The run goes between my garage and home office. So there is two keystone jacks one on each side then 2 patch cables. One to the ONT other into switch so multiple spots of failure.
Qwest/CenturyLink DSL. 50/20 with a static IP and no blocked ports or data caps. $100/mo, give or take. I've been pleased with them so far. Apparently they're rolling out a 100 gig plan soon, but I really have no need for it. My speeds are perfect for my use case now.
I use a 1Gbps FTTH with a 100Mbps cable modem backup for approx USD 42/mth.
With the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, I configured the cable modem to be a failover backup as well as used for guest access.
Don't run any home labs, my server and NAS is at a nearby datacenter location. With the FTTH, it's less than 10msec latency and full bandwidth access to my servers
With the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, I configured the cable modem to be a failover backup as well as used for guest access.
Don't run any home labs, my server and NAS is at a nearby datacenter location. With the FTTH, it's less than 10msec latency and full bandwidth access to my servers
I am jealous of what you pay. I pay $40 for my 60/4 cable connection. Also like your name, brings back memories of Monkey Island.I use a 1Gbps FTTH with a 100Mbps cable modem backup for approx USD 42/mth.
With the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, I configured the cable modem to be a failover backup as well as used for guest access.
Don't run any home labs, my server and NAS is at a nearby datacenter location. With the FTTH, it's less than 10msec latency and full bandwidth access to my servers
AT&T finally isolated the problem with my service - the latest tech recrimped the end of the cable run that was attached to the ONT. No dropped connections or calls since. Unfortunately, it didn't solve the problem of 24/4 being the highest tier of service available in my neighborhood (on FTTH, no less). The tech let it slip that Comcast was an option. Our home is new construction (~18 months) and the builder led me to believe that AT&T was our only option for data service.
Talked to a Comcast rep yesterday, according to their map (they have to survey to make sure) I can get up to 150/25. Looks like I'll be dropping my Uverse account. I'm going to get 75/15 with a Static for the same price I'm paying for Uverse for 24/4 and two phone lines that haven't been reliable for the last eight months months. Later on I'll roll an Asterisk VM and figure out VoIP
Talked to a Comcast rep yesterday, according to their map (they have to survey to make sure) I can get up to 150/25. Looks like I'll be dropping my Uverse account. I'm going to get 75/15 with a Static for the same price I'm paying for Uverse for 24/4 and two phone lines that haven't been reliable for the last eight months months. Later on I'll roll an Asterisk VM and figure out VoIP
SCORE!!
It's always something stupid it seems, all my issues have required miles of line trace to find the actual rat nest (literally once) problems!!
When they installed my circuits I was warned about squirrels, racoons and other animals being more dangerous to my internet than anything else, LOL!!
Comcast survey tech came out. They've got conduit to the house, just have to have their install team come out and pull the cable. I will be so glad to have these 24Mbps handcuffs taken off. Living in the ****ing stone ages.