Happiness is a new modem

[ronw]

The bad: cab ride across town and a 1 hour wait to turn in a stupid set top box (as part of cancelling TV service).

The good: Got a new modem that handles the recent network upgrade from 100/5 to 300/20.

[Snowhog]

[Golum]We hates speedy hobbits![/golum]

[ronw]

Yes, plain old coax.

[GreyGeek]

300MiB Your upload speed is faster than my download speed!

That has to be fiber optic. Copper wire coax can't go that fast!

[DoYouKubuntu]

300MiB Your upload speed is faster than my download speed!

Scoot over, GG...I'm crying right along with you.

[millusions]

very nice!

only can dream about that in australia, its a bit backward when it comes to internet speeds

[GreyGeek]

Ok, ronw, what town are you in? K.C.?

[ronw]

NYC.

I wish I was in one of the Google fiber neighborhoods in KC. Or even better, a city with municipal fiber like Chattanooga.

That I got so excited about 300mbps down, in 2014, in one of the most densely populated cities in the country, is actually a sad state of affairs.

[millusions]

relativity of happiness

in Australian largest city of 4.5 million 8km from exchange

that's on a low latency 'inerleaving off' profile for gaming,
DSL Mode: ITU G.992.5 (ADSL2+) Annex A
Noise Margin: 10.5 dB
Output Power: 18.0 dBm
Attenuation: 44.0 dB

[life0riley]

The bad: cab ride across town and a 1 hour wait to turn in a stupid set top box (as part of cancelling TV service).

The good: Got a new modem that handles the recent network upgrade from 100/5 to 300/20.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]5140[/ATTACH]

What ISP is this?


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[GerardV]

relativity of happiness

in Australian largest city of 4.5 million 8km from exchange

that's on a low latency 'inerleaving off' profile for gaming,
DSL Mode: ITU G.992.5 (ADSL2+) Annex A
Noise Margin: 10.5 dB
Output Power: 18.0 dBm
Attenuation: 44.0 dB

[ATTACH=CONFIG]5141[/ATTACH]

Its not all bad in Sydney

!

[millusions]

Thats pretty nice GerardV,
what ISP is it with?

I can get mine to about 10Mbps with the fastest profile offered by Internode, but i do like my low pings to p0wn n00bs with

[GerardV]

Thats pretty nice GerardV,
what ISP is it with?

I can get mine to about 10Mbps with the fastest profile offered by Internode, but i do like my low pings to p0wn n00bs with

This is with Bigpond on the cable.

[ronw]

What ISP is this?


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Time Warner Cable. Technically a Roadrunner network bought by TWC, which may soon be bought by Comcast.

[SteveRiley]

That has to be fiber optic. Copper wire coax can't go that fast!

Oh, it can go much faster. DOCSIS bonds multiple television channels to obtain some very fast speeds. My Comcast service combines eight 256QAM channels for 105 Mbps downstream throughput. Without throttling, DOCSIS 3.0 with 24 downstream channels can reach 912 Mbps; DOCSIS 3.1 should reach speeds of 10 Gbps using 4096QAM and smaller channel spaces. Coaxial cable has oodles of possibilities.

That I got so excited about 300mbps down, in 2014, in one of the most densely populated cities in the country, is actually a sad state of affairs.

Totally agree. Municipal bandwidth is totally the right thing in this century. Lace the city with fiber, bundle the price into property tax, and be done with it. Every politician who tries to squelch municipal broadband needs to be taken out back and shot.