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| Thread ID: 42333 | 2004-02-08 04:26:00 | ISP's and connection speeds | drcspy (146) | Press F1 |
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| 213643 | 2004-02-08 04:26:00 | I'm getting VERY grumpy with xtra... recently they seem to have downgraded their 'service' so that I often have trouble connecting at more than 40Kbs .....GRRR......anyway I rang them waited about 15 mins on the phone (wow fast for once lol) and the lady tried to tell me that 40 was a 'REALLY GOOD SPEED'..... Even after I said "I'm a tech and i work on a lot of computers and that is not right 40 is a poor speed' she tried to tell me twice more that 40 was a 'really good speed'........grrrrrr at this point I said 'you are talkign crap' and hung up....... well I KNOW without a doubt that if I dialled up on my father'n'laws clear account right now I'd bet I'll get 50 or over... so as you may imagine I am thinking very seriously of dumpin xtra cause I think they're downgrading their dial up so that folks will want to sign up for their rippoff jetstream ........anyway... what I'd like you nice folks to tell me is 1 What ISP do you use 2 What general speed do you get 3 How reliable are they ? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 213644 | 2004-02-08 04:31:00 | ooh i use * clearnet *48 kb/s *You get on all the time, except for when you need it most. e.g 3oc in the morning. e.g when you need to send important work info. e.g when you cus at the clearnet tec's and they suspend you for a day. lol just kidding. |
Jamesioitron (4133) | ||
| 213645 | 2004-02-08 04:32:00 | i use clear net flat rate $24 a month usually 50.6-52kbits per second, however downloads are abnormally fast, usually 60kibts per second however they do have a fair bit of down time, and someimes it connects @ 33.6kbits per second, however this is easilly fixed by connecting again |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 213646 | 2004-02-08 04:32:00 | + they rely on an australia line thingy so they cant fix things that imediately come up in Nz. they have to ring or something. words cannot describe the foulness of what i want to say to the clearnet clerks. |
Jamesioitron (4133) | ||
| 213647 | 2004-02-08 04:38:00 | well i've yet to find ANY difference between isp's. the only problems i get with isp's is usually you can't connect. slow modem speed is more than often due to phone lines rather than isp. also what is your download speed (before and after) as line connect speed dosn't mean a whole lot. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 213648 | 2004-02-08 04:39:00 | Use data throughput as a measure, not connect speed. A fast connect speed may require many corrupt packets to be re-sent. A slightly slower one may give a faster end result. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 213649 | 2004-02-08 04:40:00 | bah... slingshot 3 times faster than normal dial-up... YOU CAN ONLY GET SOOO MUCH who are they comparing to. heh probally clearnet. false advertising... r they talking about broadband?? |
Jamesioitron (4133) | ||
| 213650 | 2004-02-08 04:54:00 | > someimes it connects @ 33.6kbits per second, however this is easilly fixed by connecting again Completely unnecessary; the speed that your computer reports it is connected at when you establish a connection is not kept for the entire duration of the connection, it fluctuates (probably all over the place), hence one (note: one - not the only reason, of course) of the reasons why download/upload speeds fluctuate. However, Windows is incapable of showing a realtime speed, and so it shows what the speed was when you first connected. |
agent (30) | ||
| 213651 | 2004-02-08 07:50:00 | yes it is true it shows the speed it connects.. but when it connects at 33k it seem to be stuck there as the highest speed it will go... which is not nice... i also experience with a werid problem from xtra sometimes it connects at 50k+ and d/l goes nicely.. but then suddenly the d/l speed drops and max at 30k speed.. which is weird.. it works.. then it doesn't.. |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 213652 | 2004-02-08 08:32:00 | this might sound a little weried but try unpluging the the cord out of the back of the phone, when i first got my new computer all i could get it to do was about 28 - 33 and it was pssing me off because i thought they gave me a crap modem, but i unpluged it and now i get 46.6 or 48kbps constantly, Im on the unlimited dialup plan. | hsv-b0y (5210) | ||
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