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Jesus. I pay $150/month all fees included for 75/75 with their second highest cable package, HBO, and Showtime. WTF?
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KillHour posted:Jesus. I pay $150/month all fees included for 75/75 with their second highest cable package, HBO, and Showtime. That's the point. I've found out more info - evidently I'm still using a BPON ONT, and the new speed grades between 75/75 and 300/300 are only for people with the new GPON ONT. So they're lying and saying those speed grades aren't available to me or my area, when my neighbor across the street has access to the 100/100 and 150/150 packages that are more comparable to what you're paying. Evidently the only way to *force* them to come and upgrade you is to defraud their own system and order the 300/300 tier, wait for the tech to install the new gear, and then and *only* then will you have access to and be able to downgrade to the 100 and 150 sync packages. So in short, they're penalizing their oldest customers who've been with them the longest and paid them the most.
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Jul 29, 2016 02:29
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Had to get a new modem (because TWC's highest tier service requires 16 downstream channels even though 8 channels can support up to 343), but got my 300Mbps service hooked up: Should tide me over nicely until Google Fiber expands to more areas around here (Austin, TX).
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BIG HEADLINE posted:..... So just like every other telecom company then?
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stevewm posted:So just like every other company then?
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Jul 29, 2016 18:37
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Well, there is a happy ending. Evidently my coax wiring was inferiorly configured from when I had Cox, who used to use a two-channel system for their first-generation Digital Cable. So the handful of Verizon techs that have seen said wiring never noticed that there was a four-way splitter still in place (or they didn't feel like eliminating it since they'd need a step stool to reach it). This guy did, so all our phantom issues with bad/fluctuating frequencies on certain channels are fixed, and after mentioning the fact we we still on BPON and wanted GPON, he took a new ONT out of his truck and hooked us up no questions asked, because they want to get people off of BPON due to the age and "secret upcoming stuff," which will be 1-10Gbps "and eventually higher" connection speed options. The only nasty surprise was when I selected the 150/150 tier, a phantom $150 (spread over three months @ $50) showed up. Evidently the 100/100 can still be provided over MoCA, but 150/150 and higher require RJ-45. I figure I could find a guy (or do it myself) willing to cut a hole in my wall and snake a length of CAT6 down into my basement, call Verizon and tell them to change my connection to Ethernet over MoCA and probably save myself $100. Are there any IT techs in here who would give me a ballpark as to what that'd cost?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Well, there is a happy ending. Evidently my coax wiring was inferiorly configured from when I had Cox, who used to use a two-channel system for their first-generation Digital Cable. So the handful of Verizon techs that have seen said wiring never noticed that there was a four-way splitter still in place (or they didn't feel like eliminating it since they'd need a step stool to reach it). This guy did, so all our phantom issues with bad/fluctuating frequencies on certain channels are fixed, and after mentioning the fact we we still on BPON and wanted GPON, he took a new ONT out of his truck and hooked us up no questions asked, because they want to get people off of BPON due to the age and "secret upcoming stuff," which will be 1-10Gbps "and eventually higher" connection speed options. Running Cat6 is fairly easy and cheap. Assuming 50ft for the run, you'll be about about $25 ($50 if you buy raw wire and need a crimper). The real cost will be in making a proper hole and depends largely on what your house is made of. If you have concrete between floors, it'll cost about $500 and you probably don't have the tooling to do it yourself. If you have basic floors (Wood / fiberglass / wood) it'll be about $100. You can do it yourself if you have a good drill, all you need to buy is a hole driller and do it yourself for about $40 plus some time. All prices USD and noting it since I think you're Canadian.
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Jul 30, 2016 13:35
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Does Comcast still do the thing where you cancel service and sign back up the same day at the introductory rate? I'm tired of paying $70/mo.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Does Comcast still do the thing where you cancel service and sign back up the same day at the introductory rate? I'm tired of paying $70/mo. You can do that if you are far from a retail outlet. If you are near a retail outlet, you can be in and out in 20 minutes with any new hardware you may need, to boot. I go through this ritual once per year and I greatly prefer the retail store to dealing with them online or over the phone. A few years ago, when doing it the over-the-phone way, they shipped me a DSL modem. Just a straight-up AT&T branded modem (in a non-AT&T service area). I straightened it out in a retail shop and have been using them whenever I could ever since.
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Like a Comcast service center, or some store that also has a desk plugging Comcast to buy from? I know when we first got service, my wife went to a service center to pick up the equipment. At this point we've got our own modem and router, so we don't need any equipment. Of course they still charge the $15 "installation fee" or whatever they call it regardless of whose equipment your'e using or who sets it up.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Like a Comcast service center, or some store that also has a desk plugging Comcast to buy from? I know when we first got service, my wife went to a service center to pick up the equipment. The retail stores are similar to a service center, except they aren't depressing.  I don't know if Comcast themselves considers them the same thing, but they might. The retail stores I've been in are basically setup with a bunch of TV screens and couches/bean bags so you can "Experience the experience".I have gotten my fee waived for the last several years. 
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 $25 or so per month. Norway is neat.
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 Going a bit "slow" tonight. It is peak time though. Very early in the morning I can actually get 980/500. This is my ISPs own speedtest. speedtest.net seems to max out around 350Mbps right now for me. Though I can pull 100MB/sec off Steam/Battle.net right now just fine. The internet is strange... $100 per month, 1000/500 fiber..
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What is the latest trick to eliminating the fios router if I have fios tv as well? I think I have to keep the device on the network somewhere but also heard I can do some sort of port forwarding. The drat thing is so ugly.
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cr0y posted:What is the latest trick to eliminating the fios router if I have fios tv as well? I think I have to keep the device on the network somewhere but also heard I can do some sort of port forwarding. https://www.dslreports.com/faq/16077
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TheGreenBandit posted:We just got an upgrade from 100mbit to gigabit at work: What type of computer are you testing from? ~930 is pretty much close to theoretical max speed on a gig port after Ethernet frame overhead.
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jeeves posted:What type of computer are you testing from? ~930 is pretty much close to theoretical max speed on a gig port after Ethernet frame overhead.  I think I might have hit the actual limit. I have no idea how to go back to regular internet if I have to. I'm already impatient that my fresh CrashPlan backup is taking days. xergm fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Oct 15, 2016 |
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Jesus gently caress that is insane.
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Again, I am curious what your computer setup is. A gaming PC? A Mac Pro? I need to start cataloging machines that can actually hit a real-world max speed on gigabit for work.
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Gaming PC. I've got a i7 6800k and the motherboard network chipset is Intel. Most gaming motherboards seem to have better network chipsets as long as it's not a budget board.
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When I was on FTTH in Japan my bottleneck was routinely my hard drive instead of my connection. Steam would just flat out lock up my computer until it was finished downloading games (in like 30 seconds, to boot) since these were the days before widespread SSD availability. It ruled and was a good problem to have. I'm excited about Google Fiber finally making its way here even though the monthly fee is literally twice what I paid for NTT's fiber service back in the day. Sheep fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Oct 15, 2016 |
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jeeves posted:Again, I am curious what your computer setup is. A gaming PC? A Mac Pro? Just about every cheap desktop I have at work can hit gigabit speeds no problem. I've not saw any one in years that couldn't. The bottle neck has always been the hard drive for data transfers. Have a bunch of random Lenovo desktops, mostly M73/M93 Tinys, these will all hit 115-120MB/sec easy. (SSDs) (920-960Mbps). Various Dell machines. Some have Intel network, some realtek.
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jeeves posted:Again, I am curious what your computer setup is. A gaming PC? A Mac Pro? I'm on a Dell Precision 3620, though as said above most of our desktops can max out. Now if only I could get fiber to my house I'd be set. 6Mb/s is the fastest upload anyone sells around here  
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 Finally bit the bullet and upgraded to FiOS when I moved, and holy poo poo that's a massive improvement over what I was getting on Comcast
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 Cox 150d/10u on Wifi in an apartment complex Slightly expensive at $78/mo but can't complain since they tend to over-deliver here.
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Thauros posted:
But...but...Comcast keeps saying only Nazis and people who hate ice cream prefer FiOS over them! It's like they're lying shitbags who corporatized and militarized the surly 80s era cable guy or something!
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I would love some FttH. Lousy "rural area", at least I don't have DSL.
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Stuck with 25/10 from Comcast for $50 a month here. Only other option is DSL. There's a fiber network that runs through town but only schools, hospitals and the like have access to it right now. It will probably be years before a last-mile provider steps up to build out fiber for residential customers. 
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Rogers gigabit finally became available in my area!
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Old - $67/mo New - $65/mo  Pretty loving incredible  Lower than the advertised gigabit but I can't complain with the bargain basement price. MaxxBot fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Apparently Comcast just rolled out some sort of speed upgrade in my area:  My connection had been hovering around 170 down/11 up pretty consistently since I got service here in fall 2015.
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Upgrading to gigabit fiber from CenturyLink on Tuesday... stupidly excited. Like the first time I got broadband installed excited.
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Internet Explorer posted:Upgrading to gigabit fiber from CenturyLink on Tuesday... stupidly excited. Like the first time I got broadband installed excited. The speed increase I got from doing the same thing (CenturyLink DSL to gigabit fiber) was actually greater than the increase I got when I moved from 56k to cable for the first time, it's pretty nuts.
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Thanks Ants posted:Motherfucker This means a lot coming from a fellow IT guy. :bigtran:
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Anybody here in the Washington D.C. region? I moved into a new apartment last week and signed up for the Comcast 100 mbps internet package and this poo poo is slow as balls. All of my tests through Ookla have returned download/upload speeds of 5-6 mbps or thereabouts. While I wasn't expecting 100 mbps, I figured that 30-45 mbps would be a more realistic figure, so I find this 6 mbps poo poo somewhat appalling. Any other people in the DMV know if this is par for the course with Comcast in Maryland? FIOS is an option here but they were charging roughly the same price for 50 mbps.
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