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Risky Bisquick posted:The issue isn't data overages it's the networks will likely fail because they don't have the capacity. The big banks don't have capacity for full WFH either Mine does, though we’ve been told to cut out any video streaming or conferencing if possible. Mostly we have activated DR sites and split people into different locations, so skills exist at primary, DR, and WFH. I’m sure there will be issues, but most of my dept was already WFH on rotation, so the disruption for us is tiny. Senior management is all in on stay home if you are sick, and all business related travel, gathering, conferences, etc are suspended until further notice. So far, it’s been boring.
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Dear penthouse, I never thought this would happen to me... https://cabinradio.ca/32148/news/economy/northwestel-asks-crtc-for-permission-to-waive-your-overage-fees/ quote:Northwestel, the internet provider to most northern residents, says it has asked the federal regulator for permission to temporarily waive customers' overage fees.
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# ? Mar 16, 2020 18:07 |
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Yellowknife finally has internet on par with 1999 again, Christ it is a miracle.
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# ? Mar 17, 2020 05:39 |
Risky Bisquick posted:The big banks don't have capacity for full WFH either I've heard that at least for one big bank, there are 'tiers' of employee requirements. T0 gets access whenever they want for bank resources. T1 employees get access from 6am to 8 (9?)am and 4-5pm. Hope you only need that much time to answer your emails, I guess?
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 20:25 |
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Dad's at CIBC, non-essential employees & consultants can only log in between 5pm and 9:30am. He's been going to bed at 10am.
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 20:40 |
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BMO is doing the same
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 21:32 |
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Just got an email from TekSavvy. TL;DR: - overage fees are waived because plague season, but - they're reversing the price cut they did a while ago because the expected reductions to wholesale pricing never materialized due to endless stalling at the CRTC by Rogers et al
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 22:09 |
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I am WFH full time they somehow fixed the concurrency to handle the load, not a bank.
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 22:13 |
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I just did a speedtest on my telus fiber 750 and at 8:50PM on a Friday night, it's handling load just fine I fully expect another price increase as soon as this poo poo is done.
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 03:54 |
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slidebite posted:I just did a speedtest on my telus fiber 750 and at 8:50PM on a Friday night, it's handling load just fine These speedtests tend to be 'rigged' in that the server you hit by default is inside the ISP. Selecting one outside the ISP and the results will be much less consistent.
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 04:36 |
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EoRaptor posted:These speedtests tend to be 'rigged' in that the server you hit by default is inside the ISP. Selecting one outside the ISP and the results will be much less consistent. As long as a significant amount of your bandwidth is coming from CDNs inside the ISP network it’s probably reasonably accurate. Would be interesting to have a wider set of tests that goes to multiple sites/clouds.
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:01 |
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Also even if the test is from inside the ISP's net, it's a good check on what speed you are getting last mile to your actual computer. But yeah maybe not the best for identifying network congestion if you're hitting an internal server
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:29 |
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It's not Internet but tangentially related, with everyone suddenly working from home we're getting slammed with people getting 'all circuits are busy' when trying to use cell phones. Webex also crapping out due to overcapacity.
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 06:21 |
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slidebite posted:I just did a speedtest on my telus fiber 750 and at 8:50PM on a Friday night, it's handling load just fine What does the DSLReports one say?
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 17:33 |
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less than three posted:It's not Internet but tangentially related, with everyone suddenly working from home we're getting slammed with people getting 'all circuits are busy' when trying to use cell phones. Webex also crapping out due to overcapacity. I’ve had this issue too. I can usually get through after a few minutes, but around the top of the hour I guess there are so many calls being established the system can’t keep up.
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 17:55 |
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.dp
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 21:17 |
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EoRaptor posted:These speedtests tend to be 'rigged' in that the server you hit by default is inside the ISP. Selecting one outside the ISP and the results will be much less consistent. Chris Knight posted:What does the DSLReports one say? The upload portion kept giving me an error when it got ~760 so I tried "cable" instead of "gigabit/fibre" and it ran OK. Gave me a little slower on the download vs giga, but meh, close enough. e: For some reason results weren't attaching :/
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# ? Mar 28, 2020 21:19 |
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Telus is now offering 1.5GB fiber in my area
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 16:45 |
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What kind of marketing ploy is that? 1.5gb???? Who’s itchin for that extra 500Mb/s to their local CDN services. Gotta watch Netflix faster and I just installed a 10g card in my pc dang it! Nitr0 fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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Bell's done 1.5g/1g for a couple years. There's a handful of gear that can sync with the ONT at 2.5G, or you have to use their Sagem CPE which still only has gigabit ethernet. I think the premise is if you have a household full of stuff doing streaming/games/whatever, you can actually get something approaching those speeds using wifi and wired combined
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 19:33 |
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Its 1.5 gigs per month you dummies.
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 19:41 |
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shadow puppet of a posted:Its 1.5 gigs per month you dummies. Man even dial up only took 60ish hours at peak speed
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 19:49 |
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shadow puppet of a posted:Its 1.5 gigs per month you dummies. Holy crap io.org is back baby!
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 20:27 |
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Hah - I wouldn't put that past them for marketing Here are their current offerings for my area. My Cat5e is close to max capability the existing 750/750.
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 22:14 |
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Man the shaw is 110 for 1Gbit down and 25Mbit up in my area, sucks. I think telus tops out at 75Mbit.
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 22:31 |
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The prices shown are actually on the high side. With my retention plan, I am getting 750/750 with unlimited @ $60/month for 2 years. December 2021, when my contract expires, rinse, repeat. Maybe I'll rewire my house with CAT7 by then
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 22:38 |
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Start fiber has been two blocks away for literally a year now. I'm just kind of hoping they route it across the road whenever it gets to the fancy high-rise across the street from me. That'd be nice.
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 22:44 |
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infernal machines posted:I think the premise is if you have a household full of stuff doing streaming/games/whatever, you can actually get something approaching those speeds using wifi and wired combined yeah, no. No customer is even getting close to using 1gb/s even with streaming, games, downloads, whatever. Fiber is massively oversubscribed because your average usage is still 4~Mb/s. Assume 10 Netflix streams, 10 twitch streams, 10 prime streams, 10 disney+ streams in 4k, you're still using 400Mb/s roughly. Nobody really needs anything over a couple hundred meg right now. It's just a good e-peen measurement.
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 22:59 |
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It’s nice to have the capacity for downloading stuff though. Some game patches can be huge, and being able to download it in a minute or two is nice.
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 03:22 |
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Frank Dillinger posted:It’s nice to have the capacity for downloading stuff though. Some game patches can be huge, and being able to download it in a minute or two is nice. Sure, $160 a month nice? I’m not so sure. I’m on a paltry 200mb connection despite having access to 1.5gb and I don’t notice or care about download speeds or game downloads, two minutes or five. Not worth the extra money. I’d like to see more work being put into routing and latency, our peering to the rest of North America stinks. Speeds going higher are basically useless at this point. Until there’s services that actually make use of all the bandwidth, a family can survive fine on 100Mb. When services actually start using that kind of speed [>200Mb/s nightly] you’ll start seeing the oversubscription of gpon showing. Probably will be many years before that happens though. Not enough people with lots of bandwidth to make a service valuable. Nitr0 fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Frank Dillinger posted:It’s nice to have the capacity for downloading stuff though. Some game patches can be huge, and being able to download it in a minute or two is nice. No one has the capacity to download a Call of Duty patch...
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 04:01 |
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Mister Facetious posted:No one has the capacity to download a Call of Duty patch... It'd be funny to chart the size of CoD patches over time vs average broadband speeds and then a calculated line of time to download and see that line drift upwards regardless
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 04:18 |
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The caches just don’t have capacity lol. Plus in home wifi is still pretty poor depending how good your router is, plus the current generation of consoles, ps4, xbone, and switch have terrible wireless chips so hope you have that poo poo wired in. That’s why it always makes me laugh these people trying to get 1.5gb. You’ll never reach that except to your speedtest server 5km down the road, but hey number bigger == better.
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 04:27 |
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slidebite posted:Hah - I wouldn't put that past them for marketing This looks pretty good. That $35 plan is way better than what I get with Shaw for $85. I've been with Shaw for a while, let's see what plans Telus has for my address.
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 04:36 |
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$35 plan above is the steal here.
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 13:43 |
750/750 seems like the best value tbh (lol if you ever pay full shot) I know my consumption definitely expanded to meet my ability when I had gigabit - streaming was nicer, torrents were seeded to gently caress, 4gb poorly cached docker images didn't take three million years to bring down, etc
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 21:08 |
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Can anyone on Lightspeed tell me what fibre flex is?
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 23:04 |
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Marketing fluff. It means nothing.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 00:32 |
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Bell MTS is saying they have fiber to my neighbourhood when they've redefined it as "fiber to the node" with a max speed of 100 mbit
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 01:22 |
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mewse posted:Bell MTS is saying they have fiber to my neighbourhood when they've redefined it as "fiber to the node" with a max speed of 100 mbit regular bells been pulling that poo poo forever.
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