How do you get your internet fix? Poll OT, etc

tanadashoes wrote:
Yeah, I know, it is none of my business, but I read somewhere that most
people get their internet through their cable company and on broadband. So
I'm asking. Rob's parents have Comcast broadband through their satellite
company. We have Earthlink broadband through our cable company, Time Warner
cable. I didn't want Road Runner, and did want to keep EarthStink. SO, how
do you get your net fix and what would you recommend to those who might want
to switch?

Not that this will be of any help whatsoever, but we get our ADSL
broadband via our telephone company.

We *could* have gotten it through the providers of our sattelite pay-tv.
And whilst their downloads are spectacularly fast - going via sattelite
to the dish on our roof - the uploads are on a dial up modem. Great if
you are a download junkie, crap if you are a gamer.

I think most people here in Australia would be on ADSL through either
their phone company (usually internet and phone are bundled) or through
a company that re-sells the internet (with up-line provider being a
phone company).

Only in parts of the big capital cities is there cable available.

We're supposed be on ADSL2 by now, but I'll believe that when i see it.
The problem with going to ADSL2 is the teleco wars. Traditionally we had
one, the government owned one. They own the wires and the
infrastructure. Two other major players came in once the government
owned teleco was privatised. But the original teleco doesn't want the
'competition' to use their coper wires, their exchanges, their
infrastructure. The other two major players argue that its unfair, all
that was laid whilst they were a government monopoly, and running three
sets of wires to each house to each house in Australia that would do the
same job 'just in case the customer wanted to change providers' is
insane (and htey are right) and that they shouldn't have to build their
own exchanges when there's an exchange with plenty of extra capacity
just sitting there. The original teleco pretty much says "its ours, we
own it, and we'll charge what we damn well like for you to use it". And
thus, us Aussies pay a relatively large amount for our internet compared
to folks in other parts of the western world.

Yowie

Adrian wrote:
Victor Martinez wrote:
tanadashoes wrote:
cable. I didn't want Road Runner, and did want to keep EarthStink. SO,
how do you get your net fix and what would you recommend to
those who might want to switch?
We have Road Runner (broadband cable), other than the price, we're
quite happy with it.
According to http://www.speedtest.net/, we're doing ok in terms of
speed: 7113 kb/s download
513 kb/s upload

Not quite as quick here, the same test gives me:
6105 kb/s download
316 kb/s upload
Which is OK by me.

504kb/s down, 109kbs/s up. 60ms ping, 50mi from the server.

Not particularly fast, but it serves its purpose, and I'm not paying any
more for speed that I don't need.

Yowie

Marina wrote:
tanadashoes wrote:
Yeah, I know, it is none of my business, but I read somewhere that
most people get their internet through their cable company and on
broadband. So I'm asking. Rob's parents have Comcast broadband
through their satellite company. We have Earthlink broadband
through our cable company, Time Warner cable. I didn't want Road
Runner, and did want to keep EarthStink. SO, how do you get your
net fix and what would you recommend to those who might want to
switch? Pam S. Butcher of Peace



I use my cable company's broadband service at home. At work, the
university has its own servers, and my department has its own. I can
choose to use either one (and like Dan, I sneak a peek at rpca during
the day. I have to take a break once in a while, and what coyuld be
more relaxing than reading about cats?).

On the island I had a USB modem that connected to the mobile phone
network. It was slower than promised, but it did work. Brought back
memories of dial-up, though. :P

I remember back in the days of dialup, I connected, told it to download all
my messages, and then went off to have a shower. By the time I was dried and
dressed, the download for the morning would be finished and I'd log off. I'd
then read my e-mail and newsgroups offline, making a file of the websites
that people linked to. In the afternoon, I would dialup again, upload my
replies and new posts / emails, download the next set, and then look at the
links from the morning.

Repeat and nauseum.

Now I just read on-line. Bliss.

Yowie
--
"because its more fun to be evil" - Jarppi, _The Dudesons_

Yowie wrote:

I remember back in the days of dialup, I connected, told it to download all
my messages, and then went off to have a shower. By the time I was dried and
dressed, the download for the morning would be finished and I'd log off. I'd
then read my e-mail and newsgroups offline, making a file of the websites
that people linked to. In the afternoon, I would dialup again, upload my
replies and new posts / emails, download the next set, and then look at the
links from the morning.

Repeat and nauseum.

OK, it wasn't quite that slow. 286 kbps, IIRC. With 5M here in town, you
could definitely see the difference, but it wasn't slow enough to go off
and do something else while things were loading. Especially not with a
limited power supply from the solar panel.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

We can cable broadband through Comcast.
Quite expensive, but we are very happy with it.

Lily & her mama

"tanadashoes" wrote in message
...
Yeah, I know, it is none of my business, but I read somewhere that most
people get their internet through their cable company and on broadband.
So I'm asking. Rob's parents have Comcast broadband through their
satellite company. We have Earthlink broadband through our cable company,
Time Warner cable. I didn't want Road Runner, and did want to keep
EarthStink. SO, how do you get your net fix and what would you recommend
to those who might want to switch?

Pam S. Butcher of Peace


--
Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.

outsider wrote in
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"tanadashoes" wrote in
:

Yeah, I know, it is none of my business, but I read somewhere that
most people get their internet through their cable company and on
broadband. So I'm asking. Rob's parents have Comcast broadband
through their satellite company. We have Earthlink broadband through
our cable company, Time Warner cable. I didn't want Road Runner, and
did want to keep EarthStink. SO, how do you get your net fix and what
would you recommend to those who might want to switch?

Pam S. Butcher of Peace



Cable co (cablevision)



Connection is very good and very fast and since I have the second modem in
the house not _too_ expensive.