Hey Head-Case, what's your bandwidth like?

[Grahame]

Fancy moving to Chattanooga?

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gig-high-speed-internet-tech-boom

 

Not too pricey https://epbfi.com/internet/

[MexicanDragon]

^ This is what I have, yo. Best 70$ (no taxes, no fees, it's just 69.99$ monthly) I spend.

**BRENT**

Heh, also saw they have something from our mayor. His daughter and my daughter were in the same classroom last year. Good guy.

Edited August 30, 2014 by MexicanDragon

[HeadphoneAddict]

We upgraded to Comcast Blast which doubled our speed, but also got a package deal with more features than we have now for $50 a month less.  

 

Our monthly goes up by $20 in a year, and back up another $30 to normal cost in 2 years. But we'll save $900 over the next two years when the monthly cost goes back to what we were paying last month.  And there is still no contract.

 

[n_maher]

It never feels this fast...

 

[Dreadhead]

Yeah my Comcast has been really spotty recently. I get the 105+ they claim at times but other times I get 1.5. WTF.

[Leonardo Drummond]

I recently went for the full aggression mode 

 

[cetoole]

The new place isn't too bad.

 

[crappyjones123]

Comcast starting to throttle me again down to 2 mbit. Last time they did this it took 2 weeks of harassing them to get the speeds back to normal. Hopefully they don't cause the same problems again.

[Dusty Chalk]

The new place isn't too bad.

 

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayum.

[cetoole]

New router arriving Monday, but for now:

 

Edited September 27, 2014 by cetoole

[Grahame]

It's faster when there's less contention? And your current router is holding you back?

Edited September 27, 2014 by Grahame

[cetoole]

Well, current router is draft N and has been acting a bit flaky, and new one is (or will be) AC1750.  Which I clearly need, even though the only things which will be on wifi are my tablet, phone, work laptops when not docked, and maybe HTPC if I don't feel like routing a cable 15'.  Convenient that the apartment is prewired to have two cat5e ports in each bedroom, two in the living room, and one in the kitchen.

[Grahame]

Y NO AC3200?

[Dusty Chalk]

Hardline is the way to go, yo.

[cetoole]

Needed a few more network ports than my wifi router had built in, so picked up a new hardwired only switch.  It doesn't seem to suck.

 

[DefQon]

shit..

 

 

Is that at your home or work place?

[cetoole]

Home.

[HeadphoneAddict]

Home.

 

[MexicanDragon]

This is on 802.11n 5ghz wifi off an Asus TM-AC1900. There are 4 laptops goings + things streaming on 2 TVs. I really need to get a 3x3 USB3.0 dongle. Do those exist yet?

FWIW, if you have T-Mobile service, you can get this router (basically an RT-AC68U with some software tweaks) for a 25$ deposit if you walk into the store, or they'll do it over the phone and ship it next day (I believe). It's beastly, and I love it. My old WNDR3700 topped out at around 70-80Mbps on this machine. I really need to hardwire something; I have to beat Colin at this game.

I was able to get this on my phone a couple days ago.


Also, you should all get gigabit fiber.

**BRENT**

[Torpedo]

I wish I could

[Grahame]

Back at my 81 year old mother's with a decent DSL WiFi ... (Finally)

And she's not in cell blackspot either...

Yay for mother's (everywhere)

[MexicanDragon]

Sleep test center has wifi.



**BRENT**

[Salt Peanuts]

^ The sleep center has faster connection than I do.

[MexicanDragon]

And that was a few rooms away from the router, through a handful of walls

[Salt Peanuts]

I wish my town had gigabit service.  Hell, I'd be happy if my upload speed would go back up again - I barely get half the advertised speed now for some reason.