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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby SotaPoika on Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:15 am

I'm supposed to be having connection of 100/20:
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby WhiteDevil on Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:53 pm

The benefits of living in a crappy student flat. Piss cheap internet.
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby Garrador on Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:20 am

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This for ca. $80 a month. Norway is still talking about "upgrading" internet in Norway. Going sloow..
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby nub on Sun Mar 30, 2014 2:40 am

Figured I should mention this. It applies to anyone in all honesty, but specifically to people in the US stuck with greedy fuckin ISPs.

You can potentially boost your connection by signing up for a virtual private network. A lot of the ISPs in the US are throttling Netflix and Youtube, and a VPN totally bypasses this issue by "allowing you to enter through a backdoor" so to speak. VPNs are usually pretty inexpensive, too.

Oh, and most importantly, it totally masks your web browsing by giving you an anonymous IP Address. Everything is essentially encypted packets. So your ISP can't track everything you do. NOICE!
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby vcool on Mon Mar 31, 2014 3:03 am

nub wrote:Figured I should mention this. It applies to anyone in all honesty, but specifically to people in the US stuck with greedy fuckin ISPs.

You can potentially boost your connection by signing up for a virtual private network. A lot of the ISPs in the US are throttling Netflix and Youtube, and a VPN totally bypasses this issue by "allowing you to enter through a backdoor" so to speak. VPNs are usually pretty inexpensive, too.

Oh, and most importantly, it totally masks your web browsing by giving you an anonymous IP Address. Everything is essentially encypted packets. So your ISP can't track everything you do. NOICE!


Doesn't that shit also blow up your latency?
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby ThePain on Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:25 am

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This plus telephone and 600 channels, 200 in HD and Showtime, HBO, Cinemax, Epix, and a bunch of other premium channels I don't look at- $90 a month
It's quite simple really. I want to be a professional level designer. I want this to be my job.
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby Sathor on Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:04 am

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Better connections are only now becoming available in my area ...
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby 904 on Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:00 pm

Got 100/100 Fibre here at home.
No fancy speedtest, just a 100MB file test up & down to my VPS in Amsterdam:
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904@maestro: /tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/bigfile bs=1M count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.531132 s, 197 MB/s
904@maestro: /tmp # scp bigfile bartb.net:/tmp    bigfile 100% 100MB  9.1MB/s 00:11
904@maestro: /tmp # scp bartb.net:/tmp/bigfile .  bigfile 100% 100MB 10.0MB/s 00:10
904@maestro: /tmp #

For a decent price (about EUR 65/ USD 90), including phone service and a basic TV package (which is all I need).
I like the fact that it's symmetric, makes pushing data around much easier.
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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby Smurftyours on Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:46 am

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Re: What's your internet speed?

Postby Teh Frog on Sat Apr 12, 2014 5:11 am

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