It seems that the new address we're moving to, less than a mile from our current address, cannot get Qwest DSL service. Yay! I am so happy I could jump off my fourth story deck headfirst. After all of that work to get Netrack as my ISP...getting a nice little Cisco 675, tricking out my Soekris 4511, etc., now I'm going to have to do it all over again with a different ISP, different medium (cable), and different muzak when I get put on hold for asking crazy questions like "can I get a static IP address please?" This is one area in life where I hate change. I think it's time to co-locate.
What sucks even worse than having to re-configure a bunch of stuff is that my upstream speed is going to take a dive if I end up going with Comcast. It doesn't look like there's any way around that--even the business options from Comcast seemed to have pretty crappy upstream speeds.
I knew this new apartment was too good to be true. Oh well.
October 6th, 2005 at 11:59 AM For whatever reason, the major Swiss cable provider gives okay upstream speads. We get 60k/sec up (and, umm 2 Mbps down). Of course, Al has everyone beat.
October 6th, 2005 at 03:17 PM 60k/sec or 600k/sec? I guess I mean, how many kilobits per second?
October 8th, 2005 at 10:40 PM That's 60kbytes/sec, and 2Mbits/sec down. I mqade that nice and confuseing, no? :-) It's actually a little higher on the "up" side of things, but since everyone here seems to be running bit torrent 24/7, the upstream is under more presure and I haven't seen anything about 60kbytes/sec.
Peace.
October 9th, 2005 at 05:54 PM Dang skippy I have ya'll beat :-D 100 Mbps up and down :) not that I get anything remotely close to that ever. The other day, I had a couple of torrents going strong... They were at about 500 k/s down and 600 k/s up. I have seen them independantly higher, but that was the most i'd seen them at the same time. It was pretty neat.
October 10th, 2005 at 03:11 AM Al, you suck. I'm jealous. But now you have no excuse for not sharing out all of your latest mixes with us right from your home computer. Come on, send me some URLs.