I'm on cable, and it's been absolute garbage over the past 3 weeks. I'm not pleased. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
First off, their routers are <i>seriously</i> messing up outgoing packets. About 25% of the time I browse these forums (or just about <i>any</i> web page), I'll get a 404 from anywhere <i>except</i> the website I'm browsing!! For example, I got a 404 from a university website yesterday, even though I've never visited that website before. I'll get them from Google, business sites, personal sites, etc. Gah.
Secondly, their servers go down/reboot/crash <i>at least</i> twice a day. One of those times is <i>always</i> at around 2am.
Third, I don't think I've been in a full game (start-to-finish) of NS for quite a while. I frequently get that <span style='color:red'>warning: connection error</span> just as things are getting good. Sometimes it bounces back and I end up dead, but I'll usually just quit and hope to find another game.
Fourth, DSL service range ends a few minutes walk up the street. It's cheaper, it's faster, and it's more reliable. And I'm about a dozen houses too far down the street to get it. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
The service <i>usually</i> works pretty reliably during the day, but goes straight to hell once people get home from work/school.
I'm on AT&T cable in Dallas, TX, and it can suck it. When it's not dropping out, I'm usually getting bad pings.
At least it's free because it sucks <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Lately though it's been ok - i think they opened up a new node for my apt complex.
go to college, 10MB/s (that's our LAN speed, since the Inet would probably go faster if we had Gigabit ethernet, meh.)
[edit]oh yeah, we all have wireless cards in our laptops, but there are lan connections everywhere anyways. Wireless is too slow for me, and sucks if you host a server.[/edit]
I am in college. But, my school had the brilliant idea putting up a campuswide wireless network instead of running a gigabit connection around the whole campus. It's cool for laptops and all, but not for desktop machines.
Cable in Canda, $39.99/month. No limits (speed or data transfer). Trust me, I tested them <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
DSL at home, T1 at the school, where my pc is the most of the time, but at the school there's always someone who's dl, so i rarely get a good ping here.
<!--QuoteBegin--DY357LX+Feb 2 2003, 08:57 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DY357LX @ Feb 2 2003, 08:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm using NTL Broadband in the UK. It's £24.99 a month. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Mine includes the phone. Plus we get the TV cheaper. Worth an extra penny a month.
Same as Aldaris <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> May break the bank and go from 600K to 1 MB <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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First off, their routers are <i>seriously</i> messing up outgoing packets. About 25% of the time I browse these forums (or just about <i>any</i> web page), I'll get a 404 from anywhere <i>except</i> the website I'm browsing!! For example, I got a 404 from a university website yesterday, even though I've never visited that website before. I'll get them from Google, business sites, personal sites, etc. Gah.
Secondly, their servers go down/reboot/crash <i>at least</i> twice a day. One of those times is <i>always</i> at around 2am.
Third, I don't think I've been in a full game (start-to-finish) of NS for quite a while. I frequently get that <span style='color:red'>warning: connection error</span> just as things are getting good. Sometimes it bounces back and I end up dead, but I'll usually just quit and hope to find another game.
Fourth, DSL service range ends a few minutes walk up the street. It's cheaper, it's faster, and it's more reliable. And I'm about a dozen houses too far down the street to get it. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
The service <i>usually</i> works pretty reliably during the day, but goes straight to hell once people get home from work/school.
The upstream is crap, but download rates are very good.
I pay about $40 a month, my company is Charter Communications.
£25 a month!
It's £24.99 a month.
At least it's free because it sucks <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Lately though it's been ok - i think they opened up a new node for my apt complex.
[edit]oh yeah, we all have wireless cards in our laptops, but there are lan connections everywhere anyways. Wireless is too slow for me, and sucks if you host a server.[/edit]
/me starts packing up and moving to Comprox's house.
plush im getting subscriber bloat in my area (had a 1.5mbit transfer rate a year ago, down to 765Kbits)
It's £24.99 a month. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mine includes the phone.
Plus we get the TV cheaper.
Worth an extra penny a month.