How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Fake Virginia
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My ISP doubled my advertised upload speed so I now have the same up and down. They did this without requiring anything of me. And it tests 15% faster in download and 23% faster in upload than what they promise.
Perhaps you just need a new ISP.
Perhaps you just need a new ISP.
Boost Pope
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Location: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
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Sidebar: ever do any research into how FiOS works at the physical layer? It's pretty cool how they passively split and mux all of the consumer strands together.
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Location: Charleston SC
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I officially join early retirement tomorrow. The project I am on funding ends and I the company I work for has failed to secure any additional work. Currently I am working on a few leads for future work. I have one 1099 contract job lined up that is almost for certain just have to negotiate on pay. I also have another interview next week at another local tech company. Same recruiter who got me my currently job changed companies and is trying to get me to come over to his new place. That work would be W2 and might be more of what I am interested in.
I also am working on a miata based business. I have mentioned a few clues about it on here, but it will be something I think most of the cheap asses on this site will like.
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The available satellite connection is 20Mbps/6Mbps "almost guaranteed" down/up, is fine by me. I can also live with the 800ms lag but not with the 10GB data cap. DSL is more like 10/1 down/up in most areas but lag is usually less than 30ms. There's no fiber yet, and VDSL (50/50) is only available in a few select blocks.
Boost Pope
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Location: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
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The available satellite connection is 20Mbps/6Mbps "almost guaranteed" down/up, is fine by me. I can also live with the 800ms lag but not with the 10GB data cap. DSL is more like 10/1 down/up in most areas but lag is usually less than 30ms. There's no fiber yet, and VDSL (50/50) is only available in a few select blocks.
Around 2000 or so, I worked at a small radio station in a hick town in Floriduh. No way we could get a T1 that far out in the sticks, even POTS was sketchy sometimes.
Since we needed an "always-on" connection to receive small amounts of data in the background for several systems (weather forecasts, news feeds, etc) we installed a Hughes (later DirecPC) satellite connection. This was great for what we needed it for, but so awful for general web-type activity that it was preferable to use a dial-up modem at ~14.4 or 28.8k and deal with the occasional disconnects.