I hate shitty internet service.
I've spent the majority of the past several months living in a hotel in NYC. Times Square, in fact. Broadway & 49th. Nice place. You'd think that maybe it'd be reasonable for a person to expect that internet service here might be better than at a Motel 6 in East Roosterpoo, AR, but you'd be wrong.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/485361735.png It's gotten to the point where I've given up on trying to use uTorrent. I just set up a VPN connection for myself into one of the servers at the jobsite. I use it to do the downloads, then pick 'em up on a USB drive when I'm in the master control room. |
wow that is terrible.
This is my parents house that I am at until I get a job...>.< http://www.speedtest.net/result/485396563.png |
That makes me lol. I just torrented all of Bill O' Reilly's books to listen to while sitting on the beach tomorrow.
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They most likely are capping it on purpose joe. That way each customer can get an equally shitty experience. Even though bandwidth capping sounds high rent for a hotel, even in Manhattan, its actually pretty easy to set up.
If you had done a tracert while you were there you likely would have seen it going through a local server before hitting roadrunner. |
I hated life when i was in Savannah. They had a wireless connection only with a 100kbs download speed and it constantly disconnected.
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Originally Posted by neogenesis2004
(Post 413943)
They most likely are capping it on purpose joe. That way each customer can get an equally shitty experience. Even though bandwidth capping sounds high rent for a hotel, even in Manhattan, its actually pretty easy to set up.
This is actually slower than dialup in both directions. I haven't accessed the internet at speeds like this since 1996, and that was through a VAX termserver (and the web was a hell of a lot less graphics-intensive then, to say nothing of flash / java / etc). Even FTP is horrifyingly painful. |
How do you watch porn? At the least you should ask for some of the adult channels/movies to be included with your room.
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http://www.speedtest.net/result/485634100.png
And that's what I live with 365, not just temporarily at a hotel. Comcast says it'll be $16,000 to bring anything out here. Currently I have BCT, or Beavercreek Cable Television. But I'm pretty sure it stands for BFG Cable Television |
I'd be blowing up those Time Warner assholes' phones, Joe. That shit sucks!!
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Originally Posted by the_man
(Post 414002)
How do you watch porn?
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i used to have 20 megabits down and 10 megabits up when i had uncapped cable. was fun :)
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http://www.speedtest.net/result/485671401.png
My upstream is rocket fast in bursts, but dips to complete shit for longer transfers.. |
joe, why not get a wireless 3G connection?
there are "ways" of getting unlimited data and tethering for around $75 a month plus plenty of minutes and messaging. granted the upload speed leaves something to be desired.... but here's a bluetooth tethered example from about 20 seconds ago: http://www.speedtest.net/result/485699702.png |
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Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 414081)
joe, why not get a wireless 3G connection?
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 414094)
Because despite the fact that my Vaio has built-in support for Sprint Mobile, I'm a cheap SOB.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 414025)
I just hang around the Penn Station railroad terminal.
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