Internet connections in use among SDN members at home

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2007-01-08 11:15pm

Stark wrote:I use ADSL, but this is Telstra so it's capped at 512kb/s. Oh yeah.

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2007-01-09 12:03am

On university lan in Fredericton, but speed test was performed using an ISP in Halifax. This isn't the typical result, since it is 1 in the morning. Also, there is a packet prioritizer that can really lag out things like online games if no one asks that they up the priority on them. That's why I can get pings under 100ms in CS:S, but for Guild Wars, it's over a second and a half.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2007-01-09 02:28am

Iskon Internet DSL, but since they lease the line from HT, which is nearly completely owned by Deutche Telekom, the line is the standard DT DSL configuration 2mbit down/192kbit up. On the bright side, by paying just a little bit extra, I get it uncapped, and they really don't give a shit how much I fill up the pipes after that (had some months with more then 100GB of traffic).

On my faculty, the speeds are absurd. Depending on how many people are in the so-called "Laptop lane" clogging up the WiFi resources, you get anywhere from dial up speeds to saturating the WiFi connection since the faculty is one hop from the main connection out of the country ie fattest pipe available. Of course, the downside is that all the usual stuff (any P2P) is banned, and this being the Computing Faculty, the bans are competently administered on the transparent proxy. Its still possible to go through a bunch of contortions to get stuff working, but people's Internet privileges have been revoked for that before, so its mostly good for HTTP - but for that, its more common to max out the server on the other side then the bandwidth on this side being a problem.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-01-09 02:55am

3 Mbps land-line broadband.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-01-09 05:03am

Darth Wong wrote:3 Mbps land-line broadband.

Same here...

I'd have better, but this is the best in Elkins, the County Seat/Shire Town of Randolph County, WV... which I consider pathetic... God I hate living here, I loathe and envy you all... well except Wong...

Edit: I especially loathe you, Velthuijsen! You and your damnable 1o Mb!

Velthuijsen · Post by **Velthuijsen** » 2007-01-09 05:05am

glass fiber into the house, up to 100 Mbit, also transports TV & phone.

Running the standard option of 10 Mb up/down (no need for the heavy duty one), including phone and television it costs €56.50 a month. Paid one time for a static IP so I can run SMTP (port 25 is normally blocked) and a server without having to setup some form of redirection. No limits, at least not below 1 TByte

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2007-01-09 05:25am

Wireless WAN.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2007-01-09 08:13am

Fantastic, I'm the only one without any internet at my house. My house has broadband service of course, but when our new house was built had it built the stepdad deliberately designed it without ethernet ports in any rooms I might use. The only rooms with ethernet ports are "his" and as a result I have to drive 10 minutes to my college campus to do research or check my work schedule. Blargh.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-01-09 08:45am

2.2 Mbit/s ADSL line from Tiscali UK, uncapped. Should be able to upgrade that for free sometime soon given other services offer 15 Mbit/s connections as standard now.

I also, as of yesterday, have a wireless set-up for my Ninty DS Lite.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2007-01-09 09:15am

Losonti Tokash wrote:Fantastic, I'm the only one without any internet at my house. My house has broadband service of course, but when our new house was built had it built the stepdad deliberately designed it without ethernet ports in any rooms I might use. The only rooms with ethernet ports are "his" and as a result I have to drive 10 minutes to my college campus to do research or check my work schedule. Blargh.

Unless he is a controlling bastard (which, admittedly, intentionally not having any ethernet ports in rooms that are not "his" sounds like) its simply a matter of buying a home router with wireless capability, attaching it to the modem (or better yet getting a model with integrated modem) and setting up the wireless network. Then just plug in a wireless card into your desktop computer or laptop if it doesn't have it integrated and you're good to go.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2007-01-09 09:30am

I have a rotten 12/8mbit VDSL connection.

Soon to be upgraded to a 100/100 Fiber connection. That will rock

Post by **Gandalf** » 2007-01-09 09:37am

ADSL with Telstra.

Not terribly good at all.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-01-09 09:55am

At the moment I'm forced to rely on a nearby internet cafe for wifi, and a few libraries I know of with free wifi, but the cafe at least is open 24/7 and are generally friendly to loungers as long as you buy stuff. As it is I owe the only two viable ISPs in town a wee bit too much money atm for my own connection until I can pay them back. Which I fully plan on getting around to sometime in the next. . .year or so.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2007-01-09 11:51am

Most residential IPs are blacklisted- just use your ISP or gmail or whomever as smarthost

My ISP (Cox) is very annoying- they block outgoing SMTP to anyone, so I can't use gmail as my smtp server, I have to use their's. Very annoying for a laptop, since their's isn't accessible from outside their network. They also block incoming port 80, so I have to run the web server on 8080. No DSL in the area

Luke Starkiller · Post by **Luke Starkiller** » 2007-01-09 12:10pm

Destructionator XIII wrote:On port blocking: SMTP (port 25) is one that is often blocked upstream. I think the justification for that has to do with trying to put a brake on spam zombies. HTTP, if blocked, is probably so they can yank more money out of their business customers who want to run a web server.

Like I said, I am happy that none of my ports seem blocked. I have HTTP and SMTP listening to the outside. HTTP makes a quick and easy place to dump small files and images to post to people online (and I run a tiny website on it), and SMTP is awesome because I get my email delivered directly to my computer; I know instantly if I have a new message without needing any annoying polling program or external service. Naturally, I have measures in place to prevent me from becoming a spam bot. It is really cool, and I would be sad if they changed their mind and started blocking those ports.

I also can send email from my machine, but it is seemingly randomly blocked on the way out (I believe some of the receiving servers blacklist residential IP addresses while some don't). Again, I blame it on residential spam bots giving the rest of us a bad name.

Road Runner and Time Warner Business Class will automatically block an smtp server from sending if it has a dynamic IP. All Road Runner customers have dynamic IPs.

Post by **Edi** » 2007-01-09 02:57pm

I've got a 1M/512k cable connection with no bandwidth caps.

On RoadRunner, they and some other ISPs are real fuckwits about mail processing. Their mail servers will automatically reject all mail unless the sender has a fixed IP, and never bother to actually keep any kind of list of even reliable ISPs. We've had fucking runins with them over that and I'm in Finland.

Edi

Post by **weemadando** » 2007-01-09 03:13pm

1.5 down 256 up.

Allegedly.

Its rare that it ever goes about 700k or so down.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 2007-01-09 05:02pm

I have Satelite but just switched to MMDS wireless. Oddly it's provided by the power company, why they aren't doing it over my powerlines I don't know.

i get about 1.5 to 3MB down, 768ish up.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2007-01-09 06:23pm

768k Verizon DSL, only because it's cheap.
At my dorm, my speed depends on how many other people are also using bandwidth at the time; the school has limited connections to 10M max though.

I hope by the time I'm living on my own, FIOS will be readily available.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2007-01-09 06:30pm

Lisa wrote:I have Satelite but just switched to MMDS wireless. Oddly it's provided by the power company, why they aren't doing it over my powerlines I don't know.

There remain some big technical and cost issues for BPL deployment and the power companies aren't quite willing to take the risk (yet).

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-01-09 07:14pm

phongn wrote:
Lisa wrote:I have Satelite but just switched to MMDS wireless. Oddly it's provided by the power company, why they aren't doing it over my powerlines I don't know.
There remain some big technical and cost issues for BPL deployment and the power companies aren't quite willing to take the risk (yet).

Such a system was tested by Norweb over here a few years ago. I heard that it was blisteringly fast and everyone would already be wired up. Problems arose when the connection messed around with the actual power grid though and street lights apparently went haywire.

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2007-01-09 10:07pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
phongn wrote:
Lisa wrote:I have Satelite but just switched to MMDS wireless. Oddly it's provided by the power company, why they aren't doing it over my powerlines I don't know.
There remain some big technical and cost issues for BPL deployment and the power companies aren't quite willing to take the risk (yet).
Such a system was tested by Norweb over here a few years ago. I heard that it was blisteringly fast and everyone would already be wired up. Problems arose when the connection messed around with the actual power grid though and street lights apparently went haywire.

Well you're adding what is essentially a hell of a lot of high frequency noise. It's bound to have an effect on something. Okay, so the amplitudes are nowheres near th 120V used in N. America (let alone the 40000V on the transmission lines), but it still isn't hard to imagine what that could do to something that has a sensitive timer in it.

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