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Just Got 100 Megabit Per Second Internet Installed

by lanfear63
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This very morning

For years was using Sudden Link Cable, starting at 10 megabits per second which increased to 15. Fairly reliable but my last bill was for 75 bucks for internet alone.

The only other provider was Consolidated Communications (local telephone company) who offered 20 per second but you had to have 2 modems/lines and the cost was $103.00 a month. Sudden link cable did faster but expensive.

Then, a couple of weeks back Consolidated sends us a card saying they could offer a 100 per second for $49.95 a month for a 2 year contract. The are giving me a $200.00 Visa Card for signing up too and would even buy me out of my Sudden Link one!!!

How could I refuse. Being a Utility company, Consolidated had slipped in a box of tricks on the side of my house a few years back. This was fiber optics. Should be interesting to see what its uptime will be compared to cable. Will it drop out now and again? The modem is actually outside, encased in their box, I just use my router.

Anyway, the deal was up to 100 megabits per second and Speedtest.net reports slightly under 95 per second and uploads at 5 per second. More than respectable.

So anyone near Conroe TX might like to move there.

The experience, coupled with my new I5 computer is unbelievable, sites appearing instantly and video playing with no apparent buffering. Sort of what computer usage and internet access should have always been.

The wife's currently watching Netflix in HD and I'm surfing at full pelt. Unbelievable stuff.

What sort of speeds do you guys get?
  • Profile picture of the author WalkingCarpet
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    Yah, some ways its real nice over there, but then again you get all them school shootings and every terrorist with an AK targeting the place.
    BTW I have lowly 8mbps
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by WalkingCarpet View Post

      Yah, some ways its real nice over there, but then again you get all them school shootings and every terrorist with an AK targeting the place.
      BTW I have lowly 8mbps
      Is not Sri Lanka a bit of a hotspot for violence of late?
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  • Profile picture of the author ForumGuru
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    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    What sort of speeds do you guys get?
    Today I am getting roughly 84Mbps down and 25Mbps up according to speedtest.net.

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    25mbps for $5 / month
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Kristi1603 View Post

      25mbps for $5 / month
      Where do you live?
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  • Profile picture of the author daddykool
    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    This very morning

    For years was using Sudden Link Cable, starting at 10 megabits per second which increased to 15. Fairly reliable but my last bill was for 75 bucks for internet alone.

    The only other provider was Consolidated Communications (local telephone company) who offered 20 per second but you had to have 2 modems/lines and the cost was $103.00 a month. Sudden link cable did faster but expensive.

    Then, a couple of weeks back Consolidated sends us a card saying they could offer a 100 per second for $49.95 a month for a 2 year contract. The are giving me a $200.00 Visa Card for signing up too and would even buy me out of my Sudden Link one!!!

    How could I refuse. Being a Utility company, Consolidated had slipped in a box of tricks on the side of my house a few years back. This was fiber optics. Should be interesting to see what its uptime will be compared to cable. Will it drop out now and again? The modem is actually outside, encased in their box, I just use my router.

    Anyway, the deal was up to 100 megabits per second and Speedtest.net reports slightly under 95 per second and uploads at 5 per second. More than respectable.

    So anyone near Conroe TX might like to move there.

    The experience, coupled with my new I5 computer is unbelievable, sites appearing instantly and video playing with no apparent buffering. Sort of what computer usage and internet access should have always been.

    The wife's currently watching Netflix in HD and I'm surfing at full pelt. Unbelievable stuff.

    What sort of speeds do you guys get?
    VERY interesting info there Ian...

    Not just from the point that you have managed to get 7 times what you had for less $, but the way the fibre company actually marketed it and sold it to you ;-)

    Yes a no brainer, especially if the wife is happy [which is more important than life itself!] and you can do lots at HD speeds.

    You now have more than enough B/W to market from home [assuming that is where you IM part of life takes place!] and get some serious "WP mailers" set up on a stand alone PC/Laptop running "local software" to start building your lists for cents on the dollar!

    Not too sure why your UP is only 5mb, which if needed, is a bit prehistoric compared to most cable/fibre, so would have thought maybe the reason the price is so amazing [and it is as have checked every provider there] is the UPlink for the datacenter is a lot less, than say Google Fibre, which is much faster.

    Cannot believe you got such a low price, for such a long period, especially for 100mb DL contention speeds.

    What's the actual bit of kit like that Consolidated have actually fitted?

    As for moving to TX... got to admit, it is becoming the new hotbed for Fibre/Cable speeds!
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by daddykool View Post

      VERY interesting info there Ian...

      Not just from the point that you have managed to get 7 times what you had for less $, but the way the fibre company actually marketed it and sold it to you ;-)

      Yes a no brainer, especially if the wife is happy [which is more important than life itself!] and you can do lots at HD speeds.

      You now have more than enough B/W to market from home [assuming that is where you IM part of life takes place!] and get some serious "WP mailers" set up on a stand alone PC/Laptop running "local software" to start building your lists for cents on the dollar!

      Not too sure why your UP is only 5mb, which if needed, is a bit prehistoric compared to most cable/fibre, so would have thought maybe the reason the price is so amazing [and it is as have checked every provider there] is the UPlink for the datacenter is a lot less, than say Google Fibre, which is much faster.

      Cannot believe you got such a low price, for such a long period, especially for 100mb DL contention speeds.

      What's the actual bit of kit like that Consolidated have actually fitted?

      As for moving to TX... got to admit, it is becoming the new hotbed for Fibre/Cable speeds!
      Yeah, 5 is a bit slow for uploads but enough for my needs. There was talk of google laying fiber optics in Austin and offering 1000 megabits per second for something like $39.99 a month or a one time fee to get 5 per second for life. I suspect the local cable monopoly put pay to that. Never heard anything more about it?

      I don't know about any of the technical in's and outs of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    The experience, coupled with my new I5 computer is unbelievable, sites appearing instantly and video playing with no apparent buffering. Sort of what computer usage and internet access should have always been.
    The basic technology appeared on the scene in the 70s. Technology was slower, more expensive, and had to deal with less data. When I built my first real network, I used the fastest standard I could, and it was only 10Mbps. TODAY, customers are using multiple GIGABIT connections and STILL aren't happy with the speed. They ARE dealing with 100s of millions or billions of records with small windows. On my home network, I still haven't fully converted to 100Mbps, as I think all my routers end up routing 10Mbps traffic. Just wait. Within 10 years, you may be complaining about 100Mbps even for the same apps you are using now.

    STILL, I am glad you're happy.

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    • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      ... Within 10 years, you may be complaining about 100Mbps even for the same apps you are using now.
      I really do remember hooking up to bulletin boards with my VIC-20 and a 300 baud handset modem. You could just about watch each character.

      I have 50Mbps cable - ten seconds of streaming movie data is probably more bits than I ran through in the entire life of of bbsing on the VIC *plus* the C64 I had after.
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by SteveJohnson View Post

        I really do remember hooking up to bulletin boards with my VIC-20 and a 300 baud handset modem. You could just about watch each character.

        I have 50Mbps cable - ten seconds of streaming movie data is probably more bits than I ran through in the entire life of of bbsing on the VIC *plus* the C64 I had after.
        Yeah, with the VIC 20, you had mostly text, perhaps small low quality graphics. The average screen of data was probably less than 2400 bytes. You might have spent something over a second to read it. TODAY, there really IS no average. A screen could have MILLIONS of bytes of data shown on it, and it may be a video which would have to be on the screen for a small fraction of a second. So the average user now is displaying FAR more data. More data than almost ANYONE would have ever imagined them needing.

        You see what I am saying? We almost need a faster connection just to break even. Oh SURE, we have standard video, standard pictures, better resolution, and faster processing, but that means we need a faster connection. Just try using a 9600baud connection NOW! When it came out, it was considered to be FAST! It is EIGHT times as fast as the fastest bell standard! That is FOUR times as fast as the previous bell standard which is almost THREE times as fast as the previous standard. TODAY, people would think the speed is WORTHLESS! It would take over 17 minutes per MB with 960baud! In the mid 1980s, the average consumer considered 1MB a LOT. TODAY, it is like a penny on the road, almost meaningless.

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    Nice job, OP! I want Internet that fast. I'm only going at about a third of that speed probably.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    The fastest residential available in this area is advertised as 50 MPS download and 5 MPS upload. Speedtest.net shows the current speeds as 53.94 MPS down and 5.72 MPS up. So, at or in excess of the advertised rates.

    The previous plan was 20/2.

    I could get faster uploads with a business plan, but they want to add in all sorts of stuff I would never use, and I don't upload large files very often.

    As far as downloads, the bottlenecks now appear to be site-related. Not much a faster line would do about that.


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