Fancy moving to Chattanooga?

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gig-high-speed-internet-tech-boom

 

Not too pricey https://epbfi.com/internet/

^ This is what I have, yo. Best 70$ (no taxes, no fees, it's just 69.99$ monthly) I spend.

**BRENT**

Heh, also saw they have something from our mayor. His daughter and my daughter were in the same classroom last year. Good guy.

Edited August 30, 201411 yr by MexicanDragon

We upgraded to Comcast Blast which doubled our speed, but also got a package deal with more features than we have now for $50 a month less.  

 

Our monthly goes up by $20 in a year, and back up another $30 to normal cost in 2 years. But we'll save $900 over the next two years when the monthly cost goes back to what we were paying last month.  And there is still no contract.

 

It never feels this fast...

 

Yeah my Comcast has been really spotty recently. I get the 105+ they claim at times but other times I get 1.5. WTF.

I recently went for the full aggression mode 

 

The new place isn't too bad.

 

Comcast starting to throttle me again down to 2 mbit. Last time they did this it took 2 weeks of harassing them to get the speeds back to normal. Hopefully they don't cause the same problems again.

The new place isn't too bad.

 

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayum.

New router arriving Monday, but for now:

 

Edited September 27, 201411 yr by cetoole

It's faster when there's less contention? And your current router is holding you back?

Edited September 27, 201411 yr by Grahame

Well, current router is draft N and has been acting a bit flaky, and new one is (or will be) AC1750.  Which I clearly need, even though the only things which will be on wifi are my tablet, phone, work laptops when not docked, and maybe HTPC if I don't feel like routing a cable 15'.  Convenient that the apartment is prewired to have two cat5e ports in each bedroom, two in the living room, and one in the kitchen.

Y NO AC3200?

Hardline is the way to go, yo.

Needed a few more network ports than my wifi router had built in, so picked up a new hardwired only switch.  It doesn't seem to suck.

 

shit..

 

 

Is that at your home or work place?

Home.

Home.

 

This is on 802.11n 5ghz wifi off an Asus TM-AC1900. There are 4 laptops goings + things streaming on 2 TVs. I really need to get a 3x3 USB3.0 dongle. Do those exist yet?

FWIW, if you have T-Mobile service, you can get this router (basically an RT-AC68U with some software tweaks) for a 25$ deposit if you walk into the store, or they'll do it over the phone and ship it next day (I believe). It's beastly, and I love it. My old WNDR3700 topped out at around 70-80Mbps on this machine. I really need to hardwire something; I have to beat Colin at this game.

I was able to get this on my phone a couple days ago.


Also, you should all get gigabit fiber.

**BRENT**

I wish I could

Back at my 81 year old mother's with a decent DSL WiFi ... (Finally)

And she's not in cell blackspot either...

Yay for mother's (everywhere)

Sleep test center has wifi.



**BRENT**

^ The sleep center has faster connection than I do.

And that was a few rooms away from the router, through a handful of walls

I wish my town had gigabit service.  Hell, I'd be happy if my upload speed would go back up again - I barely get half the advertised speed now for some reason.