Increase download speeds

[jgf]

My internet is fed to my house on the old phone lines, I'm waiting for fibre to be connected in my area then I will go on that, it costs more but it will be worth it.

 

It may not be as nice as you expect. "A chain is as strong as its weakest link". Fiber will go as far as the nearest node to your house, then it will be the same phone lines from there. I was switched from DSL to uverse (ATT fiber optic) a couple of years ago; the fiber node is about two blocks away ... same speed, same reliability, nearly twice the cost (I dumped them and went to Time Warner, got twice the speed for only $5/month more; and better reliability since it's all cable from TW to my modem).

[MrUnSavory]

I win!!!! LOL

 

Edited December 12, 2018 by MrUnSavory

[loki]

It may not be as nice as you expect. "A chain is as strong as its weakest link". Fiber will go as far as the nearest node to your house, then it will be the same phone lines from there.

 

That depends on where you are. Around here you can fibre to the house in some areas with speeds of 950 Mbps down/750 Mbps up. Not cheap, and still not in my neighbourhood though. :(

[jgf]

That depends on where you are. Around here you can fibre to the house in some areas with speeds of 950 Mbps down/750 Mbps up. Not cheap, and still not in my neighbourhood though. :(

 

Similar here. Last I checked only some neighborhoods (the affluent areas of town) had options for in-home fiber, with several restrictions. ATT would not run fiber to apartment buildings (except new construction, and the building owner pays for installation), for residential you must be within two blocks of the nearest node, you must be the homeowner, you must pay cost of running fiber from the node to your home, you must contract for two years top tier service ...all told this totals about $2k-$4k, depending on distance to the node. In the few areas where fiber is already strung through the neighborhood, there is no install fee and you just contract for one year of top tier service (about $90/month, 1gig speed, no cap; fwiw, second tier service is $70/month for 300meg line with 1Tb data cap). For comparison the fastest cable speed we have is 300meg.

[Rohan_Nair]

If you run a web site and you're doing either of these things, you're doing it wrong.

 

Cheers!

 

Luke

 

Care to tell us the right way of doing it?

 

Doesn't matter if you've got your own DC or you're using another organization's services to host your website. For a huge website with tons of content and a huge file library, there's a lot of servers to run and maintain irrespective of whether they're yours or the service provider's.

[rick]

[jgf]

Lol, I'm jealous. My old 4meg connection is good for about 1gig an hour d/l, about a fourth of that for upload.

[CRJ_simpilot]

 

What do you pay for that?

[rick]

It's all part of the package with the TV, Phones, Internet and

I do have the DVR package w/ 3 TV boxes, 2 phones. All told

it is about $250/mo but I use if for work. But, I still have my

1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem and a couple of US Robotics

v.everything modems just in case!! Over the years we have

had quite the assortment of the highest speed possible solutions

including virtual bonded ISDN for 128Kb. 8-)

I spent my dues time with a teletype so I am getting even!

 

Be Careful Out There!

Rick

[CRJ_simpilot]

Yeah, I have a triple play package from Comcast. Phone, Internet and TV. It's not necessary in this day and age to have a landline, but I use that phone number for a wide variety of crap because I have a dual firewall on it so to speak to combat telemarketers. One, I have a netbook computer that is connected to a USB dial-up modem that the phone is connected to. On the computer it runs PhoneTray and blocks all kinds of numbers and I get distinctive rings for callers on my list. The netbook also serves as a basic small FTP server who's storage is on a 15 GB SD card. I use it as an additional basic backup for important files like my Keepass database, etc, and I use it to transfer files between my phone and computers or computer to computer. The the netbook also functions as a basic web searching computer for recipes, etc. The netbook sits in the kitchen next to the phone connected to a monitor and external mouse/keyboard, and I call it the Kitchen Kiosk. It's been running 24/7 for the last five or six years now. LOL!

 

The other firewall layer I have on the phone is Nomorobo. That right there has prevented so much crap it isn't even funny. Although with both PhoneTray and Nomorobo the phone will ring once and that's it. I don't give out my cell number all over the place to minimize telemarketers and what have you on there. Much like how I treat my bank, PayPal, Amazon, eBay, etc email account. One thing about cell phones, there really isn't a good solid way at preventing telemarketers on those. Although, I think Congress is trying to fix that. The Apps I used were all junk, and Nomorobo does have their App which has a monthly fee, but has low ratings at Google Play.

 

I want to cancel the asinine and expensive addition of a landline with Comcast and go Ooma, but right now I'm locked into a contract. And Comcast TV is a whole other PITA of crap. It's no wonder there are so many cord cutters. I may go full Roku one day here.

 

One the subject of dial-up. I actually had to use it once for a very, very old HP netbook. This netbook didn't have USB or a CD drive. So the only way I was able to transfer files to it was via the PCMCIA modem card. I found a free dial-up provider that gave 10 hours a month. Once I got a connection I navigated to a FTP I had and downloaded drivers and other programs. This netbook used to monitor my router though SNMP, but one day the cat knocked the damn thing onto the ground and it no longer boots. I'm going to buy a nice high quality nettop one day for PFsense. I'll need it come the day I run Windows 10.

 

I looked into using dial-up on a smartphone with an App that may exist, but it was a fruitless endeavor. I thought if I had a phone signal and no data I could use dial-up. Well, it turns out that the audio capabilities of a cell signal are not there to meet a dial-up connection like a landline. What is interesting though is that I have a few Fax Apps on my phone to send and receive faxes. But I think that works with an Internet connection and their servers and not the phone line like a modern fax machine uses. Their servers would receive your fax and then send it via POTS in the normal fax sending way.

 

Anyway... love computers, technology, electronics, telephony, radio communications and aviation. I want to one day create my own SIP trunk. But as I was reading about it I was getting a headache. LOL One day I may conquer it though. Just something I've always wanted to do.

[CRJ_simpilot]

Oh! DVRs. Yeah, I can't believe companies charge YOU to record what should be free in a built-in HDD. There is a DVR on eBay that goes for big bucks that doesn't need a subscription. It does what a DVR is supposed to do: record TV without a middle man. I can't remember its name now though. The other solution would be a HTPC with a 4 TB or larger HDD. I don't have a need for a DVR or a HTPC though, so not interested in that myself.

 

With Comcast we have X1 and the cable box has like a built-in 30 minute HDD so I can pause and rewind TV withen that time span. It's nice since I have paused TV shows, went out for a smoke and came back and was able to fast forward though commercials since it buffered about 15 minutes of air time. I read Comcast brought this free 30 minute DVR to market to pause TV on the insistence of customers.

[jgf]

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I spent my dues time with a teletype so I am getting even!

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Lol, my first computer experience was time-shared basic on an HP-2000e; TTY terminals and acoustic couplers (aka cradle modems). That 300 baud connection was blazing. Still have an old HP punch tape drive, used it a couple of years ago ...as a doorstop.