jrbishop79
11-26-2003, 05:25 PM
I want to find out what sort of internet connection (cable, DSL, dail-up, etc.) most linux users use.
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Lostman
11-26-2003, 06:21 PM
I've got Comcast Cable internet. Been great so far. And in mid December, they're doubleing my speeds to 3mps for free.
twilli227
11-26-2003, 09:13 PM
quote:
What sort of internet are you using?
The same one everybody else is using.:D
What sort of internet are you using?
The same one everybody else is using.:D
jrbishop79
11-26-2003, 11:32 PM
I'm holding out for DSL, because I hate my cable company...
Drago
11-26-2003, 11:45 PM
I've got cable, it seems great compared to the dialup our town was forced to use.:D
jrbishop79
11-26-2003, 11:48 PM
well I got spoiled by the T3 that our college uses.... Try going back to dialup after that...
sclebo05
11-26-2003, 11:58 PM
comcast cable - love it.
are they doubling all areas' speeds or just some?
are they doubling all areas' speeds or just some?
sharth
11-27-2003, 01:07 AM
Originally posted by sclebo05
comcast cable - love it.
are they doubling all areas' speeds or just some? I'm hoping for all, but i never heard anything about this before...
comcast cable - love it.
are they doubling all areas' speeds or just some? I'm hoping for all, but i never heard anything about this before...
bosox79
11-27-2003, 01:42 AM
Originally posted by Lostman
I've got Comcast Cable internet. Been great so far. And in mid December, they're doubleing my speeds to 3mps for free.
I love comcast, and that would be Awesome of the speeds doubled :D
I've got Comcast Cable internet. Been great so far. And in mid December, they're doubleing my speeds to 3mps for free.
I love comcast, and that would be Awesome of the speeds doubled :D
Seph64
11-27-2003, 01:46 AM
I use DSL, I do not know if Comcast Cable is available in our area (well, they offer Digital Cable (TV) here, not sure about internet service).
Zoist
11-27-2003, 10:49 AM
I have cable and I can get up to 1.3 MBit MAX.
Grommer
11-27-2003, 11:29 AM
DSL here, not many cable options in Germany.
sclebo05
11-27-2003, 12:06 PM
es tut mir leid my German friend, cable rocks! but i know that there are some loyal DSL fans out there.
viel gluck und viel spass with your DSL
viel gluck und viel spass with your DSL
raz0rblade
11-27-2003, 06:00 PM
Comcast Cable, and my area is getting the doubled downstream :cool: I just wish they'd double our upstream again :D
Satanic Atheist
11-27-2003, 06:07 PM
Cable all the way (was already here).
Can I count twice if I admit to pirating the NAP at work?
James
Can I count twice if I admit to pirating the NAP at work?
James
jrbishop79
11-27-2003, 06:13 PM
Originally posted by Satanic Atheist
Can I count twice if I admit to pirating the NAP at work?
no....:)
Can I count twice if I admit to pirating the NAP at work?
no....:)
razor_01
11-27-2003, 06:21 PM
I connect with a dial up as there is no cable or DSL in my area.
Sepero
11-27-2003, 06:22 PM
$6 per month! Dial-up all the way baby!
serz
11-27-2003, 06:42 PM
DSL 512k :p
raz0rblade
11-27-2003, 07:05 PM
Looks like they allready upgraded my area :D
3000/256 according to dslreports and my nice 400kb/s download of gentoo-dev-sources proves it :D:D
3000/256 according to dslreports and my nice 400kb/s download of gentoo-dev-sources proves it :D:D
jrbishop79
11-27-2003, 11:58 PM
The house that I'm going to be moving into soon is less than a half mile away from the CO.... I'm gonna get DSL and try Debian again....
ozdream
11-30-2003, 11:30 AM
Originally posted by sclebo05
es tut mir leid my German friend, cable rocks! but i know that there are some loyal DSL fans out there.
viel gluck und viel spass with your DSL
Cable is crap, I have cable at my office at the fire hall and ADSL at home and ADSL blows away cable.
es tut mir leid my German friend, cable rocks! but i know that there are some loyal DSL fans out there.
viel gluck und viel spass with your DSL
Cable is crap, I have cable at my office at the fire hall and ADSL at home and ADSL blows away cable.
DSwain
11-30-2003, 01:00 PM
wow, you must have a poor provider cause my cable can do over 100kbps on the ADSL users around here.
mm-sources
11-30-2003, 01:26 PM
comcast cable here
ozdream
11-30-2003, 01:53 PM
Originally posted by DSwain
wow, you must have a poor provider cause my cable can do over 100kbps on the ADSL users around here.
Here ADSL about min 200 Kbs max 400 Kbs cable about 140kbs Max
All things = ADSL is faster...
wow, you must have a poor provider cause my cable can do over 100kbps on the ADSL users around here.
Here ADSL about min 200 Kbs max 400 Kbs cable about 140kbs Max
All things = ADSL is faster...
alan79
11-30-2003, 03:44 PM
anyone using satalite?
sclebo05
11-30-2003, 07:30 PM
i dont have satellite, but interestingly enough because i work at a major ISP, i deal with it all day. it is a truly fun technology to work with. some customers love thier satellite connections, others hate it. its like any other service.
dsl can be a NIGHTMARE and simply won't work for some people. the phone system in this country is pure crap. BellSouth, Verizon, and Covad can take thier shoddy DSLAMs, their fancy fiber-to-the-curb, and rat's nest CO wiring and shove it. our phone system wasn't designed for internet, and sometimes it shows. but hey, if DSL works for you, be happy, its pretty fast and can be quite good.
Cable is by far the fastest, most RELIABLE connection one can have (as a rule of thumb), but it costs a bit more. the joy of cable is it is either on or off. and the uptime is usually quite high. and the speed is nice as well.
also, you would be surprised how many people are still using dial-up. at my company we LOVE our dialup customers - they give us the widest profit margin, and have the least number of problems.
I base these opinions on my daily experiences, and the 200,000 people i represent across the country. all the connections have ups and downs, friends and foes. what i would like to see in the distant future is a dedicated form of internet, a completely separate wire going to everyone's house just for the internet.
on with the survey, just yammering :cool:
dsl can be a NIGHTMARE and simply won't work for some people. the phone system in this country is pure crap. BellSouth, Verizon, and Covad can take thier shoddy DSLAMs, their fancy fiber-to-the-curb, and rat's nest CO wiring and shove it. our phone system wasn't designed for internet, and sometimes it shows. but hey, if DSL works for you, be happy, its pretty fast and can be quite good.
Cable is by far the fastest, most RELIABLE connection one can have (as a rule of thumb), but it costs a bit more. the joy of cable is it is either on or off. and the uptime is usually quite high. and the speed is nice as well.
also, you would be surprised how many people are still using dial-up. at my company we LOVE our dialup customers - they give us the widest profit margin, and have the least number of problems.
I base these opinions on my daily experiences, and the 200,000 people i represent across the country. all the connections have ups and downs, friends and foes. what i would like to see in the distant future is a dedicated form of internet, a completely separate wire going to everyone's house just for the internet.
on with the survey, just yammering :cool:
Stween
11-30-2003, 07:38 PM
I personally have 512kbps ADSL.
Originally posted by jrbishop79
I want to find out what sort of internet connection (cable, DSL, dail-up, etc.) most linux users use.
... I hope you aren't going to use these results in some sort of quantative research?
Originally posted by jrbishop79
I want to find out what sort of internet connection (cable, DSL, dail-up, etc.) most linux users use.
... I hope you aren't going to use these results in some sort of quantative research?
sclebo05
11-30-2003, 08:00 PM
lol, he is using the results to start his own ISP. Go Go Go!
jrbishop79
11-30-2003, 11:34 PM
Originally posted by Stween
... I hope you aren't going to use these results in some sort of quantative research?
nah, I just got curious because I keep hearing things from people who use Debian about how wonderful apt is and I just got curious.... but I see that somehow my poll has been hosed , so I guess it's sort of a moot point now....:(
... I hope you aren't going to use these results in some sort of quantative research?
nah, I just got curious because I keep hearing things from people who use Debian about how wonderful apt is and I just got curious.... but I see that somehow my poll has been hosed , so I guess it's sort of a moot point now....:(
Sepero
12-01-2003, 02:25 AM
Originally posted by sclebo05
what i would like to see in the distant future is a dedicated form of internet, a completely separate wire going to everyone's house just for the internet.How about instead, 1 wire going to everyone's house that provides: internet, phone, and cable! Perhaps they could run electricity through this wire too?
what i would like to see in the distant future is a dedicated form of internet, a completely separate wire going to everyone's house just for the internet.How about instead, 1 wire going to everyone's house that provides: internet, phone, and cable! Perhaps they could run electricity through this wire too?
ozdream
12-01-2003, 03:07 AM
Originally posted by Sepero
How about instead, 1 wire going to everyone's house that provides: internet, phone, and cable! Perhaps they could run electricity through this wire too?
No No No NOT power!!!! This is being done already and is disastrous for radio hobbies as it raises the noise floor considerably!
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL)
Power cables are for POWER not broad band signals these power systems with internet access act like big antennas radiating spurious signals everywhere.
This can hamper emergency and auxiliary commuications on a national level and IS a national security risk as at the end of the day when every other means of communications fail, Amateur Radio IS there!!!
Amateur Radio saves lives!:cool:
Check out these pages: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/
Sorry for the rant but I am the head of auxiliary communications for the capital city of BC, Victoria on Vancouver Island and I know this topic very well.
Cheer's Glen VE7SDX
How about instead, 1 wire going to everyone's house that provides: internet, phone, and cable! Perhaps they could run electricity through this wire too?
No No No NOT power!!!! This is being done already and is disastrous for radio hobbies as it raises the noise floor considerably!
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL)
Power cables are for POWER not broad band signals these power systems with internet access act like big antennas radiating spurious signals everywhere.
This can hamper emergency and auxiliary commuications on a national level and IS a national security risk as at the end of the day when every other means of communications fail, Amateur Radio IS there!!!
Amateur Radio saves lives!:cool:
Check out these pages: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/
Sorry for the rant but I am the head of auxiliary communications for the capital city of BC, Victoria on Vancouver Island and I know this topic very well.
Cheer's Glen VE7SDX
Sepero
12-01-2003, 03:25 AM
Ok, ok, no power then. sheesh :)
But perhaps all the others could be run by something like a fiber-optics wire? Maybe not fiber-optics, though. In 10 years, fiber-optics may be considered too slow.
But perhaps all the others could be run by something like a fiber-optics wire? Maybe not fiber-optics, though. In 10 years, fiber-optics may be considered too slow.
sclebo05
12-01-2003, 01:05 PM
perhaps once if we see this voice over IP thing take off, the groundwork for a single wire would be set. of course there are so many issues with trying to implement something like this, it would take decades, but it might be worth it. at least for us internet addicts :)
jrbishop79
12-01-2003, 01:35 PM
well, the potential is there, most people are getting both their cable TV and internet from the same wire; all you'd have to do is find a way to put the telephone line on that same piece of coax, you'd be set.
Satanic Atheist
12-01-2003, 06:44 PM
Ay - what's with that poll registering 5 million votes for WombatNet? Has my system gone crazy or JL's?
James
James
deathadder
12-01-2003, 06:57 PM
Nope it's not your system, I think someone here at JL is having a bit of fun
chatins
12-01-2003, 10:49 PM
Cable good :) 3.5 Mb
DSL bad :mad: 512kb <--unreliable $$ (can't get rid of because of a monopoly by the local telco.)
2) kinds of companies will survive "the shakeout" cable and wireless.
DSL bad :mad: 512kb <--unreliable $$ (can't get rid of because of a monopoly by the local telco.)
2) kinds of companies will survive "the shakeout" cable and wireless.
andysimmons
12-01-2003, 11:04 PM
Originally posted by Satanic Atheist
Ay - what's with that poll registering 5 million votes for WombatNet? Has my system gone crazy or JL's?
James
My guess is that a radioactive wombat messed with the poll.
Ay - what's with that poll registering 5 million votes for WombatNet? Has my system gone crazy or JL's?
James
My guess is that a radioactive wombat messed with the poll.
jrbishop79
12-01-2003, 11:27 PM
I have a feeling that I was the victim of a malicious tampering of data... oh well, the only reason I put this poll up here was to satisfy my curiosity....
glasdave
12-01-2003, 11:33 PM
I've got 256/256 DSL from quest.:)
DMR
12-02-2003, 05:03 AM
Originally posted by Satanic Atheist
Ay - what's with that poll registering 5 million votes for WombatNet? Has my system gone crazy or JL's?
James Erm, uh, um...
I guess I should cop to this one (and, um... perhaps a few others, I think). I 've a special place in my heart for small marsupials- sorry, my bad.
:eek: :eek:
:D
(It's all mdwatts' fault- when I first became a mod he told me that altering the polls was one of the only perks of the job. How did I know know he was lying?....)
Ay - what's with that poll registering 5 million votes for WombatNet? Has my system gone crazy or JL's?
James Erm, uh, um...
I guess I should cop to this one (and, um... perhaps a few others, I think). I 've a special place in my heart for small marsupials- sorry, my bad.
:eek: :eek:
:D
(It's all mdwatts' fault- when I first became a mod he told me that altering the polls was one of the only perks of the job. How did I know know he was lying?....)
bosox79
12-02-2003, 02:37 PM
Originally posted by DMR
Erm, uh, um...
I guess I should cop to this one (and, um... perhaps a few others, I think). I 've a special place in my heart for small marsupials- sorry, my bad.
:eek: :eek:
:D
(It's all mdwatts' fault- when I first became a mod he told me that altering the polls was one of the only perks of the job. How did I know know he was lying?....)
:p :D ;)
Erm, uh, um...
I guess I should cop to this one (and, um... perhaps a few others, I think). I 've a special place in my heart for small marsupials- sorry, my bad.
:eek: :eek:
:D
(It's all mdwatts' fault- when I first became a mod he told me that altering the polls was one of the only perks of the job. How did I know know he was lying?....)
:p :D ;)
craiggiles
12-02-2003, 06:11 PM
Dare I say it....
I'm an AOL(UK) 1Mbit DSL user, currently using a proxy thru my windows laptop to get online in Linux.
I will be moving to NTL next march though and I will be porting all of My PC's over to Linux shortly after that and I may even get a Macintosh:p
I'm an AOL(UK) 1Mbit DSL user, currently using a proxy thru my windows laptop to get online in Linux.
I will be moving to NTL next march though and I will be porting all of My PC's over to Linux shortly after that and I may even get a Macintosh:p
craiggiles
12-02-2003, 06:26 PM
How about instead, 1 wire going to everyone's house that provides: internet, phone, and cable! Perhaps they could run electricity through this wire too?
We kinda have this already in the UK, provided by NTL Cable, we can get Telephone, Cable TV and Broadband Internet thru the same wire and use all 3 at once:-D
Pity I dont have the third service yet, although I can get it
(grumbles @ AOL's 1 year minimun contract for ADSL)
We kinda have this already in the UK, provided by NTL Cable, we can get Telephone, Cable TV and Broadband Internet thru the same wire and use all 3 at once:-D
Pity I dont have the third service yet, although I can get it
(grumbles @ AOL's 1 year minimun contract for ADSL)
sclebo05
12-02-2003, 08:22 PM
i am moving to great britain. clear the way, lobsterbacks!
bandwidth_pig
12-02-2003, 08:56 PM
I'm on cable myself. And like everybody here has been saying, pretty much every cable company is raising the bandwidth to 3 mbps. I have Adelphia in my neck of the woods and it is great. I have had DSL also...which the DSL line itself worked great. My ISP (who was not my local phone company) sucked beyond words. His bandwidth was soooo depleted I couldn't even a IP from his DHCP server. Couldn't even get one packet in. It was beyond pathetic. After about a hour or so of trying constantly, you would eventually get a IP, but couldn't go anywhere. Downstream cable will always smoke DSL. Upstream it could...but never seems to quite make the grade.
As far as fiber being to slow in ten years :D as eluded to by a previous poster, that will almost certainly never happen. Back in 1998 (wow...feels strange saying that) Bell Labs pumped a terrabit of traffic over ONE optical fiber. Thats only one strand of glass man. Just one. And that was five years ago! We can do more than that today! It's insane. You could carry the internet traffic of the majority of the United States on one fiber. It would be insane to do so, but I bet you could. And we are just now starting to tap this technology. Today as it stands, there is more bandwidth available right now today than we will be able to consume for a LONG time. Which is why so many of my friends are without jobs now :(
I stand corrected. Fujitsu did it first back in 99. Not Bell Labs in 98. But that was over WDM. We have DWDM today which allows us to do much much more.
http://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/1999/Oct/4-e.html
As far as fiber being to slow in ten years :D as eluded to by a previous poster, that will almost certainly never happen. Back in 1998 (wow...feels strange saying that) Bell Labs pumped a terrabit of traffic over ONE optical fiber. Thats only one strand of glass man. Just one. And that was five years ago! We can do more than that today! It's insane. You could carry the internet traffic of the majority of the United States on one fiber. It would be insane to do so, but I bet you could. And we are just now starting to tap this technology. Today as it stands, there is more bandwidth available right now today than we will be able to consume for a LONG time. Which is why so many of my friends are without jobs now :(
I stand corrected. Fujitsu did it first back in 99. Not Bell Labs in 98. But that was over WDM. We have DWDM today which allows us to do much much more.
http://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/1999/Oct/4-e.html
wizard479
05-15-2004, 01:58 AM
Yes, I would have to agree that BPL would totally ruin the Amatuer Radio Service. Its bad enough with everything else nowadays, we dont need that added to it. I myself am considering Sattelite DSL, as that is the only alternative to dial-up in my area. From what i've heard, it don't work with linux yet, only Winblows. If anyone has any information to the contrary, please let me know , either by PM or at gravitygrl21@earthlink.net. And yes, I am a licensed ham radio operator. Thanks all!!
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XiaoKJ
05-15-2004, 02:15 AM
In my country there is only one cable and one adsl provider(my country is soo smal), and they are namely singnet and starhub.
I want starhub as it provides 1.5M cable service and free ethernet modem for the same price for 256K adsl with alcatel speedtouch usb(this crap slows down internet access by half in win!)
However, being a former singtel(main HQ of singnet) worker, my father is loyal to singnet and has problems switching from adsl to cable. he also wants the email address he had been using for soo long...
*he has hotmail but i reccomend him not to use it...*
I want starhub as it provides 1.5M cable service and free ethernet modem for the same price for 256K adsl with alcatel speedtouch usb(this crap slows down internet access by half in win!)
However, being a former singtel(main HQ of singnet) worker, my father is loyal to singnet and has problems switching from adsl to cable. he also wants the email address he had been using for soo long...
*he has hotmail but i reccomend him not to use it...*
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