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  • Floris
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 37767

    Cable account gets free upgrade soon!

    I couldn't resist sharing it with the world

    I recently moved and getting nothing but improvements.

    My old connection had some issues with the cable modem for it wasn't quite compatible with their new optimized network for cable connections.

    This new place got me a) a new modem, b) choice to pick a channel id when I experience latency, c) I can see how many users are on my line and can switch to a less busy one to maintain optimal performance and d) the upstream went from 128 to 256kbit

    Now I finally got news that it will get another 128kbit extra for free which finally makes it usable for me. But even better, I am getting an additional mbit to my downstream.

    Seeing is believing, especially with this crappy internet provider as UPC is. But we will see in May how things go.

    Currently:
    1536 / 128 <-- official, but I got 1536 / 256 (180kbyte/s down and 25kbyte/s up is my average experience)

    Becomes:
    2560 / 384 <-- nice .. now it is cheaper then the DSL alternative I wanted to switch to I don't mind downloading a .sql dump with about 300kbyte/s and still having enough bandw left for normal browsing

    For about €40 per month I think I am quite settled there!
  • Ksilebo
    Senior Member
    • May 2001
    • 848
    • 3.0.1

    #2
    Very nice, I'm paying out of my ass for 3 Mbit/645 kbps. $90 a month.


    I hate Sprint.

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    • Neocorteqz
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2002
      • 332
      • 3.0.3

      #3
      3000/384 for $45 a month here in Central Florida(started out at 2000/384). DSL is 1500/384 for $49 a month.

      and that's pretty sweet.

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      • hockyfan
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2002
        • 296

        #4
        What ISP are you using Floris?



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        • Marco
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2000
          • 827
          • 3.8.x

          #5
          Originally posted by Ksilebo
          Very nice, I'm paying out of my ass for 3 Mbit/645 kbps. $90 a month.


          I hate Sprint.
          Ouch... I'm paying €65 (~$80) a month for 8mbit down/1mbit up.

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          • joeychgo
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2004
            • 2021
            • 5.6.4

            #6
            Im paying $45 a month for 3000/384 from comcast in chicago -- that includes the modem rental
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            • Floris
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2001
              • 37767

              #7
              UPC/Chello

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              • colicab-d
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2002
                • 365
                • 3.0.0 'Gold'

                #8
                i pay about £40 or $60 for a 1mbit up and 256kbp down Uk is awful for adsl were one of the owrts in the world yet like to run campaigns to pormote it even tho the government wont topple bts monolopy.

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                • nemesis01
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2001
                  • 449

                  #9
                  Nice, but how many of these prices include bandwidth limits? My ISP NTL imposed a 1GB a day limit well over a year ago, think I took notice of that for about 3 minutes, gone past that nearly everyday since.:P

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                  • rebelsrock06
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2004
                    • 735
                    • 3.6.x

                    #10
                    i use Road Runner Time Warner Cable, its $39.95 a month.
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                    • Wayne Luke
                      vBulletin Technical Support Lead
                      • Aug 2000
                      • 73981

                      #11
                      Originally posted by nemesis01
                      Nice, but how many of these prices include bandwidth limits?
                      Not sure about elsewhere but bandwidth limits do not exist in the US. My home network currently pulls 10-20 GB a day depending on what we are doing but there are times where we stream music on two different computers.
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                      • Jimmy Kane
                        Senior Member
                        • Dec 2003
                        • 311
                        • 3.0.7

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Wayne Luke
                        Not sure about elsewhere but bandwidth limits do not exist in the US.
                        I believe NTL in the UK once had a limit of 1gig a day. Not sure if it is still like that now though.

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                        • Shining Arcanine
                          Senior Member
                          • Feb 2003
                          • 2482
                          • 3.0.3

                          #13
                          I get 10Mb/sec download and 1Mb/sec upload.

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                          • nemesis01
                            Senior Member
                            • Oct 2001
                            • 449

                            #14
                            I just asked because in the UK there are tons of offers for cheap broadband, dsl or whatever that sound great, read the small small print though and you come across the bandwidth limitations which sucks really. I think NTL still do have the limit, but they do not appear to actively enforce it which is good.

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                            • Shining Arcanine
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 2482
                              • 3.0.3

                              #15
                              In the US we have limits too. On my connection I'm limited to 10Mb per a second tops on download and 1Mb per a second tops on upload. If you mean yearly/quarterly/monthly/daily/hourly/minutely, that is just plain wrong.

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