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July 19, 2025, 09:14:54 PM

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So those of you who might remember me talking about my love for DSL. I'd like to relate a little story about my recent upgrade in Internet access, which also allows me to wave e-peen.

My wife and I have had BellSouth's FastAccess DSL for about 3 years now, I think. And unlike Bellsouth's customer service, I have had no complaints about the service whatsoever. The only outages have been short, with the exception of one outage that lasted about 4 days and was never explained (see my later rant about their customer service). The speed has been decent. Recently, they began offering 3 flavors of DSL, Lite, Ultra and Extreme. I've been on Ultra (1.5 MB down/128 kb up) before they split up the service. Lite is 768 Kb down/128 up and Extreme was promising 3 MB down/384 up. Now, I've never had speed issues before with the Ultra, but I finally figured that for less than $10 a month more, I might as well go whole hog and try it out.

The ordering process was a nightmare, because I wanted to get a new modem as well. Their web ordering system apparently shit the bed, because since I changed things on my phone service too, it had to span multiple commerce systems in order to complete. And despite the fact that my order was finished and submitted, the FastAccess side of the company never got it, forcing me to call and check on the order. After 3 or 4 phone calls, the right shit got to the right place and I was hooked up with the Extreme and a new modem. Bellsouth's customer service is completely fucked, BTW. Calling or sending emails into their CS center is like pissing into a black hole of suck. If you have a repair problem, they will never actually tell you what the problem is that caused it, just that it's fixed. It's quite infuriating.

However, once enabled, the Extreme level of DSL FUCKING ROCKS IT. I get an average of 240 kb/s to 300 kb/s downloads. I downloaded the Men of Valor demo in something like 17 minutes. It is the absolute shit, in the goodest meaning of the word. Double plus gud at that.

If you live in the Bellsouth service area, I recommend this shit highly. Also, get the Unlimited long distance ($25 a month, anywhere in the US) if you call long distance a lot. I don't often say positive things about companies, but in this case, you can get me off my DSL when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

I love living in an area where my only choice is basically Comcast cable or nothing. Worst cable company on the planet.

Could be worse still, dialup or satellite would have me slitting my wrists while propping a shotgun under my chin.

Comcast has uncapped down in the Washington Metro area. I've hit stable 500kbps down. I've had bursts of up to 33mb/s (MEGABYTES - Ookii can attest to this). I get 50kbp/s up, but meh. Don't upload much anyway. If I ever HAVE to get DSL, I'll look for Bellsouth.

I use Comcast here in Denver and with a FilePlanet subscriber server or BitTorrent I normally get around 300-350kbs down. Not really had a problem with it. Granted, I'd like a higher download speed, but most internet servers suck ass and don't do more than 150kbs.

Maybe once GigE is more popular and bandwidth isn't so pricey we'll get 1Mbps downloads. :)

Hammy prepare to orgasm.
DD logs into the interweb thing with 2 yes thats right 2 ultra lines plugged into a duplexer. I are smokin.

Quote from: schild

Your 33MB/s rate is based on buffering on the computer rather than actual line throughput. Current head-end uncapped DOCSIS 2.0 routers deliver a maximum of 10 megabits/sec to an individual port, 40 megabits/sec overall. Not that it is bad at all - as you state, you're getting ~4 megabits/sec sustained, which is a damn good rate at present. In around another year, the lucky consumers in markets that are early to the DOCSIS 3.0 and FTTT PON parties will get five to seven times that rate.

For the really droolworthy stuff, consider this - if you end up with Verizon's ATM PON service, it can be turned up to 622 megabits/sec eventually.

Comcast uncaps sometimes, I once got a download of 16 megabytes in 1 second. This has happened a couple of other times, but it's very infrequent at best. Comcast is 3 megabits down, and whatever 30 kilobytes/s is up (I don't like doing math so early).

Comcast is 43 a month if you have cable tv and your own modem, if you rent a modem it's something like 5 bucks more.

Quote from: Ookii

Your hardware cannot do that, unless it's filled with magic fairy dust.

Is this part of the ads that were being brought up on the front page?

We start with ninja ads first?

Anyway Comcast works for me, except when I try and use the splitter on both my TV and the internet it gets cranky when the main signal wanes. Other than that, I'm getting 200+ bps averages using it which is more than enough for what I do on a daily basis.

No, this has nothing to do with the front page, other than timing. I just was ecstatic at my huge e-peen DL rate, and wanted to share my joy with those who might actually be considering the service and eligible for it.

Strangely enough, I haven't gotten over about 40 kb/s on BitTorrent DL's, but then those have just been comics, which probably don't have nearly the seeds that say WoW betas or pr0n does.