justinlay Posted November 23, 2008 CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 I actually got consistant speeds with hughes. Usually evening was around 1030/50. Yes its been great, and no weather bog downs. I was staying pretty consistant too. "cover your eyes sparky" Most of the time i was around 2mb or little over, and for the upload it sucked 50up Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted November 23, 2008 CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 Yeah, you had to have a 7000 modem or newer for upload of the amazing highspeed of 200-250 U/L. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted November 23, 2008 CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 Yeah, you had to have a 7000 modem or newer for upload of the amazing highspeed of 200-250 U/L. At that time didnt care so much of the upload, but i did pretty good in the download side. Yeah I signed up service with the 4000 and ended with it Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 23, 2008 Author CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 No, not FAP'd, thats an easy check now, just goto the webpage for the modem and it tells you. I have 1 EVDO provider and that is Ntelos, they do not have good speeds and a 5 gig a month limit, not sure if they enforce the limit or not, Sprint does now have evdo around here, they must be using the Ntelos network. Ntelos and Sprint both have the 5 gig cap, but sprint want to charge you 2 cent's a Mb overages with a 2 year contract. AT&T has nothing here. Verizon has nothing here. US Cellular has nothing here. A Town with 28,000 students and nothing of any use! what is up with that? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 23, 2008 Author CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 What is interesting is, Hughesnet are offering greater speeds to the user who want to pay for it, but at our cost, they do not have the bandwidth for us scummy people now, how do they give more to others without affecting the low end users? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted November 23, 2008 CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 No, not FAP'd, thats an easy check now, just goto the webpage for the modem and it tells you. I have 1 EVDO provider and that is Ntelos, they do not have good speeds and a 5 gig a month limit, not sure if they enforce the limit or not, Sprint does now have evdo around here, they must be using the Ntelos network. Ntelos and Sprint both have the 5 gig cap, but sprint want to charge you 2 cent's a Mb overages with a 2 year contract. AT&T has nothing here. Verizon has nothing here. US Cellular has nothing here. A Town with 28,000 students and nothing of any use! what is up with that? Sence when did sprint start the 5gb Cap? I always though verizon had that cap Have you check alltel? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 23, 2008 Author CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 Yeah, we have no verizon towers, we have no alltell service period. I just went to Sprints website and it states the cap on signup, I was about to do it until I seen that. 5GB a month is worse then Hughesnet, having better speed will just get me there faster. You know its a sad thing to say, but the USA broadband system is going from bad to worse, we should be one of the leading countries with broadband, yet India and other countries are leaving us behind.... so sad. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted November 23, 2008 CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 Yeah, we have no verizon towers, we have no alltell service period. I just went to Sprints website and it states the cap on signup, I was about to do it until I seen that. 5GB a month is worse then Hughesnet, having better speed will just get me there faster. You know its a sad thing to say, but the USA broadband system is going from bad to worse, we should be one of the leading countries with broadband, yet India and other countries are leaving us behind.... so sad. Yeah I have verizon evdo but I dont use it that much, I mainly use my connection at home to my knowledge i dont have a fap. So im guessing you dont have any wireless isp? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 23, 2008 Author CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 No wireless! I wish I had the financial backing to put up my own Motorola Canopy system...... Now that is some good speeds, WISP is the way to go and I cannot for the life of me understand why Verizon (our phone company) don't get into providing WISP, 1 single Motorola canopy antenna array can go upto 35 miles. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted November 23, 2008 CID Share Posted November 23, 2008 Thats how it is out here . I have 6 wireless isp in my area Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted November 24, 2008 CID Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ouch, they did change it finally after all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With this plan and your Mobile Broadband Card or USB modem, you have instant Internet access wherever you go on the Sprint Mobile Broadband network. This plan includes 5 GB/mo. in total or 300 MB/mo. while off-network roaming. (1024 kb=1MB. 1024 MB=1 GB) Additional monthly usage over 5 GB costs 5 Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 24, 2008 Author CID Share Posted November 24, 2008 These ISP's are going backwards, that's 161 MB a day in a 31 day month! they can keep it, I am not interested in paying $60 a month for that. I think right now, sad to say it but hughesnet is the best option I have. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tm24ns58 Posted November 24, 2008 CID Share Posted November 24, 2008 Just saw this thread. I have not been here in awhile. However here is a test done at 4:45pm EST. Peak time. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 1635 Kbps about 1.6 Mbps (tested with 3072 kB) Download Speed is:: 200 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/24 - 3:44pm Bottom Line:: 29X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.12 sec Tested from a 3072 kB file and took 15.391 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 64.65 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FBUVPZ64E User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 [!] Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted November 24, 2008 CID Share Posted November 24, 2008 Just saw this thread. I have not been here in awhile. However here is a test done at 4:45pm EST. Peak time. ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 1635 Kbps about 1.6 Mbps (tested with 3072 kB) Download Speed is:: 200 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/24 - 3:44pm Bottom Line:: 29X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.12 sec Tested from a 3072 kB file and took 15.391 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 64.65 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FBUVPZ64E User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 Not bad speeds Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted November 24, 2008 CID Share Posted November 24, 2008 I wonder if I can get back the same speeds I got before on satelite? Just kidding, the rest is faster on EVDO. Just hope they bring the DSL the other few blocks to my house soon. And yes, very nice speeds tm24ns58. It has been a while. Good to see you again. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/24365-when-i-thought-it-could-get-no-worse-lmao/page/2/#findComment-289957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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