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[SwitchFX]

It's already set as Los Angeles. I guess I'm out of luck.

[mhockey21]

Who is your internet provider?  I'm looking to get a new company.

[ChaoticBeauty]

My connection is rated 24 Mbps but the max it has ever reached is 7 Mbps (marketing gimmick, and everyone does it, not only my current provider). Steam never maxes my connection but I'm pretty happy with 800 Kb/s. But for a game more than 10GB I would get a boxed copy.

[-Dexter]

Kaotika, on Sep 7 2011, 04:26 AM, said:

My connection is rated 24 Mbps but the max it has ever reached is 7 Mbps (marketing gimmick, and everyone does it, not only my current provider). Steam never maxes my connection but I'm pretty happy with 800 Kb/s. But for a game more than 10GB I would get a boxed copy.

Ah, the ol' Mbit gimmick. People see the "10Mb/s" and they think "WOW 10 MEGABYTES PER SECOND!?!!", when, in reality, they're only getting ~1.2MB/s. ISPs are snakes.

No sweat. Our ISP is giving us 1/3 of our provisioned speed. I called them and the woman (who was very angry for some reason) told me that "we could get up to our provisioned speed". That's what happens when you have 1 ISP to choose from.

Edited by -Dexter, 07 September 2011 - 07:47 AM.

[ChaoticBeauty]

-Dexter, on Sep 7 2011, 03:46 PM, said:

Ah, the ol' Mbit gimmick. People see the "10Mb/s" and they think "WOW 10 MEGABYTES PER SECOND!?!!", when, in reality, they're only getting ~1.2MB/s. ISPs are snakes.

No sweat. Our ISP is giving us 1/3 of our provisioned speed. I called them and the woman (who was very angry for some reason) told me that "we could get up to our provisioned speed". That's what happens when you have 1 ISP to choose from.

I know this is a gimmick, and unfortunately all providers in my country do that.

[SwitchFX]

Not so much a marketing gimmick but people who don't know the different between MB and Mb.

mhockey21, on Sep 7 2011, 12:48 AM, said:

Who is your internet provider?  I'm looking to get a new company.

Mine?

[ChaoticBeauty]

SwitchFX, on Sep 8 2011, 04:11 AM, said:

Not so much a marketing gimmick but people who don't know the different between MB and Mb.
Mine?

I think -Dexter's.

[mhockey21]

SwitchFX, on Sep 7 2011, 05:11 PM, said:

Not so much a marketing gimmick but people who don't know the different between MB and Mb.
Mine?

I meant both, I suppose I should have specified!

[-Dexter]

mhockey21, on Sep 9 2011, 01:40 AM, said:

I meant both, I suppose I should have specified!

There is 1 ISP in my area (besides HughesNet, but I'd be if I went with satellite internet). Frontier Communications, LLC.: charges upwards of $60/month for up to 3Mbit DSL, we rarely see anything over 1Mbit.

Had an issue about a month ago with serious packet loss: up to 40% at times. They said that they're running new fiber through our area and we should be back at our provisioned speed by October 1. Until then... horrible ISP (but better than satellite).

[SwitchFX]

mhockey21, on Sep 8 2011, 10:40 PM, said:

I meant both, I suppose I should have specified!

My ISP isn't available in your area. Comcast is, though. Unlike satellite companies, cable companies are regulated to one per city by the FCC.

-Dexter, on Sep 10 2011, 07:45 PM, said:

There is 1 ISP in my area (besides HughesNet, but I'd be if I went with satellite internet). Frontier Communications, LLC.: charges upwards of $60/month for up to 3Mbit DSL, we rarely see anything over 1Mbit.

Had an issue about a month ago with serious packet loss: up to 40% at times. They said that they're running new fiber through our area and we should be back at our provisioned speed by October 1. Until then... horrible ISP (but better than satellite).

Ouch. My speed tier alone costs $99 a month, but because I have an HD DVR service with multiple packages, the prices go down, I also managed to get a 36 month plan minus their digital phone service.

Edited by SwitchFX, 10 September 2011 - 10:10 PM.