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I schedule a "cable internet installalation" where i assume they lay me some fresh clean tubing for my web pages to come through...yes, this is about how they describe it. I wait saturday morning 8 - 10am...and no one shows up. Turns out i was scheduled for an all day installation today (monday) to my cable ready home where i already have the cable modem. Well I didn't know what to say or do since I can't just sit at home from 8 - 4 sans internet (yes, it's a medical condition). Are there any other complanies in coeur d'alene idaho that i can find...is tehre some sweet spy like satellite internets. i hate going through this crappy company. :(( Alternatives?!?!
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DSL
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
DSL
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
I schedule a "cable internet installalation" where i assume they lay me some fresh clean tubing for my web pages to come through...yes, this is about how they describe it. I wait saturday morning 8 - 10am...and no one shows up. Turns out i was scheduled for an all day installation today (monday) to my cable ready home where i already have the cable modem. Well I didn't know what to say or do since I can't just sit at home from 8 - 4 sans internet (yes, it's a medical condition). Are there any other complanies in coeur d'alene idaho that i can find...is tehre some sweet spy like satellite internets. i hate going through this crappy company. :(( Alternatives?!?!
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from my other post: Good luck! I signed up for TW Cable internet at the extreme (?) speed of 10Mbs. When I called them out to fix it cause I was only getting 5Mbps it took three days, six technicians and the use of MY laptop constantly running tests against speekeasy.net to get the speed correct. After all that, I was setup to play my WoW character, after about 45 minutes the signal dropped long enough for me to lose connection with the server. Thankfully I never canceled my 3Mbps verizon DSL which is stone reliable and plays WoW just as fast as the TW 10Mbps (60fps and 110ms ping). I finally chucked that cable modem through the local TW office window (I wish) and am waiting for FIOS to arrive on my street in Ventura County. DR
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I schedule a "cable internet installalation" where i assume they lay me some fresh clean tubing for my web pages to come through...yes, this is about how they describe it. I wait saturday morning 8 - 10am...and no one shows up. Turns out i was scheduled for an all day installation today (monday) to my cable ready home where i already have the cable modem. Well I didn't know what to say or do since I can't just sit at home from 8 - 4 sans internet (yes, it's a medical condition). Are there any other complanies in coeur d'alene idaho that i can find...is tehre some sweet spy like satellite internets. i hate going through this crappy company. :(( Alternatives?!?!
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modified on Monday, March 24, 2008 3:43 PM
jgasm wrote:
.is tehre some sweet spy like satellite internets.
If you have a clear southern line of site there're several companies selling internet over minidishes (slightly larger than the TV type). They're expensive, slower than DSL, bandwidth capped (no torrenting), and have high latency (no FPS/RTS gaming). Other than that they're usable. Just google for "satellite internet" to get a list of the major players.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Can you get DSL that will match cable modem speeds?
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Yes, and I think it's even a little cheaper. As far as speeds are concerned, I know for a fact that cable will not be as fast as advertised if you're on a full node. On DSL, I'm not sure if that's the case.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
from my other post: Good luck! I signed up for TW Cable internet at the extreme (?) speed of 10Mbs. When I called them out to fix it cause I was only getting 5Mbps it took three days, six technicians and the use of MY laptop constantly running tests against speekeasy.net to get the speed correct. After all that, I was setup to play my WoW character, after about 45 minutes the signal dropped long enough for me to lose connection with the server. Thankfully I never canceled my 3Mbps verizon DSL which is stone reliable and plays WoW just as fast as the TW 10Mbps (60fps and 110ms ping). I finally chucked that cable modem through the local TW office window (I wish) and am waiting for FIOS to arrive on my street in Ventura County. DR
you could have just posted "i told you so" ;P
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you could have just posted "i told you so" ;P
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:omg: I didn't realize it was you again, my condolences :((
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I schedule a "cable internet installalation" where i assume they lay me some fresh clean tubing for my web pages to come through...yes, this is about how they describe it. I wait saturday morning 8 - 10am...and no one shows up. Turns out i was scheduled for an all day installation today (monday) to my cable ready home where i already have the cable modem. Well I didn't know what to say or do since I can't just sit at home from 8 - 4 sans internet (yes, it's a medical condition). Are there any other complanies in coeur d'alene idaho that i can find...is tehre some sweet spy like satellite internets. i hate going through this crappy company. :(( Alternatives?!?!
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If you already have cable TV, you could have gotten the self install kit and done it yourself - that's what I did...
Steve
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If you already have cable TV, you could have gotten the self install kit and done it yourself - that's what I did...
Steve
you know, i was a "self-install" because it's all ready...but they wanted to charge me $13 for someone to tell me if my connection is crappy. when in fact, i could also handle that part as well ;P
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Yes, and I think it's even a little cheaper. As far as speeds are concerned, I know for a fact that cable will not be as fast as advertised if you're on a full node. On DSL, I'm not sure if that's the case.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I know for a fact that cable will not be as fast as advertised if you're on a full node. On DSL, I'm not sure if that's the case.
I do know that the two things that most affect your DSL speed is the quality of the copper wiring in your phone line (the newer, the better usually) and the length of the phone line between your residence and the phone company hub.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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DSL
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Amen. I was just gonna say, "Love my DSL..."
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I know for a fact that cable will not be as fast as advertised if you're on a full node. On DSL, I'm not sure if that's the case.
I do know that the two things that most affect your DSL speed is the quality of the copper wiring in your phone line (the newer, the better usually) and the length of the phone line between your residence and the phone company hub.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
True enough. If you are too far from a C.O., then DSL is not an option (not sure what the maximum is these days). When the Telco installer came out to my house to install the DSL several years ago, he took one look at the wiring the builder had installed in my house and told me. "That's never gonna fly. That's about the cheapest wire they could get. Here's what you do: Go and buy some CAT 5 network cable, pick a pair of wires on it (any pair, did not matter), and hook it up to these two terminals (which he showed me on the DSL splitter). Then run it straight to the room where your computer is (through the attic), and hook it to a jack where you can plug your DSL modem in." I followed his advice, and have had great results. Running 5 Megabits through Embarq here in Florida. (edited. Misspelled Florida :doh: )
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Can you get DSL that will match cable modem speeds?
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Where I live DSL is faster than Cable. I had a "5M" Cable connection which I averaged 100K up/down on and couldn't take it anymore. I switched over to 768K DSL and now average 300K up/down, and I'm paying less per month too.
"How come you can't taste your tongue?" - Jon Arbuckle
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Yes, and I think it's even a little cheaper. As far as speeds are concerned, I know for a fact that cable will not be as fast as advertised if you're on a full node. On DSL, I'm not sure if that's the case.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Depends if the node has sufficient upstream capacity. A bottleneck is a bottleneck whether it's you and your neighbors saturating your shared cable to the node or you and your neighbors private links saturating the connection between the node and the rest of the internet. :rolleyes:
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull