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C4C

C4C

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Geoff said:
I love fast internet :)

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I miss my college dorm connection.. Still fairly fast here at home in CO, but when I move into my apartment close to my college campus I'll be paying $30/mo for 10Mbps DL at the max...


this varies greatly and some days I'll get 150Mb/s+.... I'm hooked straight into the router..
 
Geoff

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I'm debating getting Comcast again. I currently have a "hacked together" setup where my router connects to xfinitywifi, but that only gets me 14 down and 2 up. I miss my 175/15 connection but don't miss the $90 bill.
 
beers

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Geoff said:
I miss my 175/15 connection but don't miss the $90 bill.
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Same, I ditched ATT Gig and TV for some basic TWC plan. It's like $160 down to $35 for a 100/20 plan. After a certain point it really isn't worth it but definitely takes some adjusting.
 
Geoff

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beers said:
Same, I ditched ATT Gig and TV for some basic TWC plan. It's like $160 down to $35 for a 100/20 plan. After a certain point it really isn't worth it but definitely takes some adjusting.
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I'm surprised, did you just find that you didn't need that kind of speed very often?

In my case, general internet browsing, streaming video, and gaming are all perfectly fine. It's when I need to download a multi-gig file or upload my latest photos that I really miss fast internet. $35/mo for 100/20 is an amazing deal.
 
C4C

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Geoff said:
I'm debating getting Comcast again. I currently have a "hacked together" setup where my router connects to xfinitywifi, but that only gets me 14 down and 2 up. I miss my 175/15 connection but don't miss the $90 bill.
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bummin' it off the neighbors? that's actually pretty smart.... i'm impressed...
 
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C4C said:
bummin' it off the neighbors? that's actually pretty smart.... i'm impressed...
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Bummin' off Comcast. Created an account on my mother's Xfinity plan that lets me get free access to their hotspots. I connected my desktop to it, signed in, then cloned that MAC to my router.
 
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beers

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Geoff said:
I'm surprised, did you just find that you didn't need that kind of speed very often?
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Pretty much, I was pretty lazy and didn't swap all of our house wiring. Once our ATT router took a dump on AC, my 3502i WAP can only pump out ~140 mbit anyway which a lot of my internal hosts use.
 
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Intel_man said:
Yea no kidding... I wish they offered that speed here for $35/mo.

This is what we get for $35/mo http://www.shaw.ca/internet/highspeed-5/
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That's embarrassing.

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Pretty much, I was pretty lazy and didn't swap all of our house wiring. Once our ATT router took a dump on AC, my 3502i WAP can only pump out ~140 mbit anyway which a lot of my internal hosts use.
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Really Tim? I'm surprised you didn't run 40 gig fiber to all your end devices, and 802.11ac wave 2 with 4x4 client adapters for all your wireless devices :p
 
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Geoff said:
That's embarrassing.

Really Tim? I'm surprised you didn't run 40 gig fiber to all your end devices, and 802.11ac wave 2 with 4x4 client adapters for all your wireless devices :p
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IKR :D

I was even debating eBaying this 3560E that has 10G interfaces to the fileserver and VM host since I don't even move that much data between them or access from more than one host at a time.

40G crap seems pretty pricey though for switches and similar.
 
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Intel_man

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Laquer Head said:
Yeah, man the 100/10 plan with Rogers in unlimited but $88+tx

I'm on the 250/20 plan and its mad expensive! but we have so many devices
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Ugh... if it wasn't for me going back to school in September and Shaw usually releases their student deals (60-70% off reg. price) for the internet packages in August, I probably would have switched to Telus.
 
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