It's a big network.
natem wrote to All <=-
It's a big network.
It's a big network.
It's a series of TUBES!
It's a big network.
It's a series of TUBES!
Fiber definitely has been the best internet we've had. 1g up and down
but
they have 3 and 6gb plans. I have no endpoints that support that and not buying new gear. I remember my first DSL was 128k down ... then cable at
1mb ...
first was 56k frame relay. Yikes. That was the jam.
i don't like comcast and i dont like charter/spectrum.
with spectrum my bill trippled over 3 years. they also kept raising the rate by small amounts randomly.
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Boraxman wrote to phigan <=-
I recently upgraded to FTTP.
Now on a 500MBit plan. 50mb/s download speed.
To think that my own internal network was slower. Now I can download
from the Internet faster than I could transfer PC to PC in the 2000s.
I thought 5mbps with LANTastic and 11 mbps with 802.11b was amazing
when they came out. And my daughter was complaining about her net
speeds in her room - she's got a furnace and a breaker box between her
and the AP. She was getting 20 mbps on a speed test...
On Wed, Nov 04 2026 23:54:48 -0600, you wrote:
i don't like comcast and i dont like charter/spectrum.
I've had Time Warner (and now Spectrum) for almost 20 years now,
probably.
with spectrum my bill trippled over 3 years. they also kept raising
the rate by small amounts randomly.
More than likely, you had some kind of promotion (or multiple) for
the first year. They will only mention that your promotions are
almost up in small print on your paper bill. If you don't get a paper
bill, you'd never know. Rates go up without warning once that year
is up.
of 'em, in my experience. They will straight up tell you your bill is
going to be <THIS> much, your first bill matches that, and then over
the next 6 months you bill creeps up $10-20 a month and by the time
you notice it's WAY out of hand.
I downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft C over 2400 baud, fell asleep
on the transfer. Hours later it had completed and the sysop had broken
into chat telling me to WAKE UP!
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Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
20megabits? Pffff, thats like a serial connection these days!
I started my online experience with a 2400 baud modem and BBS's. The biggest file I transfered was 800-900kb, and it took an hour.
I downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft C over 2400 baud, fell asleep
on the transfer. Hours later it had completed and the sysop had broken
into chat telling me to WAKE UP!
Despite all this speed, people are still complaining of computers being slow. There is still awful latency in some places.
I've done a lot of things in IT in my life, one area I never really
focused on was networking. I did a little bit of Cisco work in the
'90s, tempted now to do more. I have firewalls that can do SD-WAN,
zero
trust access, visual rules builders and more.
We inherited a network with a ton of third-party tools, looking at
these firewalls we could replace most of them with just the firewalls.
| Sysop: | Mojo |
|---|---|
| Location: | Jasckson, Michigan |
| Users: | 10 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 498470:59:42 |
| Calls: | 100 |
| Calls today: | 1 |
| Files: | 10,063 |
| D/L today: |
7 files (90K bytes) |
| Messages: | 25,972 |
