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Wallace Pedersen
@dscga.com
| DSC the low latency / high throughput ISP I have been using DSC for almost 10 years now. My Internet usage and consumption of bandwidth has grown as the multimedia content and larger downloads have grown. Over the years I have moved and been forced to use various alternatives to DSC. Dial-up, Cable, and DSL.
DSC offers the fastest sustained access in the Atlanta market weather it is UDP packets (games) the latency is always very low creating an incredible online gaming experience which runs like water! When downloading from somewhere on the Internet via FTP which generally uses the largest packets available you can actually see the bandwidth hitting the 200+ K bytes ps and then slowly as your rate limit kicks in it trims down to a full T1.When discussing this with the President of DSC while on a technical support call with the most knowledgeable staff one could have working for you, he said to me "thats great if a user gets an advantage from DSC on bursting before the rate limiter throttles back!"
That in a nutshell is DSC my ISP for TEN years! The best CORE engineering staff which can quickly evaluate a problem even when it involves multiple organizations, their ability to coordinate technical resources far surpasses any cable or non business/customer oriented service providers.
I will continue to be a customer of DSC as well as recommend their service to any user or business I come across for years to come. Below I have included a test that I use to measure Internet access, as you can see the numbers speak the truth!
Here is a bandwidth test from bandwidthplace.com
Your raw speed was 1459840.94 bits per second.
There are 3 meaningful ways we can interpret this number:
Communications
1.5 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet
Storage
178.2 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.
1MB file download
5.7 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.
DSL Internet speeds in Eastern US
average XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
your speed XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
56k modem X
compared to all connection types worldwide yours is
fantastic!
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join:2005-07-23
Atlanta, GA
1 edit | DSC rocks! I switched from Speedfactory (3M/384k service) after several of my internet radio stations would crap out maybe 10-15 min into listening to the stream. I suspected either they were over subscribed on the backbone (which they assured me they weren't) or they have some QOS (quality of service) issues with their routers, switches, backbone, etc... I then stared to do some testing to see if the problems were the stations I was tuned into. I started doing test downloads from Microsoft like MSOffice service packs and several other big file downloads from Microsoft. I noticed the downloads would jump from around 300k/s down to 80k/s; it was up and down randomly during business hours. Around 1:30-2:00am they would be rock solid at 360k/s. Thats when I knew there was a usage issue, at least from my house, and I decided to switch to DSC.
DSC switched me in about 3 days if I remember correctly. The service couldn't be better! I can download anything from Microsoft any time of day at a very solid 360k/s download speed. Any site with enough bandwidth to handle a 3M download works at 360k/s any time of day. BTW my sync stayed the same with both ISPs 3008/384 sync in the DSL modem. Latency is very good with either service also. Both ping google.com at around 28ms, yahoo.com around 36ms low hops for both. Like I said before the prob with Speedfactory was the sustained download speeds. The nice thing about DSC is they actually have a realtime net graph online for users in their IP space (updates every 5min). DSC has 2-GigE circuits and 4-100M circuits for a total of 2.4 Gigabits of backbone bandwidth. Lastly, DSC is a GA based company; I like that my money is staying at home in my state and not being sent out to some other state's economy.
Oh forgot to mention, I'm paying $54/mo for 3000/384 with one static IP on a Bellsouth shared line. I think they have other options available for more IP's and various levels of bandwidth like 1500/256, etc... I'm told they can do a "Dry DSL" line through Covad, but you have to pay around $100 for a dedicated Covad line to be run from the street to your house. Thats it!
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