 thender2Glamour ProfessionPremium
join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY | 512 kbps sucks. I am in the NYC area. If I were to get cable, it'd be by time warner.
...If I wanted 30/10 mbps internet service for the same price, I'd use Verizon.
512 kbps is stone age.. what the hell is the point of 10 mbps down if you can't send at more than what download speeds for DSL were five years ago? |
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 roc5955Premium
join:2005-11-26
Rosendale, NY | It's just a way for them to prevent you from setting up a server, which uploads data. They don't want their network bogged down uploading garbage from every little P2P user. |
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thender2Glamour ProfessionPremium
join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
1 edit | said by roc5955:It's just a way for them to prevent you from setting up a server, which uploads data. They don't want their network bogged down uploading garbage from every little P2P user. If this rhetoric were followed strictly in 1999, would we have more than 768/128 now? Or high speed internet at all?
There was an article on DSLR a week or two ago about Iran limiting all internet in the country to 128k so it wasn't used for "culture shock" or some crap like that.. what you suggested is scarily similar.
France does the same thing with music players, for the player to be sold in the country it has to output no more than 1 milliwatt @ either 16 or 32 ohms, I forget which. It sounds like a good idea, let's keep people from blowing their ears out. But what happens when someone plugs a 500 ohm headphone in? They can't hear a thing at any volume.
Keeping things from moving forward in an attempt to minimize usage of a certain bad application of that technology hurts that technology across the board, for any usage. This is no different.
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 xdeadhead220, 221, Whatever It Takes.Premium
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Mechanicsburg, PA | reply to roc5955
one man's trash....
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what if you want to set up a server? said by roc5955:It's just a way for them to prevent you from setting up a server, which uploads data. They don't want their network bogged down uploading garbage from every little P2P user. What if a customer, who's paying for their internet connection each month wants to set up a server? Or what if a user wants to experiment with high quality audio/video streaming? In other words why not allow users to actually be able to use upload as well as download speeds? I realize that consumer grade internet technologies such as cable and DSL are by design Asymmetrical, but especially with cable, even existing docsis 1.1/2.0 systems are capable of much better upload speeds than what 99% of cable providers give us. Why can't all cable users have at least an option of getting better upstream if that's what they want? If I want 2MBPs or even 3MBPS upload, than why not offer say a symmetrical 3000/3000 tier, which is possible? When will we get the chance to see what cable can really do, and not just in the downstream direction?
I have 10mbps/1mbps through Charter, and I'd be happy if my download remained at 10mbps while the upload got bumped to 2 or 3mbps. One final thing I don't get is while I have Charter 10/1 service, Charter business cable users only get 5/1, so they pay over $200 a month for their internet, and don't get any better internet speeds, not even in the upstream direction where you'd think for that kind of money you'd get at least a bit more speed? What's up with that! |
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roc5955Premium
join:2005-11-26
Rosendale, NY | If you read your agreement with the cable company, setup of servers is not allowed. What's more, is that if you had a server, you would want the same, static IP address all the time. How do you do this with DHCP?
There are plenty of outlets that will host your server for far less than the cost of a Cable connection. |
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thender2Glamour ProfessionPremium
join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY | High upload speed doesn't necessarily mean running a server.
Protools sessions for school can go to about 850 MBs, with 512 kbps upload it'd take three hours to send the thing to someone. With my current upstream speed it would take me 13 minutes tops. |
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