acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada | 15 is fine if you're tech savvy :P
Unless you don't really know what you're doing to take advantage of 15 ::rollseyes:: |
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neonerd
manic
join:2006-03-10
Dartmouth, NS
 ·Eastlink Cable
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November 6th, @11:44PM
| said by acrufox  :Unless you don't really know what you're doing to take advantage of 15 ::rollseyes:: lol, did you mean are/is tech savvy as in like how you couldn't even make a smiley, we the actual customers of the service are supposed to think its "tech savvy" to try to hack our cable modems to get the proper advertised speeds? and yes i am tech savvy and i dont bother trying to show off with broken smilies... and Eastlink is BS, i think the only people who arent tech savvy are the fools that brag and or continue to waste their $ on this service, lol tech savvy (google illegal while your at it there too eh) oh wait i forgot if you have a friend inside Eastlink you can probably get full speed...not too savvy now is it. |
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acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada | Cable modem hacked? No
Excellent noise margins? Yes
Know Eastlink employee? No
Knowing transport encryption? Priceless! |
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neonerd
manic
join:2006-03-10
Dartmouth, NS
·Eastlink Cable
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November 7th, @01:03AM
| said by acrufox :Cable modem hacked? No Excellent noise margins? Yes Know Eastlink employee? No Knowing transport encryption? Priceless! lol ok then if you got eastlink all figured out how come you dont just effin help this guy instead of shittin on every1's parade?? also i was wondering exactly how you were able to change you noise margins as the equipment you'd need would be fairly complex, *mind you i did notice you ran 300+ tests in the past week or 2... but also if you can boost your snr to the point +/- 0.001% thd, then maybe you should be working for eastlink AND dslreports and maybe teach them how to make a super tweak tester that can detect snr/sinad and how to improve it, and im assuming when you said not hacked modem that also meant not attaching filters, antennas, caps to anything including your computer and or modem, wall jack, etc,. (myself i put the tv on chanel 70 i think and it tells me all the stats) and speed tests and whatever else thats amazing sounding but not real lol, and as for your "priceless" info, its called tunneling through a vpn using tls which is pretty old tech, but you couldnt just say that tho eh, lemme guess fresh outta uni with a failed attempt at an electrical engineering degree? that oughta burn your parents pockets lol |
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acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada | Naaah you're not worth my time |
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jericho
join:2001-07-20
Halifax, NS
·Eastlink Cable
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November 7th, @07:13PM
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acrufox , obviously you have no idea that most users have no idea about workarounds and they shouldn't have to worry about them if there paying for a certain advertised service , I'm talking to the people that have or are considering getting Eastlink HSI. I'm pretty tech savvy as I run my own PC business so take your childish "rollseyes" comments elsewhere. People that pay there hard earned money for an advertised service expect to get that advertised service and not have to worry about having to try to find ways around all the throttling(packet shaping) that Eastlink does just to get what there paying for. Yes Eastlink has some good points like no monthly bandwidth caps and a pretty solid network. |
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acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada
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November 8th, @01:33AM
| Although Eastlink puts those silly caps and throttling rules in place, it's still very beneficial to those with more than one user in the family who may be online at the same time.
Yes people spend their hard earned money for an expected service and usually do not get it, but that's the rule of thumb for quite some time now. I remember when I was on "the wave" which worked well but was very overpriced, then it was offloaded to Shaw and things went south quickly. Even though you paid for service; they did not want to fix their own equipment(bad nodes). I then ended up on Mpowered which was great until they took my 4 Megabit profile, dropped it near 1, charged the same price, then offered the same speed back to me for more. Eastlink at that time simply throttled you back to dial up speeds when you downloaded too much.
Most users I've met/helped usually don't even know the terminology of 5 or 15 megabits. Those that do and want 15, usually find ways to make use of it even if they can only accomplish it combined.
The only ISP of late I've seen to give you the advertised speed you paid for is Verizon FiOS and even they have their own flaws (jumping through hoops to get it, or playing billing games when your yearly contract runs out, and is not available in Canada)
I've done speed tests outside of Eastlink's network to places on the Eastern seaboard of the US and actually benchmark at times higher than Eastlink own tests. Recently I downloaded some game demos in excess of 1-2GB and it took mere minutes to complete the transfer. Or downloading service packs...or in my case test beta ISO's almost 4.7GB in size and see no throttling in place (only network congestion) Being on 15 I have yet to see an overall cap on speeds to keep me at 5.
No strings attached ISP's are rare on this side of the pond, especially in Canada.
Compared to what's currently available, Eastlink 5 or 15 is better than most of the rest of Canada, and unless you're willing to bind two DSL connections on an ISP like Techsavvy in places like Ontario. Working with/around the traffic shaping seems to be a lot easier to deal with.
It's the protocols that have bandwidth shaping applied to not the entire service at the same time, and is a small price to pay to have 15. |
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