SteveCon
IBEW 2222 Boston, MA
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Burlington, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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Re: 7mbps new?
said by axus  :Its pretty rare that I need so much download. Upload, on the other hand, is way too slow. I'll stick with my 3Mbps until they give the 7Mbps tier at least 1Mb upload. Comcast is pretty sucky with the upload, Cox was great though. I'm curious about people complaining about upload speeds. It seems to me that the vast majority of people do not need it. I wonder if you looked at your own internet usage, how much have you uploaded in a month vs. how much you downloaded? It seems to me that tapping a few keys or a mouse click or two causes not more than a couple (hundered?) bytes sent or uploaded to retrieve kilo, mega and even giga bytes in return.
Where outside of R&D centers, campuses, and government agencies, etc. that collaborate on large projects over great distances, is a large upload bandwidth really needed? I don't mean students on campus sharing movies, etc. over popular P2P networks here or others that want to violate their ISP's TOS by running a server.. but what are you doing that requires high bandwidth upload capacities?
I'm sure there are a few that really do need it - but are there that many out there that I see bemoaning slow upload rates?
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mindfrost82
join:2003-04-19
Cortland, IL
| This is talking about the upload speeds, not how much bandwidth is required. I run a few remote websites and file servers, and I'm always uploading files to them from home, so the low upload speed really sucks for that. It might not be much traffic, but when I'm uploading a multi-megabyte file and it takes a long time, that's what I don't like.
Stuff like Remote Desktop would also be much better with faster uploads if I need to access my home computer from work. It would also help with my Slingbox  |
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RadioDoc
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Try sending a bunch of 10 megapixel candid shots of your kid's birthday party to their grandparents.
Or that digital home video of the same.
Or sending large PDFs.
Or video chat.
Try working online from home while others in the house are doing any of the above if all you have is 384 up.
It is a painful experience.
There are multitudes of legitimate non-business needs for more than a piddly upload.
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Hes Dead Jim
@psu.edu | reply to mindfrost82
This is, after all, dsl, and 7mbps over dsl is great for the price compared to its cable counterparts. The standard comcast 6mbps/384k is $52/month if you don't subscribe to their cable tv. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to mindfrost82
said by mindfrost82 :This is talking about the upload speeds, not how much bandwidth is required. I run a few remote websites and file servers, and I'm always uploading files to them from home, so the low upload speed really sucks for that. It might not be much traffic, but when I'm uploading a multi-megabyte file and it takes a long time, that's what I don't like. Stuff like Remote Desktop would also be much better with faster uploads if I need to access my home computer from work. It would also help with my Slingbox running your own websites and servers it what a BUSINESS ACCOUNT is for. Try reading the TOS of your ISP. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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Jamestown, NC
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| said by BF69 :said by mindfrost82 :This is talking about the upload speeds, not how much bandwidth is required. I run a few remote websites and file servers, and I'm always uploading files to them from home, so the low upload speed really sucks for that. It might not be much traffic, but when I'm uploading a multi-megabyte file and it takes a long time, that's what I don't like. Stuff like Remote Desktop would also be much better with faster uploads if I need to access my home computer from work. It would also help with my Slingbox running your own websites and servers it what a BUSINESS ACCOUNT is for. Try reading the TOS of your ISP. Try reading his post. He's not running a web server on his home connection, he's uploading files to his website FROM HOME. |
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james dargando
@verizon.net
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try reading his post next time. nowhere does he imply he's using his home connection as a web server; rather, he is uploading files from his home connection to his web host and he doesn't like how long it takes to upload.
if he was hosting a website at home, why would he need to upload files to his web server? |
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mindfrost82
join:2003-04-19
Cortland, IL
| reply to Matt
Exactly, thank you MattE.
I know Slingbox and Remote Desktop could be considered a type of server, but its nothing like running your own website.
My work is on a T1 line and our website is hosted on it, sometimes I work at home on the website and need to upload files or VPN to work, this would be MUCH faster with a faster upload speed. |
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SSidlov
Other Things On My Mind
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Pompton Lakes, NJ
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| reply to SteveCon
said by SteveCon :said by axus :Where outside of R&D centers, campuses, and government agencies, etc. that collaborate on large projects over great distances, is a large upload bandwidth really needed? I don't mean students on campus sharing movies, etc. over popular P2P networks here or others that want to violate their ISP's TOS by running a server.. but what are you doing that requires high bandwidth upload capacities? I'm sure there are a few that really do need it - but are there that many out there that I see bemoaning slow upload rates? ME! I BEMOAN UPLOAD RATES! See my 2003 post (when I had 1mb UPLOAD! »Re: Capping Discussion Here Only - Part 6 ) Now, I have 1 and 2 GB cards, and can have 800-1600 photos to upload to Kodak after a busy day shooting, WHY even with my 2mb upload does it take so long!! (Capping isn't a issue anymore, they stopped capping users for excessive uploads.)
And for other reasons, this thread segment also from 2003: »Re: Capping Posts.......
(Oh and as an aside, I qualified for 8mb DSL from Bell Atlantic back in 2000....so, I think that this verizon thing is just bull unless it's very cheap compared to back then when it was expensive and in excess of $100 a month, but the upload is less than what I get today with cable (15/2mbps) and if I spent $10/mo more (aka $55/mo), I could get 30/5mbps.)
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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said by Matt :said by BF69 :said by mindfrost82 :This is talking about the upload speeds, not how much bandwidth is required. I run a few remote websites and file servers, and I'm always uploading files to them from home, so the low upload speed really sucks for that. It might not be much traffic, but when I'm uploading a multi-megabyte file and it takes a long time, that's what I don't like. Stuff like Remote Desktop would also be much better with faster uploads if I need to access my home computer from work. It would also help with my Slingbox running your own websites and servers it what a BUSINESS ACCOUNT is for. Try reading the TOS of your ISP. Try reading his post. He's not running a web server on his home connection, he's uploading files to his website FROM HOME. I did
"I run a few remote websites and file servers, and I'm always uploading files to them from home,"
Sound like he's using his HOME connection for business to me. |
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koolman2
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Anchorage, AK | He runs a few remote websites and file servers. He uploads files to those servers from home. Therefore, his servers are not on his home connection.
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