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InGreenwood
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Re: How does a company give you more speed?
I am always amused by the denial that there is any US outside the two coasts. My town has 7,000 homes, some cable, some dish, some antennas. Let say 4000 have cable and 10% of those have High speed internet (3 meg here) That is 400 local users of the cable internet, total. If 25% are active then there are 100 people online at any one time, if 15 of them are downloading, all is well with a T3. (I know that my former cable was via a T3, not sure the infrastructure here. I know their 'local loop' is over 100 miles.
Yes, I know that higher speeds are possible where population density is high, but few folks in Mississippi can pronounce Computer, let alone have one. | |
burner50
Pinlifter
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| said by InGreenwood :
I am always amused by the denial that there is any US outside the two coasts. My town has 7,000 homes, some cable, some dish, some antennas. Let say 4000 have cable and 10% of those have High speed internet (3 meg here) That is 400 local users of the cable internet, total. If 25% are active then there are 100 people online at any one time, if 15 of them are downloading, all is well with a T3. (I know that my former cable was via a T3, not sure the infrastructure here. I know their 'local loop' is over 100 miles.
That is where ISP's run into problems. They count on this information to be true when many time it is not. Then they have big problems | |
juking
join:2006-03-11
New York, NY
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Most of us have seen the above speed test. My question is this: My speed is an average of 18/1.5 My global/country rank is 95/93%. Why would my father's global/country rank show in the 49%/45% position, when his speed is 45/4.5? He has embarq, and I have a different company. Our suggested server is 100 miles away. Also, based on my above speed, what should my approximate ping be? | |
Winter_Lion
join:2003-04-12
Bonney Lake, WA
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May 3rd, @09:14AM
| said by juking  :»www.speedtest.net/index.php Most of us have seen the above speed test. My question is this: My speed is an average of 18/1.5 My global/country rank is 95/93%. Why would my father's global/country rank show in the 49%/45% position, when his speed is 45/4.5? He has embarq, and I have a different company. Our suggested server is 100 miles away. Also, based on my above speed, what should my approximate ping be? Juking,
Different companies........is your answer. Like accountants having more than one way to balance year end profits and losses statements to suit the occasion.
Don't quote me on this but | don't think anyone could calculate what your ping should be based on your maximum tested speed up and down. Even the suggested server location 's distance of 100 miles is of little help.
In a perfect world your ping should be less than 5 at 100 miles. But how many hops to get there......how many users sharing bandwidth in your neighborhood......etc.etc.etc.
But. like I said.........don't quote me on this....I am not an expert, merely a tournament BF2 player who routinely plays in Germany and Korea.....from my back bedroom in Washington state.
That kind of experience does give you an on the job style of education on ping,packet loss,lag, bandwidth vampires playing next to you and the fact that you get what you pay for for the most part.
I would LOVE to have your pop's ethernet access...although it would be wasted on one person or even a family. That is a business sized window to the net and only a business could warrant the expense...eh?
I play anywhere from Denver west and 25 ping is playable.
I run over a 100 playing in Europe....but considering the distance and the 64 player servers we play on.
Ping at 100 with no data loss and running at 10 megs down and 2 up is A PERFECT WORLD
Respects.......Winter | |
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