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To give you a rough overview, take a look at the table below:. Now, these figures are for a single person. Now to the math when you have more than a single person on the network with connected devices carrying out more than one activity. Despite being slower than other options, DSL is cheaper. It depends. Despite DSL being more reliable than most internet connections, it has its own fair share of issues regarding speeds. You can use it for light activities like emailing and light web browsing.
Alternatively, when dealing with heavy activities, you can make your mobile phone a hotspot since cell phones use cell towers which are equally reliable. It has a high-bandwidth making it faster than narrowband. Mostly, when subscribing to an internet plan, the internet provider will advertise some plans for you to choose from. But 1. I think what drebo meant by dry loop is when you have the dsl internet service without also having the phone service.
VirtualLarry No Lifer. Aug 25, 52, 6, I would instead, complain that you aren't seeing your full bandwidth. If you are only getting 4Mbit or so down, try to get them to fix that and give you your full 6Mbit down if you can. OTOH, they might say that the line cannot handle 6Mbit, and downgrade you to 3Mbit without any option to upgrade in the future.
Jul 6, 2 I havent complained about the 2 and 3 one. If you were a customer with them at 6Mbps for 2 yrs e. If you have been with them at 6Mbps for longer than 2 yrs, loyalty won't work. You can next try to upgrade to U-verse which is min 12Mbps but don't tell them you don't want all the TV gear until after you're okayed and then bargain down the price if you're comfortable with paying 40 to 50 for 12Mbps.
At this point, you can also threaten to switch to Comcast Xfinity because comcast is being pretty aggressive at sucking away U-verse customers. Not because you need that much downstream, but because the upstream component is severely crippled below the 3Mbps tier.
And without decent upstream, you cannot "multi-task" very well with multiple computers on your network when they are all begging for streaming video, flash, chat, online game playing, etc at the same time. Oct 25, 29, Muse said:. VirtualLarry said:. Hmm, I don't have subscription TV. Does yours include HD content? I might have to consider that. Can you get those speeds in actuality? Do the servers dish out the data that fast?
I find some sites to be exceptionally slow and I figure it's because their servers are under powered. For instance, Boardtracker and I think Acronymfinder. Dec 15, 4, 2 0. Again, I'm in Berkeley, CA. Well seeded torrents go this fast too - I picked up an old SD episode once in less than a minute.
It's still not quite snappy enough for my wife, a pro photographer, who often uploads multiple meg images and a LOT of them. Sep 29, 0
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