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Herbologist
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Fuck slow internet
#18868070 - 09/20/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Moving to a new house and the only option is Century Link for 1.5/mbps
I am going to throw up, thats so terrible.
I game all the time, I use netflix, I download shit. Fuck. Why the hell is 1.5/mbps even available?
Id rather have no TV than no fucking internet.
What do you guys think is 1.5/mbps worth $20-40 a month or no internet?
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Move somewhere else if it's a problem.
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Herbologist
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Not gonna happen. This place is my only option at the moment
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psi
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1.5 is not really that bad IMO, at least for downloading stuff. Just leave your downloads going all day and all night, over a month it adds up to almost 500 GB. Netflix would probably look pretty shitty though, but you can torrent all the same stuff.
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: psi]
#18868285 - 09/20/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Get a 4g phone. You can share your phone's connection with your computers and it's faster than DSL or cable anyway.
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Edited by healing (09/20/13 03:41 PM)
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Herbologist
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: healing]
#18868335 - 09/20/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well one option is getting the air card from Verizon and I already have a 4g phone.. But Verizon has data caps and that shit is lame cause Ill use it up super quick.
1.5 i guess isnt the worst it could get for regular internet browsing.
netflix is my biggest fear next to playing xbox. Can I even play xbox live on 1.5??
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Herbologist said: Well one option is getting the air card from Verizon and I already have a 4g phone.. But Verizon has data caps and that shit is lame cause Ill use it up super quick.
1.5 i guess isnt the worst it could get for regular internet browsing.
netflix is my biggest fear next to playing xbox. Can I even play xbox live on 1.5??
Have you compared the difference in price of an unlimited plan with the price of your 1.5?
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I feel your pain Herb....Recently my roommates have gone down a steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep hill with heroin and we have an arrangement where they pay for the utilities+cable. Needless to say we've been without decent connection for a couple months now lol, I said fuck it and went out and got one of the virgin mobile USB modems, not great but theres no TRUE data cap on my plan, only slower speeds, that way my wife and I can at least use it for school (when we get there......next year )
The one thing that I miss the most is Xbox Live, nothing quite compares to coming home from work and playing with some friends from the comfort of home *sniffle
Especially with all the free games coming out for gold members....missed two months of that shit now!
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Herbologist
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: healing]
#18870731 - 09/21/13 03:20 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lol yeah I have a gold membership right now too!! Im probably going to miss out on that shit then, I also have my computer that i game on too that wont really be usable.
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healing said:
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Herbologist said: Well one option is getting the air card from Verizon and I already have a 4g phone.. But Verizon has data caps and that shit is lame cause Ill use it up super quick.
1.5 i guess isnt the worst it could get for regular internet browsing.
netflix is my biggest fear next to playing xbox. Can I even play xbox live on 1.5??
Have you compared the difference in price of an unlimited plan with the price of your 1.5?
Yeah I tried but according to Century Link they dont provide anything higher then 1.5 to my location. What kind of bs is that? Run a internet line to the area but dont make it high speed
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Asante
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187.5 kilobytes per second.. Ouch I feel your pain, thats like turning the clock back a decade, thats what I had in 2003.
Its decent, you can get by on it, but you can basically kiss games and streaming HD video goodbye. You can torrent but that doesnt give you a game hookup 
Downloading a CD (0.7GB) will cost you a little over an hour and a DVD (4.7GB) a little under 7 hours.
UGH. You can still download movies faster than you watch them but yea, its slow comnpared to modern times. Not to gloat but my connection is exactly 40x faster.
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Herbologist
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: Asante]
#18872950 - 09/21/13 04:39 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said: 187.5 kilobytes per second.. Ouch I feel your pain, thats like turning the clock back a decade, thats what I had in 2003.
Its decent, you can get by on it, but you can basically kiss games and streaming HD video goodbye. You can torrent but that doesnt give you a game hookup 
Downloading a CD (0.7GB) will cost you a little over an hour and a DVD (4.7GB) a little under 7 hours.
UGH. You can still download movies faster than you watch them but yea, its slow comnpared to modern times. Not to gloat but my connection is exactly 40x faster.
LOL thanks for putting it into a terrifying perspective.
im really hoping I can find like a 3rd party or specialty internet provider that will hook me up, i really dont know if ill find one though
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Asante
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You can still download movies faster than you watch them
On the bright side, a mile a minute still beats dialup.
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Herbologist
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: Asante]
#18872983 - 09/21/13 04:45 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Id probably say forget it if it was dial up.
even 15-20mbps would make me a happy camper, thats about what im using now
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: healing]
#18873000 - 09/21/13 04:49 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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healing said: Get a 4g phone. You can share your phone's connection with your computers and it's faster than DSL or cable anyway.
Is this a possibility?
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badchad
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That's probably good enough for basic internet. Streaming media sucks anyway, Netflix is horrible quality as is. I wouldn't miss it. Maybe you can get satellite or something?
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: Asante]
#18873025 - 09/21/13 04:55 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah but it depends on your carrier too. Doing that could end up being more expensive in the long run. I don't know what the rates/plans are for other carriers, but I have Verizon and its $30/month per phone just for the data plan, which has a cap of 2gb per month. Me and my boyfriend share that 2gb and here lately we've been almost always going over our limit, and we don't even tether to our computer. That's just from using the phone away from home in addition to having home internet.
And of course you incur extra charges when you go over your data limit.
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: Ballerium]
#18873045 - 09/21/13 05:00 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I had .7 down and .1 upload for yearss, I just got verizon to upgrade now to 2.4 down and it's cheaper
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Herbologist said: Well one option is getting the air card from Verizon and I already have a 4g phone.. But Verizon has data caps and that shit is lame cause Ill use it up super quick.
I would not recommend doing that through Verizon. I've been stuck with that for a little over a year (live out in the sticks) and it's awful. Not only are data caps annoying, but the connection goes in and out throughout the day.
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Herbologist said: Well one option is getting the air card from Verizon and I already have a 4g phone.. But Verizon has data caps and that shit is lame cause Ill use it up super quick.
I would not recommend doing that through Verizon. I've been stuck with that for a little over a year (live out in the sticks) and it's awful. Not only are data caps annoying, but the connection goes in and out throughout the day.
This.
I'm stuck half-way into a 2-year contract right now with AT&T on a limited data plan. Browsing the web hardly uses any data at all so that's just peachy, but it burns through about 100MB of my data if I try to listen to Pandora radio for even half an hour without wifi. So I get to listen to Pandora for... a few hours a month if I'm not at home. Woohoo.
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Herbologist
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So I am moving in tomorrow and directv is coming out on Monday for some TV.
I would get a Verizon card if it didnt have data caps, wasn't expensive and didnt disconnect through out the day. My sister had to use a Verizon card and it did just that, they couldnt rely on it to stay connected.
I think im just going to ask some of the neighbors and get an idea of what they're using, MAYBE someone can shed some light on it for me haha
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Edited by Herbologist (09/22/13 02:29 AM)
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FUCK THE PO LEES
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: Sheekle]
#18874573 - 09/22/13 02:32 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Indeed.
Are they why I cant get fast internet?
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Herbologist said: Moving to a new house and the only option is Century Link for 1.5/mbps
That's is exactly what I have right now. Streaming HD is out of the question. Youtube will stream at 360p pretty well and if the gods are smiling you can sometimes get 480p to play with a bit of buffering. Youtube sucks speed wise anyways. I still watch all my tv and movies off of primwire.ag and most of the time there is no buffering, but the quality isn't that great, dvd'ish at best(but that's more of an encoding issue). No idea about xbox, I actually planned on trying it in a couple months. I heard netflix will work after a bit of buffering, untested myself. PC gaming, Battlefield 3 works well enough, I can find games where my ping is between 90 and 130, and that is playable. Older games like Bad Comnpany 2, not so great. Server choices are limited so it's harder to find a good connection, I uninstalled it.
Oh yeah, no streaming video while downloading, or really anything else. I tend to download at night or when nothing else is streaming.
Me downloading Battlefield 3
It actually only took 36 hours if I remember
Torrenting 1.6 gigs right now, it will take about 4 hours while also browsing the internet.
Edited by 4runner (09/22/13 09:41 AM)
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CL has bad service. I've been throttled by them at peak hours  CL took over the ISP that was in my area before. They've took over tons and it seems like people get nothing but bad service from them. The U.S. has shitty net because of monopoly type shit that goes on.
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: Eggtimer]
#18875615 - 09/22/13 11:55 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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If u have a slow internet its a severe sign of an electritional deficiency
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Re: Fuck slow internet [Re: 4runner]
#18880112 - 09/23/13 11:04 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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anunnakian said:
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Herbologist said: Moving to a new house and the only option is Century Link for 1.5/mbps
That's is exactly what I have right now. Streaming HD is out of the question. Youtube will stream at 360p pretty well and if the gods are smiling you can sometimes get 480p to play with a bit of buffering. Youtube sucks speed wise anyways. I still watch all my tv and movies off of primwire.ag and most of the time there is no buffering, but the quality isn't that great, dvd'ish at best(but that's more of an encoding issue). No idea about xbox, I actually planned on trying it in a couple months. I heard netflix will work after a bit of buffering, untested myself. PC gaming, Battlefield 3 works well enough, I can find games where my ping is between 90 and 130, and that is playable. Older games like Bad Comnpany 2, not so great. Server choices are limited so it's harder to find a good connection, I uninstalled it.
Oh yeah, no streaming video while downloading, or really anything else. I tend to download at night or when nothing else is streaming.
Me downloading Battlefield 3
It actually only took 36 hours if I remember
Torrenting 1.6 gigs right now, it will take about 4 hours while also browsing the internet.
As far as just your every day internet browsing, it really doesnt sound that bad.
I dont really ever download or stream movies unless its Netflix but mostly I just want to game. Moved in last night and Directv will be out today, I wish there ISP wasn't century link too.
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