Faster at last....

[zba78]

Since last September my ISP have been promising to upgrade all of it's customers downstream speed by 4x and upstream speed 3x. Well I waited.....and waited.....and waited and finally today 7 months later they've finally done it.

So now I have 4M Bits downstream and 384k bits upstream

[spencerf]

cool its always nice when a company does what it finally promises to do. I'm still working with a capped upload somewherer around 200-300kbs I think. When previously I had 1mb upload.

[techieMoe]

A moment of silence please for those of us still waiting for broadband access of *any* speed.

[spencerf]

hey techiemoe have you checked out any form of satelite internet provided by people like direct-tv or dishnetwork?

[carlosponti]

the dish network internet sucks btw. downloads speeds are great but you still have to upload thru a modem. worst of all you are stuck with dish tv.

[techieMoe]

hey techiemoe have you checked out any form of satelite internet provided by people like direct-tv or dishnetwork?

Dedicated satellite internet is prohibitively expensive, and although we have Dish Network for our TV, the only internet access they offer is through DSL, which is not available for our area. Trust me, when I moved in here I rattled every cage I could find. I live in a black hole into which no one seems to be willing to drop their technology.

[AlexK]

Damm, Im still waiting for something faster than 256 Kbps wireless to become available to me. I know it is better than 56K, but it is still slooooowwww....

techieMoe, have you taken a look at wether any wireless isp's are around in your area? For me, the cost of wireless is almost comparable to what DSL would offer, in this backwater of broadband internet technology known as Australia. IIRC, the company which markets the technology and modem is based in Texas, they go by the name of Navini Networks.

[techieMoe]

techieMoe, have you taken a look at wether any wireless isp's are around in your area? For me, the cost of wireless is almost comparable to what DSL would offer, in this backwater of broadband internet technology known as Australia. IIRC, the company which markets the technology and modem is based in Texas, they go by the name of Navini Networks.

That's certainly a possibility. I know my mobile phone can act as a Bluetooth modem, I've just never looked at the pricing schemes for doing it. I found a website for Navini Networks, but I can't find anything for regular internet services, just municipal WiMAX stuff. I'll keep looking. That's one avenue I haven't yet exhausted.

[AlexK]

Moe, take a look here. It looks like various providers which use the navini wireless modems. Bellsouth and Rioplex seem to be good candidates.

Oh and using mobile phones for internet access are horrendous, for basic 3G or GPRS surfing here I have to pay 2 cents per kilobyte for the privilage. Even then, the speed is nothing to write about, most of the time it is basic 56K or below sustained. However once in a while, it will burst to 300 Kb/sec, and that is very rare.

[bryansmith]

A moment of silence please for those of us still waiting for broadband access of *any* speed.

I'm with you four months of the year on that. Although I'm not waiting for it back home, we just don't have it.

Bryan