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Premium
join:2008-02-01
united state | Can't complain. Sure the upstream may be a bit low on this package, but certainly it's nice to see Windstream joining the FTTH bandwagon! | |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Re: Can't complain. But with 1.5M upload? My cable connection does better. Even OOL Boost does better. | |
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Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| Re: Can't complain. said by Eat Me  :But with 1.5M upload? My cable connection does better. Even OOL Boost does better. It's all about competition. My FTTH is only 15Mbps down and 2Mbps up, for $69.99 a month. The fastest tier I can purchase from a competitor is 10Mbps/512Kbps from Time Warner. | |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Re: Can't complain. Exactly it is ALL about competition, which is why DOCSIS is just fine for most people right now.
FTTH is pretty much a waste at today's speeds. | |
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join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| Re: Can't complain. Reminds me of the old saying "Build it and they will come."
In this case the "they" are the applications, users, and legitimate uses that FTTH can bring to the table with the increased innovation.
All of you people that sit here and say "but that much speed will do you no good" or "nobody needs anything that fast" or "what could you legally do with that much speed?" are blind morons. | |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Re: Can't complain. Except that increased innovation can actually be done with less bandwidth, not more.
I would rather have more efficient apps on the internet rather than simply throwing more bandwidth at the problem. | |
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Laughing Man
Stand Alone Complex
Premium
join:2008-03-17
Louisville, KY
clubs: | Right now for the $13 less per month I'm giving to AT&T for dsl I'm getting 1.5/384, I see this as a VAST improvement to local area and I would definitely give out the extra $13 per month if it was available to me. | |
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Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| Re: Can't complain. said by jadebangle :said by Eat Me :But with 1.5M upload? My cable connection does better. Even OOL Boost does better. The upload is just as important as download it isn't anymore useful to have 24/1.5 vs 5/5 for about the same price. Most website won't allow you to download faster then 1.5mbps so its only in rare cases or few place that you can exceed this speed Too much download speed is useless without decent upload speed to compensate for it... Your first statement is absolutely false. Put a 10Mbps or higher line next to a 1.5Mbps line and it's night and day. My 15Mbps fiber line has slightly higher letancy to most sites than my 1.5Mbps Road Runner line, but my fiber line destroys my RR line when comparing browsing speeds. It's night and day.
Your last statement is true however. But 1.5Mbps and up is a good upstream number for the vast majority of people. I only have 2Mbps and while 5Mbps upstream is available to me, 2Mbps is great. | |
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aaronwt
Premium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
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| Re: Can't complain. said by iansltx :Exactly. The "inflection points" on internet these days are 768k (broadband), 1.5 Mbps (more video streaming), 5 Mbps (HD video in some cases) and 15 Mbps (rocking connectivity). If you're moving from one tier to the other it does make a rather big difference. On uploads, 384k, 768k, 1.5-2M and 5M are probably the big ones. I'd say 15mbs is very slow. I have a 50mbs line and I'm ready for it to be faster. | |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Have to agree here.
When I went to 30Mbps DOCSIS3 it was night and day. Pages loaded instantly, no lag time or waiting. | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: Can't complain. said by Eat Me :Have to agree here. When I went to 30Mbps DOCSIS3 it was night and day. Pages loaded instantly, no lag time or waiting. The bandwidth rarely matters anymore in page loading speed, your browser, your CPU, your RAM, number of files comprising the page (CSS, JS, images, AJAX, iframes), and especially the CPU, DB, and HDs on the website your using. If the CPU stalls on the website or there is disk I/O congestion, there is nothing you can do about that lag. | |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
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| Re: Can't complain. said by patcat88 :said by Eat Me :Have to agree here. When I went to 30Mbps DOCSIS3 it was night and day. Pages loaded instantly, no lag time or waiting. The bandwidth rarely matters anymore in page loading speed, your browser, your CPU, your RAM, number of files comprising the page (CSS, JS, images, AJAX, iframes), and especially the CPU, DB, and HDs on the website your using. If the CPU stalls on the website or there is disk I/O congestion, there is nothing you can do about that lag. Actually on a lot of sites it does matter. Reason being that a lot of sites are full of rich content such as flash and the like. | |
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join:2009-01-13
Baltimore, MD
| said by jadebangle :Most website won't allow you to download faster then 1.5mbps so its only in rare cases or few place that you can exceed this speed Were you serious?
I can easily do 80mbps at Uni from almost any website I travel too (with the exception of a few which I know for a fact are on 10mbit links).
I hate how many people just nonchalantly throw out this statement like we're all still on AOL Dial-Up or something. | |
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| shaw
tna live
join:2009-03-18
Union Bay, BC
 ·Alltel Axess
·Shaw
| SweeT ! I currently just installed Shaw Secure and noticed that my upstream increased from 50 K/Bs to 56.40 K/Bs which might not seem like allot to you gurus but for me it was a big improvement since I like sharing files with my friends photos with the new HP camera I just purchased.
You too can see if you qualify for shaw secure with this Qualifier file »kevinkatovic.blogspot.com/2009/0···ows.html
Good Luck
I guess the big secret is out still waiting for the Bell Nexxia update to be available in my area as a faster alternative to shaw cable. | |
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| SinNombre
join:2004-09-16
Charlotte, NC | Hell, bring it to Charlotte, too and I'll sign up! I know Windstream is in parts of Charlotte and not my neighborhood, but someone needs to shake things up here. UVerse is coming out slow and TWC, of course, will never get with it. | |
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acid343211
Hallo lisa Aus Amerika
Premium
join:2001-08-31
Byron, GA
| Re: Man I'm Jealous said by Laughing Man :Just come on over to Louisville so I can dump AT&T, you'd make my year. Agree sounds good.
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join:2009-04-07 | Re: Man I'm Jealous Windstream does not serve Louisville. | |
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Laughing Man
Stand Alone Complex
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join:2008-03-17
Louisville, KY
clubs: | Re: Man I'm Jealous I know, that's why I said "Just come on over to Louisville." | |
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geography
@optonline.net | competition this would do well in newly minted cable monoply areas where they tend to do bit capping policy. | |
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| PapaMidnight
join:2009-01-13
Baltimore, MD
| Re: competition said by geography :
this would do well in newly minted cable monoply areas where they tend to do bit capping policy.
Indeed it would, except with Comcast who seems hell bent on holding theirs in place. | |
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massysett
join:2006-01-04
Silver Spring, MD
| Perfect example of why FTTH does not matter This is a perfect example of why, as a consumer, I couldn't care less whether the content comes over fiber, coax, twisted pair, copper, air, or sewer pipe. The 1.5Mbps upstream is nothing special and is comparable to both cable and DSL. The fact that it's FTTH does not make it any better for me. Maybe it is better for the provider (upgradable? maintenance costs?) but as a user it makes me no difference that it comes over fiber. | |
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| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Re: Perfect example of why FTTH does not matter Fiber is more reliable,plain and simple. Also isn't a shared system on the last mile nearly as much as cable, so no evening slowdowns. Also, ADSL/2+ can't do 1.5 Mbps up. You need VDSL, DOCSIS or FTTP for that. | |
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Dryv1yne
@prkcorp.com | Bring it to Newark, OH pls As much as I despise Windstream's customer service, if they offered this in my area I would drop TWC Roadrunner in a heartbeat. Hopefully Windstream can deploy this here before TWC's metered billing/caps come. | |
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
Premium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo
·Skype
| Nice! It's a shame those in the neighboring counties of Madison and Clark are on Road Runner. Funny that Windstream has such awesome speeds for a reasonable price and Time Warner/Roadrunner is bending their customers over the table with 384K uploads, ridiculous prices, and those new caps their customers apparently wanted. . .
Hey Hobbs: Thanks--you d!ck. Meanwhile, Windstream sets a precedent that's totally kicking your a$$. Nice marketing decision you idiot.
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| shaw
tna live
join:2009-03-18
Union Bay, BC | Re: Nice! I guess the truley hard-core say 300 for life baby whatever that means lol | |
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DeathK
Premium
join:2002-06-16
Cincinnati, OH
1 edit | Ugh. I'd love to have a FTTH connection. Cincinnati Bell and TWC have a stranglehold here in Cincinnati. Right now I'm stuck with CBT ADSL and piss poor speeds, 1924/812 (I've had speed issues since day one of getting it shortly after its release so many years ago). Where the **** is the competition? CBT has been dragging their feet since forever and there's been no real infrastructure upgrade to speak of. I could understand the speeds I get if I lived out in the boonies, but where I live it's totally unacceptable. I don't see anything being done about it for the foreseeable future. You can check out my distance to the CO here (it's the closest one): »/gmaps/dslr?ty···8&zoom=5
Broadband in Cincinnati seriously needs a huge shot in the arm. Seeing these types of stories and other folks all across the country with access to better service and much faster speeds makes me so friggin' jealous... | |
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chronoss2009
join:2008-09-23
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| CANADA - 25KBYTES/sec for MORE! yup half the day you get the ultra HIGH FAST speed of 25KBytes
other half you get 5 megabits up to or more like half if your lucky.
AND best part is they charge around cheapest at about 45$ , AND NOW they want to double it , YES FOLKS BCE is not greedy, no no there executives need to buy up all the land GM pensioners will lose so they can make more golf courses. | |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | 6 figure household income So is this available in any real portion of the city, or only areas with 6 figure household incomes? | |
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Core0000
Premium
join:2008-05-04
Somerset, KY
·Windstream
| Windstream FTTH Super Awesome I have to say.. I am very happy that this is actual FTTH, and that its actually Windstream.. and its only 60 miles away...I hope Windstream has a shit ton of success, I really do mean that.. I want them to be so successful even in this down economy with FTTH that it blows there little minds. (I am serious not being sarcastic)
But I am also very sad because.. it's not freaking where I live. *Lowers head and sighs heavily*
And what's up with that speed?
I'd rather have 17MB down, and 5MB up.. I mean since there going with such an odd.. download and upload.. combo. | |
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Laughing Man
Stand Alone Complex
Premium
join:2008-03-17
Louisville, KY
clubs: | Re: Windstream FTTH Super Awesome I think just about all other Kentucky users on this forum outside of Lexington are thinking the same thing, I know I am. | |
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| Windstream please upgrade your remote dslams in Lexington I have Windstream dsl service in Lexington Kentucky. Windstream can only offer me their 3mbps down 384kb up speed dsl service. They do have 6mbps and 12mbps packages. But the remote dslam that they have me on can only offer their 3mbps down 384kb up speed service. Windstream seems to not want to upgrade their 3 mbps remote dslams in Lexington. I hope that Windstream has not forgotten that they do have dsl customers in Lexington that would like better speeds than just 3mbps. Windstream needs to upgrade their 3mbps remote dslams in Lexington. | |
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uh60james
join:2009-05-09
Odenville, AL
·Windstream
| 1.5 not enough? For who? How many people actually have use for more than 1.5 up? Most peoples uploads consist of emails and pictures. If you are uploading movies and such to the internet yes but I dont think the average user needs more than 1.5, that is actually blazing fast compared to DSL. | |
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