Whats the fastest high speed internet service?
Soon I will be getting high speed internet for my mac in a couple of weeks and I'm wondering which is the fastest.
Price is NOT a factor. At about the same I will be getting a job that pays 500 dollars a month
. So, which internet service is the fastest? Also what is the average speed?
Price is NOT a factor. At about the same I will be getting a job that pays 500 dollars a month
. So, which internet service is the fastest? Also what is the average speed?
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Overall cable modems appear to be the fastest CONSUMER broadband options. There are DSL and Fiber options that can outpace cable modems, at least if you're living in the right area and can afford them.
Personally I'm looking for a new DSL option that gives me a faster upload speed because I send and receive a lot of info sometimes.
Originally posted by bunge
Well, it depends what you're going to do with it.
I will be streaming and downloading online videos. I will be doing LOTS of downloading. I will do a lot of web surfing. A lot of the time I will have multiple webpages rumming at the same. Talking to many people on MSN Messenger(when i'm on my pc). And I absolutely need the phoneline open at all times. the $500 i'll be making a month is all for stuff for me so again, price is NOT a factor.
I use a cable modem from Pennsylvania provider (PennTeleData) and it's pretty damn fast. Using multiple programs, I can easily get up to 300KB coming into my computer at a time. Keep in mind this is going through a router and sent wirelessly to me too. My upload isn't amazing though, and I'd say that biggest thing that slows down the internet for me is when my brothers forget to cap their sharing in BitTorrent and I guess that max's out out upload and you need some to talk to servers to tell what information you are requesting.
At home, cable works pretty well for me at both uploading and downloading. I live just outside of Toronto. Be careful when hosting a website from your cable or other high-speed connection. Typically this violates the terms of service.
And all these videos you will be downloading, they wouldn't happen to be someone else's intellectual property, right? If so, why not take some of your $500/month and go to the video store?
Originally posted by Cosmo
And all these videos you will be downloading, they wouldn't happen to be someone else's intellectual property, right? If so, why not take some of your $500/month and go to the video store?
He is 13, it's not just feature films, it's probably lots and lots of porn
A better way to obtain movies then download is to sign up for a netflix account. You could then time shift any movie you don't have time to watch before you have to send them back.
Theoretically for $20/month I can get 36/month, but it's more like 24/month. Still for $20 you can't beat that. BlockBuster sells movies for what, $5 a movie?
Originally posted by Cosmo
And all these videos you will be downloading, they wouldn't happen to be someone else's intellectual property, right? If so, why not take some of your $500/month and go to the video store?
No, these videos i'll be downloading will just be quicktime or game and movie trailers and stuff like that.
Originally posted by zodiac
No, these videos i'll be downloading will just be quicktime or game and movie trailers and stuff like that.
Willing to spend up to $500/month on that?!
You ARE from Canada eh?
Originally posted by WorldIRC
I have 9mbps service with DOCSIS2.0 for $45CDN plus 15% tax per month.
Thanks for throwing another log on the jealousy fire burning in me.
"Go to happy place, Ebby"
I've been doing some downloading and I seem to be getting a pretty consistent 300+ Kb/sec rate.