(November 16, 2013 at 9:56 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I bet you pay less than I do as well.

I don't pay for it directly as my rent includes all bills, but from the Plusnet website I think it works out at $56 a month (including line rental).

I'm assuming this is good then?

You people don't know what high ping is.

(November 16, 2013 at 11:53 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: You people don't know what high ping is.

So you've still got dial up then?

(November 16, 2013 at 11:23 pm)Tiberius Wrote:

(November 16, 2013 at 9:56 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I bet you pay less than I do as well.

I don't pay for it directly as my rent includes all bills, but from the Plusnet website I think it works out at $56 a month (including line rental).

Mine is in a cable bundle but it works out to about $60 for 30 down / 5 up, which is what I usually get - perhaps a little slower during primetime.

By comparison - I have a self-administered dedicated server in Europe with 100 up / 100 down that I pay 48 euros (65usd) per month to rent.

(November 16, 2013 at 11:55 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: So you've still got dial up then?

Not at all. I live in a motel room, and I use the free Wi-Fi provided here.

(November 16, 2013 at 11:57 pm)Kitanetos Wrote:

(November 16, 2013 at 11:55 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: So you've still got dial up then?

Not at all. I live in a motel room, and I use the free Wi-Fi provided here.

I bet you're sharing it with a bunch of people streaming porn.

It is really weird, though. During the weekdays, my ping is very low, in the manageable hundreds, usually less than 500. At night and on the weekends, it suddenly spikes between 4-8k and sometimes even to 10-20k.

Why is it perfectly fine during the day and then horrible the rest of the time?

(November 16, 2013 at 11:57 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(November 16, 2013 at 11:23 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I don't pay for it directly as my rent includes all bills, but from the Plusnet website I think it works out at $56 a month (including line rental).

Mine is in a cable bundle but it works out to about $60 for 30 down / 5 up, which is what I usually get - perhaps a little slower during primetime.

By comparison - I have a self-administered dedicated server in Europe with 100 up / 100 down that I pay 48 euros (65usd) per month to rent.

What kind of sustained bandwidth can you push across the pond, CD?

(November 17, 2013 at 12:26 am)Kitanetos Wrote: Why is it perfectly fine during the day and then horrible the rest of the time?

I'd guess they have both a crappy wireless network and a crappy uplink that gets hosed when people actually use it.

(November 17, 2013 at 12:26 am)popeyespappy Wrote: What kind of sustained bandwidth can you push across the pond, CD?

Depends on the time of day. Off hours, I can get about 25mb. During prime time, it's usually not better than 10mb, sometimes as low as 5mb. I really only back haul data across the transatlantic fiber at night.