I fucking hate my ISP (23)

1 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-03 21:18 ID:Exf2VADX

American DSL is infamously bad, but I mean seriously 1.1 mbs???

WTF, everyone in my state using my ISP gets at least 2mbs. (I use at&t yahoo dsl, by the way). I'm dead sure I was getting 2mbs when I first upgraded my connection too, since I set my muTorrent to 250kbs max download; I've since had to throttle it down to 125.

Meanwhile the average Canadian can connect at 7mbs, the average French at 17mbs, and the average Japanese at like 50, or some other disgusting number.

2 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-03 22:57 ID:8lO9MVC4

... and the average Australian connects at 256kbit.

3 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-04 12:13 ID:t0PG2lEN

Yeah, before bitching about Internet access in the US, come live in Australia for a year.

4 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-04 20:49 ID:Heaven

Australia is for koalas.

5 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-05 02:39 ID:MhTo1+1b

>>4
And sting-rays.

6 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-05 12:54 ID:NGBd7zX9

>>1
The government wanted to invest a fair drop to improve overall internet speeds. Telstra didn't want to spend so much.

7 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-05 13:28 ID:e9K76Q+C

Australia. That is all!

8 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-06 05:15 ID:QtuRQBpe

Aussies pay per-unit for bandwidth. Teh ultimate suck.

9 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-06 11:32 ID:PKcy1Lmz

Everyone pays per-unit for bandwidth.

Unless you're talking about download allowance, where there are some accounts which have you pay per GB. Although I'm not on one of those.

10 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-06 16:24 ID:e9K76Q+C

A typical australian ISP would offer 256k, 2GB or 10GB download allowance, and if you exceed the limit you get slowed down or have to pay per MB. All for roughly $40 per month. Most of these figures vary but that's what we put up with.

11 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-06 19:51 ID:8lO9MVC4

>>6

No Telstra and Sol didn't like the idea of "competition" using their lines!

12 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-07 05:35 ID:0bLTCfiZ

>>10

Wow.

Remind me not to take any jobs there.
I wonder if New Zealand is any better, probably not.

13 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-11 19:33 ID:Heaven

>>12
No, it's worse. All the New Zealanders move to Australia, because there is no work there.

14 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-15 00:59 ID:RYOzuceI

>>2
I'd probably kill for that kind of speed.
Rural America doesn't get any kind of broadband service. The best we get is 50kbps, which is super lucky.

15 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-11-17 08:26 ID:Heaven

>>12
New Zealand's similar.

16 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-12-30 21:13 ID:sQu8/SH1

japan can do 50mbs? can anyone confirm this? holy shit im moving to japan if true

17 Name: Redhatter : 2007-12-31 23:11 ID:Heaven

What's so great about 50 millibits per second?

18 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2008-01-01 00:15 ID:y2DzPm5T

Well, we've been suffering long enough in Germany.

16MBit/s flat rates are now fairly common here; thank god.

But I know your pain. We fought for this, do the same. Found communities, complain to the government, etc.

19 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2008-01-01 02:13 ID:qBY17I1H

>>16

http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=4&country=78&region=375&city=1111

More like 20mbs in Tokyo, which is pretty common with their fiber-optic lines. Although I understand this speed is mostly intra-Japan, they don't connect to US servers any faster than we connect to theirs, obviously.

20 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2008-01-01 14:29 ID:PKcy1Lmz

That may not be such a big issue as long as there are enough BitTorrent peers in Japan downloading the same files. :-)

21 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2008-01-01 23:34 ID:MIyTgqTi

>>22 Perhaps you should upgrade the capacity?

22 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2008-01-02 02:33 ID:sQu8/SH1

no u. and stop distorting time, asshole

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