BF2S Forums 20Meg Connection is Sex

killer21 wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Verizon (fios) is upgrading me to 50/20 tomorrow . My HOA is paying for part of it. I got the email today.

Sweet!  It makes you wonder why people are still with Comcrap....lol.

Here in my local market Verizon is buying the cable companies. It's a no brainier, even on the lower connections. Do you get fios TV as well?

killer21 wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Here in my local market Verizon is buying the cable companies. It's a no brainier, even on the lower connections. Do you get fios TV as well?

Yes.  I got the entire package for a meager 99.99 per month.  Can't beat that deal.  The only thing I don't like about FiOS TV is the fact that Verizon does not have a deal in place with MLB or DirectTV to broadcast the MLB package.  I live in MD and am a Braves fan.  That is probably the only thing I liked about Comcast.  Other than that, I love the HD DVR.

I would get it as well but for some reason my homeowners association has a deal worked out with both Verizon and the cable company (I'm sure they are giving them breaks for mass signups). They pay for part of my cable bill through Brighthouse and they pay for part of my Internet through Verizon. It's over $100 a month in savings so I'm not going to screw that up. I have an HD DVR as well and I just added an expander. So now I am recording all of my movies in HD .

Kmarion wrote:

I would get it as well but for some reason my homeowners association has a deal worked out with both Verizon and the cable company (I'm sure they are giving them breaks for mass signups). They pay for part of my cable bill through Brighthouse and they pay for part of my Internet through Verizon. It's over $100 a month in savings so I'm not going to screw that up. I have an HD DVR as well and I just added an expander. So now I am recording all of my movies in HD .

I may have to look into that expander since I record just about everything I watch in HD. 

Jenspm wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

killer21 wrote:

Yes.  I got the entire package for a meager 99.99 per month.  Can't beat that deal.  The only thing I don't like about FiOS TV is the fact that Verizon does not have a deal in place with MLB or DirectTV to broadcast the MLB package.  I live in MD and am a Braves fan.  That is probably the only thing I liked about Comcast.  Other than that, I love the HD DVR.

I would get it as well but for some reason my homeowners association has a deal worked out with both Verizon and the cable company (I'm sure they are giving them breaks for mass signups). They pay for part of my cable bill through Brighthouse and they pay for part of my Internet through Verizon. It's over $100 a month in savings so I'm not going to screw that up. I have an HD DVR as well and I just added an expander. So now I am recording all of my movies in HD .

as in, your DVD/Blu-ray movies?

if so, is there any quality loss at all?

No I have all the HD channels. I think there is like 40 or so for me. A blue ray sized movie would chew up the space in no time. Broadcast signals are much smaller than 1080p. The expander says it can record up to 60 hours. But I think it's a lot more than that. When it's combined with my DVR storage I get almost 1gig per movie. Specifically I have 11 full length movies stored in HD and I have used 13 percent. I'm not sure as to the format it saves it in.

Also be aware that if you take the external dvr drive and disconnect it from the DVR you have to format it before it can be used again. You loses everything you saved. I am going to see if there is a way around it (Hax tbh). I should probably try that before I fill it up .

Kmarion wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

woot I'm still in the lead! muahahaha. I didn't think my internet was all that great until I did the test. (pack on the top of page 2)

Aries came real close though.

Both you and Aries have the luxury of a university backing your conn..lol.

As they should! I'm .. err my parents.. are paying top dollar for me to go here

I like to take advantage of this sexy connection whenever I can, cuz when I go home it's absolute crap

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mtb0minime wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

woot I'm still in the lead! muahahaha. I didn't think my internet was all that great until I did the test. (pack on the top of page 2)

Aries came real close though.

Both you and Aries have the luxury of a university backing your conn..lol.

As they should! I'm .. err my parents.. are paying top dollar for me to go here

I like to take advantage of this sexy connection whenever I can, cuz when I go home it's absolute crap

Considering that you're on a college network, what kind of limitations do you have on your network? I know it used to be torrents, but some places have been getting really aggressive and are turning to deep packet inspection and the likes.

You havn't had much sex then have you.

I get 650-700KB/s, good enough.

prototype wrote:

IN SOVIET NORWAY INTERNETS DOWNLOAD YOU

I lol'd.

"In Soviet Russia, road forks you."

mikkel wrote:

Considering that you're on a college network, what kind of limitations do you have on your network? I know it used to be torrents, but some places have been getting really aggressive and are turning to deep packet inspection and the likes.

I haven't experienced any limitations yet, but then again, I download things very little to none. And I'm not sure if it's 100% effective or not, but I also use forced encryption on uTorrent.

Couple years ago one of my roommates got a few e-mails from Fox and NBC telling him to stop downloading torrents. I don't know what program he was using. But of course, he was downloading massive amounts of stuff, so they'd be more inclined to go after him.


DC++ is where it's at. That's where you can truly take advantage of a fast network if someone in the area sets up a hub. My first year here someone had a hub and it was awesome. If I was bored one night, I'd browse around and "rent" a movie (i.e. download it in less than a minute) or check out some music. Unfortunately the guy who had the hub graduated and as far as I know, no one else has set another one up (and I don't want or care to do it myself).

some_random_panda wrote:

Wait a moment....I could have sworn my internet speed was 1500 kbps.


So how did I just get 6000 kbps on the test?

Upgraded the line to ADSL2+? TPG did that, now I have ADSL2+ enabled but no modem to use it

Kmarion wrote:

As promised:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/222659408.png

The up is a little low though.

I get that too..  I know I have an upload speed of 15 megs but sometimes it says 3 to 4 mbps.  The majority of the time, however, I do get the actual 15 mbps.