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[BeefJeRKy]

General Wesley, on 3 Jul 2009, 5:37, said:

Oh god. I can only imagine in 20 years, there will not only be one big government run healthcare plan, but government internet! I live over in the states, I don't know about the other guys.

What's with AOL?

Many countries around the world have some pretty good governement-run healthcare systems but this isn't exactly the palce for it now. As for a government-run ISP, yes that would suck. A LOT.

[D.K.]

We have several ISPs that suck big time, but worst being the Amis Telekom and T-Scum (T-Com). First ones are ran by kids who want to get some money fast selling you outdated and infected lollipops, and second one is having maintenance just when most people are on internet or whole connection goes fuck hell when rain falls. Yep, that's Croatia.

[Admiral Wesley]

Shit, I feel bad for ya. Well Croatia DOES have one thing going for it: SERIOUS SAM.

[Sgt. Nuker]

Alias, on 15 Jun 2009, 3:31, said:

COMCASTIC!

Comrade would say that from time to time. His "luck" with Comcast wasn't the best. His connection would be pretty well knackered at times and he'd have to have a tech priest....Comcast technician come over.

I'm also a Comcast user and the only problem I've ever had was with our cable modem. Apparently the silly things are only supposed to last a couple years (I think something on the order of 5 years). We had ours for 8 when it finally gave out. That's really the only spotty service we've ever had, and it wasn't Comcast's fault to be honest (though I guess you could blame them for having modems that aren't designed to last long). Never had another ISP other than Comcast, so I can't really say anything bad about other ISP's. I will say that cable is so much better than DSL though.

[Wizard]

*Little necro*

Pav3d, on 14 Jun 2009, 19:33, said:

Virgin Media can just GTFO.
Slow down, tracking your stuff, cost alot for a pretty small speed. (Ive been on upto 250kbps for far too long) RETARDED FUCKING CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Pav3d, on 14 Jun 2009, 22:00, said:

General Wesley, on 14 Jun 2009, 19:52, said:

Shit, dude, I feel bad for you! Get Comcast before it's too late!

I cant, im stuck on their bloody cable. Costs loads to get ADSL installed *tear*

Couldn't disagree less with Pav3d here tbh. I have been on Virgin for years now, back when they were Telewest/Blueyonder. The only issue I have ever had was with a Linksys router I bought that caused a lot of DNS shifting, stopped using it and now its pretty damn good. I never have a ping larger than 40 on pretty much any server. However I realize that with most ISP in the UK it's situational. Pav3d is just unlucky tbh.

Now moving on to why I've brought this up (and Pav3d don't read this if I were you), I've just upgraded from my already decent 20mb line that cost me only £10 a month anyway, to a 50mb line that is only costing me £22.50 a month, plus a completely new installation, new modem and free router that is promised not to DNS shift.

Good Times!!!

[General]

Scope, on 15 Jun 2009, 0:37, said:

Not everybody lives in the States General Wesley Also I've heard mixed things about Comcast but that it is still better than Verizon and Sprint, No idea about Road Runner.

Knowing that there is technically only one really shitty ISP here in Lebanon, I'll pass mine off as worst

Yea, there is only a couple in my country aswell, I think. But I can't decide which one is worse than other, still there is no choice but to ' obey ' if I want to use internetz

[BeefJeRKy]

Turian, on 20 Jul 2009, 19:44, said:

Scope, on 15 Jun 2009, 0:37, said:

Not everybody lives in the States General Wesley Also I've heard mixed things about Comcast but that it is still better than Verizon and Sprint, No idea about Road Runner.

Knowing that there is technically only one really shitty ISP here in Lebanon, I'll pass mine off as worst

Yea, there is only a couple in my country aswell, I think. But I can't decide which one is worse than other, still there is no choice but to ' obey ' if I want to use internetz

*sigh*
Developing nations

[Wizard]

*Slightly bigger necro.*

Wizard, on 20 Jul 2009, 17:02, said:

*Little necro*

Now moving on to why I've brought this up (and Pav3d don't read this if I were you), I've just upgraded from my already decent 20mb line that cost me only £10 a month anyway, to a 50mb line that is only costing me £22.50 a month, plus a completely new installation, new modem and free router that is promised not to DNS shift.

Good Times!!!

Thought I'd update you all on install of the new service from Virgin



That's an MP3 in 1 sec, Vid Clip [35mb] in 5 secs and an 800mb movie in 2 mins. Not bad for the Uk.

*smiles smuggly to himself*

[Pav:3d]

Sweet, How much a month u paying for that? Did they have to install that fiber optic stuff too?

[Wizard]

I've had fibreoptic cabling since I moved into this place, well over a year ago. They just had to update my antiquated modem and router. A month my bill is about £60 but that includes 2 phone lines and a pointless TV package as I have Sky+ HD.

[Pav:3d]

Damn, im living in the past.

Lul@it still calling it telewest broadband, those were the days...

[Wizard]

Lol yeah, I remember when the only ISP you could have in this country was dial-up AOL. Thank God for progress (in some places at least).

[General]

Scope, on 21 Jul 2009, 0:09, said:

Turian, on 20 Jul 2009, 19:44, said:

Scope, on 15 Jun 2009, 0:37, said:

Not everybody lives in the States General Wesley Also I've heard mixed things about Comcast but that it is still better than Verizon and Sprint, No idea about Road Runner.

Knowing that there is technically only one really shitty ISP here in Lebanon, I'll pass mine off as worst

Yea, there is only a couple in my country aswell, I think. But I can't decide which one is worse than other, still there is no choice but to ' obey ' if I want to use internetz

*sigh*
Developing nations

At home its downloading with 110 - 120 kb per second, but still its shit compared to what European Countries give imo

Edit: Wait, why my server is in another city than I reside ?! :S

Edited by Turian, 08 August 2009 - 17:52.

[Brad]

not sure what that means, but the best speed I can get when donwloading somthing is 250 KB/s


Damn the BT homehub to hell

Edited by Brad, 08 August 2009 - 17:57.

[Dauth]

I need faster upload speed tbh. Though this isn't too bad.

[Pav:3d]

I need faster everything
Tho the speed itself isnt too bad, its just that ive had the same damn speed for around 4-5 years now.

[Wizard]

Wizard, on 8 Aug 2009, 17:34, said:

Pav3d, on 8 Aug 2009, 18:28, said:

Lul@it still calling it telewest broadband, those were the days...

Dauth, on 8 Aug 2009, 18:59, said:

So how come I'm still on Telewest and Dauths has registered Virgin?

Stupid speedtest.net

Edited by Wizard, 08 August 2009 - 18:03.

[Dauth]

Probably which server you're hooked up to mate.

[BeefJeRKy]

moved up from 512kbps to supposedly 1mbps. feels a lil more free to breathe but dl limit is still a crap 5GB .

[Libains]

I present: Shit Net 101

Live in the country
About 50miles from the exchange
Use a crap ISP
Have stingy parents



Wiz, you're a lucky lucky man

Edited by AJ, 08 August 2009 - 23:57.

[Sgt. Nuker]

5 MB in 3 seconds
35 MB in 18 seconds
800 MB in 7 minutes

My upload speed is crazy, with an average (for cable) download speed.

[Wizard]

It's is cracy how you have that upload speed. I was told by the engineer who brought the new modem/router for the service that Virgin are working on how to improve the upload speed. Nooka, yours is very impressive by English standards anyway.

[Admiral Wesley]

[Kris]

I tested using a london server with a 900ms ping and here's what i got:


Now, Tested using a local server:


It sucks... But hey, it's alot better and more stable compared to the first one i used. the first one is more horrible than chernobyl.

Edited by Yayo01, 10 August 2009 - 21:07.

[Hobbesy]

This is a real freakin' embarrassment!

Edited by Høbbesy, 10 August 2009 - 22:21.