Comments on: Why I was pissed off at my ISP

By: SeanPAune.com » Blog Archive » The U.S.A. is willing to settle on DSL as a standard?

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:35:35 +0000

[...] and while that may be good enough for most people, as a national standard it’s a joke. As I touched on previously, we are already lagging behind significant portions of the world in speed. I then went on to [...]

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:23:37 +0000

Roy: please fill me in. I’ve heard of Global IPs before, but do not yet fully understand their utility. Could you tell me what they’re best for?

By: Sean P Aune

Sean P Aune — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:25:33 +0000

Roy… please go die…

Love,
Sean

*mumbles about FREE 40mbps*

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:30:35 +0000

In the condominium I was living in before I moved I got a shared (with 10 other units)100Mbps fiber/optic connection that would average around 40Mbps up/down. The best part was that it was totally free AND I got 5 global IPs to boot AND they had lan ports in the walls of every room. Japan is great!

Now, I have to PAY for the Fiber in my house which totally sucks…

By: Sean P. Aune

Sean P. Aune — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:13:08 +0000

Correct away Luis:) I know the advertised speeds are RARELY going to be a reality, heck, I hardly ever get my 5mbps. It is insane what I’m paying though. When I decided to run a small server from my office, I had to go to their $99 a month package, and all that did was “double” my upload speed. The server moved like a snail, so I dumped it and went back down to the $59 package.

I am still WAY overpaying for what I receive, and as you sighted, the telecoms just keep shafting us. This is not going away anytime soon, and it is quite frankly pissing me off. (I know… Sean pissed… what a shocker.)

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:30:26 +0000

Oops. And the 350 MB file usually comes down within an hour or two–it can come down in a lot less, especially if you get those lucky 1MB/sec speeds on it. Sorry for the excessive corrections.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:27:33 +0000

Erm… that’s a 40 Mbps download ceiling. Sorry.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:20:57 +0000

To be completely honest, the Japanese connections are not always up to the speed advertised. My 70 Mbps connection seems to have a 12 Mbps upload ceiling and a 40 Mbps upload ceiling, if I can ever get it up to those speeds–usually it’s somewhat less. But then again, the same is probably true for Internet connections everywhere. The advertised speeds are probably really best-possible-laboratory-condition speeds at optimum distance and et cetera.

Still, I can’t complain–it is fast, and does cost less than $40 a month. Soon after I got it installed, I got speed rates for a single download that ranged into the 25 Mbps range. Sometimes for a Bittorrent, I can get 8-10 Mbps per file, and a 350 MB file can come down in a matter of an hour or two. Some specific regular 175 MB downloads come down extra fast, in less than five minutes.

The bitch of the American story is not only that America has no real cohesive Internet broadband plans or programs, but that consumers got shafted–the Telecoms got a juicy fee increase based upon the promise that they would invest the income in broadband connections like your FTTH–and then they welched and kept the money. NOW they say that they need the money from abolishing Net Neutrality, and they’ll use that money to pay for your F/O… which, of course, they carefully arranged not to be a binding promise, so you can guess where THAT is headed.

In the end, the US Telecoms will offer fast, cheap F/O connections only when the economic constraints force them to–and as long as they can make most of their money off of lower-speed connections without spending all that money on infrastructure upgrades, they will do it.