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corrosivefrost
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It's internet, tv, and phone and it's the best bang-for-buck package available in my area, so I begrudgingly pay these assholes.
Right?!
The morning for morningbus. It's fitting.
MarcoZombieCannon
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I wish.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
The US and telecom companies have agreed that infrastructure is not worthy of investment.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Google fiber hits my city next year.We're the fourth state getting it getting support for it in the US, and the biggest city in my state so its coming here first.
It'd be hilarious that it hits your city but not your street.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I'd be in tears and exasperated, but that's not very likely as I live a block away from a police station and three blocks away from the biggest hospital in the city.
I'm looking forward to it obviously, though. This city has had to rely on Comcast only for years, so having Google Fiver implemented is a godsend.
I'm just now noticing what Dusk's avatar is.
What a horrible transmogrification!
I'm no where near any google fiber, but oddly enough I have a lot better service with Comcast than I ever did with Mediacom in the midwest.
God, Mediacom makes Comcast look like the best thing ever. Mediacom is such shit.
What a horrible transmogrification!
I'm no where near any google fiber, but oddly enough I have a lot better service with Comcast than I ever did with Mediacom in the midwest.
God, Mediacom makes Comcast look like the best thing ever. Mediacom is such shit.
that's some really awful reasoning for them to come to that conclusion
it's crazy how the States is behind in terms of connectivity infrastructure compared to the developed Asian cities like Japan, South Korea and Singapore :/
Chance Hale
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Houston doesn't have google fiber yet and ATT is bluffing about bringing gigabit internet in a reasonable timeframe but at least we have sunday amazon deliveries now!
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Comcast isn't the worst, but they aren't even close to the best either. I haven't had a terrible experience with them, but there is the occasional bullshit and issues, and other things about them, but they've been the only internet provider in this city since forever basically. I'm a bit surprised the city is one of the first to get Google Fiber, but looking forward to it.
(Portland, Oregon, btw).
And yes, my avatar is graceful~
The states is crazy huge compared to Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
Don't you have those Amazon drones?
MarcoZombieCannon
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Good thing we pay them a shitton of money each month so they can upgrade the infrastructure. And I swear the government paid the telecoms for it at one point...
Before the Australian government decided to just roll out FTTH itself it called for submissions from the private sector; I'm surprised that Google didn't try to get in on the action. It probably would have been successful.
I know. but it also means that there's some economies of scale to benefit from!
and it's crazy the amount of money the peeps in the States are paying for internet connection (and those bandwidth based plans T_T)
Can Google even start offering outside the US?
I was waiting for your impressions on this. I guess I'll wait for some sale to get it.
US infrastructure is terrible.
I'm paying approx 30 usd for TV + landline + mobile 4G (2gb) + 200mbps down 100mbps up
No bandwidth limits of course
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
The physical ownership of lines drives me nuts. People can get fios a block down from us but ATT owns the lines at our blocks, so we are stuck with them.
well a 100mbps fibre line gives you like 10 actual megs per sec correct, or close to it?
I know I get 9ish regulary on Steam
MarcoZombieCannon
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12.50 MB/s for 100mbps
I get 5 MB/s on a 40mbps down line, so... But I have shitty CenturyLink, so I only get 5mbps up :/
Regardless of line, its like 12..I mentioned it. Just some people don't really know what mbps is.
1000 = 125MB/s
100 = 12.5MB/s
the little red dot known as Singapore
it's where I'm paying 38USD to get 1Gbps... or 125MB/s lol
MarcoZombieCannon
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It might almost be cheaper to have you download all my Steam stuff to an external Hard Drive and just mail it to me. :lol
more worrying than speed is people that still have bandwith caps... like really? those still exist? the US is fucked up when it comes to internet man
how would you even watch EVO for example, or the international with caps, let alone download these huge games these days :/
how would you even watch EVO for example, or the international with caps, let alone download these huge games these days :/
Legally speaking there was nothing preventing Google from rolling out FTTH here through its Australian arm. The issue may have been that the telcomms industry here is rather strictly regulated, which in practice means that a Google-built nation-wide network would have been open-access and for Google to offer its own services it would have needed to set up a structurally separate company, but I doubt this was the barrier since, unlike Telstra, it's more interested in long-term profits than short-term windfalls.
probably :O
and it's good that there's not bandwidth-based plans anymore (at least for home broadband in Singapore)
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the next thing we need is unlimited mobile broadband based on speeds... but lol. doubt that will happen anytime soon
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
CorrosiveFrost is also good people! We're at -36 thanks to his generous contribution!
Damn.
Caps for the most part aren't a serious concern in the vast majority of the U.S. Either the cap is "soft" and very rarely enforced or a lot of places don't even meter it (yet). The problem is that generally the further away from large population centers you get, the more you get screwed both quality of service wise and price wise.
Damn.
Caps for the most part aren't a serious concern in the vast majority of the U.S. Either the cap is "soft" and very rarely enforced or a lot of places don't even meter it (yet). The problem is that generally the further away from large population centers you get, the more you get screwed both quality of service wise and price wise.
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MarcoZombieCannon
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I'd contribute but I'm a caveman without a cell phone.
Depends on how much I feed the squirrels.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Just got a 4 TB internal hard drive from my family as a belated birthday gift.
Here's hoping it's not crap and I install it correctly.
How's the up/down speed when using pinecones as a router?
Here's hoping it's not crap and I install it correctly.
How's the up/down speed when using pinecones as a router?
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
We have ATT U-Verse. 20mbps
For me it was Blazblue and Street Fighter that were the most exciting. Injustice and Killer Instinct were pretty good too. Didn't care about Marvel that much though...
I didn't watch the others.
Now that EVO is over i can finally properly play games instead of afking in CSGO!
Fill it with porn once Fiber comes.
Mars is no longer offering $6 debit cards, anyway, just $6 off cable bills.
Backlogger
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Avatar quote incoming
tell me if that is still true after your upcoming trip to the US.
it's not, comparatively
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
That'd be a lot of porn.
Also, your tag just changed in front of my eyes and does it right now when I refresh. Caught me off-guard for a sec.
Edit: Your tag changes when I hover my mouse over it. That's actually rather neat.
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