[Cialug] Internet access

[John Lengeling]

I moved to out of Des Moines about 30 miles and into rural area.   I used
to have a Qwest (who ever they are called now...) DSL.  I had 7mbit
down/1.5 up.  I think that all DSL will have asymmetric speeds.   Using
Verizon Home Fusion which uses 4G LTE and I am seeing 10 mbit down/10 mbit
up.    The caps suck thou.   10G/20G/30G caps with $10/1G overage.   If you
can live with the caps, it works pretty well.

I do a lot of remote access Linux admin work to Oregon, China, Malaysia and
India so I am more concerned about latency versus raw upload speeds.


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>wrote:

> I'm exploring alternatives to my current DSL, either an upgrade in
> service with the current ISP, or a new ISP. Right now i think i have 3
> or 5 mbit down, 1 mbit up. I want faster, particularly on the upload
> side. I've talked to the sales people at my current ISP and they can't
> offer anything better.
>
> Are there any magic words that i need in order to ask the right
> question? I'm willing to discuss the costs to run a new wire to my place
> if that's what it takes to get faster speeds. (I'd be unsurprised if the
> copper wiring in the ground is from the 1950s, when the circle i live in
> was built.) And it seems to me that faster should be possible since i
> only live about 2 blocks from a central office. But i evidently didn't
> ask correctly since the answer i got was that i could go up to 12 mbit
> download (which *would* be nice) but still only 1 mbit upload (*fail*).
>
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