Fast internet
Mar. 17th, 2006 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swehMy cable died on Wednesday morning, sometime around 01:30. When I got up I rebooted the modem. Nope. So I rebooted the router. Yep, that fixed it. Hmm, different IP subnet... looks like cablevision moved me to a new subnet and didn't do DHCP properly. Grrr.... I might dump them for DSL. Slower, but cheaper and was more reliable when I had DSL in Brooklyn. And Verizon don't agressively try to sell you other services (phone, TV) which I don't want from Cablevision!
Then later in the day I checked my speed test reports... and noticed the numbers were higher than before. Huh? So I did some checking. Oh! A free upgrade to 15Mbit/2Mbit. So that's why they changed my IP address. More monitoring during the day and I didn't see the sort of slow downs during peak hours that I used to see. Oh.... OK, maybe I'll stick with cable for a while, then.
Just now I'm downloading some Linux patches and downloaded a 40Mb source file... and achieved an average rate of 1.63Mbyte/s in doing it... that's 13Mbit/s download speeds. Wow!
And it just hit me... it's a good thing I replaced my old Pentium Pro machine (which I was using as a router) with a Linksys WRT54G because that PPro only had 10Mbit ethernet cards in it! My WAN would have been faster than my LAN! Fortunately everything's 100baseT switched now, but that would have been very silly indeed!
Then later in the day I checked my speed test reports... and noticed the numbers were higher than before. Huh? So I did some checking. Oh! A free upgrade to 15Mbit/2Mbit. So that's why they changed my IP address. More monitoring during the day and I didn't see the sort of slow downs during peak hours that I used to see. Oh.... OK, maybe I'll stick with cable for a while, then.
Just now I'm downloading some Linux patches and downloaded a 40Mb source file... and achieved an average rate of 1.63Mbyte/s in doing it... that's 13Mbit/s download speeds. Wow!
And it just hit me... it's a good thing I replaced my old Pentium Pro machine (which I was using as a router) with a Linksys WRT54G because that PPro only had 10Mbit ethernet cards in it! My WAN would have been faster than my LAN! Fortunately everything's 100baseT switched now, but that would have been very silly indeed!
