James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Wonder what the DSL Extreme typical performance is.
With roadrunner, I get about 4800 Kbps via either test below
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://www.speedtest.net/
but I am paying kinda much ($50/mo), so I'm thinking of changing.
I would probably choose the dynamic-IP prepay, since I don't feel a need
for static IP in my home).
Their high-end service claims 3000-6000 Kbps (for $35/mo [$30/mo 1st
yr]). If they typically delivered the low/high end of their claimed
range, that would seem like a very-good/great deal.
Yeah, I really don't _need_ such a big pipe .. but it is nice :-)
Another question: do you/anyone have a feel for uptime. RR seems to have
something happen that loses a few hours connectivity once a month or so.
I have had DSL Extreme for about a year and a half now and have been
very happy with their service. The only problem I have had was at the
very beginning with the initial setup, and it turned out that the
problems were caused by SBC and not DSL Extreme. Despite that, the DSL
Extreme guys handle everything. Even when I said I was using Linux, the
help desk guy said "Cool!" and we had a nice chat about different
distributions while the diagnostics were being run.
I have the low-end cheap package, and I always get a full 1.5Mbps
download speed if the other end supports it, like downloads from
kernel.org. Lately I have been seeing 2Mbps download speeds, so they
might be creeping up on the download speed. On uploads I only get
378Kbps which I limit to something a little less when running something
like Bittorrent so I have something left for myself.
I have been downloading and uploading a LOT of stuff. I think I did
somewhere near 60GB in the last month alone, and they don't care. Also,
their service agreement is much nicer than anyone else's that I've seen.
Pretty much you can do what you want except run a mail server, but if
you ask they'll let you do that too.
My uptime has been pretty close to 100% except for the few time SBC has
dropped my phone service for some unknown reason. And as near as I can
tell I've had the same IP address since starting even though it's
supposed to be dynamic. They also give you 5 IP addresses to play with
so you can do the usual NAT thing and hang a separate box on the
connection for playing around, honeypot, etc.
Wow, I sound like a salesman for these guys, but I'm only a customer.
Gus
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