[MacGroup] Insight 50 meg
Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed? Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. Hm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase their upload speeds. He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple is ready for this one when it gets here. He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. John ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
Re: [MacGroup] Insight 50 meg
Awesome, John! I had seen their offer and I so wanted to cancel the TV cable and switch to the higher speed internet (as they cost about the same), but that would have been prohibitively expensive, what with the divorce and all. And the medical bills to cover my brain injuries. Maybe when Insight gets the fiber here, and the Apple TV includes TLC and the food channel I can talk her into it. Nice analysis and news-gethering for us, though, John. Thanks! j. On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:00 PM, John Robinson prof...@insightbb.com wrote: Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed? Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. Hm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase their upload speeds. He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple is ready for this one when it gets here. He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. John -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 10 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting jonat...@fletcherdata.com http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: December 16, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish 1234 S. Third Street, Louisville Info RSVP: http://fmpug.com/scheduleMeetings.php Listserv signup: http://fmpug.com/mailman/listinfo/louisville_fmpug.com Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
Re: [MacGroup] Insight 50 meg
Jonathan, It's not your brain injuries I worry about it's the divorce, it cost more!! Even if they bring the fiber to the house next year, and install a new modem to handle the fiber and the 100 meg., the existing Airport Extreme's will still handle it, they can handle 150 meg input. I did notice a huge difference in rebooting the router. With either Insight or the ATT DSL, when you plug the router in there is the long pause with the yellow light, finally a blinking yellow light and it eventually goes green. Still had the long pause with the yellow light, the blink was at the most one (1) and it was green, that was a huge difference. Jonathan, you have a lot of friends, several on this list, so if we need to pass the cup just let us know. John On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: Awesome, John! I had seen their offer and I so wanted to cancel the TV cable and switch to the higher speed internet (as they cost about the same), but that would have been prohibitively expensive, what with the divorce and all. And the medical bills to cover my brain injuries. Maybe when Insight gets the fiber here, and the Apple TV includes TLC and the food channel I can talk her into it. Nice analysis and news-gethering for us, though, John. Thanks! j. On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:00 PM, John Robinson prof...@insightbb.com wrote: Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed? Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. Hm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase their upload speeds. He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple is ready for this one when it gets here. He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. John -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 10 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting jonat...@fletcherdata.com http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: December 16, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish 1234 S. Third Street, Louisville Info RSVP: http://fmpug.com/scheduleMeetings.php Listserv signup: http://fmpug.com/mailman/listinfo/louisville_fmpug.com Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
Re: [MacGroup] Insight 50 meg
Hopefully a final note from me concerning the Insight 50 meg speeds (O.K., stop applauding) but here is where it REALLY shines. The 505 meg movie that I sent out twice last night, each time the bar on YouSend it started out at 2 hrs, then quickly settled on just over an hour, and it did take that long. I have a close friend with children that would love this so I waited to send the file to him after the new install. Once it started YouSend it landed on 13 minutes and went down from there. The uploading is so much faster. John On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:00 PM, John Robinson prof...@insightbb.com wrote: Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed? Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. Hm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase their upload speeds. He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple is ready for this one when it gets here. He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. John -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 10 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting jonat...@fletcherdata.com http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: December 16, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish 1234 S. Third Street, Louisville Info RSVP: http://fmpug.com/scheduleMeetings.php Listserv signup: http://fmpug.com/mailman/listinfo/louisville_fmpug.com Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
Re: [MacGroup] Insight 50 meg
Would you mind telling us what the 50 meg service costs?-Ben Zion Hershberg On Dec 6, 2010, at 9:56 AM, John Robinson wrote: Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed? Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. Hm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase their upload speeds. He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple is ready for this one when it gets here. He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. John ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
Re: [MacGroup] Insight 50 meg
Ben, Right now they are running a special for $50.00 per month but after that it will be $60.00 a month, according to the rep. I talked to. Could be it will never be more than the 50.00. One additional note, the iPhone performed much better with downloads not much better than before, say around 13.5, BUT the iPhone upload was over 5.0, just like the computers. Prior the upload on the iPhone was in the 1.5 range if I remember right. John On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: Would you mind telling us what the 50 meg service costs?-Ben Zion Hershberg On Dec 6, 2010, at 9:56 AM, John Robinson wrote: Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed? Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. Hm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase their upload speeds. He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple is ready for this one when it gets here. He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. John ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
