I've actually had really good luck with Time Warner. About 6 years ago we had about 2-3/? mbps for $50 month now I have 15/1 mbps for $35 month.
I've been able to keep my DHCP ip for over a year (last major power outage) and the service is almost flawless (except for that DNS outage last week!). My only major complaint is the lackluster upstream. You can't even pay them for more! I've inquired about biz class road runner and it's actually more expensive AND slower!
I was also dual homed with Verizon DSL for awhile but I found the service to be more of a PITA then anything. My PPoE session would randomly drop under high loads which made the service more or less worthless. I'm considering trying it again. It's really fun to setup QoS with two pipes to keep my browsing/gaming/voip low latency while still seeding the latest OpenBSD release on BT;)
Once 3G came to our area (FINALLY) I picked up a Verizon Wireless USB card. If you do any amount of traveling it literally pays for itself not having to buy airport or hotel wifi (which is usually very terrible).
My only major complaints over the last year are the lack of 3G coverage in random areas and the wacky NAT or something that they use. You have a public looking IP but your not actually connectible from the outside world. This is defiantly going to be a problem if you want to host any services from your card. I've never had any bandwidth problems, I don't use the card for any heavy lifting.
I can't confirm the ~100ms pings people here report, I seriously wonder if these people are getting paid to post here! You can pull down about 100k/sec sustained (JUST DON'T MOVE) but your always going to have latency problems.
I have a little script to ping the three most important things in the world.
1) Google (200-400ms)
2) My East Coast WoW server (300-400ms OR MORE!)
3) My Home Machine for SSH access (200-300ms)
Honestly, you could NEVER play a FPS from a VZW USB dongle. I've used 2 different cards (I don't remember the models) World of Warcraft is barely playable (It sucks when your questing and disconnects only to reconnect and find yourself dead.) I've experienced this on high end laptops, two different cards and about a zillion different locations.
In conclusion,
Verizon Wireless USB Cards are great if you want to surf the web, connect to a VPN, or check your e-mail. DO NOT expect to be able to play games without wanting to punch your screen. I can't comment on any other carrier yet. (I'm going to attempt to tether my iphone soon, just don't tell AT&T!)
I agree. I've also found wireless mice to feel inaccurate at times. Every time I sit down at a computer with a wireless mouse I feel like I'm fighting it to go where I want.
Quake 2 was easily the best FPS ever released. Several amazing mods like Action & WF gave me hours and hours of fun. I'd kill to be able to find a full Q2A or WF server now..
Yeah.. I'd be happy if the instructions were condensed onto 1 page instead of spread out over 3 pages. This is one of the most annoying trends today imo. Great for ad revenue, terrible to read.
People who rip on the iphone's lack of 3G make me laugh. We didn't buy the iphone for high speed internet, we bought it for the UI. I've owned several Windows Mobile 2005/2006 phone, my latest being a HTC Wizard and I hated them all. Windows Mobile is horriable. It freezes, it crashes it's the worst phone OS I've ever seen in my life. I've actually switched back to non-smartphones for a few weeks during my ownership of them because I just couldn't take the BS anymore. Who wants a phone that freezes when you go to answer a call? Or how about a phone that needs to be rebooted once a day? Not me.
Thats why I bought an iphone.
Submitter must be new here. I found it amusing they'd try and restrict the discussion here like that because it only back fired, more than half the posts are about Ron Paul.
I'm just glad I don't live in america:)
They don't. This is just another ploy by which our rights are legislated away. Our founding fathers are turning in their graves. It's not fun to watch the last tatters of our Constitution be shredded and used as fuel to burn the Judicial system to the ground.
This contest would be much more relevant if the machine was remotely exploited. Few OSs in their default configuration would be able to stand up to an attacker with local access.
How could it be total of $200 if you have a "few ghz, gig ram, 128mb vid laptop" along with a $150 tv tunner. My IBM T40 was $1200 USED and thats only 1.5 ghz, 512mb...
To be more realistic something like this is going to cost around 500+ depending on local market conditions or what deals you can find off online.
Oh, and how the hell does a story like this even make it on slashdot?
Ah it's good to see has produced another fine ignorant troll. Comparing American's current global actions to Nazi germany is absurd. Don't you have something more productive to be doing then posting this trash?
Where's George? is currently experiencing very heavy user load.
This is most likely due to the upcoming article in "Nature" Magazine on how the Max Planck Institute used our data to help predict epidemic spread of human diseases.... more like the slashdot effect.
Slashdot Mirror
Not as fun as playing spy.
Payments of fire protection subscription double
I've actually had really good luck with Time Warner. About 6 years ago we had about 2-3/? mbps for $50 month now I have 15/1 mbps for $35 month.
I've been able to keep my DHCP ip for over a year (last major power outage) and the service is almost flawless (except for that DNS outage last week!). My only major complaint is the lackluster upstream. You can't even pay them for more! I've inquired about biz class road runner and it's actually more expensive AND slower!
I was also dual homed with Verizon DSL for awhile but I found the service to be more of a PITA then anything. My PPoE session would randomly drop under high loads which made the service more or less worthless. I'm considering trying it again. It's really fun to setup QoS with two pipes to keep my browsing/gaming/voip low latency while still seeding the latest OpenBSD release on BT ;)
Once 3G came to our area (FINALLY) I picked up a Verizon Wireless USB card. If you do any amount of traveling it literally pays for itself not having to buy airport or hotel wifi (which is usually very terrible).
My only major complaints over the last year are the lack of 3G coverage in random areas and the wacky NAT or something that they use. You have a public looking IP but your not actually connectible from the outside world. This is defiantly going to be a problem if you want to host any services from your card. I've never had any bandwidth problems, I don't use the card for any heavy lifting.
I can't confirm the ~100ms pings people here report, I seriously wonder if these people are getting paid to post here! You can pull down about 100k/sec sustained (JUST DON'T MOVE) but your always going to have latency problems.
I have a little script to ping the three most important things in the world.
1) Google (200-400ms)
2) My East Coast WoW server (300-400ms OR MORE!)
3) My Home Machine for SSH access (200-300ms)
Honestly, you could NEVER play a FPS from a VZW USB dongle. I've used 2 different cards (I don't remember the models) World of Warcraft is barely playable (It sucks when your questing and disconnects only to reconnect and find yourself dead.) I've experienced this on high end laptops, two different cards and about a zillion different locations.
In conclusion,
Verizon Wireless USB Cards are great if you want to surf the web, connect to a VPN, or check your e-mail. DO NOT expect to be able to play games without wanting to punch your screen. I can't comment on any other carrier yet. (I'm going to attempt to tether my iphone soon, just don't tell AT&T!)
I agree. I've also found wireless mice to feel inaccurate at times. Every time I sit down at a computer with a wireless mouse I feel like I'm fighting it to go where I want.
Quake 2 was easily the best FPS ever released. Several amazing mods like Action & WF gave me hours and hours of fun. I'd kill to be able to find a full Q2A or WF server now..
Yeah.. I'd be happy if the instructions were condensed onto 1 page instead of spread out over 3 pages. This is one of the most annoying trends today imo. Great for ad revenue, terrible to read.
We just use an open wireless network w/ a VPN client. No need to mess around with silly WPA/WPA2 stuff.
You sir are possibly the only person in the world who misses the clamshell iBook.
Good riddance.
People who rip on the iphone's lack of 3G make me laugh. We didn't buy the iphone for high speed internet, we bought it for the UI. I've owned several Windows Mobile 2005/2006 phone, my latest being a HTC Wizard and I hated them all. Windows Mobile is horriable. It freezes, it crashes it's the worst phone OS I've ever seen in my life. I've actually switched back to non-smartphones for a few weeks during my ownership of them because I just couldn't take the BS anymore. Who wants a phone that freezes when you go to answer a call? Or how about a phone that needs to be rebooted once a day? Not me. Thats why I bought an iphone.
Why can't NAT clients talk to each other? I have no problem with NAT using torrents, ftp, etc. OpenBSD + PF = hotness
Submitter must be new here. I found it amusing they'd try and restrict the discussion here like that because it only back fired, more than half the posts are about Ron Paul. I'm just glad I don't live in america :)
Just what I want, the pentagon spamming fear bombs. THIS WILL RUIN THE WORLD of REALWORLD!
They don't. This is just another ploy by which our rights are legislated away. Our founding fathers are turning in their graves. It's not fun to watch the last tatters of our Constitution be shredded and used as fuel to burn the Judicial system to the ground.
Anyone who has used a windows tablet in the past will surely welcome a tablet based off OSX. I think it's about time someone made a decent tablet pc.
If only this poor bastard could have made it to the next Jump Pad. God damn Pfhor.
You think thats bad, you should see my porn collection.
This contest would be much more relevant if the machine was remotely exploited. Few OSs in their default configuration would be able to stand up to an attacker with local access.
/ waits for *OMG NOT JOO NEWB
How could it be total of $200 if you have a "few ghz, gig ram, 128mb vid laptop" along with a $150 tv tunner. My IBM T40 was $1200 USED and thats only 1.5 ghz, 512mb...
To be more realistic something like this is going to cost around 500+ depending on local market conditions or what deals you can find off online.
Oh, and how the hell does a story like this even make it on slashdot?
Ah it's good to see has produced another fine ignorant troll. Comparing American's current global actions to Nazi germany is absurd. Don't you have something more productive to be doing then posting this trash?
In soviet russian, stock buy you.
Where's George? is currently experiencing very heavy user load.
... more like the slashdot effect.
This is most likely due to the upcoming article in "Nature" Magazine on how the
Max Planck Institute used our data to help predict epidemic spread of human diseases.
welcome our new Iris Scanning overlords.
does it run linux?
It's refering to World of Warcraft (WoW) which was released for the mac at the same time as the PC.
I love reading a paragraph twice. It's always better the second time around.