HazzeSwede wrote: 
Sweden kicks our butts.  Again.  

 
With the TV on.

 Beaker wrote: 


Respectable, but certainly not the same league as work. This is Verizon (now Frontier) FIOS, I have a 25Mb package, so it looks like they have me set up about right.

 rosedraws wrote: 
It's decent package - a big tv package with HD and phone with a zillion long distance minutes as well as internet for about 114/mo after all their wonky surcharges.

 Beaker wrote: 
She does live up close to there.

 Manbird wrote: 
Glad to see you get something for it!

I'm paying for a 16 mbps package through comcast
My other mac gets about the same with a wireless
connection using my new airport extreme. 

 islander wrote: 
That's just sick.

 islander wrote: 
Wow

 Beaker wrote: 
I've been wanting to do that since we got the Apple TV and took away the ugly, not-quite-good-enough rabbit ears.  Got something in mind you can point me towards?

 miamizsun wrote: 
I have a redundant 10G fiber loop with 4 carriers and multiple peering. Our Routers are Cisco 6509s. It's about 500K$ in hardware and ~20K$ a month for bandwidth and fiber leases. But now and then I get to brag about it on the internet.

The speed was actually a lot better than what is shown, but we were maxing out their algorithms - The files transfered so fast you couldn't get consistent numbers for the math - especially on the upload side because most of those are weighted. 

 Beaker wrote: 
Yeah the County used to maintain some repeaters here, back in the 50s when TV was as important as internet is now—for Public Defense warnings etc. They finally pulled the funding because most people were getting their information from other sources. They went off the air January 1. So it's weird to think we're in an area and an era where I can't suck TV out of the sky anymore.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Well there y'go. Doesn't cost them any more but they throttle you back just to tick you off. Howzat workin'? I think our internet package alone is $45. We might switch to a different provider too, with better upload speeds for the videochat with grandma
 
The high speed is key at our house with the netflix, RP, couple of computers chatting possibly at the same time. But it sure makes TV an afterthought. We realized/admitted we just don't care enough about the "local" news to keep paying for it. I think we're dropping the TV.

with P's machine shut down it got really fast!

 miamizsun wrote: 
We already have a roku box, and I just opened up their freebie promo videos last night to check it out. Some commercials, but awesome picture. We don't have a blu-ray player so I can't compare it but it's the best picture I've seen on our TV. I think it's $9 a month for the service. We'll have to see if there's anything we would actually watch, and also have to see if there's stuff the kids shouldn't have easy access to. But we watched something on the National Zoo last night and it was boring as hell but lovely to look at!

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 Beaker wrote: 
Cable, their basic service for $19.95 per month.  Their "high-speed" access is twice the price.