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Post by Tapout on May 30, 2017 17:07:43 GMT -5
As many of you may have already known, that I was the caretaker for my grandmother before she died of Alzheimer's. Well she passed a year ago, and I am in the process now of buying her house. Its very rural. No cable and only DSL internet.
Question one, anyone have DSL? Is it fast enough to stream netfilx and other apps? Frontier shows speeds of 12MPS
Question two, I haven't told my wife that there isn't cable or internet out there. Dick move?
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Post by matt on May 30, 2017 17:11:45 GMT -5
With no cable and no internet, there should be plenty of time for dick moves...
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 17:15:08 GMT -5
Are you planning on moving into the house?
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Post by Angelo on May 30, 2017 21:40:42 GMT -5
If you have another broadband alternative, you'll almost always be better off than DSL.
That 12, is is Mbps? or MB/S?
12 Mbps (usually the value when they talking speeds) is only about 1.5mb which accounting for loss and other shit probably closer to 1 at best (8mpbs). For 4k streaming you want around 25mbps available. If you aren't running anything else on the network and it a solid connection, 12mbps should give you enough for an HD stream with minimal buffering incidents (you need 5mpbs connection to even allow it as an option on Netflix I think).
Now if it is 12mb/s, that is 90 something Mbps which is basically the standard cable connection now and it is approaching the very top end of DSL so higher prices and likely data caps for rural areas.
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Post by Tapout on May 31, 2017 9:58:23 GMT -5
Are you planning on moving into the house? I am. Gutted it. I am in the process of finishing it now. New drywall, kitchen, flooring, finished off the attic as a master bedroom. My house went on the market last week. Its my weekend project, so it should take me a few more months to complete it.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 10:27:33 GMT -5
Are you planning on moving into the house? I am. Gutted it. I am in the process of finishing it now. New drywall, kitchen, flooring, finished off the attic as a master bedroom. My house went on the market last week. Its my weekend project, so it should take me a few more months to complete it. First off, congratulations. 2nd, it's great to hear you are doing it yourself. 3rd, since you are moving in, yeah it was kind of a shiesty move not telling the wife lol. I'd have done the exact same thing though.
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Post by Premier on May 31, 2017 12:36:22 GMT -5
Doesn't AT&T offer Internet through their purchase of DirectTV? It might be the same DSL you are talking about. But I hear is pretty fast, not cable fast, but still pretty fast. Sort of the equivalent of the mid tier Time Warner/ Comcast internet service. So you will be ok. Unless you wanted their top of the line speed.
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Post by Tapout on May 31, 2017 14:14:01 GMT -5
Doesn't AT&T offer Internet through their purchase of DirectTV? It might be the same DSL you are talking about. But I hear is pretty fast, not cable fast, but still pretty fast. Sort of the equivalent of the mid tier Time Warner/ Comcast internet service. So you will be ok. Unless you wanted their top of the line speed. I cut the cable a year ago, and was hoping to keep it like that. But im worried DSL wont be fast enough for all the streaming.
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Post by Angelo on May 31, 2017 16:18:27 GMT -5
Doesn't AT&T offer Internet through their purchase of DirectTV? It might be the same DSL you are talking about. But I hear is pretty fast, not cable fast, but still pretty fast. Sort of the equivalent of the mid tier Time Warner/ Comcast internet service. So you will be ok. Unless you wanted their top of the line speed. AT&T's DSL is among the least consistent connections in the US (which even given my hatred towards them I admit is surprising). For rural areas with ATT you gonna cap out at 8mbps (which under their system is closer 4-5mbps reliable). So I'm guessing whatever DSL in the area is not ATT. They finally bringing in the 80mbps to some rural areas, but since they are now cannibalizing their systems AGAIN thanks to the way they do corporate bonuses, some of those areas are actually losing support systems. Time Warner in some areas has a cheap basically throwaways connection at 24mbps, but their standard cheap one is now 100mbps, and you can get up 300 almost anywhere in the country. I still remember when they were Roadrunner haha. But look at it this way, the standard cheap cable connection now has almost matching loss percentage as DSL while starting at about 70x the speed and half the price. The only reason DSL is still around is because they don't want to pay the 750k-1m/mile to lay new wire in some places and internet has very inelastic demand.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 16:43:13 GMT -5
Maybe less internet = more blowjobs?
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 17:51:25 GMT -5
They offer Hell according to Jackel.
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Post by Premier on Jun 1, 2017 8:31:24 GMT -5
Jackel has been triggered.
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