Milwaukee PC
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[URL=http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3856916913][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3856916913.png[/IMG][/URL]
My router's modem says that it's synchronized at 15500kbit/s, though.
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Their information is wrong, unless AOL subcontracts out to TalkTalk (which, frankly, wouldn't surprise me)
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15500kbps
15500kbps = 15.1Mbps
TCP/IP overhead eats about 10% of that.
sounds about right
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What I get on my phone.
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Here's what I get at work:
Not too bad for a work connection.
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Here's what I get at work:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3856972543.png
Not too bad for a work connection.
Get off my server!
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I'm kind of curious how @royal_poet's results compare to mine.
I assume she doesn't use the formerly state-owned former monopoly company as her carrier and ISP.
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Here's what I get at work:
Not too bad for a work connection.
Guess we have a pretty good work connection...
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Slow ping.
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that will not be replicated at home.... but work's pretty good
i'll post from home in an hour or so.
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Well, if we're comparing work...
I do wonder why the ping is so high there, though.
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I switched to Zen after Sky bought Be. With Be I was getting something like 16 down, 2 up. Sky told me that unless I wanted to pay more for fibre, my upload speed would be halved. No real reason, just Sky don't support ADSL2+ Annex M, and won't make any effort to support it for former Be customers who had it. While I am paying more for fibre with Zen, I don't have to worry about Sky's notoriously bad contention ratios, traffic shaping, fair use policies etc.
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Whenever you plan a move in the US, look up what Internet options you have first, is really the take-away here.
I have actually considered moving to Austin when I get tired of Dallas, because Google Fiber.
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@Intercourse said:
If you are lucky, you live where you have a "choice" between: one cable internet provider, one DSL provider and *maybe one fiber provider.
There are areas that have additional choices. If you happen to live in the SF Bay area (they also have operations elsewhere in CA, but I don't know details — just checked, L.A. and Sacramento), I'd be happy to recommend a regional ISP headquartered in Santa Rosa.
They're not the cheapest place in town (at least they didn't used to be), but they have great customer service. Back in the day, DSL Reports (I think) gave them 5 stars for service, when SBC had 1. In addition to the usual services, you get things the 800-pound gorilla ISPs don't offer residential customers: No port filtering1, static IP addresses2, EFF "Perfect" privacy score, UNIX shell (RH 7.3). The CEO, himself, hangs out on their support forum (at least he used to).
Disclaimer: I have no connection with the company other than as a satisfied customer. I still use them for email and web hosting; sadly, I can't use them for access, as I no longer live in their service area.
1Filtered by default, but if you want to run your own server, just go into the user settings and click "I know what I'm doing. Disable filtering." Of course, they'll probably enable it again if it turns out you don't really know what you're doing, and your SMTP server is running as an open relay. 2Up to 8, for only $5/mo extra (used to be included w/ basic service)
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It doesn't let you convert before downloading (how could it; as you mentioned it is a client-side util: think of is at wget for Youtube).It does allow you to specify the quality of the video to download. If Youtube offers a 1080p, 720p and 480p version, you can tell it to download the 480p version for example.
I use YouTube Center for that. It has the advantage (at least I think it's an advantage) of being right there in the browser; I don't need a separate utility. If I'm wandering around YouTube and see something I want to watch later, just click the button. I have it set to download the highest resolution available (but I don't have Milwaukee PC) and save it as MP4.
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I use YouTube Center for that. It has the advantage (at least I think it's an advantage) of being right there in the browser; I don't need a separate utility. If I'm wandering around YouTube and see something I want to watch later, just click the button. I have it set to download the highest resolution available (but I don't have Milwaukee PC) and save it as MP4.
Don't know that particular extension/plugin, but I have the DownloadHelper extension for FF, which I guess does the same thing.
youtube-dl does handle a use case these browser extensions can't (AFAIK, anyway): if you provide a YT playlist URL, it downloads all video's in that playlist and prefixes the filenames with incrementing numbers if you ask nicely.
Since I like to watch Let's Plays from time to time, I love that particular functionality.
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Don't know that particular extension/plugin, but I have the DownloadHelper extension for FF, which I guess does the same thing.
I have something else (maybe DownloadHelper — don't remember off-hand, and CBA to launch FF to check) for FF, because YouTube Center only works on YouTube (imagine that!). I have YTC because it works in Chrome and, AFAIK, nothing else does. So I use Chrome for most browsing, including YT, and FF for video sites other than YT.
YTC is useful for things other than downloading, like telling YT not to play every video at deafening volume, do/don't expand the description by default, do/don't load comments by default, etc.
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I have something else (maybe DownloadHelper — don't remember off-hand, and CBA to launch FF to check) for FF, because YouTube Center only works on YouTube (imagine that!). I have YTC because it works in Chrome and, AFAIK, nothing else does. So I use Chrome for most browsing, including YT, and FF for video sites other than YT.
Heh. I have DownloadHelper for Chrome (or something very similar in name, CBA to fire up Chrome to check ;)).
BTW, both downloaders I have work for other sites besides Youtube, so does the youtube-dl CLI script. Does yours?
I'll probably give it a try if it does, I'm not that happy with my current Chrome extension (but I don't exactly remember why, I just remember it annoyed me for some reason. It's been too long since I last used it).
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Home:
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see my later comments?
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Does yours?
No, YouTube Center is specifically for YouTube. It injects its own controls into the DOM on YouTube pages.
I have DownloadHelper for Chrome (or something very similar in name, CBA to fire up Chrome to check wink).
I'd be interested in knowing what it is. When I got a new computer, I went looking for the stuff I had on the old one, and didn't find anything.What I did find was information that said Google doesn't authorize any Chrome add-ons (starting with some version that I don't recall, so it used to be possible) that allow downloading videos from YouTube, Hulu, or any other site that has video that might possibly maybe perhaps be copyrighted, and actively interferes with any unauthorized ones. YouTube Center works because it runs as a user script (if you install the user script version) under TamperMonkey, or the like, beyond the reach of Google's interference.
Maybe that information was wrong; I dunno. If it works for you, I'd like to hear more.
The only quibble I have with YTC, other than only working on YouTube (which includes not working — specifically, turning down the volume — on videos embedded in other pages — I'm looking at you, "Song of the day" topic), is that I have it set to disable stupid annotations, but that doesn't seem to work. It has a lot of features I've never had a reason to use, so I don't know how well they work.
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see my later comments?
If you knew what you were doing you could probably filter out one set but not the other.
I would rather actually do what other people suggested--donate $5 directly or whatever, myself.
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Home (ADSL):
Work (rate-limited fibre):
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You workplace is 150 miles away from home?
That sounds annoying.
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You workplace is 150 miles away from home?
Nope. About 20, most of which is rural road.
CNA's VPN exit point is in Melbourne.
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@OffByOne said:
I have DownloadHelper for Chrome (or something very similar in name, CBA to fire up Chrome to check wink).
I'd be interested in knowing what it is. When I got a new computer, I went looking for the stuff I had on the old one, and didn't find anything.Will look it up later today. The computer I'm on now doesn't have that extension installed.
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Costs me £20 a month
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http://www.speedtest.net/result/3858452528.png
Gets upgraded from 60Mb to 100Mb in the next couple of months.
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I'm pretty sure this is literally worse-than-third-world internet.
Have you looked at satellite internet? They seemed to offer decent speeds last time I checked. 3G? A wireless/FSO link with one of your neighbours? Just throwing out ideas.
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I think ee in my area maxes out at 72 Mb/s
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Wait, what?
They value upload that much more strongly than download?
That's a weird ranking system.
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I dunno if being on skype with Arantor skewered my results.
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Well, I meant that 7.13/3.75 is for some reason a C- while 13/1 is a D+.
It's weird.
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Here's what I get at work:
Not too bad for a work connection.
And here's my home connection:
The download is probably being throttled a bit by my WiFi. I haven't taken the time to run a cable from my router to my desktop yet.
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Sigh, if we're now in an Internet connection pissing match I guess I'll whip mine out too.
Hmm, my upload is a bit slower than normal.
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If you ever find a way to make non-technical end users understand that, I need to know. My ISP has basically resorted to over-shaping everyone by 15% so that they don't piss and moan about speedtest results (or I guess you could look at them as under-selling them by 10%, but I view it as all the extra network traffic I have to support for the unwashed masses :P)
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Cox is very good in this city. The competition is CenturyLink (formerly Qwest) and they are truly incompetent at everything.
Edit - PJH:
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yeah, but it sounds like cocks
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flagged that for you
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<- aren't those, like, carp streamers?
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The weird thing is that my internet is crappier later in the day. In the morning, my F- becomes an F+!
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The weird thing is that my internet is crappier later in the day. In the morning, my F- becomes an F+!
Sounds like they've massively oversold on bandwidth. Hardly anyone does anything in the mornings except work, so if you're at home you'll have unimpeded access to their residential lines.
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Heading to the office now. Will do it there because it's probably HILARIOUS.