When the Telus guy finished yesterday, he checked out my internet speed using the following
website.
I didn't make it an active link, but you can either highlight, right click and choose
"Go to," or highlight it and copy and paste it into your address bar.
https://fast.com/#
He pronounced my computer's speed as being exactly where it should be. Please see
my attachment.
I'd be interested in anyone else's speed just to see if I'm getting a faster speed than those of you
who do not yet have fibre. I cynically tend to doubt I am because there is still a copper wire cable
from the fibre box to my computer.
I have no idea what my speed was before, because I didn't have this site to refer to.
The speed is also rated by your contract. I was formerly at 30Mbps, but am now at 50Mbps because my provider basic speed has gone up. Same equipment, same cables. For relatively short distances, regular RF cable is good in the frequency range of a number of gigahertz. The fiberoptic cable is most likely to the distribution box where the other end of your router cable goes.
Just so you guys know what I mean about DSL internet service in my neighborhood:
Note that’s Kbps, ie, Kilobits per second, not Megabits. Instead of 30 Mbps, I’m getting considerably less than ONE.
It’s the neighborhood infrastructure, with its ancient copper wiring, not my ISP.
I’m on DSL… I haven’t found a wi-fi service that reaches here.
And yes, cable would be better, too, but for me, well, a bit out of reach.
You’d think I lived way out in the boondocks, instead of on an urban street, 4 miles from the center of a city of 180,000… though I am past the city limit.
….
BTW… There are lots of internet speed tests on the web.
For years I’ve used one at Speakeasy.net… but lately it opens a huge page of ads for their internet service.
It shows fewer digits in the results but also shows upload speed:
In all seriousness, I’d look into what your ISP is telling you.
Prior to Monday, November 29, my internet came through my 40 year old copper telephone line installed by Alberta Government Telephones, since taken over by Telus. I have never had an internet speed as slow as 540 Kbs. I’d have noticed. I haven’t really noticed any increase in speed since the fibre cable has been connected, but then, as I said, there’s still that possible copper wire “choke point” and the added information from mr_sherman that Telus’ base speed is directly controlled by Telus which will also be a factor. I think it’s that last bit that’s really slowing your internet down, not the wiring.
All I needed to set up my internet when I first got it was a telephone jack line splitter to plug both my phone and D(igital)S(ubscriber)L(ine) box into the same jack. I use the same type of splitter for my landline answering machine in another jack, so in total, I had two telephones, one computer and one answering machine all hooked up to run on my single copper telephone line; and this for better than 10 years. No problems with any of them. The speed? As I said, at or about the same speed as now.
UpMy comment is rather long, and I don’t want to bore everybody who isn’t interested in internet speeds.
Anybody who is... please click below if you do want to read
Spoiler Please, Alexi… don’t assume everyone else is ignorant, or doesn’t know how to set up their lines!
I’ve had this service for 15 years….
It’s not like I’ve left any stone unturned.
Not even a pebble.
Your copper wiring has nothing to do with mine or Nighthawks’.
Some copper is new, some is old but still in perfect condition.
Some is old but deteriorated, and some, like mine, is not only that, but the main line has been moved, changed, and connected to many different tenants over the years, until it’s damaged.
Some companies generate much faster internet service than others, for reasons of their own… including the technology and money they possess.
Speed is also dependent upon the distance to the phone company offices generating it…
More than seven miles from a terminal it gets slower…. I’m sure there are other distance points that affect it.
Outside big cities there’s rarely fast service. A friend 20 miles away on rural property still gets only 56kbps dial-up, and her phone is busy whenever she’s on the internet.
…
I remember when home DSL started, and most people got 1.5 Mbps, here and in the other places I knew about.
Commercial DSL was usually 6 Mbps and cost several times as much.
My sister is and was on Telus in BC… she got 6Mbps when it wasn’t available to homes yet in my city.
At that time, I was on a waiting list for ANY DSL to come to my neighborhood… it finally did, in 2006, but it wasn’t good enough for the “phone company”, AT&T, to want to sell it to us.
…
My ISP was new, and bought the bulk rights to use AT&Ts lines, and resell their service… Which they still do, except in some newer or more populated areas, where they’ve built their own fiber network.
They were willing to try in my neighborhood, but the copper lines were so bad, they could only give us “quarter speed”… 300-something Mbps… at a discounted price, which I had for a couple of years.
Eventually AT&T fixed what they could or were willing to, and 2Mbps came to me.. I upgraded to service with a free landline … It was great.
…
That was in 2008… But the lines have deteriorated since then, and speed has dropped.
For a scattering of low paying customers, neither company is willing to put in new copper or any sort of fiber.
Neither can therefore offer me better or faster service…
AT&T still won’t even sell DSL in this part of town.
…..
Newer small ISPs (like Speakeasy) offer the same slow service I have now … some even a little cheaper, but without the landline, which I’d have to pay a lot more to get.
So I keep what I’ve got.. the price is right.
Unlimited landline phone, i.e., free domestic and some international long distance, plus very slow internet, for $50 a month, plus fees and modem rental… About $65 total. Very cheap for both
Hi, I have Windstream and it’s 100.5 Mbbs for Download and 29.1 Mbbs for Upload, don’t know if all the speed being mentioned by everyone is for download or upload.
How much bread ‘you wanna spend?
Make sure at the door you aren’t getting ripped off.
And Cleo; if you don’t like what Clara and Claude are doingl split the scene, chick!
The Lionel Richie song was new to me. Very sweet.
Melanie has an interesting voice, she creates reverb in a way that is different from other singers. Always loved this song.
And Yakkity Yak is always fun.
I think I must live on Cleo’s planet… I’m cringing too.
I don’t think I’ve ever said “groovy“, “can you dig it” or “lay it on me” unironically in my life.
OK, OK, I do say “bummer” now and then… and I have to remember never to say “far out” … but is that enough to get me consigned to Planet Claude and Clara?
I hope not, cos hearing “pizza pie” all the time would drive me right up the wall…. um… wait… did I just do another one.. or is “up the wall” OK?
l
At the beginning or end of the story?
Well, as we used to joke in French class, they all fell through thin ice into a pond on the way home and…
… un deux trois quatre cinq…
…so they never did find their mittens.
Correct answer!
No need for a pencil… it’s pretty simple arithmetic…
6 x18 is 108.
it would take 2 pairs each to get 216…
the answer you posted… but it doesn’t give an explanation.
…
In any illustrations I’ve seen, they only wear them on their front paws, not all four.
They each lose two mittens, then find them again.
In some versions they soil them eating pie and then wash them…
but it’s still the same six mittens.
….
I just watched about half a dozen versions on YouTube… none that I want to inflict on any of you…
but I never saw 12 mittens.
Nor, AFAIK, is the voting age now 36.
Anybody?
4 x 3 = 12
18 x 10 = 180
18 x 2 = 36
180 + 36 = 216
Yes, of course… As I said…
Simple arithmetic.
But … but….
The three kittens have only two mittens each!
Six mittens! I don’t know where somebody got the idea that there were 12.
….
2 x 3 = 6
18 x 6 = 108!
Unless you think they wore mittens on their back paws as well….
But I’ve never seen it illustrated that way.
They wore, lost, found, wore again, and in some versions, soiled, washed, and wore again, the same six mittens.
4 paws
4 mittens
Psychedelic kitties?
I thought they were rats, but anyway I thought this might be a puzzle about how they get together.
Sweet!
Send this over to the toe-bean fanatics on Breaking Cat News!
When the Telus guy finished yesterday, he checked out my internet speed using the following website. I didn't make it an active link, but you can either highlight, right click and choose "Go to," or highlight it and copy and paste it into your address bar. https://fast.com/# He pronounced my computer's speed as being exactly where it should be. Please see my attachment. I'd be interested in anyone else's speed just to see if I'm getting a faster speed than those of you who do not yet have fibre. I cynically tend to doubt I am because there is still a copper wire cable from the fibre box to my computer. I have no idea what my speed was before, because I didn't have this site to refer to.The speed is also rated by your contract. I was formerly at 30Mbps, but am now at 50Mbps because my provider basic speed has gone up. Same equipment, same cables. For relatively short distances, regular RF cable is good in the frequency range of a number of gigahertz. The fiberoptic cable is most likely to the distribution box where the other end of your router cable goes.
Looks like you’re close to mine on Spectrum.
Thanks. 🙂
Just so you guys know what I mean about DSL internet service in my neighborhood:
Note that’s Kbps, ie, Kilobits per second, not Megabits. Instead of 30 Mbps, I’m getting considerably less than ONE.
It’s the neighborhood infrastructure, with its ancient copper wiring, not my ISP.
I’m on DSL… I haven’t found a wi-fi service that reaches here.
And yes, cable would be better, too, but for me, well, a bit out of reach.
You’d think I lived way out in the boondocks, instead of on an urban street, 4 miles from the center of a city of 180,000… though I am past the city limit.
….
BTW… There are lots of internet speed tests on the web.
For years I’ve used one at Speakeasy.net… but lately it opens a huge page of ads for their internet service.
It shows fewer digits in the results but also shows upload speed:
Susan,
In all seriousness, I’d look into what your ISP is telling you.
Prior to Monday, November 29, my internet came through my 40 year old copper telephone line installed by Alberta Government Telephones, since taken over by Telus. I have never had an internet speed as slow as 540 Kbs. I’d have noticed. I haven’t really noticed any increase in speed since the fibre cable has been connected, but then, as I said, there’s still that possible copper wire “choke point” and the added information from mr_sherman that Telus’ base speed is directly controlled by Telus which will also be a factor. I think it’s that last bit that’s really slowing your internet down, not the wiring.
All I needed to set up my internet when I first got it was a telephone jack line splitter to plug both my phone and D(igital)S(ubscriber)L(ine) box into the same jack. I use the same type of splitter for my landline answering machine in another jack, so in total, I had two telephones, one computer and one answering machine all hooked up to run on my single copper telephone line; and this for better than 10 years. No problems with any of them. The speed? As I said, at or about the same speed as now.
UpMy comment is rather long, and I don’t want to bore everybody who isn’t interested in internet speeds.
Anybody who is... please click below if you do want to read
Spoiler Please, Alexi… don’t assume everyone else is ignorant, or doesn’t know how to set up their lines!
I’ve had this service for 15 years….
It’s not like I’ve left any stone unturned.
Not even a pebble.
Your copper wiring has nothing to do with mine or Nighthawks’.
Some copper is new, some is old but still in perfect condition.
Some is old but deteriorated, and some, like mine, is not only that, but the main line has been moved, changed, and connected to many different tenants over the years, until it’s damaged.
Some companies generate much faster internet service than others, for reasons of their own… including the technology and money they possess.
Speed is also dependent upon the distance to the phone company offices generating it…
More than seven miles from a terminal it gets slower…. I’m sure there are other distance points that affect it.
Outside big cities there’s rarely fast service. A friend 20 miles away on rural property still gets only 56kbps dial-up, and her phone is busy whenever she’s on the internet.
…
I remember when home DSL started, and most people got 1.5 Mbps, here and in the other places I knew about.
Commercial DSL was usually 6 Mbps and cost several times as much.
My sister is and was on Telus in BC… she got 6Mbps when it wasn’t available to homes yet in my city.
At that time, I was on a waiting list for ANY DSL to come to my neighborhood… it finally did, in 2006, but it wasn’t good enough for the “phone company”, AT&T, to want to sell it to us.
…
My ISP was new, and bought the bulk rights to use AT&Ts lines, and resell their service… Which they still do, except in some newer or more populated areas, where they’ve built their own fiber network.
They were willing to try in my neighborhood, but the copper lines were so bad, they could only give us “quarter speed”… 300-something Mbps… at a discounted price, which I had for a couple of years.
Eventually AT&T fixed what they could or were willing to, and 2Mbps came to me.. I upgraded to service with a free landline … It was great.
…
That was in 2008… But the lines have deteriorated since then, and speed has dropped.
For a scattering of low paying customers, neither company is willing to put in new copper or any sort of fiber.
Neither can therefore offer me better or faster service…
AT&T still won’t even sell DSL in this part of town.
…..
Newer small ISPs (like Speakeasy) offer the same slow service I have now … some even a little cheaper, but without the landline, which I’d have to pay a lot more to get.
So I keep what I’ve got.. the price is right.
Unlimited landline phone, i.e., free domestic and some international long distance, plus very slow internet, for $50 a month, plus fees and modem rental… About $65 total. Very cheap for both
mine is a miserably slow 13.
it’s what I get for living in the sticks
I think my answer to Susan, above, applies to your service as well.
Hi, I have Windstream and it’s 100.5 Mbbs for Download and 29.1 Mbbs for Upload, don’t know if all the speed being mentioned by everyone is for download or upload.
From yesterday:
I know it was probably a passing thought, but if you Google:
tee-shirt “There’s nothing I can’t do except reach the top shelf I can’t do that ”
You’ll end up with a myriad number of sites where versions are available.
Using the Walmart U.S., website, even Walmart has a version.
P.S.
I liked your description of your standing up. That, I’m going to use.
Yes. Back in the day.
When we were still far out.
How much bread ‘you wanna spend?
Make sure at the door you aren’t getting ripped off.
And Cleo; if you don’t like what Clara and Claude are doingl split the scene, chick!
I can’t believe how square Cleo is. I thought for sure she’d be the first to get the chariot all souped up.
L 7 ?
You’re accusing Cleo of being L 7 ?
BOOOOO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 🙂
The description is the source link. L7 is 1950s slang for “square”, based on the shape made when putting together an “L” made with the left thumb and index finger and a “7” made with the right thumb and index finger
The expression made it into the early sixties through “Wooly Bully” (lead-in at the 54 second mark).
Farm out, daddy-o.
Love the Coasters.
Clara got so happy she wet her pants before the last panel.
Really!!
I wanted to disagree… But no, I’m afraid you’re right!
All the way to the shins.
Oh my!
The Lionel Richie song was new to me. Very sweet.
Melanie has an interesting voice, she creates reverb in a way that is different from other singers. Always loved this song.
And Yakkity Yak is always fun.
The other night we painted posters
They played some records by the Coasters
BOW WOW WOW WOW!
(Zappa)
I think I must live on Cleo’s planet… I’m cringing too.
I don’t think I’ve ever said “groovy“, “can you dig it” or “lay it on me” unironically in my life.
OK, OK, I do say “bummer” now and then… and I have to remember never to say “far out” … but is that enough to get me consigned to Planet Claude and Clara?
I hope not, cos hearing “pizza pie” all the time would drive me right up the wall…. um… wait… did I just do another one.. or is “up the wall” OK?
Sigh…. the rules are so darn complicated.
At least as far as I’m concerned, “up the wall” is totally fine. Bear in mind, though, that I have never been “cool.” So take me with a grain of salt.
Milords and miladies, I present to you, Lord Buckley to lay down the word licks for you — Lincoln’s Gettysburg address in the modern vernacular.
You might even wish to search out “The Nazz” or “The Hip Gahn”.
A stirring rendition, delivered with impeccable timing and emphasis.
the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake in April, 1906
Loving these long road pictures. I love going down roads I’ve never been down before.
Rabbit – rabbit – rabbit Cleophans
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Y’all have a great day. (((((HuGz)))))
BUNNY, BUNNY, BUNNY!!!
also national eat a red apple day
cherry pie for national pie day