In new heights of beating AT&T over the head...

[once_a_banana]

I continue to feel a little bad about my seemingly ever-increasing ability to get what I want out of CSRs of enormous megacorporations whose machinations I distrust. But hey, I still haven't had specially assigned super agents assigned to deal with me yet, so I must still have a ways to go... (right heathey?). In the latest, a couple weeks ago I found

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[lingboy]

From my lab in Lyon to Paris. I guess it's nice that I live in a country where they've replaced every line with fiber optics?

[fengshui]

That's at work, I presume? In business/educational settings, we get very fast speeds in the States.

[once_a_banana]

Wow, that's pretty nice. Fear the power that is: le RENATERRRR!!!!

I wonder what I would get with a hardwired connection here on campus. Airbears is reasonably fast (but probably not more than 10 Mbps or so) - when you can actually connect, that is! Argh it is pretty awful.

I'm also curious what you get at home there, and how much the available services cost.

[lingboy]

I just tried it at home at it is not nearly as fast at in my office in the lab.

Here are my results:


However, the difference in cost is almost laughable. We pay 24 euros a month ($32.50 USD) for cable wifi and for a landline (with free calls everywhere in France and free calls to the US and Canada).

Cellphone service is expensive here and often not very good, but cable internet and landline phones are super cheap.

[krasnoludek]

This was from around noon today at home:




(corrected URL. oops)

However, this was only a few minutes after I reopened my browser with its hundred tabs, and so the lower speed confirms my suspicions that when I open too many connections at once, my ISP "punishes" me by limiting my DL speed for an hour or two.

[once_a_banana]

It's possible. It's also possible that your browser or CPU or memory or ports or somethingorotherorother are clogged when you have that many tabs open, limiting your ability to do the test properly or download things quickly...

[once_a_banana]

Okay, here's what I'm getting for Airbears (once I finally got my browser to connect... it takes forever). It's a little better than I was expecting but nothing amazing.