Is Broadband Speed Just an Illusion?

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Heh! You're a Mac sys admin? What a wienie. Ha!

Do you wear "product" in your hair? Did your eyeglass frames cost more than your laptop?

We have ONE Mac server. Only ONE! LOL It is used for publishing podcasts and as an update server for all the other Macs. We have a half a dozen Windows servers that do the REAL work here.

[WyoPastor]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

We have ONE Mac server. Only ONE! LOL It is used for publishing podcasts and as an update server for all the other Macs. We have a half a dozen Windows servers that do the REAL work here.

We have 3 XServes and (Thank God) no Windows servers.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by WyoPastor

When I was on the City Council here, we pushed through a fiber to the home project. So every home in town has fiber directly to the house.
My speed is 10.14 down
4.98 up

However I saw the biggest increase in speed when I bought a new iMac last month.

Who is your ISP?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by WyoPastor

We have 3 XServes and (Thank God) no Windows servers.

Once NT died out Windows servers have become increasingly reliable. No more reboot every day, or several times a day. In fact, most people don't even seem to remember those days.

I've never worked with xservers - that's the Mac OS Xserver, right? To be honest I've been thinking about a change of religion lately. There's a lot of stuff that I neeed to do on the fly that I know a Mac can handle without a bunch of fooling around.

Anybody remember Aldus? Those were the days. I was productive then.

[RandyWayne]

Our Windows servers run continually without any issues. The only times they are rebooted is when MS pushes down updates, usually at 2 in the morning when no one cares anyways.

[WyoPastor]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Who is your ISP?

It's a small local company called TCT West. They serve most of NW Wyoming and have been very proactive with fiber.
I have their bottom end service, but it's plenty for home use.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Who's your ISP?

I have Comcast and there was a point in time a couple of years ago that I was getting unreal download speeds in the 40's and 50's. Right now I'm back to 3.5 meg.

... Wait a minute... I think we were supposed to be getting the upgrade added on ... gonna call them today.

TimeWarner here. They have to keep up with Verizon fios

[WyoPastor]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Once NT died out Windows servers have become increasingly reliable. No more reboot every day, or several times a day. In fact, most people don't even seem to remember those days.

I've never worked with xservers - that's the Mac OS Xserver, right? To be honest I've been thinking about a change of religion lately. There's a lot of stuff that I neeed to do on the fly that I know a Mac can handle without a bunch of fooling around.

Anybody remember Aldus? Those were the days. I was productive then.

Yes, they are the Mac servers. One of the really nice things about, other than I may not even go in the server room for a couple weeks at a time, is how easy it is to keep a running backup.

And yes I remember Aldus Pagemaker.

[MonoTheist]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Over the last few years I have seen our cable speed go up from 4 mbps to 20...and yet with few exceptions, it still seems like it's at 4. Some downloads take forever. Some downloads that I have done from the same servers are no faster now than they were then. What gives?

Is this just server traffic? If so where is the benefit of having more speed? It's like driving a Lamborghini on southern California..whats the point?

Depends..are you sharing your internet with cable tv services in your home?..how many other computers are acessing the same service,how fast is your computer..yeah it may be new and fast at first but if you notice they do the service pak updates little by little and it makes it slower...these are some things to consider..

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by MonoTheist

Depends..are you sharing your internet with cable tv services in your home?..how many other computers are acessing the same service,how fast is your computer..yeah it may be new and fast at first but if you notice they do the service pak updates little by little and it makes it slower...these are some things to consider..

No TV. Just mine. It's fast. I know how to monitor network traffic, So Im talking about times when Windows is not doing an update (or anything else)