29 Dec 2010
Speed Kills
After much humming and hawing, I signed up for broadband in Virginia with Comcast. I’m wary of them based on their filtering, and other subscribers talking about their dropping idle connections (sometimes, long-lived SSH connections are handy). But I wasn’t able to get much bandwidth from CenturyLink due to my location. So far, speedtest looks downright awesome. Here are the results from my new connection in Virginia.
Here’s what I get at the inlaws office where I’m working now. The connection at their home isn’t much better.:
So, we’ll see how much “neighbor contention” plays a factor in my available/usable bandwidth. But I’m sure looking forward to moving into the home in VA and sitting on the end of that fat pipe! 
Long-running SSH sessions are useful, but you can make them even more useful by running screen on the far end, so that even if your connection drops, you can recover it.
irilyth
December 29th, 2010 at 10:20 AMpermalink
Oh, absolutely. I figure if I’m insufficiently in the screen habit now, and ISP that drops idle connections will enforce the habit!
AC
December 29th, 2010 at 10:47 AMpermalink
[...] Sure enough, I’m approaching 30 Mbs. Of course upload speeds aren’t what they were last time I checked, but maybe that’s a “time of test” [...]
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