[olug] Gigabit Internet

[Justin Reiners]

Aric, I have a pfsense firewall, with 2x 1000/100/10 cards. My home is 100%
1gig, with a linksys router on a leg, set up as an access point. that
should handle 1gig no problem.


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>wrote:

> Aric, do you have Cox Business or Cox Residential? Cox business still
> shows 50M max on their website. I might have to call them, I pay $160 a
> month, so I can have static IPs.
>
> I used about 700GB/mo but 20M uploads would be SOOO nice, as I am a system
> administrator, and regularly pull large files from work, NNTP, etc.
>
> I hope they are not skimping on business internet. We have 100/100 fiber
> at work, and regularly pull 70Meg from work. 150 would be awesome.
>
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>
>> Justin, I had to have them re-provision my modem.
>> I was getting 8 channels down and 4 up and sill only 50 down 20 up until I
>> had them re-provision it.
>>
>> I am uploading so my up results are low on these
>>
>> http://www.speedtest.net/result/2688475399.png
>>
>> http://www.speedtest.net/result/2688475895.png
>>
>> You need to bad ass router, and I highly recommend SSD drives.  Without
>> cache optimization, your spinny drives will be the bottleneck with
>> torrents.
>> I am using a dual, dual core 2GHz Sossaman Xeon pfSense box with an Intel
>> Gigabit dual port sever card and a raptor drive and I am at 40% CPU
>> utilization on it when I max my connection on torrents.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Kyle
>> Schnowske
>> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 9:52 PM
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Gigabit Internet
>>
>> Some co-workers were getting 100-110 down. I have not checked yet.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Justin Reiners
>> <justin at hotlinesinc.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Wait. I am guessing this does not work for cox business cable modem, I
>> > have ultimate... still getting 50 meg. Might have to reboot my modem.
>> > Anyone have cox business ultimate and getting 150 down?
>> >
>> > Sent from my Google Nexus 10 Tablet.
>> > On May 4, 2013 7:38 PM, "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On May 4, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Matthew Botts <mbotts00 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > > Most of the usb sticks can also
>> > > > use an external antenna. Just a thought.
>> > >
>> > > Alternatively you can get a USB extender cable if it doesn't have an
>> > > affordable external antenna.
>> > >
>> > > Dan
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> *Justin Reiners*
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*Justin Reiners*
Hotlines Technical Solutions Engineer.
Phone: 800.807.2967
www.PartsHotlines.com
www.MrCycleParts.com
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