[olug] Gigabit Internet

[Brady Cox]

Also, recall that you get a speed boost on most tiers just by having a
DOCSIS 3 modem on Cox.  Unless you have ultimate, they usually provision
you a DOCSIS 2 Modem.


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>wrote:

> 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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