How fast is your download/upload speed?

[cynthia]

I have a 100 Mb/s connection (1 Gb/s cable in the street) - but I can't get the US connections to show more than this:

Download Speed: 4914 kbps (614.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1896 kbps (237 KB/sec transfer rate)

I guess it's slowing down during the connection from Sweden to the US.

But looking as the US prices for connections is a bad joke. In Sweden they more or less give away connections for free.

[jmet]

I guess it's slowing down during the connection from Sweden to the US.

It does have to go through several HOPS to get there and back.

[Chewy]

I have a 100 Mb/s connection (1 Gb/s cable in the street) - but I can't get the US connections to show more than this:

Download Speed: 4914 kbps (614.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1896 kbps (237 KB/sec transfer rate)

I guess it's slowing down during the connection from Sweden to the US.

But looking as the US prices for connections is a bad joke. In Sweden they more or less give away connections for free.

are they using cat5e or cat 6 ethernet connections?

densely populated urban areas only, 330ft limits?

[jmet]

CAT5e can go more than 330 feet. (Been there done it!)

[Chewy]

Jmet,
you break all the rules anyway, transmission packet loss

jmet wiring a subdivision with powered switches every 400 feet in a star topolgy off router

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833122046

had my eye on this baby myself

[jmet]

My mother lives roughly 350 ft behind me and I had her networked with cat5e cable running through the trees and she got a perfect signal.

[Chewy]

On a 60,000Kb/s interface(actual tramsmission) connecting to a
269Kb/s internet connection I doubt you would notice any packet loss.

[TNT]

My mother lives roughly 350 ft behind me and I had her networked with cat5e cable running through the trees and she got a perfect signal.

lol

[jmet]

It was "southern ingenuity" at its best TNT!

[Chewy]

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

here's something to experiment with Jmet

[jmet]

Chewy, I have looked at those several times. I've actually been to several hardware stores looking for the N connector.

I really want to get a big antenna to stick on my roof.

I have 2 old dish satellite receivers in my shop that I am not using.

[Chewy]

going to have to go to a major electronics/electrical supply house

Friend made one out of a smaller can, looks real funky, returned the 90$ netgear wireless signal booster he had bought earlier.

[TNT]

Looks very MacGyveresque. I'll have to keep it in mind.

[jmet]

I don't have a access point, I just have a 4 port router. I think it will still work though.

[jmet]

I wish I could build one high enough and strong enough to pick up some wifi signals 5 or 6 miles down the road. They have 5 Megs down there.