High speed internet, DSL

[Kossick]

PSiedTSi;272229 wrote:
Midcontinent, and they are ONLY in West Fargo. Cable one has that agreement with the city of Fargo to be the only one for a certain number of years. Midcon has plans to expand to Fargo and Moorhead.

Yeah they will be in moorhead by late summer of this year

[SPANISH-RICE]

I cant wait for midcontinent

[PSiedTSi]

amicheze;272240 wrote:
How far East does MidCo go? I'm going to be moving to within a block or two of West Fargo next month. A friend of mine just two blocks away has MidCo. Is it a pretty strict line or does it bleed into Fargo a little?

Well not to be a dick, but I would assume since theres an agreement in place with the City of Fargo, there would be zero Midcon service in the city limits.

[dubbsy]

SPANISH-RICE;272253 wrote:
I cant wait for midcontinent

reason enough for me to look at moving.

[ichibankilla]

00vtec;272219 wrote:
south fargo, around kmart area

I used to live in that area. As already stated, Cableone and Qwest are your only two options. I had Cableone 8meg and downloads were pretty fast. I could download albums in about 15-20 minutes and movies in about 30.

What apartments are you moving into, if I may ask?
I was in the Britania building, almost right across from The Lamp Lighter.

[00vtec]

moving into a duplex

[Trafik Jamz]

Having formerly lived in the part of town you are moving to, I can speak fairly well on this. Cableone is by far superior to Qwest <u>IN THAT AREA</u>. I tried qwest and was severely disappointed w/ their speed and reliability...and I only had them for 48 hours. My speedtest results were often in the 150kbs range, whereas cableone was consistently in the 3mbs range.

But yes, midco is west fargo is the shit. 30mbs+ ftw!

[out there]

personally, i have found that qwest dsl is preferable to cableone. with cableone, up and down speeds fluctuated and were throttled down to half 4pm-12am if i "overused" my connection. i didn't use midcontinent very much when the roommates switched to it for a few months, but i disliked the slower upload . with that in mind, i opted to switch back to qwest for the solid 5mb down and 896k up.

i don't know about qwest and their node limits (or if that's even an issue), but i do know that cableone buys their bandwidth from qwest. why add cableone as a middleman for additional cost and variable speeds?

would someone with midcontinent do a trace to google to see if midcontinent goes through qwest?

[00vtec]

when i had cableone in my other apartment, I always had to reboot, even at my parents house, and it seemed slow when there are 2 people on it. One person playing games and watching movies, and the other downloading music.

[PSiedTSi]

00vtec;272306 wrote:
when i had cableone in my other apartment, I always had to reboot, even at my parents house, and it seemed slow when there are 2 people on it. One person playing games and watching movies, and the other downloading music.

You do realize those are the most demanding things you can do? Streaming movies and downloading will take ALL of your bandwidth, I don't care what connection you have. If 3 people are surfing and randomly doing youtube type stuff, you probably wouldn't even notice with 5mb down.

[00vtec]

I know, the internet i have right now i get about 4.5Mb on average, and it is awesome. My only issue is the price, because at cableone its like 60 bucks or something, right now I am paying 35. And I was looking at qwest, and it said they could only get me 1.5Mb.

[DelSlow]

Blah damn my shitty <3MB Cable One..

[thrash]

I've been on qwest the entire time I've lived in fargo. I'm on the 1.5 and consider going up to the 7mbit service now and then. The nice thing about qwest @ 1.5 is that you will always get that speed. Upstream is 898k, which isn't bad. In the ~6 years I've been here I've had probably 5 days where there was some kind of problem on qwests end. Pretty good reliability, IMO.

There are no proxies, no filters, and no shaping that I've run into.

The qwest 1.5 service isn't fast enough for anything other than basic quality if you do netflix streaming on a PC. We may upgrade to the 7mbit service this fall when we're watching more movies again.

[PSiedTSi]

00vtec;272314 wrote:
I know, the internet i have right now i get about 4.5Mb on average, and it is awesome. My only issue is the price, because at cableone its like 60 bucks or something, right now I am paying 35. And I was looking at qwest, and it said they could only get me 1.5Mb.

Idk who quoted you at cableone but I pay about $30/month for my 5mb, which is long after my "new subscriber" period.

[00vtec]

http://www.cableone.net/FYH/Pages/highspeedinternet.aspx

53.00 bucks a month

[PSiedTSi]

00vtec;272329 wrote:
http://www.cableone.net/FYH/Pages/highspeedinternet.aspx

53.00 bucks a month

I'm assuming you have TV, and quite possibly HDTV, so the bundling of those make it cheaper than $53.

[MisterCMK]

CableOne < *

Why would anybody pay that much money for such a fucking slow service? Seriously, their fastest service is a fucking turtle.

[Jim]

LOL 20+ mbps for 24.99 FTW

[00vtec]

I just want internet, I have dish and would never go back to cableone.

[PSiedTSi]

00vtec;272393 wrote:
I just want internet, I have dish and would never go back to cableone.

Yeah that does change the cableone thing if you get TV from Dish(smart-ish choice). Do they offer internet anymore themselves?