Local ISP suggestions
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Hey everyone
I have been getting sick and tired of my lack of consistent internet speeds and terrible ping times that Midco has been providing me. Any suggestions as to what I should go with?
I dont mind paying the $56 or so a month for high speeds, but would like to get what I am paying for. I have the 30M down 3M up connection, but lately have been getting only 1-11M down and .11-1.5M up with ping times between 85-390ms.....
So I'm thinking of DSL, but know nothing about it. Looks like my local options would be Qwest or IdeaOne.......
Whats your thoughts?
RyRy
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Yeah you should bring it up with them because I have been nothing but satisfied with Midco and could never imagine switching ISP's after having them. We're on the 20/2 package and I consistently get 20/2 MINIMUM, often much higher.
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StangerBanger96;318277 wrote:
Yeah you should bring it up with them because I have been nothing but satisfied with Midco and could never imagine switching ISP's after having them. We're on the 20/2 package and I consistently get 20/2 MINIMUM, often much higher.I agree with Dustin. We used to have Quest, it was a major PITA(Bill was always getting screwed up every couple of months) and much much slower then Midco. We never got anything over 3mb download.
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I ran into an issue w/ Midco once after about 6 months of service....I was getting too "hot" of a signal into my cable modem. Once they put a filter on to lower the signal power my speeds shot up dramatically again. I'd call them and let them know you are not getting advertised speeds.
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94NDTA;318275 wrote:
I would talk to them, this is what I am getting with Midco...maybe I am stealing all your internets.
What midco package do you have?
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integra_gsr98;318285 wrote:
What midco package do you have?likewise! I have never reached that high of speed. Do you have docsis 3.0? and which package is it. I am tempted to switch to a 3.0 modem if it is worth it, but with the inconsistent speeds and ping times I have been thinking of switching.
but running the speed test right now I got these results:
but when I ran it yesterday I had terrible results as noted prior. That is the problem I have been having. very inconsistent connection (and I know it matters depending on who is all online at the same time since cable neighborhoods share nods) but when my speeds and ping is low 90% of the time and I am lagging like a bitch on xbox live, it pisses me off.
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It would probably be worth your time to give them a call and ask if your setup can be checked. I never have issues with live and when I am downloading large files, I rarely dip below 15. Plus midco doesn't cap your bandwidth like most ISP's so excessive downloading or gaming doesn't drop you down to a lower speed tier, unlike CableOne.
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i live a few blocks from the CO downtown. 7 down / 898kb up is the fastest thing qwest sells in the fargo market. my speeds are always locked at that in both directions.
qwest doesn't do any port filtering or other lameness that i've come across, but their CPE is all fucking garbage. plan on running whatever you get from them in bridged mode and put a real edge device behind it. also, if you are torrenting anything that people in the US care about (NBC shows, for instance), they will batch up complaints and then after they get 5 or 10 or wahtever they just shut off your connection without warning, so that is lame. Maybe once per year i will have some downtime that i have to call about, and then perhaps once a month i will have random connectivity problems (high packet loss, etc).
nick (or anyone else) -- do you know what business-class options are available (and where, generally) in fargo? is there metro ethernet downtown? BITD i knew a bit about ds1/ds3 provisioning but that was like 10 years ago and a different city. To go between qwest and NDSU i go to chicago and come back on sprintlink, for instance. Who has pops/peering here? what is backhaul like for the various locals?
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thrash;318291 wrote:
nick (or anyone else) -- do you know what business-class options are available (and where, generally) in fargo? is there metro ethernet downtown? BITD i knew a bit about ds1/ds3 provisioning but that was like 10 years ago and a different city. To go between qwest and NDSU i go to chicago and come back on sprintlink, for instance. Who has pops/peering here? what is backhaul like for the various locals?You can get metro ethernet delivered in town by most major carriers. IdeaONE, Qwest and Midco all have their own fiber in the ground. Sprint will ride IdeaONE fiber if a circuit is ordered from them. I'm in the process of moving a lot of my customers to midco for fiber/voice services because they have built a really robust network.
Sprint and Qwest are the only tier 1 carries with pops in Fargo. 99% of the peering you'll find in this region occurs in Chicago however as that is the closest major NAP. That will likely never change.
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and a few hours later im down to this:
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ticklemedaly;318302 wrote:
and a few hours later im down to this:test using this:
http://support-test.midco.net/
That will show you your speed to midco. You cannot guarantee that the speedtest that you are using has available bandwidth to give you a decent result.
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I thought I had the package w/ 15 meg download, 2 upload, but I have never EVER seen my download below 30.
I'm not sure one their packages.
Also, my midco test and my speedtest.net tes were exactly the same tonight, 36 meg down, 2 up, 22 ping.
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the obvious choice is cable one
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"test using this:
http://support-test.midco.net/
That will show you your speed to midco. You cannot guarantee that the speedtest that you are using has available bandwidth to give you a decent result."
I've used both. They typically are similar if not nearly identical in results each time.
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my midco was being gay yesterday afternoon on duty. other than that, never had a problem with lag on it.
/cool story bro
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Midco here
-Eric
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