My DSL provider is Whidbey Telecom (www.whidbeytel.com), the tiny little
telco here on Whidbey Island. They offer 6, 12, and 18 mbps service on a
single pair and 30 mbps on two bonded pairs. I believe the monthly cost
for my 30/3 conection is $60 plus $25 for the block of 13 usable IP
addresses.
They sort of pulled a fast one on me in that I was frustrated with my
upstream speed of just over 1.5mbps and they offered me the 30/3 without
telling me that they were in the process of rolling out the 3mbps
upstream speed on all their DSL products a week later. It's the upstream
speed that determines how well the three websites hosted here can
operate as well as the speed of sending mail out. To keep this clearly
on-topic, one site is the repository of customer images I've shot (full,
half, and quarter resolution plus ZAPP of all images), but the main
load is my Quotes of the Day, which also involves mailing a little over
12,000 outbound messages a day, which takes well under an hour.
I share the photo site's web directory via Samba, which means that I can
mount it from my Windows and Mac machines in my private address space. I
can proof a shoot by saving an HTML contact sheet from LightRoom to
w:\\photo\customername\proofs and it's instantly available as
http://photo.domainvanhorn.com/customername/proofs/. (My firewall is set
to block any SMB access from outside, but it's still at ethernet speed
for me.) I could use that site is an online backup, but as the server is
under my desk it wouldn't be an offsite backup -- I do have one customer
on that box who does use it that way, which is why it has a 500GB drive
instead of a 120.
When we made the switch to the bonded-pair service we used both
www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and www.speedtest.net to confirm that we
had a full and sustainable 30/3 available.
Van
On 08/12/2010 4:03 AM, James Parker wrote:
>
> > don't know who you're getting your cable service from. My only option
> > is Comcast and they advertise download rates of 15mbps (half the
> > speed I
> > get from DSL)
>
> Wow. I don't know who your DSL provider is, but typical DSL
> residential download speed is usually maxed out at about 6Mbps, not
> 15. Comcast at it's fastest advertises up 20Mbps. In practice, cable
> can be much slower as more users come online, and system wiring gets
> older.
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/faq/356
>
> You probably know about http://speedtest.net/ and
> http://www.dslreports.com/tools
> , both sites that will measure your actual connection speed both up
> and down.
>
> Jim Parker
> parkerparker :: design | photography
> http://www.parkerparker.info
> @dakkid / twitter
>
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