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Which Interwebs Do I Want? [SOLVED]
Cognisseur
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EDIT: I went with the cheaper "Road Runner High Speed Online with Powerboost" option. Thanks everyone for the advice!
I'm moving into my first apartment in New York City with my girlfriend next week. So I've been looking into Internet to go with.
My landlord said the address gets access through Time Warner so I went to their website but I couldn't find any Internet-only deals, just packages with stuff I don't want. But the site said which ISPs they work through so I tried those. Earthlink was only willing to offer dial-up and satellite so that won't work.
Their other option was RoadRunner. Has anyone had any experience with them? They had two plans I've been considering, both of which come with free routers:
1. $34.95/mo for "Road Runner High Speed Online with Powerboost". It advertises 7mbps download speeds.
2. $44.95/mo for "Road Runner Turbo with Powerboost". It advertises 15mbps download speeds.
However, I don't know how accurate those speeds are because I'm sure that's the highest you can attain with Powerboost enabled, which is defined as: "Runner with PowerBoost provides a burst of download speed when capacity is available above the customers provisioned download speeds for the first 10 MB of a file. It then reverts to your provisioned speed for the remainder of the download."
Here are my needs.
-I want to be able to play PC games online without worrying too much about my network connection being so slow as to lag the game. I have no idea how much data is transmitted in games like TF2 or WoW so I don't know if that's even a real concern when picking an Internet plan.
-I'll be streaming movies, and periodically downloading movies (legitimately), and don't want to watch like 15 minutes of a movie, then wait 30 minutes, watch the next 15 min, etc.
-I want to be able to surf the internet with relative freedom without long loading times between pages.
I don't know if I need the 2nd plan for that, or if the first one is fast enough to allow for lag-free online gaming, streaming movies, and Internet surfing (not simultaneously). I also don't know what the actual speeds are if the advertised speeds are with "Powerboost". I also don't know if Powerboost applies only to actual file downloading, or if movie streaming counts, video games, etc.
So uh, help. I'd love to be able to go for the cheap option but I recognize I spend a lot of time online and don't want to cripple myself just because I don't know what various fake-speeds translate into real-speeds and how much real-speed I even need. Thank you!
I'm moving into my first apartment in New York City with my girlfriend next week. So I've been looking into Internet to go with.
My landlord said the address gets access through Time Warner so I went to their website but I couldn't find any Internet-only deals, just packages with stuff I don't want. But the site said which ISPs they work through so I tried those. Earthlink was only willing to offer dial-up and satellite so that won't work.
Their other option was RoadRunner. Has anyone had any experience with them? They had two plans I've been considering, both of which come with free routers:
1. $34.95/mo for "Road Runner High Speed Online with Powerboost". It advertises 7mbps download speeds.
2. $44.95/mo for "Road Runner Turbo with Powerboost". It advertises 15mbps download speeds.
However, I don't know how accurate those speeds are because I'm sure that's the highest you can attain with Powerboost enabled, which is defined as: "Runner with PowerBoost provides a burst of download speed when capacity is available above the customers provisioned download speeds for the first 10 MB of a file. It then reverts to your provisioned speed for the remainder of the download."
Here are my needs.
-I want to be able to play PC games online without worrying too much about my network connection being so slow as to lag the game. I have no idea how much data is transmitted in games like TF2 or WoW so I don't know if that's even a real concern when picking an Internet plan.
-I'll be streaming movies, and periodically downloading movies (legitimately), and don't want to watch like 15 minutes of a movie, then wait 30 minutes, watch the next 15 min, etc.
-I want to be able to surf the internet with relative freedom without long loading times between pages.
I don't know if I need the 2nd plan for that, or if the first one is fast enough to allow for lag-free online gaming, streaming movies, and Internet surfing (not simultaneously). I also don't know what the actual speeds are if the advertised speeds are with "Powerboost". I also don't know if Powerboost applies only to actual file downloading, or if movie streaming counts, video games, etc.
So uh, help. I'd love to be able to go for the cheap option but I recognize I spend a lot of time online and don't want to cripple myself just because I don't know what various fake-speeds translate into real-speeds and how much real-speed I even need. Thank you!
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As such, I'd say 7 would be okay provided you're only doing one bandwidth-heavy task at a time, as opposed to, say, torrenting while trying to stream a movie.
Powerboost is what it is... it will probably either work all of the time or none of the time, depending on how crowded the pipes are.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
My home connection is turbo (listed as 15/2 speed) and I get 30mb down all the time. It's pretty sweet.
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Down here, the "normal" speed is half of the advertised power boost speed.
So if it's 16mb with power boost, that means the base speed is 8.
Like I said, I have the 8/16 and I actually find I hover right around 12 most of the time.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other