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Q1: Is there a "Best" ISP for gaming.(PC/PS3/X360) That won't need a phone line(mom dose not want one.) but is stable during a weak storm(Rain, not risking a lighting). (If need be we can talk about this in PMs if the forums do not allow talk of this).
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There's also some WiFi ISP options available out there, usually running off of some version of LTE or WiMax.
Q2: How dose one choose a color for there room. I'm trying to think what i want and how to do it but can't narrow it down it seems. Form a basic color for all or going a little art like and doing some "tricks"(like waves or clouds, etc). |
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If you can't get cable internet where you live the government right now is heavily subsidizing the rollout of satellite internet. The government pays for all the equipment and the install, you just have to sign a contract.
I don't find satellite internet to be awesome, but if DSL (which doesn't require a phone) and Cable aren't available then Satellite is alright.
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If you can't get cable internet where you live the government right now is heavily subsidizing the rollout of satellite internet. The government pays for all the equipment and the install, you just have to sign a contract.
I don't find satellite internet to be awesome, but if DSL (which doesn't require a phone) and Cable aren't available then Satellite is alright. |
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Yeah, is Cable an option? I found that to be the best myself.
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Edit: *huh* i didn't find any links showing where FiOS was available, but i'll defer to your knowledge since i've never spent a lot of time in NC or used FiOS.
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How well is "HughesNet"? My mom is thinking of going with that but form my memory satellite internet is easily "hurt" by the simplest of rain storms. (We lose DishNetwork a bit when a rain storms hit.)
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if you can get Roadrunner from TWC, I'd recommend that.
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Be careful with satellite internet as they tend to cap your download amount per month...read the fine print carefully. I live in the desert of New Mexico but luckily we have a cable company that provides service. I have some coworkers who play online games (you know that big one with dwarves etc) and they have had horrible experience with satellite internet and their MMOs (lag etc).
If at all possible I would go with cable internet if you can
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I use satellite. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad I briefly considered a hostage situation at the ISP.
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Q2: How dose one choose a color for there room. I'm trying to think what i want and how to do it but can't narrow it down it seems. Form a basic color for all or going a little art like and doing some "tricks"(like waves or clouds, etc).
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BUT! If I had to go with a color, maybe on one wall, I'd go with a light blue (sky blue, for instance). I've read vague talk that people are more creative in a blue room, so I'd go with that.
Satellite internet is really terrible, especially for gaming.
When I was in the most rural of areas myself, I ended up signing up for a mobile hotspot device through my cell phone provider - because it was faster and better than the satellite.
Being back on cable internet is very much nicer.
Edit: I can't comment as to storms, though - that's not a concern over here.
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I might suggest looking to see if you have a Wireless DSL service available. While it is still DSL speed, you can get solid signal reliability in the worst weather. It's more stable than satellite. I've played through storms that screwed up our Dish Network reception.
I should know, I have it where I live (Out in the middle of BFE IL...). Though I don't believe we have the top of the line package, I can play City w/minimal rubberbanding and can deal with laggy video Streaming. It's better than nothing.
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I might suggest looking to see if you have a Wireless DSL service available.
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I wish these companies would quit calling themselves Wireless DSL. They are not DSL. It's simply a high-speed wireless connection.
DSL means Digital Subscriber Line (formerly Digital Subscriber Loop) and it's a technology that transmits digital data over the wires of a local telephone network.
It requires phone lines to work. It isn't a wireless technology.
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Yes, I know what I speak of. I used to do tech support for [redacted], a company that made a DSL modem for [redacted], a few models of DSL Gateways for [redacted], a few models of DSL Gateways that were used by [redacted] (I was part of the European support team working the overnight shift), and was testing a DSL Gateway for [redacted] when I left the company to move back to Texas and wound up providing [redacted] with a few different DSL Gateways since. They also made various wireless products and modems,
As for the wireless providers, you have to be careful with what they offer and how their equipment is configured. The ISP I use has more subscribers than the existing equipment can fully handle causing speed issues for all users. They also restrict some of the traffic on the network (mostly diagnostics that would help me troubleshoot issues such as Ping, Tracert, and similar) and have switched to a Private IP scheme so that I can't directly connect from elsewhere using Remote Desktop.
Also, the signals we get aren't very stable at all as well as being only able to get a 1.5 Mbps connection. While rain has little to no affect on the signal, wind very much will affect it as it can shake the antenna at my house or the ISP's antenna on the water tower that I connect to. I also get intermittent signal loss when the trees have leaves on them as the slightest breeze seems to wave them between my antenna and the water tower.
A few people I know tried to upgrade to a faster connection, but they refuse to offer it here (although they do elsewhere) since their equipment is already overloaded.
In other words, be careful with any wireless ISP. Check with several people in the area that use them, especially if you can find any computer techs or gamers that use them.
If I had my choice, I'd go with FIOS. Not available here even though Verizon is my phone company.
Second choice would be Cable. Not available here since the cable company has decided they don't want to expand their coverage area any more (told this by two employees that keep pushing for increased coverage areas) and would rather focus on new technologies they can offer existing customers.
Third choice would be DSL. Not available here even though 3 different GTE technicians told me it would be rolling out here one summer but then merger/buyout/whatever happened when it became part of Verizon and Verizon decided not to roll that out here. This was a few years before they began field testing FIOS (a friend worked for Verizon on the D/FW field test for FIOS in 2004). He's still irritated that they haven't rolled out FIOS here even though he hasn't lived here since the late 80's or early 90's.
Wireless ISP would be fourth.
Cellular ISP and Satellite ISP would be tied for last.
Dial-up is no longer a consideration for me at all.
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Yes, I know what I speak of. I used to do tech support for [redacted], a company that made a DSL modem for [redacted], a few models of DSL Gateways for [redacted], a few models of DSL Gateways that were used by [redacted] (I was part of the European support team working the overnight shift), and was testing a DSL Gateway for [redacted] when I left the company to move back to Texas and wound up providing [redacted] with a few different DSL Gateways since.
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Z's right. From what I've heard, Verizon's FiOS wins, hands down. I also respect them for pouring such a massive investment--billions--into their infrastructure with so many companies were looking for ways to gouge their customers and avoid spending any money in the process. Now, all of the telcos and cable companies are struggling under the burden of very old equipment that cannot adequately handle the bandwidth being forced upon them; meanwhile, Verizon is set for the foreseeable future, at least until ultra high speed wireless connectivity is almost universally available. (Which, incidentally, is another area in which Verizon has a clear lead.)
But, it seems like FiOS is out of the question for you. I feel your pain. Being in Atlanta, apparently Verizon has basically said they'll never deploy FiOS here.
So as a second choice, if you have Comcast, I've always been happy with them here in Atlanta. I've always gotten very good speeds from them, I've never run into any bandwidth caps or anything even though I watch a fair amount of video, and in the four or five years I've had it, it's only gone out on me maybe two or three times, and not for very long when it did. My only big complaint with them is their billing department, which screwed up my auto-pay setup at least twice, causing me to get cut off because they thought I wasn't paying my bill.
Can't really speak regarding other cable companies, I've never had anyone else but Comcast. I will say, however, that every time I have done business with AT&T for anything--cable, land line, cell phone, DSL, long-distance service--they have managed to screw me over and provide subpar service. I am currently (thankfully!) completely AT&T-free, thanks to viable options finally coming down the pipeline, and over the years, I've only used them when there was literally no other option open to me. Your mileage may vary, but I'm telling you that there are very few companies that I absolutely loathe, and AT&T is one of them. Avoid them like the plague.
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I don't name the companies they made DSL equipment for since it would make it too easy to identify the company I worked for.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Z's right. From what I've heard, Verizon's FiOS wins, hands down. I also respect them for pouring such a massive investment--billions--into their infrastructure with so many companies were looking for ways to gouge their customers and avoid spending any money in the process. Now, all of the telcos and cable companies are struggling under the burden of very old equipment that cannot adequately handle the bandwidth being forced upon them; meanwhile, Verizon is set for the foreseeable future, at least until ultra high speed wireless connectivity is almost universally available. (Which, incidentally, is another area in which Verizon has a clear lead.)
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The district leases T1 lines from them for communication to 2 of our out of town campuses and those lines lose timing and drop connections if the wind blows wrong or someone looks at them sideways. We can't get them to replace the lines, but they sure want to charge us a premium price for the lines anyway. If we had any alternatives for communications to those campuses we'd jump at it.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
I live in North Carolina (North-Eastern area) and I have TWC's Roadrunner. Customer service over the phone/internet is utter garbage (speaking from experience) but all of their service technicians that have come out have been knowledgeable and very helpful. If the price is within your budget I'd go with them as the signal is pretty reliable most of the time.
Well if any recall i made a "Grave news" thread a while back, but today i bare good news.
A Question or two later on in the post.
Me and my Mother have bought a 2 story house with 2.5 Acre of land that's right next to some land already owned by my Grandma. For about 32K.
We got Family living next door there that can help us out. Only down side is during the moving process i will have limited access to the forums via my Phone.
Here's hoping that everything goes smoothly and we get fully moved in by next week or so. Why is it so fast for us to move, you ask? Simple we are barely moving 6 Miles! Just going form Renting a place to owning some land.
Now for the Questions.
Q1: Is there a "Best" ISP for gaming.(PC/PS3/X360) That won't need a phone line(mom dose not want one.) but is stable during a weak storm(Rain, not risking a lighting). (If need be we can talk about this in PMs if the forums do not allow talk of this).
Q2: How dose one choose a color for there room. I'm trying to think what i want and how to do it but can't narrow it down it seems. Form a basic color for all or going a little art like and doing some "tricks"(like waves or clouds, etc).
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Going to miss the fun and nice people here at CoH. Feel free to add me on PS3/XBox360
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