Goodbye DSL…hello Fiber!
Hey everyone, hope y’all are doing good. We’ve been busy with spring time chores around the house, T-ball, school, and work….the norm!
Just wanted to make a short post to test our new internet service. It seems that AT&T did some changes on their end and our DSL service went on the blink. After spending hours….yes hours on the phone with their support; they tell me that they changed something on the DNS that made it incompatible with Linksys routers. They told me to call Linksys, to which I did. Linksys told me that my router was too old to update the firmware on. My router was only 4 years old. LOL
So, we decided to go with a new router. An Apple Airport Extreme, to add to our growing ALL MAC CLARK NETWORK!!!!! We also decided to drop AT&T like a bad habit and go with a smaller company, NTS (who was just bought by another company who’s name I cannot recall). They provide fiber in our area. We are saving some money, not much, by using their fiber services.
We signed up for the TV, Phone, and Internet package. By doing this, we will drop AT&T completely, drop Suddenlink cable, and gain the speed of 8Mbs download & 1 Mbs upload speed on our internet. We have Dish for the living room and master bedroom, and cable every where else in the house, so by dropping Sudden Link, we are saving there a bit on monthly charges too.
Switching to NTS’s fiber service was not a smooth transition though. We were only getting .44mbs download & .20 upload the first day. I started throwing fit and calling to find out what the issue was. After some calls to support, who were not up to par on their technical skills, I just started asking for things I needed to troubleshoot. After I convinced them that I needed the DNS server addresses, entered them into my Airport Extreme, all is well.
I decided to do some testing. With all the TV’s that are connected to their service on, the phone in use, one Mac using streaming a YouTube video, and another using the web to test the speed….here are my results:
:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 7875 Kbps about 7.88 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB)
Download Speed is:: 961 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 990 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 121 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/04/19 – 12:22pm
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18 [!]
I am pleased with that result and can see the difference in the speed, as compared to AT&T’s service. I just hope when the buy out of NTS is completed and the ‘growing pains’ are over, that their support desk is a bit better.
Anyway, back out in the yard to finish my landscaping. Jace and I are off to buy plants! Whoo hoo!!!!
Later,
James
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