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4/1/2011 8:19:07 PM

4/1/2011 10:42:56 PM

4/1/2011 11:22:56 PM

It's pathetic how quickly this country is falling behind when it comes to broadband.

4/2/2011 9:30:17 AM

No high-speed options for me in my little slice of rural Lenoir County.

4/2/2011 9:39:40 AM

18 down
1 up

$34 charter in greenville sc.

Besides the company sucking and the prices on their TV packages sucking, their internet prices aren't terrible at least.

4/2/2011 10:25:29 AM

A friend of mine gets 0.2 down and 0.1 up.

But, that's in bum-fuck Iraq.

4/2/2011 10:31:23 AM

I'm a little temped to make fake results for stupid junk, including

- Dialup
- Morse code
- Carrier pidgin
- Indian smoke signals

4/2/2011 12:27:48 PM

I'm not sure I believe this site. I have problems with my internet quite often. Maybe I'm just impossible to please

4/2/2011 11:32:06 PM

4/3/2011 7:58:53 AM

12 down 1.5 up att uverse.

[Edited on April 4, 2011 at 9:02 PM. Reason : /]

[Edited on April 4, 2011 at 9:02 PM. Reason : image]

4/4/2011 9:01:46 PM

You guys do realize the site is for business class service, not your Road Runner? Think T1s

4/6/2011 11:49:40 PM

North Carolina cities mobilize against anti-muni broadband bill

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/north-carolina-cities-mobilize-against-anti-muni-broadband-bill.ars

4/14/2011 11:29:57 AM

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"You guys do realize the site is for business class service, not your Road Runner? Think T1s"

Uh... just how fast do you think a T1 is?

4/14/2011 11:41:23 AM

Come on dude, T1s are a steal! $300+/mo for 1.5/1.5

and:

Quote :

"Value is simply defined as cost / speed. The North Carolina cities that made the list have poor upload speed, paired with relatively high Internet prices. Upload and download speeds factor equally in our calculations."

Quote :

"Our Calculation 1. We multiply the number of tests times the value. 2. We sum that up for the month. 3. We divide that back out by the number of tests in the month. That gives us an average value for both upload and download speed per city for the month. To get a single average speed for a city we just average upload and download speed. (As noted, this is where NC cities start to look bad.)"

Taken from their update here: http://blog.broadband.com/2011/03/30/north-carolina-broadband-value-behind-the-numbers/

[Edited on April 14, 2011 at 12:10 PM. Reason : a]

4/14/2011 12:02:51 PM

The thing about a T1 is the guaranteed uptime and low latency which you don't get with your generic residential connection.

4/14/2011 4:15:38 PM

^ Also for a T1, you are paying for the SLA. If your DSL is down, there is a 7-day SLA, for a T1 there is a 4-hour SLA

4/14/2011 4:28:38 PM

T1 is antiquated 1990s technology. And 300/month would in fact be a steal for that.

[Edited on April 14, 2011 at 5:37 PM. Reason : .]

4/14/2011 5:36:30 PM

I remember on Napster going "oh they have a T1, that's good"

4/18/2011 8:06:29 AM

What do you guys make of this?

https://www.mcnc.org/btop/video/oct-2010
https://www.mcnc.org/sites/default/files/NEWS_MCNC-Groundbreaking-Press-Release-10-8-10.pdf

5/26/2011 2:50:23 PM

its a good thing. Bring high capacity internet to more places in the state, while leveraging economies of scale of centralized commodity bandwidth allocation.

MCNC is a great organization and all the state universities (and most private) already greatly benefit from using it for connectivity to peer/commodity/I2/NLR.

[Edited on May 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM. Reason : .]

5/26/2011 3:30:45 PM

MCNC is a bunch of politically connected swindlers that are building fiber to nowhere. We don't need federal money to build middle mile; middle mile is the cheap part that anyone can build and make a return on investment with.

5/26/2011 7:57:39 PM

10.2Mbps down
10.6Mbps up
7ms ping

Last test I did on 4/25

5/26/2011 8:17:15 PM

[Edited on May 26, 2011 at 8:28 PM. Reason : ]

5/26/2011 8:27:17 PM

"MCNC is a bunch of politically connected swindlers that are building fiber to nowhere. We don't need federal money to build middle mile; middle mile is the cheap part that anyone can build and make a return on investment with."

Sounds like something from the John Locke foundation. have to respectfully disagree. They are a quality group with very capable engineers.

[Edited on May 31, 2011 at 2:51 PM. Reason : .]

5/31/2011 2:33:38 PM

^ i mean, looks at the source of the comment. i'm surprised you even bothered to reply.

5/31/2011 4:01:19 PM

I've never had the pleasure of dealing with their engineers; only their lobbyists and the people who put together grant applications. They may be a decent group once they get to actual construction, but the people who grease the politicians for funding are a bunch of fucking crooks. Considering how they tried to constantly beg us for free engineering, I assumed they didn't have any of their own.

5/31/2011 4:59:37 PM

Yeah but why are you bitching about a project that can only benefit NC?

5/31/2011 5:04:12 PM

because the project was more of a sweetheart deal for a few politically connected people than it was a benefit to NC. If they really wanted to benefit the people of NC with high speed internet, we wouldn't go out of our way to shit on the city of Wilson in the NC General Assembly as a favor to TWC. It's typical NC politics.

5/31/2011 5:13:24 PM

Is this not a case where the ends would justify the means?

5/31/2011 5:37:41 PM

maybe, but I personally would have liked to see the money managed by a more fiscally responsible group so that we could put in more miles or a higher fiber count for the same money.

5/31/2011 5:42:36 PM

5/31/2011 6:41:24 PM

what is that a map of? I'm pretty sure there isn't any fiber down 158 yet, since they just went out for bid on materials for that section last month.

5/31/2011 6:47:57 PM

- Operational
- Built or agreement to acquire
- TBC

https://www.mcnc.org/btop/progress/map

You're basically just upset that they're using federal money to fund it? Maybe you're trolling or maybe I'm just that politically ignorant, but I could have sworn that cities like Wilson and Salisbury are direct results of programs such as BTOP?

5/31/2011 7:46:56 PM

I love how the plans straight up ignore Goldsboro. Hahaha


"Goldsboro? Fiber? Nah, fuck that."

5/31/2011 8:16:16 PM

Kinston too, lol.

Well, on second thought, Kinston doesn't really even have any kind of .edu do they? Goldsboro is odd because they could hit both Wayne CC and Mount Olive...

[Edited on May 31, 2011 at 8:42 PM. Reason : .]

5/31/2011 8:39:13 PM

I'm not mad that federal money is being used to build fiber. Hell, most of our electrical and telecommunication lines were originally built with federal funding and are still financed with REA loans. I'm pissed that the resources were extremely limited for fiber and the only applications that got approved were moved through the system because of political connections and sweetheart deals. The people we dealt with almost bragged about how connected they were for milking the system. The original REA loans weren't like that at all, but that money flowed freely to anyone that applied for it and was willing to deal with the audits and paperwork.

5/31/2011 9:10:44 PM

so you're mad that the world is continuing to work the way it has for thousands of years

5/31/2011 10:46:21 PM

not really. At least they are keeping the jobs of the future away from black contractors, just like they have for thousands of years.

5/31/2011 11:19:53 PM

I see you over there tryin to troll with that weak-ass shit

6/1/2011 11:41:37 AM

hahahaha black contractors

6/1/2011 11:47:32 AM

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"Kinston doesn't really even have any kind of .edu do they"

How you gon' knock on Last Chance College (aka Lenoir Community College) like that?

6/1/2011 11:54:18 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYslyrm3oU

6/21/2011 6:46:36 PM

So, people seem up in arms that municipal governments (cities/towns) can't compete with telco and cable operators to provide internet.


Question: Why don't other companies, or even startups step in and compete? Why don't these pissed off citizens start businesses to provide this service?

6/21/2011 10:59:28 PM

Most citizens in towns the size of wilson are not well off enough to start a telco that can run fiber or are not incovenienced to the point of organizing a co-op that could possibly pull something off on that large a scale.

6/22/2011 12:23:15 AM

^ but if there is a business case for it, why don't businesses or investors put money into making it happen?

can the supposed unmet need for broadband be served profitably?

6/22/2011 11:13:18 AM

Embedded laptop. FYI you can get $100-$250 off of these at Best Buy if you sign up for Clear.

6/22/2011 12:38:13 PM

6/23/2011 7:38:14 AM

methinks time warner is having some serious issues

6/23/2011 8:16:37 AM

^^ good god man!!

6/23/2011 11:11:42 AM