I knew a guy just like rep in high school. He was a fat bastard who continuously was bragging about how fucking great he was. If anyone ever bought anything, like a new cd-player or a pair of sneakers, he instantly declared that it was shit, and that he owned something much better and more expensive. But no one in the class had ever been to his place to see all his awesome stuff, and as far as anyone knows, no one had , because the guy didn't have any friends, which is no wonder since he was such a cunt.

So, if someone ever had done something fun, he had always done something much cooler and more awesome. An example; when everyone was getting their drivers licenses (driving age is 18 here) we were often talking about it in between classes and so. We were talking about driving lessons we'd had and stuff like that. When the guy heard us talk about that he always dreamed up some freak story about him driving his uncle's Porsche 911 and almost crashing with a police car or something stupid like that. Everyone knew that he hadn't driven any car at all, that there was no way his fucking uncle had a 911 - he probably didn't even have an uncle.

The thing is that we were all laughing at this fucking clown, and repeatedly told him that he was a fucking retard, but he still continued dreaming up shit like that and acting like an arrogant asshole. No wonder he didn't have any friends, and probably cried himself to sleep every night, wondering why no one liked him.

So, why am I telling you this little story? I guess everyone probably knows some guy just like that. Well, rep is exactly like this guy, fuck if I didn't know rep wasn't Swedish I'd say that he'd had to be the same guy. Is that you, Johan Landahl?

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duh....cable upgrades are happening like everywhere
but dont get too comfortable....last i heard this is only one step forward to a entirely different bandwidth tier-price system that will ofcourse be less beneficial to us users

This is unrelated, but I love the gamer kids who buy 6MBps lines over 3MBps lines because they think they're going to get better response time in games. (Or as they call it, ping, even though ping is the related verb.)

I recently upgraded my modem. Previously I was on an older DOCSIS 1.1 modem, and I was getting anywhere between 4 and 5MBps. Instantly after upgrading, I saw speeds increase by over 1MBps, and I've even hit close to 7MBps on a line that is only supposed to get 5MBps.

I remember when I first got mine. I was in a test market, 1998. Basically no limits. Threw a hub on the cable modem and everyone got their own public IP. 10 Mbit down and 1.5 Mbit up. I think we are finally approaching those days again.
I got called an LPB quite a bit in those days.

Most ISPs (I work for one) give their premium subscribers a much better QoS (Quality of Service) so yes, your in-game ping will go down.



Yup. Older modems often have trouble dealing with current line speeds. If anyone here still has a COM21, go bugger your ISP for a replacement.

no it wont. [...] upping your BANDWIDTH will not effect your LATENCY.

oh, and com21 modems don't have problems with new line speeds, they have problems because they were shitty modems from day 1.

Re-read my previous post. It's not bandwidth that'll reduce network latency, it's the QoS, i.e. the priority the head-end/local node assigns to your packets. A decent ISP also ups the latter if you migrate to a faster (and more expensive) package.

out of curiosity, why is my downstream now 4 Mbit/sec and my upstream is still a measly 256 Kbit/sec? i don't see how my cable company could be any more stingy.

packet scheduling actually slows down the network once it reaches the size of a cable network.
I highly doubt its being implemented by any major isp in any sort of serious capacity.
maybe in small rich areas where they've just upgraded to a new CMTS and don't have 10,000+ modems going into it.

distance is the enemy of ping, and always will be the chief factor in latency issues. packet scheduling only makes sense on local networks.

Do you guys know any tricks to make my 14.4 faster?