They all claim to be the best and the fastest with lowest price ...<br><br>On Thursday, August 13, 2015, DJ-Pfulio <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Entered my address ...<br>
"It looks like GigaMonster does not currently service your community."<br>
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If there were any other real choice here, I'd fire Comcast today.<br>
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On 08/13/2015 03:59 PM, dev null wrote:<br>
> I have 1 Gb/s at $120/mo with Gigamonster in Atlanta. My somewhat old dual<br>
> core pfSense box handles it fine with snort in ips mode (had to do a bit of<br>
> tuning with preproccessors though)<br>
> <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/result/4429386230.png" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/4429386230.png</a><br>
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> From: <a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'ale-bounces@ale.org')">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'ale-bounces@ale.org')">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
> DJ-Pfulio<br>
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:52 PM<br>
> To: <a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'ale@ale.org')">ale@ale.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [ale] USB3 to Ethernet throughput<br>
><br>
> On 08/13/2015 02:23 PM, Raylynn Knight wrote:<br>
>> Obviously you would invalidate the effort of using a PC if you still<br>
> resort to USB Ethernet devices.<br>
><br>
> A Chromebook C720 using a USB3-to-GigE adapter tests to about 500 Mbps with<br>
> iperf.<br>
><br>
> $ iperf -c istar<br>
> ------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> Client connecting to istar, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 43.8 KByte<br>
> (default)<br>
> ------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> [ 3] local 172.22.22.11 port 44658 connected with 172.22.22.20 port 5001<br>
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth<br>
> [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 603 MBytes 505 Mbits/sec<br>
><br>
><br>
> Not an extensive test, but going to other machines on the network showed<br>
> similar results from the C720. Those other machines test in the 940+ Mbps<br>
> between each other. As a gige router, not good enough, but as a WAN gateway<br>
> - probably fine for most of us who will never see GigE connections.<br>
><br>
> Is anyone here signed up for the 2Gbps service from Comcsst at home for<br>
> $300/month + $500 install + $500 "activation" + $??? equipment fees?<br>
> Comcast claims 1.5M people in the Atlanta area can get this service.<br>
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