Hey all!

This is an odd post that will not apply to most but today I finally migrated to 4G as my internet connection. Basically, I live out in the sticks and broadband here is only 4mbs download on a very good day but upload speeds are around 1mbps. Fiber is not available so I decided to give this 50GB package a go which also includes a video pass (unlimited youtube) and the results are amazing. I have up to 20mbps download and 15mbps upload and the signal is more reliable that I would have thought. I am using a TPlink 4G router as my main wifi connection point and so far no problems.

But, watch out for skype!

In the past few days I have been preparing to switch and made some 4G experiments to see if it was good enough. After 1 day, I had used 5GB and I could not think where that went! After some research, I found out that Skype will use AS MUCH SPEED AS IT CAN despite not offering any better video or audio quality. This meant that it was using 1GB / hour and considering my friend lives abroad I was burning through my data. The solution was to download and install a network limiter that now limits skype to 30kb/s download and 60kb/s upload but the video and audio are still fine!

Just me mumbling on 4G now

 

Nice. My cable internet connection clocks in at 60Mbps down, 10 (I think) up. Your 20/15 should feel pretty darn snappy.

 

60Mbps!!! Thats very good :O

But yes, its about time I had a half decent internet connection especially considering that the nature of my job is online content creation!

 

60Mbps!!! Thats very good :O

But yes, its about time I had a half decent internet connection especially considering that the nature of my job is online content creation!

Haha, well maybe a little bit of bandwidth limitation is a good thing to keep you from over-bloating your websites. In the old days of modem access, nothing was more annoying than some stupid homepage with a photo and music. You'd wait 10 minutes for all that crap to load before you could find the links you needed to follow. It was a common hack to bookmark the links at a site that did NOT have all that crap, so that you could bypass the bloated homepage and surf around a lot a faster. These day I just go to the home page and navigate my way in because pages load almost instantly.