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Comment Re:Single digit GB/mo cap (Score 1) 155

That's terrible. A friend of mine did a run on speedtest.net using his phone yesterday and got 60/30 Mbit/s (up/down). Unlimited, naturally. Just because you're able to stream a Youtube video doesn't mean it works like it should. It's like saying "well, at least it's faster than biking" when you buy a broken car.

Comment Re:Cheap Linux VPS and a VPN to home (Score 2) 164

I do something similir to this to access my work computer from anywhere. The company doesn't provide VPN access so I've connected my work PC to my home network via VPN. In turn I can access my home network via the same VPN (just different credentials). The only downside is that if my work computer is rebooted I have to be there to initiate the VPN connection.

Submission + - Finland Tops Mobile Phone Throwing Charts (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: In this year’s annual mobile-phone throwing contest held in Finland Ere Karjalainen has smashed the world record by throwing his phone 101.46 meters. The event, being held every year since 2000 in the town of Savonlinna, saw quite a few mobile-phone throwers participate. The 2nd position went to Jeremy Gallop, a South African who managed to throw his phone 94.67 metres. Finnish public television network YLE covered the Saturday event [Google translated]. Contest organizers are of the opinion that users can vent their anger on their phones and that this offers a unique opportunity to "pay back all the frustrations and disappointments caused by these modern equipments."

Comment Re:Wow, I'm amazed... not. (Score 1) 121

While I'm in no way surprised, I'm sorry to hear about the state of over-saturation in your area. I Just wanted to share a recent experience regarding these things.

I'm currently on a 200/10 Mbit/s cable connection. Previously it would max out at around 10.5Mbit/s pretty constantly, so I had set my QoS settings to regard that as the maximum upstream bitrate. Suddenly a few weeks ago I noticed the packet queue grew way out of size and started dropping packets. I kept raising the max bitrate until I reached 12500 kbit/s. Apparently my ISP had upgraded their pipes. Wouldn't you know, a few weeks later they announced a new 350/20 Mbit/s connection type.

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