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Winterville, NC 1 edit gatorkram Premium Member My experience with the new 1gig internet plan.



Anyway this will be the new home of everything I can say about the new 1gig service.



Installation set for 8-10am Aug 3rd... Stay tuned...



edit: typo/spelling mistake already.. Reminds me of my old topic about my quest for 200mbit speeds at home... » My plans for >200mbit speeds at home. Anyway this will be the new home of everything I can say about the new 1gig service.Installation set for 8-10am Aug 3rd... Stay tuned...edit: typo/spelling mistake already..

gatorkram 1 recommendation gatorkram Premium Member Little bit of an update, was just looking at my data usage, and noticed they already bumped me up to the new 550gig cap included with the 1g plan

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Suddenlink is currently using a 32x4 configuration with the



As a side note I'd like to point out anyone is free to post in this topic, discussing their own feelings or results etc with the package, but I would like to limit it to just covering the 1gig package.



My thanks again to Chubbzie Thanks to Chubbzie we have some more information to add to the topic.Suddenlink is currently using a 32x4 configuration with the Hitron CDA3-35 modem. As Chuubbzie pointed out, this modem is capable of being used in a 32x8 configuration.As a side note I'd like to point out anyone is free to post in this topic, discussing their own feelings or results etc with the package, but I would like to limit it to just covering the 1gig package.My thanks again to Chubbzie for sharing some technical details a lot of us have been waiting to hear about.



Al3sinth

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said by gatorkram: Little bit of an update, was just looking at my data usage, and noticed they already bumped me up to the new 550gig cap included with the 1g plan 550GB on 1Gb O.o that's what I get on my 150Mb line... I'm assuming this is just where it's a trial run?



gatorkram

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Winterville, NC gatorkram Premium Member The new 1gig plan is replacing the old 150 plan here, so I guess that is where the cap comes from. Still have some confusion on the price though, as I talked about in another topic, I need to go over some of my old bills and try and figure out what I was paying for the 150 plan, but it seems to me the new 1gig plan isn't a simple drop in replacement for the 150 plan, when it comes to price. I think it's $30 more, and I wouldn't call that a free upgrade like the other plans saw. My 100 plan went to 200 for free.

gatorkram gatorkram Premium Member After much research and concerns with being able to achieve full speeds with my current router (srx 5308) I have decided to eliminate it in my setup and connect the modem directly to my pc.



I installed my old usb2 nic I used in my old dual wan setup which is referred to in my first post in this topic to setup internet connection sharing.



Its working fine, and at this point I don't expect the speed limitations of the usb2 port to come into play as my wireless setup can only link at 300mbit over 5ghz N.



Speed tests on my tablet at this point are the same as with my other setup.



At some point I might swap out the usb2 nic for a standard internal nic.



The whole point here is to get the new speeds up and running with little to no new equipment.



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Haughton, LA 1 recommendation moldypickle Premium Member Time for a dedicated routing box, sounds to me



gatorkram

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Winterville, NC gatorkram Premium Member Might be true. Just trying to keep it simple for now.



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gatorkram Seriously though, we need at least 2TB with the Gig service. My apologies for the delay in getting back to the SL forum. Unfortunately I was home only briefly last week due to a family crisis. Hope to get more testing performed moving forward.gatorkram , you're only a week a way from blowing through the cap in just a few hours, congrats.Seriously though, we need2TB with the Gig service.



gatorkram

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Winterville, NC 1 recommendation gatorkram Premium Member What router, if any are you using with the new gig service?



Have you run any tests on the speedtest server here?



We all know how I feel about the caps. I am still surprised how bad the caps are, and how low the upload speeds are.



Frankly it feels like a rush to market. I hope in time they get it reworked with better caps (or how about no cap) and higher upstream speeds and 8 channel bonding on the upstream.



As it pertains to the upstream, they might end up leaving it 4 channels and reworking the whole thing when docsis 3.1 comes out.



Chubbzie

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1 recommendation Chubbzie Member Using a RT-AC66 with Merlin's firmware for a good while, extremely stable and high level of performance. Have used other 3rd party firmware previously on this router and while they included more features they lacked high throughput and stability.



I think I've run a handful of speedtests here. Most only reach a little over 800. I'll try running more and posting the results.



I agree with you about the rushing to market. More of a "Look we've got gigabit!" stance from SL. Like a stopgap measure until they can rollout D3.1. Whoever decided on the 550GB cap should really get their mental acuity tested.



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Haughton, LA 1 recommendation moldypickle Premium Member Do you have a link for that firmware? If you're routing wan to lan at 800+, they've somehow got their hands on the proprietary driver for their nat chip. Would be awesome, needless to say.

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Haughton, LA 1 recommendation moldypickle Premium Member How supremely helpful. ).)



Anyways, that's the asus made firmware (just tweaked a bit), so sadly won't get that performance from any other third party firmware. If you have one of those routers though, good to go!



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While Tomato & DD-WRT gave me a plethora of options the open source drivers performance were iffy at best. Merlin is fantastic about patching security issues and building performance optimizations directly in his firmware releases. He is highly active in the smallnetbuilder forums and communicates directly with users to help remedy any problems that might pop up. I've installed and integrated Entware into this router for some features that aren't available via AsusWRT. Have used the custom scripting feature quite a bit in the past. This router also supports dual WAN interfaces.While Tomato & DD-WRT gave me a plethora of options the open source drivers performance were iffy at best.



gatorkram

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Winterville, NC gatorkram Premium Member Having a good fast router with this service is important for sure.



Still trying to decide my next move in that department.

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said by Chubbzie: I think I've run a handful of speedtests here. Most only reach a little over 800. I'll try running more and posting the results. Watch out, you might exceed your cap just with the tests!

StR

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1 recommendation StR Member said by Chubbzie: Sad but true, truth is a hard pill to swallow sometimes...

... and it doesn't come in a sweetened children's version. :)... and it doesn't come in a sweetened children's version.



gatorkram

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Winterville, NC 2 recommendations gatorkram Premium Member But.... for just $10 you can add 50 more gigs of yummy yummy data transfer.



I was just looking at my linode account, they charge 2 cents a gig for overages. That sounds more resonable. .



moldypickle

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Haughton, LA 2 recommendations moldypickle Premium Member Hey, I'd have no problem with $10/50 gigs,,,, if they didn't charge me the full standard bill at the same time.

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They should at least have the common decency and return the bytes that you payed for but don't use at the end of every month. If you are going to charge it like a precious non-renewable resource then give it back you thieves! At this rate it might be more economically to connect over LTE on T-mobile soon.



gatorkram

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Winterville, NC 1 recommendation gatorkram Premium Member The big day comes tomorrow, so excited to enter the 1gig club...

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And my first speed test





32 x 4





Here is the speed test from this site.





Here is the speed test from this site. Here is the channel configuration on the new 1gig plan. The quality isn't the best because the page is so long its hard to fit everything on. If anyone needs some info and can't read the image, I'll take more screen shots.And my first speed test

gatorkram gatorkram Premium Member A quick image of what the speeds show inside your account tools on the download test.

gatorkram gatorkram Premium Member This is a speed test using the tools on the suddenlink site. This is the DC server.

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If anyone has any questions or wants me to run a particular test or download something, just post it.



edit: This result is using the new modem and new gigabit plan (cda3-35) Here is a run of the jitter test on this site.If anyone has any questions or wants me to run a particular test or download something, just post it.edit: This result is using the new modem and new gigabit plan (cda3-35)

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Now, show us all how you can hit your cap in an hour and 10 minutes.



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Did you ever purchase a new router or are you directly connected? Looking good gatorkram ! We should team up and do all of our testing in tandem to see what kind of draw it puts on particular servers (like the Greenville speedtest server).Did you ever purchase a new router or are you directly connected?