Tag: Verizon
Dear Assholes Over at Verizon Wireless:
Remember how your phones used to suck balls in the pre-smartphone days? Remember how long it took you morons to get anything decent? I do. Then you got the Motorola Droid in Fall 2009. Pure Google experience. Phone was epic win. The phone (for its time) was amazing. Yes, it’s not the best designed and it is pretty slow and crappy now but you know what? I like it better than any Android on Verizon today. Now, you are releasing shitty phones with old versions of Android. The Droid X is a huge tablet and the HTC Incredible is ruined with SenseUI. It has no hope of getting upgraded. And why.. why WHY did the Galaxy S get released with Android 2.1
Know what I am jealous as hell over? This:
I borderline might switch over to T-Mobile because of the Nexus S, Google’s latest gem with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The thing is sleek and it’s stacked. Front camera, 1Ghz processor, 16gigs of storage, HD video, no bloatware, updates directly from Google… That’s an Android phone. Not this bullshit like the Droid Incredible, DroidX and Samsung Galaxy.
Seriously. Let’s say Google releases a new version of Android. The Nexus gets it right away. Verizon phones with bloatware will not get it for another 4-5 months because first, the manufacturer needs to modify it with its latest bloatware skin. Then Verizon gets it and has to add their shit to it. by the time the consumer gets it, Google’s halfway to the next version. And the fragmentation continues! I was so jealous when the Nexus One came out. It’s a shame Google botched that up royally. 1) Selling it from their own site was a flop and 2) should have partnered with more carriers.
So you dopey fools at Verizon:
- Keep sucking the phone manufacturer’s d’s and installing their shit ass custom UIs (Sense and MotoBlur). Pure garbage
- If you partner with Bing, I’m going to kill a kitten
- Keep getting phones with old ass versions of Android. Seriously? Why are NEW phones being released with Android 1.6 and 2.1? Pathetic.
- VCast App Store? What a joke
Verizon Shapes the Shit out of their Traffic
I supposedly have 25/25MBPS connection on Verizon FiOS. And it’s true – I do get 25/25 all the time. They do not lie and it doesn’t vary like cable (depending on how many people on your node are clogging the tubes). However, this doesn’t mean that certain connections are not limited. I have conducted tests which prove Verizon does indeed prioritize certain traffic.
If you don’t understand technology, stop reading now because you won’t give a shit and a half about the following:
The situation:
- I am downloading a file from over an SSH connection from a server at 1.6MBPS (the upload on that connection maxes out around 1.8 or so)
- I decided to upload a file to a separate server using SFTP over SSH
- I uploaded a file to that same server using FTP
The evidence:
Red signifies download, green is upload and yellow is overlap.
What the hell does this all mean?
- The red you see across the whole graph is me downloading files from a server that someone has on Optimum Online. I am SSH’d to the box and have the network drive mapped.
- The second spike of yellow and green is another computer with a 15MBPS connection that connected to my FiOS network and is downloading a file from me using SFTP. This is limited to about 3MBPS but spikes to 5 here and there
- The third spike of yellow is me uploading something to portfolioso.com using SFTP. Notice how it is limited to 1.6MBPS? Looks like we found out that SFTP downloads
- The green is me uploading a file to portfolioso.com using FTP. Notice I am getting my full 25MBPS up.
The fact that two separate SSH transfers were so cleanly chopped at 1.6MBPS signifies that Verizon capped the bandwidth there, since I have about 24MBPS left in the tubes. I am assuming that Verizon could not determine what type of traffic it was (since it’s SSH encrypted and on a nonstandard port) so they were like – eh lets not prioritize this.
What I don’t understand is why my upload was about 3MBPS when someone SFTP’d files from me whereas an SFTP transfer to portfolioso.com and an SFTP download I initiated both maxed at 1.6MBPS.
So yeah. There is some limiting going on around here. But you can’t complain because it’s consumer internet service and they “manage traffic” to maintain the integrity of their network, blah blah blah. I’ve heard every excuse in the book for this.
Overall, this means nothing to 99.6% of people reading this (or those who stopped after the first sentence did not interest them). Most internet users will experience the full speeds with basic web browsing and uploading (since Verizon does not limit http traffic)
FiOS is still better than Optimum Online on the grounds that their upload bandwidth is much higher. If you’re doing P2P stuff (for legal non copyrighted files, mind you) FiOS does not limit that since it can connect to multiple peers until you max out your bandwidth. I’ve had torrents that used my full 25MBPS pipe before, and they were amazing.
So thanks for the fast internet connection. Also, thanks for not doing the whole net neutrality thing.
3G In Upstate NY Is Utterly Useless
July 18, 2011
Useless Update
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I’m up in the boonies for the weekend and the 3G is borderline useless. I can’t load a damn thing because the cell tower is on top of the friggin othermountain. Welp… What can ya do?
You know what enrages me even more ? Verizon has some nerve saying I have a 3G connection with full bars. How dare they. There should be an asterisk that means “Yes, you’re technically on 3G, but because your in middle of hick-ass-ville, you will probably get like 28.8 baud. (For you non old times out there, baud was the old way of measuring internet speed. 28.8 baud is 28.8kbps. which is 0.02 MBPS. For a comparison, Cable goes between 3-15MBPS down, FiOS goes from 15-30MBPS down.
F-? Grades that low even exist? I would have given it a G- if G’s didn’t have a positive yet gangster connotation. Damn right my connection is a fuckin F- I couldn’t load a God damn webpage all weekend.
I can’t even compare it to the dial up days, because back then, at least pages were all text. Now, I try to load friggin Google and I’m pulling down a meg of javascript. Duh, my pages don’t load.
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