Quote Originally Posted by vthomlinson View Post
i pick up my neighbour's wireless signal.. and sometimes when i'm downloading multiple full length movies things will really get slow..

is that the same thing?
HA! I don't think it's the same thing, seeing as how you're not only talking about downloading movies (instead of just regular browsing), but you're talking about downloading movies on someone else's network


Quote Originally Posted by BKratchmer View Post
I'm in a similar situation as far as house location and ISP choice, but instead of high latency what we have is service failure at random times for varying lengths of time... which is very, very bad when you are trying to get work done from home! It was down for two straight days once, and all the company said was "we're not clear why the connection is failing" which is basically them saying "Your town is small and whenever we have a high network load we shunt bandwidth away from you." Not cool.
Our's will go down from time to time, but it hasn't lasted more than an hour or so yet. You gotta hate those big businesses with the monopolies on the little guys. It sounds like your ISP needs some bigger servers! I think mine would benefit from that as well.