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College Internet Question
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Hey guys so im moving into a house with 3 of my friends and we are looking at cable and internet, and comcast has a 80 channel and 20MBPS internet, and my friend does not believe that it is fast enough for us 4, but i think otherwise i was wondering what you guys think, we will be using mainly for just being on the internet and then ocasioally downloading movies and tv shows
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Get a password so asshole neighbors don't steal your wifi and make you pay $60 extra in 1 month fuck that shit. End of my contributions to this thread
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as long as your not all trying to watch netflix on separate computers, or everyones downloading their own music at the same time, should be fine. i shared 12mbps with 3 other guys which worked fine.
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what are you talking about bro? you dont get charged extra, but of course i would get a wep key password and its the download speed at 20Mbps, so anybody else whos got more knowledge
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i would hardly call that a contribution.
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I just moved out of a house with four guys and we had comcast at that speed. Worked fine. Why are you getting cable if you have internet? You an literally watch anything on the Internet that is on TV
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because i love just sitting and relaxing watching t.v. for instamce when i watch tv that ive downloaded i fell like i have to concentrate the whole time instead of just chilling and my room mates want it
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use a wpa2 instead, much more secure
20mpbs is fine amoung 4 people just surfing the internet. Netflix will be fine with 2 maybe 3 computers. Only troublesome aspect is if comcrap has bandwidth caps
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do you think thats 30mbps will make a big difference?
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it sounds like you were using your phone as a mobile hotspot...
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I think you'll be fine with 20. I was at my friends house yesterday and three of us were on the computer at once, two of us were downloading a game patch (large download), one on youtube, and his internet was still pretty fast.
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We had 6 guys in a house. Started with 20, wasnt enough so we went to 30 which was much better.
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This. You can even watch live sports broadcasts, and you only have to wait a day or less for a new TV episode to be available for download.
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Cable sucks. Stay away form cable bundle deals. If you want internet get internet. If you also want tv get a dish.
Honestly if you have netflix, hbo on demand, espn3 and other shit are you actually going to watch tv?
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I used to have that exact cable/internet comcast setup in college, we had 5-6 people in our house and we could have two xbox lives going, a person doing netflix and the others online and we had almost ZERO lag/delays/slowness.
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