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Tech Talk => Hardware, Tweaking & Networking => Topic started by: TriniXaeno on September 21, 2009, 01:49:43 PM
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A current and historical record of the broadband / internet offerings on our twin island republic
Current Colombus Flow Rates (21st September 2009)
U-click 20 - $69.99
Package Speed Recommended Use
20 hours per month
1 email address 256 Kbps (upload)
2 Mbps (download)
Internet used for light browsing, checking e-mail and internet banking. (Customers who exceed their package entitlement can purchase 1 additional hour for $5.75 or 5 hours additional time for only $23.00)
U-click Unlimited 1 - $189.99
Package Speed Recommended Use
Unlimited access
1 email address 256 Kbps (upload)
2 Mbps (download) Internet used for regular browsing, checking e-mail, research, online shopping and the occasional downloading of files.
U-click Unlimited 2 - $349.99
Package Speed Recommended Use
Unlimited access
3 email addresses 1 Mbps (upload)
10 Mbps (download) Internet used regularly for surfing, online video games, VOIP applications plus uploading and downloading files.
U-click Unlimited 3 - $689.99
Package Speed Recommended Use
Unlimited access
5 email addresses 2 Mbps (upload)
15 Mbps (download) Internet used regularly for browsing and bandwidth-intensive applications such as gaming and multimedia streaming.
Current TSTT Blink Rates (21st September 2009)
Home Rates
Blink Basic
Download 256 kbps
Upload 64 kbps
79.00
Blink Basic Plus
Download 1 Mbps
Upload 256 kbps
149.00
Blink Premium
Download 2 Mbps
Upload 512 kbps
229.00
Blink Premium Plus
Download 4 Mbps
Upload 768 kbps
349.00
Blink Super
Download up to 10 Mbps
Upload 768 kbps
699.00
Business Rates
Blink Business Basic
Download 512 kbps
Upload 128 kbps
799.00
Blink Business Premium
Download 1 Mbps
Upload 256 kbps
1,249.00
Blink Business Pro
Download 2 Mbps
Upload 768 kbps
2,099.00
Blink Business Pro Plus
Download 3 Mbps
Upload 768 kbps
2,399.00
Blink Business Pro Super
Download 4 Mbps
Upload 768 kbps
2,599.00
Blink Business Ultra
Download 6 Mbps
Upload 768 kbps
5,249.00
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WTF is up with TSTT's business prices!!? ???
No wonder most businesses decide to 'go with the Flow'.
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TSTT forgot to include the veiny member next to the business prices.
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HA!!! Yuh probably getting that when they come to 'install' it. :laughing7:
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so wait, flow has no business package, a business can use the given residential package as is? what the french toast.... please flow, come to tobago..lolz
anyways, just read this article and i dare say, will/could this happen in tnt as well. take a read >>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125329467451823485.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125329467451823485.html)
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Oh HELL no. TSTT making too much money as is, even with the advent of Flow. Remember, there are a LOT of areas
that Flow haven't reached up to now, so TSTT is taking their sweet time even now to meet/beat Flow's current pricing.
I really don't expect a like-minded approach on TSTT's part. Why do that when they could charge us more?
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so wait, flow has no business package, a business can use the given residential package as is? what the french toast.... please flow, come to tobago..lolz
Yeah they have Business Rates. And they offer Internet via Fibre or via Cable (same copper as the residential)
Here's today's link to that info http://www.flowtrinidad.com/Broadband/tabid/124/Default.aspx (http://www.flowtrinidad.com/Broadband/tabid/124/Default.aspx)
Service Bandwidth Additional Monthly Rental
U-click Business Lite 512k/1Mbps 1 static IP address $632.49
3 email addresses
U-click Business 1 1M/2Mbps 1 static IP address $1,149.00
3 email addresses
U-click Business 2 2M/6Mbps 3 static IP addresses $2,299.99
3 email addresses
U-click Business 3 3M/9Mbps Up to 3 static IP addresses $5,174.99
Up to 5 email addresses
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if yu lucky infact, you take out a 6 meg business package, and they bump you up to 9 megs freee
tstt could go blow a volcano yes
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Netizen, if you don't need the static IP address, would flow give you the residential package at a business location?
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OK, so I'm SERIOUSLY considering 'going with the Flow', due to TSTT's shenanigans over the last month.
I can only afford the 2MB package at the moment.
I need feedback...as to how good this works for the online games I am known to play,
on PC, XBL, and PSN. Also, some feedback about availability/uptime.
Lets hear it. Yea or nay.
Should Arcmanov go with the Flow?
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the only thing that bothers me on flow is the crappy youtube video streaming performance. It streams like a dial up modem.
games and downloads are fantastic.
I am on the 10mb package for $349.00 but my speedtest (to venezuela) reports something very different.
speedtest to flow is of course, off the chart, for the download at least. The upload is VERY WEAK. You will feel this if you do any kinda heavy uploading (aka torrents). I have to limit my upload to 17k so that it won't saturate the entire upstream.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/757925880.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/757927266.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
They advertise 1mb upload but in reality I am getting more like 256k
Hope this helps.
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I can't lie my flow connection was f'ing up the first fee weeks speeds were mediocre and the tech had a real condescending tone when you talked to them. the problem seemed to fix itself and i could not have been happier, i used that flow connection to host a NAS/TorrentBOX which i used to upload and download files from here in NY, the flow connection never failed it was always up and running.
PS. F u T&TEC yuh blow out meh F'ing PSU hold yuh MC and Yuh DUTTY ELECTRICITY.
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Lol @ t&tec busy blow out.
What your speedtest results looking like now slaming and what package you on?
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i'm on the 10mb package, not in trini at the moment so i can't perform a speedtest.
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Well well.....
Called Flow this morning, and they called me back a while ago to tell me that they coming to install
on the 25th (Thursday). Now, if THAT aint service, I don't know what is.
Free installation too. Gad-damn. :)
...and I didn't incur any penalty charges by deactivating my TSTT blink account either.
So, hopefully I'll be back on the Battlefield by weekend. :)
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Well well.....
Called Flow this morning, and they called me back a while ago to tell me that they coming to install
on the 25th (Thursday). Now, if THAT aint service, I don't know what is.
Free installation too. Gad-damn. :)
...and I didn't incur any penalty charges by deactivating my TSTT blink account either.
So, hopefully I'll be back on the Battlefield by weekend. :)
Well finally
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I find of late Flow is being VERY retarded in terms of bandwidth to the rest of the world.
I mean look at this...
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/758752043.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
In the earlies things were MUCH better than this. Youtube USED to stream videos properly what up?!
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At least you getting your 1mb upload.
A little birdie told me that TSTT bought out Flow but I can't confirm.
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At least you getting your 1mb upload.
A little birdie told me that TSTT bought out Flow but I can't confirm.
steups
you trying to start mass suicide
scene scene
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i heard that to jed, but now i hearing is a partial buy
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so wait, flow has no business package, a business can use the given residential package as is? what the french toast.... please flow, come to tobago..lolz
anyways, just read this article and i dare say, will/could this happen in tnt as well. take a read >>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125329467451823485.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125329467451823485.html)
they do have a business package, but it not backwards like TSTT, their business package is Fiber, expensive of course, but more awesome than pre buttered toast
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Captain, this is my kansas city results.
That upload figure getting me pissed the more I look at it.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/759437355.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
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ughhh look how disgusting fios is steups
feeling sick
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lol @ Fast, Faster, Fastest.
Some innovative plan names there.
Note, our flow 10mb package ain't bad at the ~$300 price tag.
IF it would perform as advertised!
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look @ de second package
wdmc
64 dollars for 25 megs up an dong/????
them muling cocaine through them fiber?
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lol, that's overkill.
and if FLOW is any indication, that is to them. Good luck trying to get any internet websites to "honor" that speed back to your modem.
You'll lay lay lay with speedtest to FIOS's internet gateway all day long if you want to see that 25 up and down.
Any foreign based players with a ridiculous connection like this willing to do a "bi partisan" speedtest? Say to the kansas speedtest server that awesome used?
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LOL @ 'muling cocaine'
The SLOWEST package is a CRATE of online whup-azz. Gad-DAMN!!! O_O
I doh have anywhere NEAR the HDD space for them connections.
Those who know me know what I mean. (hehehe)
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/759684138.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
For comparison, this is a speedtest to the same server but using a TSTT "10mb" connection
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meh, Flow needs to increase our upload on the 10Mbps package. You hardly ever get that 1Mbps as advertised anyways... and if you do... they start to throttle your download
at least, that's how it appears to me.
as a side note, a lil birdie told me to expect another upgrade in speeds this year, I'll keep my ear to the ground to see if I can get a date
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If the performance of the last two days is anything to go by, I will honestly admit here and now that Flow's
internet service is by far more superior to TSTT.
Yes, I said it...FAR MORE SUPERIOR.
To be honest, my current issue with TSTT is not so much the Blink service itself, but the actual phone line.
Unfortunately, I have moved into an area of Arima which is known to have a lot of physical infrastructural issues.
At least that is what more than one TSTT line technician told me. That could account for the rather spotty performance
in general of the blink service, but I can't say for sure, but I DO know that I had to reset my modem more often than was necessary.
Since that Flow connection was installed, the only time I had to reboot the modem was when I transferred the WAN connection to
my wireless router, and it seems I got one of the newer modems too. This one doesn't have an internal battery, and there's more LEDs
on it so you can have a better idea of its status at a glance.
All in all, I'm very impressed.
My one and only gripe, is that I wish the upload bandwidth was a tad higher, but for now it does the job
Game server pings have improved dramatically.
Downloading has improved. Especially torrents.
Not a fan of Flow's TV service, and their channel packages, but thats another issue entirely.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/762965736.png) (http://www.speedtest.net) (http://www.pingtest.net/result/13493823.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Exactly what I'm paying for, is what I'm getting...and thats tha bottom line [c] 'Stone' Cold Steve Austin
Not sure why the pingtest result itself is so atrocious, because I can get pings of 100 ms or less to game servers in Atlanta
...and I'm not having the YouTube issues that some of you highlighted. My YouTube loads and plays quite nicely.
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If the performance of the last two days is anything to go by, I will honestly admit here and now that Flow's
internet service is by far more superior to TSTT.
Yes, I said it...FAR MORE SUPERIOR.
To be honest, my current issue with TSTT is not so much the Blink service itself, but the actual phone line.
Unfortunately, I have moved into an area of Arima which is known to have a lot of physical infrastructural issues.
At least that is what more than one TSTT line technician told me. That could account for the rather spotty performance
in general of the blink service, but I can't say for sure, but I DO know that I had to reset my modem more often than was necessary.
Since that Flow connection was installed, the only time I had to reboot the modem was when I transferred the WAN connection to
my wireless router, and it seems I got one of the newer modems too. This one doesn't have an internal battery, and there's more LEDs
on it so you can have a better idea of its status at a glance.
All in all, I'm very impressed.
My one and only gripe, is that I wish the upload bandwidth was a tad higher, but for now it does the job
Game server pings have improved dramatically.
Downloading has improved. Especially torrents.
Not a fan of Flow's TV service, and their channel packages, but thats another issue entirely.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/762965736.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Exactly what I'm paying for, is what I'm getting...and thats tha bottom line [c] 'Stone' Cold Steve Austin
...and I'm not having the YouTube issues that some of you highlighted. My YouTube loads and plays quite nicely.
do you watch tv?
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smug bastard, but arc...the real test is one to an Atlanta server or Kansas. Use the same as we did (Captain and I) to compare.
Going back to the ISP is like testing your own product and saying its good. lol. Hardly an independent bipartisan opinion.
I tend to use Atlanta cause a lot of gameserver that offer us trinis the lowest ping tend to come out of atlanta. (GameServers Battlefield and Call of Duty servers to be exact)
Just for kicks, benchmarking my blackberry's internet connection here, will post results shortly.
edit, test complete, see the mind blowing result below:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/763001582.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Now THAT is an internet connection. Who say suhuweat!!!!
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As requested...
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/763103570.png) (http://www.speedtest.net) (http://www.speedtest.net/result/763106310.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
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Look what flow doing me 2day
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/763137083.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
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Just for kicks, benchmarking my blackberry's internet connection here, will post results shortly.
edit, test complete, see the mind blowing result below:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/763001582.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Now THAT is an internet connection. Who say suhuweat!!!!
Yeah that's more or less what i get on my gprs connection as well. We say it slow but it's faster than dialup lol.
This is my 10 mbit connection as of right now, I used to get the max speeds all the time but now it fluctuates greatly depending on the time of day.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/763147005.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/13505404.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
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but look at arcman ping every bodies ping below 100ms but his is 500+
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I cant explain why my ping value is so high. Maybe its because my PC also sits behind a Linksys WRT150N as well? I dunno,
my network setup could probably be introducing a lot of extra latency to the speedtest. One of these days, I'll connect it directly and run some tests again.
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How do you get a new IP address on Flow? Just unplug your modem for a while?
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yup.
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hmm well i wouldnt say thats true
the lease time on your flow ip is 5 days if i remember correctly
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so you is the man ninjaing all meh MC bandwidth...>:(
my facking net crawling, i haven't had these speeds in like 10 years, all kinda ludicrous 10kB/s and shit
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I have the 4MB package from BLINK and the highest I would see from that very same test on very rare occasions is 6MB/673.
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I have the 4mb package too but now I am getting double that, dont know what is going on but I am happy. Currently dloading at above 1mbit didnt want to make a post about it an jinx it nah. My guess is dat de people by Blink got smart, dey know Flow on de way up here by me and is de 10mbit connection I want so dey probably tryin to appease me one time before dat happens.
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now get jumby from ah set ah blink on the go sales people at the office
lol trying to use the IT department to sell residential net to the plebs in de office
lol how sad
i was like eh heh? nah we on flow
ride out
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so as of this morning i getting about 800KB/s dlds with blink on a 4mbit package...
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For the last two days I have seen double my download speed. current reading: 7.5MB dnl/650Kb upl
I just find it fishy that TSTT did not send me any notification. Still not gonna thank you yet TSTT.
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Seems like no one updated this topic to reflect the new Flow packages launched in July 2010
posted on July 22, 2010 15:05
New Commercial Broadband Packages
This advisory is to announce that on July 22nd, 2010, FLOW will be changing its Commercial Broadband Packages.
U Click Business Lite customers will be upgraded to the Biz 5 package.
U Click Business 1 customers will be upgraded to the Biz 10 package.
U Click Business 2 customers will be upgraded to the Biz 15
The U Click Business 3 Package has been withdrawn and all U Click Business 3 customers will be upgraded to the Biz 15 package.
NB: ALL EXISTING U CLICK BUSINESS CUSTOMERS ARE REQUIRED TO REBOOT THEIR MODEMS IN ORDER TO EXPERIENCE THEIR UPGRADED SPEEDS. THIS IS SIMPLY A MATTER OF HITTING THE RESET BUTTON AT THE BACK OF THE MODEM.
New Residential Broadband Packages
This advisory serves to inform customers that on August 1st, 2010, FLOW will launch its Residential Broadband Packages revised speeds and reduced prices. Please see below the new packages and the upgrades for customers on various existing packages.
Customers on the U Click 20 will be upgraded to the 5 Mbps Turbo 20 HR.
Customers on the U Click Unlimited 1 will be upgraded to the 5 Mbps Turbo 5.
Customers on the U Click Unlimited 2 will be upgraded to the 25 Mbps Turbo 25.
Customers on the U Click Unlimited 3 will be upgraded to the 25 Mbps Turbo 25 as their existing plan has been withdrawn.
Customers may call in to opt for Turbo 50 and Turbo 100. These packages will not be immediately available in South and Central and thus customers in these areas cannot currently access these packages. Hence the rate for Turbo 25 will be $349.99 in South and Central only until 50-100Mbps packages become available in these areas.
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Nice update Netizen.
+1
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so as of this morning i getting about 800KB/s dlds with blink on a 4mbit package...
Try power cycling the modem (unlug not just software reset).
Last night I sweating Reach (like yuh do) and BAM all a sudden game freeze... ppl falling out of meh party left front and centre and I like WTF??? thinking meh 360 Mucking up I restart... nothing... I look at the network icon in Win7 still showing connected, so I try to go to a website NADA (this is 1:30am btw), then I run through my usual checks, dns FAIL, ping FAIL, tracery-gets about 4 hops out then FAIL, restart modem in software everything still FAIL, HARD power cycle modem still HARD FAIL.... I was like daz a sign but at the same time WTMC man????
Sadly this is the kind of service i've come to expect from blink. I REALLY NEED to get a secondary FLOW link.
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so as of this morning i getting about 800KB/s dlds with blink on a 4mbit package...
Try power cycling the modem (unlug not just software reset).
Isn't 800kb/s on a 4mbit package a good thing? lol
I won't wanna lose that by unplugging meh modem :P
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so anybody having high ping with blink recently?
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Poor Pyralis. =p
Kitty called Flow last night. At least the woman there knew what ping and latency was opposed to the woman from TSTT you spoke to. XD
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i have a 10mb connection and everynight from 6:30pm i cant even stream a 720p video from youtube is
blink throttling there speeds
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just want to know should i disable my flow modem firewall cause i noticed with it enabled it blocks torrents
and when i disable it torrents get to download since im getting to download torrents with it disabled should it disable the firewall is it safe to do so
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just want to know should i disable my flow modem firewall cause i noticed with it enabled it blocks torrents
and when i disable it torrents get to download since im getting to download torrents with it disabled should it disable the firewall is it safe to do so
:protest:
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I never disabled mine.
Do you have a modem or a router?