Looking for good ISP for trying out a home server

[taha116]

So ive tested it out and its runing fine... my problem is the transfer speed wich is like .4-.6 MBPS Im looking for someting atleast 3 + to 10 (uplink) and a decent download would be nice as well. If it helps im in canada. Any suggestions ive treid for a couple days and couldnt find anything sutiable.

[galaxyAbstractor]

You would probably need fiber optics if you want faster than 1 mbps up

[taha116]

Can you be more specific? I know what fibre optics are but if you could explain better how i would do that and give me a company name or two that would be great.

[galaxyAbstractor]

Can you be more specific? I know what fibre optics are but if you could explain better how i would do that and give me a company name or two that would be great.

idk, I don't live in Canada, but I do know you need to drag a fibre optics cable to your house before you can use it, if it hasn't been done already.

[taha116]

Umm well that shouldnt be to difficult or expensive should it?

Anyone else got anytihng?

[Kayos]

Umm well that shouldnt be to difficult or expensive should it?

Anyone else got anytihng?

I'm pretty sure laying fiber optic lines is an expensive task. Usually a phone or cable company does it.

[Livewire]

Check with your existing ISP and see if they offer a BUSINESS plan.

Personal plans don't have much upload because there's no reason you need to be uploading at huge speeds (fast enough for a video game, but not for a server). That's also because if you read the terms from your ISP, you'll probably notice something like "Running a home server is not allowed with this service."

Course they probably won't hunt you down, cause it runs so slow it won't matter.



But yeah see if they have a business plan for your area; the business plan -should- have much faster upload and if you're lucky won't require any extra hardware to make it work.

[taha116]

Im with primus and thier business options suck:
See for yourself it just looks like better download speeds. Barley better uplink

http://www.primus.ca/en/business/highspeed/dsl/east.php

[Kayos]

You're not going to get much more with DSL. Are you sure there isn't a cable internet provider you could switch to?

[taha116]

I keep looking around most of the popular ones seem to have business plans with higher download speeds and still bad upload speeds...

Ive looked at a couple more, What does x10 use? how do they pull it off?