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1. I know. NTE installs the fibre optic cables. 2. NTE is owned by the county(Nord-Trøndelag). They didn't come, they were already there. Therefore it was a local initiative when they expanded their business to include installing fibre and be a partner of Altibox. 3. No, only 50 million NOK is allocated in the state budget in 2015. Anymore money are in that case added by local governments. 4. No, Altibox is not available in all the counties. No, your comment made no sense. You gave the impression that our government are promoting high speed connections and being progressive in that regard. But that is not the case. The money that are allocated are not much, and they have been saying for years that they want the private market to take care of it. Their earning may not have been much 10 years ago, when they started up with FTTH, but now they are making good profits. They need only a little more than 50% penetration in one area to make a profit. Most of the fibre networks in Norway have 60% or more, so they are very profitable. The problem is that due to lack of initiative in our government, it's been up to private companies to install fibre and they are not gonna share those cables with anyone else, it's long term investments. So we will not have a situation similar to the phone networks(copper cables), where there can be competition. If you are lucky to live in an area that have fibre optic cables, you have, in 99% of the time, only one ISP to choose from. In other words, just like the cable-TV companies. If the government really promoted and allocated enough money to create a nationwide fibre optic network, this wouldn't be a problem and it would have benefited us, the consumers. The amount of money from the government is pathetic and it only makes it easier for the ISP to create monopolies. If you have access to a fibre connection, but you think it's too expensive, you are shit out of luck. You have to pay whatever they want, you have nowhere else to go. You can always choose a shitty ADSL connection though or one of the cable companies that forces you to buy their TV packages that you don't need :angry: But enough of this OT, I'm done.

NTE(local power company and ISP) is owned by the Nord-Trøndelag county, but that is not the norm for the rest of the country. At least not for the southern parts of Norway, where most of us live. My point is that Norway is not a country where the state heavily promotes high speeds connections. The only reason sparsely populated areas sometimes have access to fibre, is due to a local initiative. The 50mill NOK is for the municipalities(kommunene). Sorry for the OT. Carry on please

What are you talking about? The ISP's are not forced to do anything and they don't get any money, but local governments sometime help to fund projects. Our government will only allocate 50 million NOK(6,5 million USD) to the municipalities this year, for them to install fiber where there are no commercial interest. So basically, the support from the Norwegian state is almost non existent. The ISP's are installing fibre where it is profitable. 99% of the fibre that are installed these days, are done by commercial operators. The fibre coverage are pretty good(where people actually live, not godforsaken places), and it's getting better every year, but no thanks to the government. They have been pretty clear about wanting the commercial operators to do the work.

Great, no problem

I would also recommend to run Memtest86 to see if your RAM is faulty.

It could be the RAM. Have you tried with only one RAM stick, switched them around to see if one of them could be faulty? Another thing you should do is update the bios. It would also be a good idea to reset the bios settings, in case the memory settings etc. could be the cause.

Upgraded the connection a tad Edit, measured the speed a little later, it got even better

Just got my fiber connection Will probably upgrade to 500/500 or 1000/1000, but 100/100 is a good start 300 NOK(45 USD/35 EUR)

Looking at "his" posts, it's pretty obvious it's a spambot. I have reported it, hopefully someone puts an end to the spamming

I have enjoyed LinusTechTips for years, please keep making awesome content. Btw. The WAN show is great to listen to/watch while I work out, I get to exercise and geek out at the same time

Yes, we know. You have told us that 4 times already.

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You calculated the average download speed reported in this thread? That must have taken a while, going through 90 pages, well done

What do you mean?

I feel for you dude, I'm getting a 100/100 connection this summer, for just 300 NOK (50 USD)

With an average income, the tax rate are just under 30 percent. This applies if you have no deduction (beyond the standard deduction). We are pretty much fucked when the oil is gone though

That's because Romania went from nothing to fiber, of course its cheap Not to mention, Norway is a pretty rich country. The average salary is (yearly, before taxes) 76,000+ USD. Even though everything is expensive here, due to our oil driven economy, our purchasing power are not that bad But you have to be pretty rich to get a 10Gbps package though. That will be a special order. And 1 Gbps package is also pretty expensive, but affordable

Norwegian triple-play provider Altibox, which boasts the country’s largest fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, has announced plans to introduce downlink transmission speeds of up to 10Gbps for residential subscribers. From 1 August 2014 a 10Gbps package will be priced at NOK 14,900 (USD 2,500), while a 1Gbps subscription will cost NOK 1,490 per month. Elsewhere, existing subscribers will see their download speeds increased incrementally, at no extra cost. The base level 25Mbps package is being boosted to 35Mbps (NOK 449 per month), and 60Mbps subscriptions will be raised to 75Mbps (NOK 549 per month). If you order the 10 Gbps package, they will come home to you and install the needed equipment. You will need a small rack and a proper A/C. Why do they offer this insane speed you ask? Because they can 35/35 Mb/s NOK 449 (USD 75) 75/75 Mb/s NOK 549 (USD 92) 150/150 Mb/s NOK 649 (USD 109) 300/300 Mb/s NOK 749 (USD 126) 500/500 Mb/s NOK 990 (USD 166) 1/1 Gb/s NOK 1490 (USD 251) 10/10 Gb/s NOK 14,900 (USD 2,500)

Hello Captain Obvious. That has already been established a while ago The reasons for using a different router is the following. 1. You get to choose which router you want. Which means to can choose from a wide variety of routers. 2. Modem/Routers you get from ISP sucks ass about 99% of the time. They tend to be underpowered, lacking in features, poor wireless range, unstable and so on. Bridging the modem eliminates all that, and you can use a proper router. TS can of course ditch the netgear router and use the modem/router from Comcast, but if he wants to use the Netgear or any other router for that matter, the modem from Comcast must be bridged.

Okay, let's summarize. The network setup in terms of cabling is correct and the same goes for the settings in your router. Basically the whole setup should work with the modem in bridge mode, but it obviously doesn't My guess is that the modem are in fact giving out an WAN IP when in bridge mode, but the router for some reason are not able to receive it. You can see if the router is getting an WAN IP by going to the router status page, it may look a bit different if you have a newer firmware version. If the router gets an WAN IP, make sure to renew the IP address for your computer. You can do this by going to command prompt in windows, and enter "ipconfig /renew"(without quotation marks) or just restart the computer. If your router don't get an WAN IP, try and connect your PC directly to your modem instead. Your computer should get an WAN IP, but you may need to do a "ipconfig /renew" or a restart of the computer. If your computer still don't get an IP, then I'm out of ideas

Fixed the link. That's probably because you have two routers in your network, and if your computer don't have an IP adress in the same adress range, you won't be able to connect to the web interface of your router.

How does this config page look like? The options I have underlined, are the correct ones in your case.

You can try and use the reset button on the modem to perform a software reset. After the modem have been set in bridge mode. Find the reset button at the top of the back panel, then use a thin object to press and hold the reset button as follows: To perform a software reset, press the reset button for at least 1 second but not more than 10 seconds. Either the modem doesn't give out a WAN IP or the problem lies in your router. If you give me the name and model of the Netgear router, there might be a chance to find out what the problem is.

That would be a good idea, yes

Okay, then bridge mode should work. Remember to restart the modem and router. And your computer, so you make sure it gets an IP address. If it still doesn't work, I would try and reset the router. You can do that by pressing a small button you find in the back of the unit, next to the LAN ports. You can use a pen to push it down, and hold it down for 5 seconds and the router will reset to default settings.