July 5, 200619 yr Serious bragging rights... :: Now, do tell: where did you download that screenshot from ? *runs for it*
July 5, 200619 yr Hmm... closer examination of the screenshot reveals several "localhost" websites... Ok, slaughter, admit it, you downloaded those files from your own webserver on your PC didn't you.
July 5, 200619 yr Author Hmm... closer examination of the screenshot reveals several "localhost" websites... Ok, slaughter, admit it, you downloaded those files from your own webserver on your PC didn't you. Hehe, no, but well spotted . I was working with a website, so I had the PHP/MySQL server running at the laptop just then. Reason I can download with such speed is that I have my summer job at the local broadband company again. They have a 300 Mbit line in now, so downloading stuff is a joy these days . Would be fun to plug the laptop directly into the line! *Sends Bard after Thorondor*
July 5, 200619 yr Gaaah, the village I live in only got broadband last year, and it's a puny 2mb connection. My e-mail service is provided by carrier pigeons
July 6, 200619 yr Hehe I can beat your 512k. Azrael....Here in Denmark they are still trying to sell off 128kb connections for about 20 US dollars a month....I have a cablemodem which is 384k download speed and 128k upload speed and for that lousy connection must pay the very dominant Internet-pusher a 'mere' 40 US dollars a month. And that the politicians are calling Denmark a world leader in the use/abuse of information technology?!?It is certainly not in quality but in the numbers of users with lousy lowspeed connections.... PS: The dominant Internet-pusher are trying to make people stop using dial-up modems by jacking up the prices on dial-up connections....(Dial-up and ISDN should have died longtime ago as in the year 2000....But they are still roaming out there in the shadows....)
July 6, 200619 yr Mine's meant to be 4mb but it's usually at 3.8. The conniving sods changed the wording to 'up to 4mb'.
July 6, 200619 yr Author We have a fibre optic cable into our house, so both TV (TV over IP), Internet (set to 1,5 Mbit now, but with unlimited as the max because of the fibre cable ) and phone (IP phone) use that one now. Goodbye puny cobber phone cable! Where I used to study (Stavanger), they have a company that ONLY supplies fibre optics. They offer 6, 20 and 50 Mbit as standard speeds at reasonable prices. Fun!
July 6, 200619 yr Home connection is 8Mbs ADSL... which in reality means 6.5Mbs downstream and 512Kbs upstream due to the distance from the phone exchange. At work we have a 10Mbs fiber connection provided free of charge by the local education authority.
July 6, 200619 yr Author You must still be relatively close to the phone exchange then? 6.5 with normal ADSL is good, given that 8 is the max you get if you're sitting next to the DSLAM...
July 6, 200619 yr You can get 8Mbs over ADSL as long as your within 1.5km of the exchange, I'm about 2km away from the exchange so I get about 6.5Mbs.
July 6, 200619 yr A friend of mine has a pretty intresting connection to the net. Geographicly (spelling?) his house is barely a km away from the exchange, 'pipewise' it's far longer than that. It sort of takes a long wide turn passing his area and then leads back to his house again
July 7, 200619 yr Why should distance from the exchange effect bandwidth? Data lost to line noise or something?
July 7, 200619 yr I have an 8mb/1.5mb cable. Best I normally get is about 5-6mb unless I'm downloading from Sun or Debian or somebody else with a huge pipe.
July 7, 200619 yr Why should distance from the exchange effect bandwidth? Data lost to line noise or something? You got it exactly. Line noise plays a big part in ADSL, the more noise, the less bandwidth.Wikipedia has a lot of info on it.There's also a nice graph here that shows distance compared to speed of the various versions of ADSL.
July 9, 200619 yr It's not fair. Australia is so far behind in broadband it ain't funny. i pay something like $70-80AUD per month for supposed uncapped downloads and capped 256kbps uploads...depending on the download, i'd be very lucky to get 1000KB/s...of course, i AM lucky comapred to many of my friends, who are still on something they call "dial up"...at least most of australia are starting to migrate to what the marketing monkeys call broadband...which is mostly capped 128/256 KB\s adsl...and i havn't even mentioned the abysmal amounts of download limit that the isp nazi's dole out... Edited July 9, 200619 yr by Ki-tat Chung
July 9, 200619 yr Author Sounds bad Ki-tat! In Norway the government has taken a relatively active role in expanding the broadband offer around the country. They do a lot of idiotic things, but at least they got that right. I think all governments should recognize the importance of a good communication infrastructure.
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