Just got a BIG fat FREE boost!

[SteveI]

Ummm....
This is my home connection on crack...
read 'em and weep.

[danrok]

I don't know if I should laugh or cry!

[Abdul]

Mines a lot slower then it shud be, but theres no UK server, anyhows it does the job in games.

[MONKEYMAN]

I get free upgrade to 2048/278, I want that 6mb connection though!

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by SteveI

Ummm....
This is my home connection on crack...
read 'em and weep.

Damn you must post before your done typing!!

The tech said "IP voice over" (how good or useful that is I don't know) is on it's way and up 10 Mbits in the next year or so...

Until then YOU DA MAN STEVE!!

[cadaveca]

lol. SteveI is still fastest...nothing has changed. Lucky bugger. I can geta conection that fast, but it will cost $349 a month, and $5000 for them to lay the line from the headend(a couple of blocks away).

[Pitch]

Maybe I should post from Telehouse

[Daniel ~]

Just do it! You know you want to! ":O}

[Pitch]

I guess it would be cheating

[Daniel ~]

Come ON! Do you think Abdul could get scores like that if he didn't cheat!? ":O} j/king

[Pitch]

Well I should take first prize for upload from home.

[Daniel ~]

What IS 1st prize for upload from home? ":O}

[Pitch]

Should be 2MB up.

[Daniel ~]

Sweet!

[Rondog]

We cant get broadband in my town.

Daniel ~: Do you have 5mbit? How expensive is that?

SteveI: Is yours 6mbit? How expensive is that?

They need to update my phone exchange before I can get broadband. They updated the phone exchange in the town 70km away. So my town should be getting it in the next 6 months. I hope. :/

Even on 56k, I can still manage to pull down in excess of 5gb every month without fail. And have done for the past 8 months.

[Daniel ~]

Mine is a 4 mbit cable and getting faster in the face of local DSL competition. I'm looking at cheaper hook-ups but it's unlikely as they tend to steer clear of competing with each other in a given area. Currently it's risen from $39.00 to $52.00 a month!

[SteveI]

I've been on optimum online cable for about 3 years now, I guess. It has always been 10mbit.

The real performance is pretty cool. The best downloads are from major corporate sites, like microsoft, believe it or not... where I can get a sustained download of over a megabyte per second. I also have VOIP which knocks down some of my bandwidth (~5-10% in my case).

They've jacked up the price on me to $50 a month.... I have been tempted to save $20 to go to Verizon DSL, which was a joke last year at 256kbit. Now, they are getting good @ 1.5mbit, and I think they are going to 3mbit soon.... Still... hard to give up 10mbit.

[GrahamGarside]

Most people in britain pay that for 512/1024kb lines

[cadaveca]

I have it on good sources that there is a new wave coming to the internet, and the way it's provided. This may sound like an audacious claim, but i have it that something is coming...but i cannot say what, nor do i really understand it.

[WonderBread]

how did you find out that your modem kept loosing your network?

i belive i have the same problem, ive repalced my router and tried different NIC cards but still everyonce and a while my connection goes out and this time i had to unplug my modem for 20sec to get my network backup