how does someone achieve THIS level of speeds with simple phone lines?
Christ, the wires just don't seem capable of such.
also, does anyone else's company make claims of speeds this high?
i am curious, whats the norm for DSL connections nowadays?
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8Mbit/s has been achieved in the US i believe (1MB/s) and 4Mbit/s can be bought down here in the UK for an extorsionate rate.
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| ? posted by Wild Card |
| /me dreams the day fiber optic cables become the standard. |
if they would just stop wasting time on those forking cell towers, we'd have them already 
i swear, if i hear one more braindead talking on his phone in the s**tter, i'm gonna scream..
[addsig]In Britain you have to be within 5km of a telephone exchange if you want dsl (signal degradation i assume)
[addsig]OMG! I had no idea speeds like that were possible over standard copper
I don't know much about the technology behind DSL though.
I typicaly aproach 1 mbps, but nothing higher.
My college has in the past done 400Kb/s which was great except we can't download .EXE files and we don't have winzip 
DSL uses a digital signal, standard telephone stuff uses an analog signal. Same line, totally different thing.I think 56k converts analog to digital and back again, thus its suckiness.
I love my DSL here. The download is great, but more importantly the upload is about 25kB/s, about twice what I got on cable, so I can actually host a decent small game server. Helps on those bittorrents, too.
http://speedtest.dslreports.com
216 kbps - up
1235 kbps
- down
[edit] okay, second time I had this problem- if I end a post with a smiley, part (or all) of the post, other than the smiley, gets deleted
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i dunno how many wires are buried underground destined to reach your home, but i do know, from the box buried outside your home TO your home, only 4 wires are used, of those 4 wires, only 2 make it inside your home, both analog phone and DSL signal use the same 2 wires..
this is how it is here, in my home, i realize other countries, or even states may vary, but here its 2 wires.... period.
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| ? posted by Crono |
| No, I was talking about in a single phone line, there are 7-9 wires, well you could call them frequencies. You're thinking too big Orph lol. |
attribute my responses to my everlasting state of confusion bud..
also, since my education limits me to the visual world, i see 2 lines, not several frequencies
also, this is my report.. in spite of my bit torrent download currently running at 5 upload and 7 download.. i am not shutting it off just to see my real report..
::: Download Stats :::
Connection is: 1164 Kbps about 1.2 Mbps (tested with 579 KB)
Download Speed is: 142 KB/sec
Auth Code: 2017461 (validate a http://www.testmy.net)
Bottom Line: 21 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 7.21 second(s)
Validation Link :: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/auth_check.cgi?ta=&top=&num=2017461&kbps=1164&gen=gen&a=6.85714285714286&b=0.571428571428571&c=1145.14285714286
| ? posted by Vash |
| /me gots 10.0Mbps |
no you don't, that the false report winXP gives 
you have to click on an outside link to be measured
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| ? posted by omegaslayer4777 |
| I dont know if this is good but is 100Mbps any good? |
1Mbps is good
10Mbps is great
100Mbps is inaccurate that would be a t-4 at least i bet
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1Mbps is good 10Mbps is great 100Mbps is inaccurate that would be a t-4 at least i bet |
Wow thats great i only have DSL i guess its because not many people have it around here off in the moutains of santa cruz. I guess it makes sense, because im downloading UT2004 at 600-900 kb/sec. (no rubbing of noses intended)
Cable here.
My highest downloadrate ever was like 1,3 MB/s for the Jedi Academy demo 
