what is your primary connection to the net?
yeah, some of you may be in school, and have a different connection than at home, so it will be up to you to decide which is your primary one.. my advice, you are nearly grown, i wouldn't count mom's and dad's house as your home much longer 
note:before you bitch that there are sub categories to DSL and Cable, remember there are only 6 options blanks to make a poll from 
if you mark other, please specify..
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ADSL Baby!, 512, quite fast but ill get a 1 meg connection soon! Leave smoke in you bi*chs's faces 
/me runs [and leaves smoke in your faces]
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28.8kbps max, should be able to get 40 or so but the phone company wont do anything about it because the Australian 'standard' is 19.5kbps grrrr
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i have heard on the FM radio recently, that with the increasing popularity of DSL, the market is getting ever more competitive.. i hear soon that 5Mbps will be a standard package for download speeds..
my 1.5 Mbps, is fast, but its seems to me that if everyone eventually switches over to DSL, then my 1.5 won't mean squatt... as the uploads from their end will be slow as hell..
kinda makes you wonder, if everyone downloads, and forgets about upload speeds, then they are creating an impasse that will be difficult to circumvent.. 
| ? posted by Kage_Prototype |
| /me hugs cable |
hopefully, your provider is better than cox is..
i had cable for 2 years, right here at this residence, its reliability was so poor i seriously considered 56k till DSL was available.
ATM, i wouldn't trade my DSL for cable, even if the cable were free..
in all fairness though, when my cable was up and running, it was blindingly fast, far faster than my current connection, but it was down more than 50% of each month, yet i was forced to pay full price..
my DSL has been down, for less than one hour, in the past 1.5 years (unless something happened while i slept)
/me pats DSL modem and linksys router 
/me pokes orph
You've gone to the darkside 
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*curses 56k*
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28.8kbps max, should be able to get 40 or so but the phone company wont do anything about it because the Australian 'standard' is 19.5kbps grrrr |
huh? ditch ya ISP man 56k has been like standard over here for like years...
confused
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Ive got 256/64k ADSL.
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*curses 56k*
huh? ditch ya ISP man 56k has been like standard over here for like years... confused |
it doesnt matter which isp i use its actually the phone lines that are the problem and the phone company wont do anything about it because of the abovementioned 'standard' and DSL/Cable aint avaliable either 
are you sure of the location of the problem rumple?
speaking for my area, anything within my household is my problem, but from the box upon my outside wall to the junction on the street, its the phone companies issue, and they will return as many times as it takes to make me happy.
have them, check the line noise, and if its available, have them put line conditioners on yours to quiet the noise.
with dial-up, any noise at all causes the connection to be slower, cause it has to recheck the data more often.
i guess aussieland has its disadvantages too
my condolences.
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it doesnt matter which isp i use its actually the phone lines that are the problem and the phone company wont do anything about it because of the abovementioned 'standard' and DSL/Cable aint avaliable either
...sh*t dont u just hate that? sattilite an option or am i just makin a ass outta meself?
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| 512k cable, going to 1m in the autumn. Don't think you can get 1.5 here, it's 256, 512, 1024, 2048 afaik. But hey, theres a different system for everything in america |
Yup, tis what jolly old england has,[if you were talking bout england] In the summer/autumn I will 2 be converting to a nice jolly 1 meg connection
i upgraded to a 1meg connection with an expectation of better connection speeds to game servers. it didn't make a jot of difference. all it was good for was getting really big files a bit quicker. i downgraded back to 600k connection after the first month.
56k 