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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 25th at 5:21pm 2004

Haha, I was thinking it was a bit of a daft topic description...the title is ok though, to be fair [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 5:48pm 2004

ahh shucks, the poll had stalled.. so i gave it something more eye catching..

went to take a nap, and its still stalled

i find it rather difficult to believe SP has had only 18 visitors today

you'd think, the guys with a great connection, would brag, and the guys with a poor connection would post for sympathy

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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Sun Apr 25th at 6:30pm 2004

I wish i could complain about a 56k connection. When I'm at home my connection is 24k max. And I have to use AOL. Back in the day I could get 100+ points in TFC with a 1000 ping. I coulda taken my clan up to the top with a T1 connection





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Posted by Gorbachev on Sun Apr 25th at 7:06pm 2004

? posted by Orpheus
? 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

C'mon, the company name is Cox, what do you expect?

I've got cable through Shaw. I've only had it go down once for 3 hours in 2 full years of use. (And that was from a known power outage nearby.)

/me pats Terayon Cable Modem and Linksys Wireless G Router

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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 8:06pm 2004

DSL downstairs, 46.6K upstairs. I voted DSL though [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sun Apr 25th at 10:09pm 2004

Got a 1.5Mb Cable connection (about ... I've seen it go a little faster on one or two occations)

However, before the giant assholes, Comcast, took over, it was completly uncapped. Its really nice when nothing goes slower then 500Kb/s online. It also used to be cheaper ... and no one else in my neighborhood had it. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 10:22pm 2004

I don't understand... If you have a connection 1.5m and sometimes slightly more, where does a 500k/sec download speed come from? Wouldn't you need a 4m connection for that?

I'm really glad we don't have transfer caps on our service, but our upload speed is limited to a quarter of the download speed. So in theory this will double when we upgrade, which is nice. It's actually possible to get an uncapped cable connection for free by installing new firmware on your modem, but you provider would cut you off as soon as they found out. They might try and get you fined as well... maybe you could get away with it by saying you thought the program to put new firmware on was just another internet speed booster tool



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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Apr 25th at 11:08pm 2004

Rumple phone up tech support for your phone company and ask them to boost the signal to your phone number. That will make it faster and they do it all the time. If they ask why say your phone calls are crackily and have fuzz in the background [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:14pm 2004

Is there an echo in here?



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 11:17pm 2004

Is there an echo in here? [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:23pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
Is there an echo in here?

i noticed to, but thought it not worthy of note.. good advice can be mentioned as many times as it takes to get the job done

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Posted by Rumple on Mon Apr 26th at 4:11am 2004

? posted by Orpheus

have them, check the line noise, and if its available, have them put line conditioners on yours to quiet the noise.

thats what I want them to do but because of the 'standard' and i get speeds above that 'standard' (only just sometimes aruund 20kbps) they wont do a thing even if i have to pay for it (if the speed was below the standard they would do it for free)

but thanx Orph

? posted by Scary_Jeff & Myrk-

Rumple, did you try unplugging your phones before connecitng? What aboust ringing up your phone providers support and asking them to increase the line gain... if they won't do it for internet, pretend that the phone is too quiet when you are talking to people, and they should try to fix that by increasing the gain, which will give you a better modem connection.

Rumple phone up tech support for your phone company and ask them to boost the signal to your phone number. That will make it faster and they do it all the time. If they ask why say your phone calls are crackily and have fuzz in the background

not here they dont...

? posted by blu_chze

? posted by Rumple

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?

Satellite is wayyy to expensive so it isnt an option so yes you are making an ass outta yourself

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Posted by diablo on Mon Apr 26th at 4:21am 2004

How much does it cost for cable or DSL in the USA? I know here in Australia it's bloody expensive if you want a 1.5mb/s ADSL connection.





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Posted by Crono on Mon Apr 26th at 4:33am 2004

Jeff, I said before it was capped it never went below 500 Kb/s

Now it barely reaches 350 Kb/s (however, when downloading from steam is stays at a steady 1.5 Mb/s, which is odd, but cool)

My cable is rather expensive now, and they keep raising the rates (sons of bitches). I think it's like $50/month (US) as long as you have their cable TV as well, otherwise it's $60/month.

When it was At&t, not only was it uncapped, but it was $30/month. Then comcast took it over, wanted to 'expand' and to guarantee a certain speed they have to cap everyone. However, I could get what I previously had through Comcast, it would just cost $90/month and that's rediculously high, so screw it. [addsig]



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Posted by Gorbachev on Mon Apr 26th at 5:18am 2004

Whoa, $50 US?. Mine is $39.99CDN uncapped. I get anywhere from 500-1500kbps on Steam (this was 3 games at once, so combined it was a fair bit.) As well I was downloading other stuff too. Man I love the bandwidth. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Mon Apr 26th at 5:37am 2004

Well, I get 1.5Mb on steam too

I really wish AT&T never sold it, but they most likely were losing money. They're selling their Wireless district too, Cingular is buying it.

However, I found that they do DSL now. I have no idea how fast it is. But taking that they own the digital phone lines (fiber optics), I don't think it's very slow [addsig]



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Posted by esechre on Mon Apr 26th at 5:53am 2004

? posted by $loth

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]

im sorry but my friend's 32mbit connection s**ts on your future 1mbit connection GG own3d!!!11

-BB

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Posted by $loth on Mon Apr 26th at 6:36am 2004

? posted by esechre
? posted by $loth

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]

im sorry but my friend's 32mbit connection s**ts on your future 1mbit connection GG own3d!!!11

-BB

Dang, u burst my bubble is he in japan by any chance, i know someone who is in japan and has a 16 meg connection fo about ?50 a month [what ever that is in yen] but for me a 1 meg connection is good, coz the max we can really get for an average house hold is 2 meg!

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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Apr 26th at 8:52am 2004

But a 1.5 megabit connection can only do ~190k/sec



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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Apr 26th at 9:44am 2004

Awsome, just found out that all telewest packages are being increased at no extra cost. Our 512k going to 750, 1 meg is going to 1.5, and 2 meg is going to 3... and nobody has to pay anything




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