Internet Statistics

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 :wink:

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 :rolleyes:

if you mark other, please specify..

Er, Uni connection, which I guess is an ?ber-fast-LAN connected to the JANET backbone. Most downloads I get on the internet are due to the website/'means', rather than my connection :razz:

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]

Cable

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

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.. :sad:

/me hugs cable

Kage_Prototype said:
/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 :biggrin:

/me pokes orph

You've gone to the darkside :smile: .

curses 56k

Rumple said:
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

Ive got 256/64k ADSL.

blu_chze said:
curses 56k

Rumple said:
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

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 :sad:

my condolences.

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 :smile:

? 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?

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.

scary_jeff said:
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 :smile:

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 :biggrin:

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.

blu_chze said:
curses 56k

:ar15firing: [b][size=24]56k[/b] [/size]

edits Please don't use silly topic titles.... :razz:

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

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

went to take a nap, and its still stalled :eek:

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

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

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 :biggrin:

Orpheus said:

Kage_Prototype said:
/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 :biggrin:

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 :smile:

DSL downstairs, 46.6K upstairs. I voted DSL though

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.

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 :smile:

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 :razz:

Is there an echo in here?

Is there an echo in here?

scary_jeff said:
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 :smile:

Orpheus said:
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 :smile:

Scary_Jeff & Myrk- said:
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 :razz:

not here they dont... :sad:

blu_chze said:
? 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 :razz:

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.

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

Now it barely reaches 350 Kb/s :sad: (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.

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.

Well, I get 1.5Mb on steam too :razz:

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 :smile:

$loth said:
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 :biggrin: GG own3d!!!11

-BB

esechre said:

$loth said:
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 :biggrin: GG own3d!!!11

-BB

Dang, u burst my bubble :sad: 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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But a 1.5 megabit connection can only do ~190k/sec

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 :biggrin:

sadly, i am beginning to believe, that these polls are not as popular as everyone lead to believe..

35 votes, out of 428 members.. even allowing for 50% of those members to be bogus accounts, thats still a very sad representation of the snarkpit.

do we truly have so few active members? or is it only 35 very vocal members overshadowing the quiet ones?

i fear, that if HL2 doesn't arrive soon.. our roster may decay to the point where... well enuff doom and gloom..

walks away mumbling

we just want a break from polls ;P

Oh wait there I go speaking for myself again :smile: In all seriousness though Orph, i'd say 35 votes is impressive for an internet messageboard, most of which die about 3 days after their inception :razz:

meh, quite a few people have lost interest in hl after so long. that much is true, but people will be back if/when hl2 is out :razz: speaking of which, has anybody heard anything about hl2 lately?

Yeah it's been filed with Bin Laden, Lord Lucan and world peace as missing, presumed dead ^_^ :razz:

lol, I thought it might be something along those lines.

It was on Bravo (TV) this morning but I missed it, luckily it's on again later, If there is anything interesting (which I doubt there will be), I'll post it.

KoRnFlakes said:
speaking of which, has anybody heard anything about hl2 lately?

this is a quote, of a quote, so i do not vouch for its authenticity..

We've already spent millions into this project, and we're willing to spend as much as we need to make this the best first person experience ever. If that means delaying the game to 2005, we'll do it without any hesitation. If it means sinking another $20 million into the project, we can do it. Rest assured, if we delay the game, it'll be only to blow your socks off even more when it finally releases.

take it for what its worth i guess :/

They retreacted that statement and said that people saying this meant the game was delayed to 2005 are crazy. The point of what he said was to show that they are willing to put as much time, effort and money in as is needed, not to say that they are going to take another year.

however far along they are, im pretty sure they cant be that far off getting it released. Seems funny how long its been since they origionally said it would come out though.

Amazon says 4th of June for Doom3 and HL2, and they set that date within the last week. But then again the date they had before that was December 31st 1969...