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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Colonol Dekker on April 30, 2008, 07:18:42 am

Title: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 30, 2008, 07:18:42 am: There's far too much choice in London, i was dead set on one of those USB stick jobs as it avoids the whole line rental hassle. But i've been reading small print on websites and it says "the fastest available speed is 1.8mb (O2 if you're interested)" so i'm leaning away from them...

Now i have no idea, all i want is unlimited downloads and about 8mbps...

AIiieeeeeee...........

My head hurts. :(
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Galemp on April 30, 2008, 07:38:08 am: Well, you could always move to the midwestern US and have only one choice, who gives you lousy service with obscene prices.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 08:12:51 am: By USB stick do you mean EVDO? Cause if you do, it's at about 2.4 here (about my connection) and it also works with phones. (yours should be new enough to support it)
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 30, 2008, 09:35:01 am: I meant the ones from T-Mobile and Orange...... If anyone has any experience i'm all about the feedback D:
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: captain-custard on April 30, 2008, 10:57:30 am: be careful to read the small print of tmobile and orange, both have a limit to there unlimited offers ..............

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*To ensure a high quality of service for all our customers, a fair use policy of 3GB (of data both sent and received in the UK) per month applies. We will measure your month's use by looking at your total day pass usage in a calendar month. If you exceed 3GB per month, we may tell you to reduce your future use. If you again exceed 3GB per month, we may tell you that we are going to apply network protection controls, resulting in a reduced network speed for 14 days. If you exceed 3GB per month for a third time, we may tell you that we are going to apply further network protection controls, resulting in a reduced network speed until you upgrade your price plan to include a larger data allowance. We do not permit use of this service for internet phone calls.

get internet at your house and then when in town , us e starbux or someone elses wifi connection , more and more ppl are running open networks in major cities (even in tiny little country villages aswel )

but definately ..... read the small print
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 30, 2008, 11:01:34 am: I always try to :D

Any landline reccomendations,? Regarding WIFI etc, i use my PSP and rinse the hell out of corporate and commercial all the time. ;)
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: captain-custard on April 30, 2008, 11:13:22 am: to be honest i havent got any idea about uk based ip providers , i live i the land of france telecom( the owners of orange) and they are all powerful here unless you live in a big city the you can choose something else ,

i just had another look at t mobile and they do a 10gb unlimited but at 44quid a month so tht sucks......... my solution get an atheros wifi card in ur pc and borrow your neighbours connection
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 30, 2008, 11:17:48 am: Since the bloody Gadget Show and The real hustle popped the lid on WI-Jacking, everyones getting SSID encryption . :p
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 01:33:57 pm: My router doesn't even have an option for an open network.

And TMobile for one simple reason:

(http://i31.tinypic.com/33428ev.jpg)
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Mars on April 30, 2008, 05:48:34 pm: Here is Denver we can choose between Qwest, AT&T, Sprint (sucks), Level 3 Communications (not sure if they provide individuals internet or not),

Right now we're using Qwest 7 Mbs DSL, and I'm having no problems with it.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 06:01:31 pm: My parents are paying for 10mb up/down, and we're getting 2mb down, 400kb up.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/265933891.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Hellstryker on April 30, 2008, 07:37:41 pm: Quote from: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 06:01:31 pm
My parents are paying for 10mb up/down, and we're getting 2mb down, 400kb up.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/265933891.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

That's just sad...
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Flipside on April 30, 2008, 07:42:08 pm: We were with Pipex till it got bought out by Tiscali, so we're looking for a new BB provider too at the moment. Too many of the large corps limit your bandwidth, which I despise, as a college student, the last thing I want is for the Internet to go down because we've overrun, and I desperately need information to complete a project.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 08:07:51 pm: Quote from: Hellstryker on April 30, 2008, 07:37:41 pm
Quote from: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 06:01:31 pm
My parents are paying for 10mb up/down, and we're getting 2mb down, 400kb up.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/265933891.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
That's just sad...
Tell me about it.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: captain-custard on April 30, 2008, 09:16:48 pm: Quote from: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 08:07:51 pm
Quote from: Hellstryker on April 30, 2008, 07:37:41 pm
Quote from: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 06:01:31 pm
My parents are paying for 10mb up/down, and we're getting 2mb down, 400kb up.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/265933891.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
That's just sad...
Tell me about it.

generally you get 128 kbs of download for every mb ,
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Nuke on April 30, 2008, 09:36:38 pm: i hate how when you buy broadband in the us you get jacked like mad unless you buy a bunch of other stuff you dont want as part of a package. that has always pissed me off. i just want broadband, i dont need 300 channels or a wireless plan, of long distance, or whatever. can i just buy broadband without getting jacked something fierce?

this is what i get, funny thing is our plan says we should be getting a 3rd of that :D

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/265990950.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: jr2 on April 30, 2008, 10:02:12 pm: Quote from: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 06:01:31 pm
My parents are paying for 10mb up/down, and we're getting 2mb down, 400kb up.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/265933891.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Sure it's not 10 Megabits instead of bytes? That's my guess. They are tricky with that stuff. Because 10 Megabits per second = 1280 Kilobytes a second. :sigh:
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: CP5670 on April 30, 2008, 10:48:44 pm: At the moment, my options here are Comcast and...Comcast. :p As Nuke said, they want to you buy their TV/internet packages. Around here, the internet (same speed) by itself is inexplicably more expensive than the package, so I got the package even though I never watch TV.

I'll probably switch to FiOS soon though, which will become available here in a week or two. It should be both faster and more reliable than this cable line, which has been intermittently dropping out every few days and causing a lot of frustration.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Davros on May 01, 2008, 12:48:49 am: on average people in the uk actually get 42% of their advertised download speed
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Shade on May 01, 2008, 10:15:11 am: Well, I guess you guys need to move to Denmark if you want an ISP that actually gives you what you pay for. I'm supposed to get 15mb down and 1mb up, and here are my results:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/231145292.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Pretty much on target :) It's also nice that these aren't "up to" speeds. When a connection is advertised as being a 15mb connection, then they have to consistently provide that speed instead of just giving it to me once in a while when traffic is really low.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 01, 2008, 10:22:47 am: Tested from work.........

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/266179909.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

You can see why i'm so annoyed with my pissy little speed at home now :(
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Shade on May 01, 2008, 10:24:29 am: Wow. You need to sneak in a copy of FSO and set up a stand-alone server on some machine that's rarely checked :p
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 01, 2008, 10:30:52 am: I would, but all the mirrors are blocked and our firewall is tighter than a ducks bottom.......

I can't even check facebook :(

Anyhoo, hopefully i'll be up and running sooner than i think..
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Nuke on May 01, 2008, 12:13:24 pm: how would you know how tight a ducks bottom is :D
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Kie99 on May 01, 2008, 12:41:58 pm: http://bethere.co.uk

£18 p/m, 24 Mb/s download, 1.3 Mb/s upload, Unlimited usage.

Split off from O2, looks like a great deal.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: colecampbell666 on May 01, 2008, 12:52:08 pm: Quote from: jr2 on April 30, 2008, 10:02:12 pm
Quote from: colecampbell666 on April 30, 2008, 06:01:31 pm
My parents are paying for 10mb up/down, and we're getting 2mb down, 400kb up.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/265933891.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Sure it's not 10 Megabits instead of bytes? That's my guess. They are tricky with that stuff. Because 10 Megabits per second = 1280 Kilobytes a second. :sigh:
It's 10 megabits, which, as you say, should be 1300 kilobytes. We're getting 200 kilobytes.
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 02, 2008, 06:59:34 pm: Quote from: Nuke on May 01, 2008, 12:13:24 pm
how would you know how tight a ducks bottom is :D

Not Amsterdam........... :nervous:
Title: Re: Broadband, Broadband, Frickin Broadband....
Post by: Nuke on May 03, 2008, 02:30:52 am: hahahaha