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Offline Mefustae

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #20 on: July 21, 2006, 11:45:38 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on July 21, 2006, 05:22:26 pm
Quote from: Col. Fishguts on July 21, 2006, 05:09:36 pm
I don't know ... one of my assistants sent me an internet recently, but it's not working properly. I think some of them tubes are clogged.

Ah, what you need is one of those special internets, the ones with the magic tubes that are full of brib...sorry, campaign contributions.
Don't you know anything! That's why internet lottery is allowed, so the lottery balls can pass through the tubes, clearing out all the clogs.
 

Offline watsisname

Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #21 on: July 22, 2006, 12:43:19 am
Quote from: Ferret on July 21, 2006, 07:42:18 pm
Hamsters + Wheels.
:lol:

I've got DSL, 54 Mb/s.  Considering I used to have AOL dial-up (56k), it's a hell of an improvement. :D
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Offline achtung

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #22 on: July 22, 2006, 02:57:13 am
Ted has a series of tubes.  Not big trucks.

http://tubesdance.ytmnd.com/
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Offline Descenterace

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #23 on: July 22, 2006, 04:08:58 am
10M down, about 2M up depending on traffic.
'And anyway, I agree - no sig images means more post, less pictures. It's annoying to sit through 40 different sigs telling about how cool, deadly, or assassin like a person is.' --Unknown Target

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Offline Skippy

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #24 on: July 22, 2006, 04:14:25 am
6000/800k
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Offline castor

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #25 on: July 22, 2006, 05:09:26 am
2M/512k ADSL, 35€/month.
 

Offline Gortef

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #26 on: July 22, 2006, 07:19:57 am
Habeeb it...
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #27 on: July 22, 2006, 10:51:13 pm
Right now I need to use my girlfriend's wireless internet which is resonably fast. Soon we will get ADSL which is even faster.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Descenterace

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #28 on: July 23, 2006, 05:19:43 am
Wireless broadband? GET THEE BEHIND ME, DEMON!

*ahem*

Some of the houses I've been to look at in the last few weeks had wireless broadband. I wrote them off immediately; only one of my computers is portable, and ALL my computers need reliable, fast connections both to the Internet and each other. Wireless is neither reliable nor fast in my unfortunately extensive experience, and I'm certainly not paying for five wireless NICs for my desktop machines which already have standard NICs built in to the mainboards.
WTF is the point of wireless for desktop boxen, anyway? It's not like they're moving anywhere.
'And anyway, I agree - no sig images means more post, less pictures. It's annoying to sit through 40 different sigs telling about how cool, deadly, or assassin like a person is.' --Unknown Target

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Offline Roanoke

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #29 on: July 23, 2006, 05:52:11 am
Still on dial-up. Probably circa 50k.  :sigh:
Dunno why.
Browse on the mam 'n' dads pc nowadays so I don't have any say in such matters. :(

Maybe that's why I've lost interest in such things nowadays  :doubt:
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #30 on: July 23, 2006, 08:11:52 am
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WTF is the point of wireless for desktop boxen, anyway? It's not like they're moving anywhere

:wtf: Who says I have a desktop? Both of us have laptops.

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Wireless is neither reliable nor fast in my unfortunately extensive experience

Her wireless internet is quite fast (150 something Kbps) and fairly reliable. We could go anywhere in China and it will work. The only reason we are looking into ADSL as well as what she has is because we don't have a home network so only one of us can use the internet at any given time, which is usually her (plus ADSL is very, very fast in this country).

"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Stealth

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #31 on: July 23, 2006, 08:54:51 am
i use wireless broadband.  i'm at the hospital now with one of my friends, who just had her appendix removed; been sitting next to her bed all night to take care of her, and been online the whole time (the hospital's wifi is too complicated. you have to request an access-code, etc.)

anyway. here's a speed test.

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-07-23 09:54:19 EST:
910 / 248
Your download speed : 910 kbps or 113.8 KB/sec.
That is 98.2% better than an average user on myvzw.com

Your upload speed : 248 kbps or 31 KB/sec.
That is 5.5% better than an average user on myvzw.com
 

Offline Tyrian

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #32 on: July 23, 2006, 01:28:00 pm
Down at ~500k.  Up not sure.  Cable modem.

It's running slow right now though.  I think I have a loose fan belt on my search engine.
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Offline Descenterace

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Re: What kind of internet do you have?
Reply #33 on: July 23, 2006, 03:18:12 pm
Quote from: Kosh on July 23, 2006, 08:11:52 am
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WTF is the point of wireless for desktop boxen, anyway? It's not like they're moving anywhere

:wtf: Who says I have a desktop? Both of us have laptops.

I was actually alluding to the large number of students at my Uni who have large and very definitely non-portable desktop boxen and yet insist upon using wireless. Which is really fine by me, until they call me in and ask why it's not working properly.
'And anyway, I agree - no sig images means more post, less pictures. It's annoying to sit through 40 different sigs telling about how cool, deadly, or assassin like a person is.' --Unknown Target

"You know what they say about the simplest solution."
"Bill Gates avoids it at every possible opportunity?"
-- Nuke and Colonol Drekker
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