Does Speed Kill

[_SoLaRiS_]

I just found out my broadband connection has been upgraded to 1Meg from 500kB. Ho hum newsgroup a.b.dvd looks sooo inviting.
Having lived with dial up for so long, You can imagine the rush ,I can just feel the speed. Iguess those with 24meg think I am a snail.. :angry:

But...

How about you guys? Any cool stories about your web experiences.

Or am I just a sick retard. technophile er, phobe, welll you know what I mean.. :sly:

[Doobie]

I just found out my broadband connection has been upgraded to 1Meg from 500kB...
Or am I just a sick retard. technophile er, phobe, welll you know what I mean.. :sly:

I vote for "sick retard. technophile er, phobe" 3Meg is standard in many places. In Singapore, even the poorest pitty you for your low connection speed. You don't know speed until you pass the 1Meg mark. :cool:

[Smile2]

I vote for "sick retard. technophile er, phobe" 3Meg is standard in many places. In Singapore, even the poorest pitty you for your low connection speed. You don't know speed until you pass the 1Meg mark. :cool:

Not every country have that kind of facility. Singapore is just a very small island, its easy for the goverment to provide a fast internet connection.
Here in Australia, DSL is common and it only goes up until 1.5 Mbps. DSL2 is available up until 12 Mbps however still not that common, in fact most people using DSL here is probably at 512 Kbps.

I do feel what he does, from 56 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps is a HUGE difference...
I also have feel what it is to go from 1.5 Mbps to 56 Kbps again, thank god it only happen for few months...

[Sirber]

Ho hum newsgroup a.b.dvd looks sooo inviting.
:readrule:

[_SoLaRiS_]

Thanks for the comment Sirber - I take it on the chin as a newbie.

My intention was not to link (if thats what you suggest)
but to comment on the fact that download speeds
have good and bad sides - Does speed kill in the title.
ie the effect on the movie industry by freely available
material at increased speed of access. Lets face it those
" sites " are in huge use, hence premium servers.

[Atamido]

Not every country have that kind of facility. Singapore is just a very small island, its easy for the goverment to provide a fast internet connection.
Here in Australia, DSL is common and it only goes up until 1.5 Mbps.I hear Australia has some of the worst broadband situations because of Telco monopoly. But that's just what I hear...

[sNNooPY]

Oh no...don't get me started on this.
Here in Croatia, DSL became popular this year.
I'm on 384/64 with 5GB traffic packet. and I'm paying $31 a month. Our DSL prices are HUGE. It sucks.
Here in Australia, DSL is common and it only goes up until 1.5 Mbps.
1536/192 flatrate packet costs $111.
Go figure. :mad: :mad: :(

[Mug Funky]

I hear Australia has some of the worst broadband situations because of Telco monopoly. But that's just what I hear...

yes and no... it used to be a monopoly of sorts - "telecom" (later "telstra") was fully government owned and run. that way if the service wasn't up to scratch, the ruling party would feel it. now it's in a transition - there are many providers, but they all use the same (aging) infrastructure, and with the last 51% of telstra set to be sold by the government, i'm not sure how well this infrastructure is going to be maintained.

in a country the size of this, with such a sparse population, maintaining things like telecommunitaion can be quite difficult (and best run by the government in my opinion :devil: goddamn good-for-nothing Liberal party!)

that said, i have around 512 at home, and cable at my old place. i guess it's fine if you live around a major city.

[johto]

Here in finland we have this thing called uncapped/non limited adsl, and its 8/1 megs. Costs about 40-50 euros.

[Shinigami-Sama]

well
I moved out of home
into an almost basment suite (kitchem upstairs and no private entrance)
and I went from having dual-ip 1.5mbit/566kbit adsl for 24/month
to 'high speed lite' which about 200kbit/150kbit
-_-
no adsl in this one little cuel-de-sack

[Inventive Software]

yes and no... it used to be a monopoly of sorts - "telecom" (later "telstra") was fully government owned and run. that way if the service wasn't up to scratch, the ruling party would feel it. now it's in a transition - there are many providers, but they all use the same (aging) infrastructure, and with the last 51% of telstra set to be sold by the government, i'm not sure how well this infrastructure is going to be maintained.

in a country the size of this, with such a sparse population, maintaining things like telecommunitaion can be quite difficult (and best run by the government in my opinion goddamn good-for-nothing Liberal party!)

Nationalisation can be successful sometimes, anybody in GB remember British Rail?Privatisation can be a good thing: it allows competition. Prices for 512 Kbits/sec and 1 Mbit/sec have been around the £20 mark for a while now, and soon they may go down further. BT were ordered by the telecoms watchdog OfCom to unrestrict their lines, so that they were being owned by other companies and not just by BT, because they have a certain allocation for telephone calls, and the rest is for ADSL. Don't quote me on this as certain BTW!

Privatisation cannot work all the time, as some of the rail commuters in England can testify to!

[BigDid]

...I'm on 384/64 with 5GB traffic packet. and I'm paying $31 a month. Our DSL prices are HUGE. It sucks...
All well considerered (from my point of view) there is worse:
128/128, 4Gb, 95$/month, but I have the sun (and the rain) and the sea :)

Did

[sNNooPY]

128/128, 4Gb, 95$/month, but I have the sun (and the rain) and the sea
and were exactly are you on the southern hemisphere?

[BigDid]

and were exactly are you on the southern hemisphere?
17°41S - 149°36W, PAEA
Please don't say the location because to live happy, let's live hidden (french saying)
:)

Did

[Sirber]

Oh no...don't get me started on this.
Here in Croatia, DSL became popular this year.
I'm on 384/64 with 5GB traffic packet. and I'm paying $31 a month. Our DSL prices are HUGE. It sucks.

1536/192 flatrate packet costs $111.
Go figure. :mad: :mad: :(
3000/680 = 35$ CAD, unlimited :D

[Tuesday]

I'm in the UK and for one of the wealthiest counties in the world we have a down right abysmall IP system, my area only on just activated fo any kind of DSL at all, and now i have 250kbit for £14.99 a month.

Some very lucky areas can get 8 meg DSL but only large cities :(

[sNNooPY]

17°41S - 149°36W, PAEA
Please don't say the location because to live happy, let's live hidden (french saying)

damn...that's....FAR FAR AWAY.

[theReal]

I have 1024/128, which is pretty normal here (a few dsl connections are still 768/128, but they're being upgraded). ADSL is available here now with up to 6Mbit down - but still only 512k up...
Prices are like 20€ for ISDN phone plus 20€ for the DSL line and 10€ for the flat rate.

What sucks is the low upload rates they offer here. What do I need 6Mbit downstream, 3Mbit would be more than enough most of the time - but 128/256/384/512 upstream really sucks (most people are still stuck at 128 or 256, only the premium 6Mbit flat rates get 384 or 512 upstream).

I'd love to upload the newest clips I made to a server so my friends can watch them and tell me what they think - but with 128k I need a whole day to upload 100MB... I recently went on a tour to Berlin with friends from other cities and they all shot a lot of pictures (like 100-200MB each) but nobody wants to upload 100-200MB with 128K... now we're going to send CDs in a letter - the bandwith of the old snail-post is still higher :mad:

Please German Telekom, increase the upload speeds before you offer new "1 Gazillion MBit down/384K up" tarifs!!!!!

[SeeMoreDigital]

I currently have an 2Mbps/256Kbps cable connection provided by NTL (with 20:1 contention ratio).

I upgraded from their 128Kbps service (at £14.99 p/m) to their 512Kbps service (at £24.99p/m). However, in order to keep up with the competition, NTL have been increasing the speed and I'm now up to 2Mb....

Plus, it's been reported that the speed will be upped again to 10Mbps, before the end of 2006 :)


Cheers

[theReal]

Plus, it's been reported that the speed will be upped again to 10Mbps, before the end of 2006 I read an article in the German c't magazine recently that new DSL2 is being tested Europe-wide. Up to 16MBit downstream, coming soon :D

[SeeMoreDigital]

I read an article in the German c't magazine recently that new DSL2 is being tested Europe-wide. Up to 16MBit downstream, coming soon :DYes I read an article about this too...

The differing technologies/approaches that will eventually power new broadband connections are interesting!

From a technical stand-point which wiring method is capable of offering the fastest data connection. One pair of traditional telephone wires or a coaxial cable?


Cheers

[Shinigami-Sama]

geez and over here (very western Canada) dual-ip 4.5mbit/640kbit is around $50 CAD and nothing going about *dsl2 -_-
and the local cable isp released their 'xtreme high speed' which is up to 5mbit/2mbit I bealve, for it was $70 alone or $60 with basic cable or $50 with full cable

to much money

[Zyphon]

My ISP recently upgraded my 512k ADSL to a 1Meg connection which is nice and I am quite pleased with.

Other countries I guess aren't as lucky as Doobie's as while it would be nice to have a 3Meg connection, the 1Meg connection I have is more than enough for what I need. :D

[shevegen]

I dont even know my speed.

I just know its quite fast, I can sometimes download 700 MB in about 2 hours (thats fast for me).

I really dont need more than that, and since I backup stuff like source files for applications on a local external usb hdd, i need to dl only once and can install it again and again and ... (yes, i need to, i manage to break applications, even my own, in very funny ways, or do other mistakes)