I got broadband

[Denise]

WWWOOOOOO freakin HOooooooooo! Yeah baby! Thank you for your time!

 

[LFTKBS]

Congratulations. The first item of business is to secure your machine, now that you have an always on internet connection. You will be happy that you did. What OS are you using?

 

[Yahweh]

I'm still using AOL dialup... Completely un-freakin-fair...

 

[Zep]

But I've got...

cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable !!!

OH YEAH!

 

[shanek]

WWWOOOOOO freakin HOooooooooo! Yeah baby! Thank you for your time!

Welcome to the ranks of the spoiled rotten. The club meets on Thursday nights, and at every meeting we just laugh at all of the stupid people who still have dial-up.

 

[Whomp]

DSL?? Cable??? Pshaw!!!

I've got a radio link into my ISP's network.
1.5Mbits of internet lovin!!!!

Whomp!

 

[HarryKeogh]

I'VE got dsl at work, cable at home. can't tell the difference, both plenty fast enough for me.

 

[shanek]

DSL?? Cable??? Pshaw!!!

I've got a radio link into my ISP's network.
1.5Mbits of internet lovin!!!!

Whomp!

My DSL runs at over 3Mbps.

I'll see your Whomp and raise you a w00t!

 

[Zep]

So...

How do these "modem" thingies work anyway...





Someone???






Hello???

 

[Attrayant]

Enjoy it while you can. Pretty soon, Jeff Corey will be along to tell you how much it sucks and/or how you'll get screwed-over by your provider.

 

[Whomp]

My DSL runs at over 3Mbps.

I'll see your Whomp and raise you a w00t!

3Mbps? DSL???

Surely you jest!
(Or you live IN the switching station)

Seems like getting T1+ speeds from DSL would be pretty unusual.

Whomp!

 

[Cain]

On cable I get about 2 Mbps (although for a few weeks I had insane downloads at 3 Mpbs).

I've heard of people on cable modems exceeded their providers capped download speed ("stealing bandwith").

 

[joyrex]

cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable !!!

10 Mbit uni LAN

 

[jj]

So...

How do these "modem" thingies work anyway...





Someone???






Hello???

Seriously?

I can tell you more than you ever even wanted to think existed about modems, if you like.

How's your information theory, fourier theory, and signal processing/linear algebra? Gotta know that so I can take the right approach.

 

[shanek]

3Mbps? DSL???

Surely you jest!
(Or you live IN the switching station)

I live within half a mile of the DSLAM. That doesn't necessarily have to be at the switching station, BTW; it's not in my case. Actually, there has been a couple of cases where AnalogX's NetStat Live! has reported max download speeds of over 4mbps (and yes, that's just with the outgoing interface only).

Seems like getting T1+ speeds from DSL would be pretty unusual.

Unusual, but not impossible. Combine how close I am to the DSLAM, with the fact that these are new lines put in, with the fact that the phone wires in my house are all Cat 5, and it can happen.

 

[ImpyTimpy]

Wait, do you get 10mbit or does the entire uni get 10mbit? If the latter tell us what your actual share of that is

10 Mbit uni LAN

 

[joyrex]

I have that whole bandwidth

 

[Cecil]

I'll see all of your w00ts and raise you an omg.

Shared gigabit for the residences at uni. The good part is that there's no cap, so at 2 or 3 in the morning the bottleneck is my 100Megabit cable.

Gotta love the ability to download at 12 megs/sec, despite the annoying lack of servers able to give me that kind of bandwidth.

 

[GreyWanderer]

A normal sight for me: