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Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Valera Trubachev  Account Info

I thoguht that the idea about the "I am the internet", pretty original.

Reply to this comment    24 November 2005, 14:15 GMT

Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Lewk Of Serthic  Account Info
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I have a rather crappy cable modem.

Reply to this comment    24 November 2005, 18:46 GMT

Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Andy Janata  Account Info
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As do I.

Reply to this comment    26 November 2005, 15:35 GMT


Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
burntfuse  Account Info
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Cable modem? Crappy? Compare that to my sloooooow modem and feel lucky!

Reply to this comment    26 November 2005, 22:44 GMT

Re: Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Andy Janata  Account Info
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Yes but does it ever stall on you at the most inopportune times and kick you out of a CounterStrike scrim (the fact that you wouldn't play on dialup notwithstanding)?

I swear mine stalls for at least a minute several times a day, and it lags like hell a lot of the rest of the day.

Reply to this comment    27 November 2005, 14:58 GMT

Re: Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Zeroko  Account Info
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I sometimes get awfully slow connection speeds over the cable at home, while dial-up is at least consistent more often. However, my college has a very fast link. I do not know exactly how fast, but I have gotten download speeds in excess of 10MB/s (but average between 400KB/s & 600KB/s), so I would bet it has to be faster than 10Mbps (& no, it cannot be compressing it very much, since the files were already compressed).

Reply to this comment    28 November 2005, 00:41 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Matt M Account Info

A dial-up modem will work anywhere -- worldwide.

Reply to this comment    29 November 2005, 15:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Zeroko  Account Info
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What about phone jacks & signal formats (mainly number formats, but sometimes also tones)?

Reply to this comment    29 November 2005, 15:45 GMT

Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Jiaqi Wu  Account Info

I like roadrunner....I get about 5.5mbit. Amazing....

Reply to this comment    24 November 2005, 19:06 GMT


Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
LonePhoenix  Account Info
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except that comcast freezes up sometimes. annoying.

Reply to this comment    25 November 2005, 18:07 GMT

Re: Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Matt M Account Info

at least it works. my neighbors have Adelphia and it works occationally.

Reply to this comment    29 November 2005, 15:30 GMT


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JcN  Account Info
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Ya--every month or so, the service shuts down, probably for maintenance.

Reply to this comment    29 November 2005, 22:10 GMT

Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
MafiaMan Account Info

Amazing...I'm not the only person with 56k...just amazing...

Reply to this comment    24 November 2005, 19:37 GMT

Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Sheldon sensenig Account Info

I picked 56k but mine is more like 50.6k... stupid dial-up...

Reply to this comment    25 November 2005, 01:17 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
voidxor  Account Info
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Yeah, the FCC limits all dial-up connections to roughly 50 Kbps to reduce crosstalk among phonelines at the telco. A 56 Kbps modem is capable of such but will never be allowed to go any higher than 50 Kbps. Is broadband available in your area?

Reply to this comment    26 November 2005, 04:12 GMT

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Andy Janata  Account Info
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I'm fairly certain it's 53kbps.

Reply to this comment    26 November 2005, 15:35 GMT


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madmattd Account Info

I actually have gotten a 54.6 kbs connection many times with my standard 56k dial-up modem, so I don't know what that's about...And no, I am not kidding, that is what I get sometimes.

Reply to this comment    26 November 2005, 16:11 GMT

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madmattd Account Info

Forgot to mention, I'll soon not have to rely on the stupid dial-up at all soon. I already get uber-high speed at college, we have an insane amount of bandwith coming in, I've heard it is dual T-something lines, can't recall the exact number. And then I am getting DSL Tuesday, allegedly getting 6Mbs download, don't remember the upload, though.
Good riddance dial-up!!!

Reply to this comment    26 November 2005, 16:15 GMT

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Matt M Account Info

someone once told me they thought my school had dual T1,T3 running out through the county offices

Reply to this comment    29 November 2005, 15:34 GMT


Not fast enough
slimey_limey  Account Info
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The number is slightly important.

T1 = 1544 kbps (24*64k)
T2 = 6312 kbps (4*T1)
T3 = 44736 kbps (28*T1)
T4 = 274760 kbps (168*T1)

(data is from linked page)

Reply to this comment    29 November 2005, 22:37 GMT


Re: Not fast enough
madmattd Account Info

I know the number is important, I just can't remember it. Although when I think about it, I think it is dual T3s, but don't hold me to that. Whatever it is, its pretty darn fast even during the middle of the day when everyone on the whole dang campus is on-line. There are like 12-13,000 students here, plus all the faculty, and even in peak times I can get >500k/s downloads, depending on the site. Often it is limited by the bandwidth of the server you are downloading from, anyway.

Reply to this comment    30 November 2005, 13:48 GMT


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Matt M Account Info

I got 54.6 once, occationally I get 53.4 (53.x ?) and usually I get 52.0

I also have a cell phone that usually runs at 119-124K and they claim it will max out at 144K (Verizon Wireless LV VX3300)

Reply to this comment    29 November 2005, 15:32 GMT


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Sheldon sensenig Account Info

I probably could get broadband... if I wanted to spend money... which I don't have. I should get a job. I wonder if I could make money programming calcs...

Reply to this comment    2 December 2005, 00:18 GMT


Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Snave2000  Account Info

There's lots of us poor souls out there struggling along with 56K. It's not so bad; I do all my downloading at my school's library! It's great!

Reply to this comment    26 November 2005, 22:33 GMT


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Ben Cherry  Account Info
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I have a good friend who went years with 56k because he couldnt get dsl in his area. Partway through senior year he got satellite, which was slower than dsl and had terrible latency, but was far better than dialup. It always sucked for him because he downloaded a lot of stuff and spent a lot of time involved in web design, especially flash and such.

Reply to this comment    27 November 2005, 07:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: What is the speed of your Internet connection?
elfprince13 Account Info
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can anybody say 6K/s it SUCKS!!!!!!!

Reply to this comment    30 November 2005, 17:58 GMT

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