Broadband!

Yup, all of PooBaa's broadband bits were finally ready today. Being a good little GF, I picked them up while he was at work and was waiting at his place with them when he arrived home from work
It made one very happy PooBaa!
Took us a while to set up, I'm sure he will tell you the technical side of it later
We were connected and didn't know it! lol
PooBaa went into Kazaa and started many downloads (didn't even look what they were) and we watched the status bar fly across hehe
He was like a little kid on Christmas Day. Very cute!
lol



<font color=purple><i>LHGPooBaa's Angel</i></font color=purple>

(its poobah here)

its a 512/128 plan (64Kbytes/16Kbytes), 6Gb downlaod cap per 30 days and an extra 6Gb offpeak.
I could have got an unlimited one, but speed and ping times vary too much

Australia is pretty tight with broadband... this was the best deal i could find.

still, its pretty decent, and if i go over my cap i just get throttled, not charged extra!

sweet fast though... ive seen up to 55KB out of a possible max of 64KB.

an OH SO MUCH better than dialup. good god

<font color=purple><i>LHGPooBaa's Angel</i></font color=purple>

My heart goes out to you. One day you'll hopefully be able to get 2000/384 w/ no cap for only $40/month.

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Welcome to the 21st Century PooBaa.

Flame not, lest ye be phlegmed.

Poor PooBaa's just left for work
...and left me on his computer WITH BROADBAND
*big cheeky smile*

...it's sooooooooooooooooo faaaaaaaaaast!

<font color=purple><i>LHGPooBaa's Angel</i></font color=purple>

nup. We aint gonna see that in australia for decades, if ever... tel$tra is making too much money form us poor saps to change.

my 6+6Gb plan costa $80 ozbux a month. to get 1500/256 would put it well above $100, more like $150 for the same download cap.

oh, and with adsl 1500/256 is the fastest you can get, once again thanx to tel$tra.

P.S. We do have cable, in limited locations, which is faster (my friend gets up to 500K/sec)...but the caps are even more stupid,
around $50 for 1 gig, $80 for 3 or $150+ for 5 to 10. OUCH.
Besides, my iinet provider has sites with free content, as well as free content sharing between iinet members, so its better.

<b>Anyone claiming they can see the difference
between 450 and 500 FPS in Quake3 deserves to
be severely beaten with a rock. </b><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by LHGPooBaa on 02/12/03 06:52 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

nice.
mine also has throttling so i dont pay extra when i go over my limit. (unlike most others in australia)

<b>Anyone claiming they can see the difference
between 450 and 500 FPS in Quake3 deserves to
be severely beaten with a rock. </b>

Hoooooohoooooooooooo... congrats. Welcome to 'high' speed internet.

Oh and those downloads where porn, serach the board if you don't believe my words.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

Wow man... that really bites. At my house, in the states, of course, we have a 1.5MBps cable with 256KBps upload, and not a cap to speak of. Here, it's nice, cause we have the phone company that offers ADSL lines, and the cable companies that offer cable lines, so there is usually at least two options for people. Hence the reason why it is $45/month with free install. We got our own modem, since they charged an extra $5 per month for that.

The only downside to cable modems are the fact that everyone in the neighborhood shares the same pipe... but it's a 100MBps pipe, and people are limited to 1.5MBps. Also, it's a dynamic IP, which makes setting up a server tough.

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Its not that bad... and alot better than telstra!
I worked out that to keep at my 6Gb 30 day rolling limit comes to 200Mb per day... and im doing less than that... so all is DEFINATELY good. must try harder.

Had a few probs the last few days though... wasnt an entirely painless process
The first day i used adsl it dropped out twice for no reason, once on my old man and again on me latter in the day (This was thursday).
Then thursday nite it just died.
After chatting to the guy that sold me the gear and 2 extra hours on the phone getting help from my ISP it was determined that the ADSL modem was dead

So as my boss at work was away friday i took half a day off and took the modem back to the place i got it.
He gave it a checkout on his working system, determined that yes, it was a dodo, and gave me a replacment on the spot. Schweet.

So here i am. with a new modem and alot less hastles... no need for DNS settings fiddling this time round and no crashes

<b>Anyone claiming they can see the difference
between 450 and 500 FPS in Quake3 deserves to
be severely beaten with a rock. </b>

Yep, it's a very nice collection.
...a whole hard drive full!

<font color=purple><i>LHGPooBaa's Angel</i></font color=purple>

i bet it is. it must look so beautiful and shitt. prolly a nice looking modem too... i bet wingy would fuckk it too. loooooooooooong cables i bet.

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Fvck with hardware?!?

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

Juck... that is disgusting.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

I just humped my PSU. The electric shock through my foreskin was most exciting.

I want to eat your face

Goddamn it, you always catch me.
We gotta stop playing this game... I can never win.

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Well welcome to the highspeed realm, it will spoil you, you'll never want to go back.



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oh yes... its just "wheeeee". i find myself download files just for the fun of it hehehe

im now in the process of collecting futurama episodes.

and gaming is really good. cant find any really low ping serious sam servers, but there are dozens of UT and UT2003 servers that have sub 100 pings. some are even a steady sub 50! WOOT.

too bad i suck LOL

<i>"Revenues were less than robust"</i> - QWEST
<i>"The company applied its accounting policies incorrectly"</i> - WORLDCOM
<i>"Certian financial adjustments may be required"</i> - AOL+TW.

hehehe
its all nder control.
its a peak time 6gb per 30 day limit... which equates to an AVERAGE of 200Mb a day. Looking at the past week or so of use it seems that during weekdays i only download 50 to 100mb of stuff... but saturdays i do 400+... overall though it's around the average.. so all is good.

iinet (my ISP) also has a fair swathe of "blink zone" free content too, which is very handy. Tucows mirrors and a few other sites, high quality 128k or 160k streaming audio music and a considerable number of dedicated low ping game servers. so i can game and play as much moozic as i like wihtout contributing to my cap.
Whats also nice is vixdonkey, a edonkey variant thats just for auzzie people, so all filesharing within it is free.

<i>"Revenues were less than robust"</i> - QWEST
<i>"The company applied its accounting policies incorrectly"</i> - WORLDCOM
<i>"Certian financial adjustments may be required"</i> - AOL+TW.

yeah they aint bad. the caps suck, but they all do in australia. whats nice is their free content and being slowed to 72kbps if i go over my limit... not charged something evil like 15c/mb! on a dollar/Gb basis they are one of the top 3.

Their tech support is decent enough. I find it amusing how their tier 1 tech support messages their level 2 when things get too technical I can hear them madly typing away in the background LOL

And last nite i built u te nerve to do a firmware flash of my modem and it went ok, despite gettin the timeout error message. Updated all my settings and whee im off and running. Be interesting to see for how long i can keep this IP addy. some people say weeks or even months.

<i>"Revenues were less than robust"</i> - QWEST
<i>"The company applied its accounting policies incorrectly"</i> - WORLDCOM
<i>"Certian financial adjustments may be required"</i> - AOL+TW.