Internet access at Home?

<b>What sort of internet access do you have at Home? (measuring Downstream speeds)</b>
<b>Anyone claiming they can see the difference
between 450 and 500 FPS in Quake3 deserves to
be severely beaten with a rock. </b>

Mwooo haa haa. I have broadband! Its not amazingly fast broadband, but its still broadband, and at least 10x faster than dialup.

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

768/128 DSL, though it's much faster- much of the time I'm downloading @ 5MB/s or sometimes even 14!

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

mwahahaha.

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

I don't and will refuse to believe a home DSL can do 14MB/sec.
That is not even possible, ADSL's physical limit is not that, and CAN'T, since no ADSL so far goes beyond 100Mbps.
Flame you should at least be honest than bragging with lies.

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wanna see a screenshot of it?

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

Yup!

Eden: There are faster than 100Mbps lines, but they're hardly cost effective at current home user prices.

One problem is that a lot of home modems/router - modems have a max down and up speed. eg. my router modem is 8Mbps down/640kbps up.

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Here are some of the benfits of fibre optic...


Fibre Optic cannot be tapped into, very high security.

<font color=blue>No interference from outside sources, immune to electrical disruption.</font color=blue>

Fibre Optic can be extended 20 times further than copper.

<font color=blue>Fibre optic is estimated to have a life span in excess of 20 years.</font color=blue>

A single fibre pair can carry over 600,000 voice circuits compared to a telephone line which can carry 2 voice circuits.

<font color=blue>As it's made of glass, it won't corrode.</font color=blue>

Virtually unaffected by outdoor atmospheric conditions.

<font color=blue>Absolutely no electrical radiation from a fiber cable.</font color=blue>

Much smaller and lighter in weight than a wire or coaxial cable with similar information carrying capacity.


As for the bandwidth of fiber...

"The current state-of-the-art optical fiber system is known as SONET/SDH, level OC 192. It uses a singlemode fiber that transmits 129,024 voice channels at 9.953 gigabits (billion bits) per second—which is more than 120,000 times the information of electronic signals over copper wire."

<A HREF="http://www.btplc.com/pda/Mediacentre/Archivenewsreleases/2000/nr44.htm" target="_new">May 2000 article...</A>

"Each fibre link initially has the potential to handle transmission rates of 160Gbps. They are ready to support <b><font color=red>1.6Tbps</font color=red></b> using 160 channel dense wave division multiplexing(DWDM) technologies.


Is that fast enough?

That's 32,000,000 times faster than 56k, 3,200,000 times faster than 512kbp/s and 400,000 times faster than 4Mbp/s.

<b>!!!!!</b>

...and they can't roll out ADSL at any speed in this country. Hah!

If someone knows of anything faster, please post, as it's quiet interesting.

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Our little town has nothing but dialup. They're talking about getting cable or dsl in 2004, but I don't think it'll happen. I'm just glad that the college has a wicked ass t3. Although, at the moment the 15 k/s d/l cap is lame

It's all good ^_^

33.6 kbps dial-up

<b> "You can put lipstick on a pig, but hey, it's still a pig!" - RobD </b>

Yes I do.
As I said, I have yet to hear of any company removing a cap and offering super-100Mbps DSL lines.

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Thanks for sympathy

<b> "You can put lipstick on a pig, but hey, it's still a pig!" - RobD </b>

poor guy... least you can get toms
bet broadband is mighty expensive in your country too!

<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.

Dial-up is mighty expensive here! And of course broadband. And all broadband connections here are limited to 64 to 128 kbps; 64 kbps is more common.

<b> "You can put lipstick on a pig, but hey, it's still a pig!" - RobD </b>

Currently I'm downloading 3D Mark 2003 form edome.net @ 3.4 KB/s.

<b> "You can put lipstick on a pig, but hey, it's still a pig!" - RobD </b>