*Sigh* In my dorm here at school, I get 5Mbit up and down, and yes, that's real speed, I see download speeds of 3000-3500kb/s. And you're probably asking why I don't host an LFS server, I tried. The ResNet administrators shut off the ports of anyone who gets caught hosting a game server, and I got caught. Stuck on wireless for a week was torture. It's such a shame to see all that beautiful upload speed going to waste. Ah well, it's school administrators, what can you do....

ISDN is the future. Streaming video and sound ! Download a whole floppy disks' worth of files in under 2 minutes !

Quote from mist350 :

ISDN is the future. Streaming video and sound ! Download a whole floppy disks' worth of files in under 2 minutes !

For those of you who dont know what a Floppy Disc is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

computing has a tradition of notation where bits are always written with a small 'b' and bytes with a capital 'B'

The nominator should always be in caps :

Kb = Kilobit (1024 bits)
KB = Kilobyte (1024 Bytes or 1 KB)
Mb = Megabit (1024 KB)
Gb = Gigabit (1024 Mb)
GB = Gigabyte (1024MB)
etc.

and of course with 8 bits (and 2 nybbles) to a byte.
Hope this helps

Many ISPs throttle the upload bandwidth to discourage their customers from running web servers or game servers. The new revolution in broadband won't neccessarily mean better upload bandwidth for account holders, our ISPs will decide.

45USD dollar for a 4MB connection, yes its crazy, and the really stupid thing is they cap our upload speeds at 765/kbs.

If we add another 10USD(per month) we can get a 6MB connection with like 1MB of upload...if only I lived in the UK....

Quote from L(Oo)ney :

Shame i cant get it, as im currrently paying £30 a month for my 2mb line.

We have our own telephone company, which owns the lines, and are not allowing anyone else to use them (ie - BT, ntl ect), forcing us to use them, or have no internet.

Basically, they have a monopoly here, so they can charge wtf they want. :mad:

Im paying £25 for a 2mb line from NTL. Heard roomers this is going up to around 8 MB by Xmas -

Quote from nikimere :

...Floppy Disc...

No, not Disc - Disk
"Disk" is short for "Diskette" which was intended to sound like cassette It was/is used for the typical 3.5in floppies and the older 5.75in floppies (amongst other disks).

"Disc" denotes something circular and flattened in profile. As such it is used for stuff like Mini-Disc, Compact Disc, Digital Versatile Disc, etc. - all of which are circular

Quote from marsden1002 :

Im paying £25 for a 2mb line from NTL. Heard roomers this is going up to around 8 MB by Xmas -

If you're on 3 mb with NTL they will be upgrading you to 10mb before Xmas, but I'm pretty sure the other speeds will have to wait till next year, don't quote me on that though

NTL is just the northern version of Telewest Blueyonder.. I am on blueyonder and by the new year some time (according to telewest) iwill be able to get the 10mb line. thats with 367kb upload or something like that.. but its the no limits that make it worth it. on 1mb right now so i will go to 4mb for free. and only £10 more per month for 10mb.. i think the minimum speed they are gonna do from the new year is 2mb. good prices too.

I'm from hampshire, and I can't get blueyonder..It's pretty annoying to be honest

UK-Online are also going to be doing a very similar 24mbit service. It all comes with ADSL2. Cable companies, such as ntl and Telewest will be maxing out DOCSIS2 protocols with 10meg lines to compete, but will also be layering DOCSIS3 once the upgrade is done, to further increse speeds.

With the new protocols comes new speed! Its the dawn of the internet 2 so to speak.

To be honest, I'm with quite a few people here in having faster upload speeds as opposed to faster download. Id rather stay at 2meg and have my upload increased to 1meg than go on to 10meg when ntl release it to the masses.

And FYI, BT are testing fibre optic broadband in certain areas of the UK, offering 100mb up and down for those lucky enough to be involved in the testing. Shame its only for another 6 months or so.

Quote from franky500 :

NTL is just the northern version of Telewest Blueyonder..

No it's not - until the recent merger it was a much larger rival to TW, serving approximately (iirc) three times as many customers as TW.

I'm on TW myself - still awaiting my free upgrade from 1meg to 4meg, but should be soon.

Well, theres been a ot of complaints about BE recently. people are registering with them and they are not connecting people, then when you go to cancel there telephone lines are constantly engaged.

They dont appear to be getting very good feedback at all.

Also, you have to be close to your telephone exchange to get the full 24mb, it is predicted that most peopel will get between 12 and 15mb speeds due to distance between the exchange and the house, and the quality of the telephone line.

Feel sorry for all those on Blueyonder. My mates with them and dreading it since NTL bought them out due to NTLs stupid download caps.

Heh, payng about 13 pounds here for 48 KB/s both up and download.

Pish, forget cables. I want new Broadballon.

Linkage.

120mb :o

Quote from Stellios :

Feel sorry for all those on Blueyonder. My mates with them and dreading it since NTL bought them out due to NTLs stupid download caps.

there is no download caps on Blueyonder or NTL (speaking as a Blueyonder customer with many NTL Friends up north)

Wireless is the future. It may be shitty now with not very good coverage (for those with city wide coverage), but you can bet that once it gets rolled out in a national campaign, it will quickly improve. In five years we're all going to be laughing at how backwards we were back in the days of hard wires. Not only will raw speed be better, but latency will be improved also.

rumours are that BT is going 8mb as well..

Quote from franky500 :

there is no download caps on Blueyonder or NTL (speaking as a Blueyonder customer with many NTL Friends up north)

Yes there is, and has been for some time. Only they are only really inforced on people who have 1mb, with 1gb(or was it three, I forget) a month, everyone else gets 30gb a month, but currently NTL over look it, but are planning a pay as you go bandwidth system (saw it on the inquirer). Not sure if it'll ever happen though.

Quote from snewham :

rumours are that BT is going 8mb as well..

not rumors, facts. its called maxdsl (fastest adsl can go before adsl2 comes into play, that can get up to 24mbit)

ahh ok someone i know works for them and he is trying it out at the moment.

Quote from operator0 :

Wireless is the future. It may be shitty now with not very good coverage (for those with city wide coverage), but you can bet that once it gets rolled out in a national campaign, it will quickly improve. In five years we're all going to be laughing at how backwards we were back in the days of hard wires. Not only will raw speed be better, but latency will be improved also.

Yep. And then we'll all get brain cancer and die. And the cockroaches will live happily forever.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Yep. And then we'll all get brain cancer and die. And the cockroaches will live happily forever.

Bah, minor details. We live to long anyway .

Quote from Bob Smith :

Yep. And then we'll all get brain cancer and die. And the cockroaches will live happily forever.

Everything gives you cancer these days. I used to have a list of everything that can give you cancer (I got bored one day) and from that list all you can do without getting cancer is... nothing. Even some junk in the air might increase the risks of cancer illepall