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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | |  Changed to U-Verse and now slower speeds. |
| | Registered: March 20, 2007 |  Posts: 53 |
| | Posted: | | | |  I need more Speed! |
| | Registered: July 16, 2010 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 518 |
| | Posted: | | | | After struggling along with only a 50Mb/5Mb connection for ages, today I got an e-mail from Virgin Media to tell me it's doubled my speed to 100Mb! Behold! Read the figures and weep, mere mortals:   | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 4,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | With my new modem:  They promised 120 mb/sec. | | | | Registered: July 7 2000 |
|  | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm curious what people do with your connections being that fast.
Is it mainly to keep games from lagging? It's certainly not needed for things like loading videos (big deal, you loaded a 10 minute video in 2 seconds) or downloading programs (again, big deal, you download a program in 3/100ths of a second and then spend 5 minutes installing it, and certainly not for general page loading. Even at my terrible speed pages load almost instantly.
My ISP actually dropped me to a lower plan without asking (saving me money) after running tests this year and seeing--despite the capabilities of the modem itself--signals would not go through any faster (because of my sucky phone lines) than the speed of the lower plan. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
| | Registered: October 30, 2011 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,870 |
| | Posted: | | | | I work from home, so this is both home and work  |
| | Registered: July 16, 2010 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 518 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's amazing what you can achive by switching something off and on again. I really should be an IT consultant...  | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... |
| | Registered: July 16, 2010 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 518 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Blair: Quote:
I'm curious what people do with your connections being that fast.
Is it mainly to keep games from lagging? It's certainly not needed for things like loading videos (big deal, you loaded a 10 minute video in 2 seconds) or downloading programs (again, big deal, you download a program in 3/100ths of a second and then spend 5 minutes installing it, and certainly not for general page loading. Even at my terrible speed pages load almost instantly.
My ISP actually dropped me to a lower plan without asking (saving me money) after running tests this year and seeing--despite the capabilities of the modem itself--signals would not go through any faster (because of my sucky phone lines) than the speed of the lower plan. Don't ask awkward questions!   I suppose the reality is, 95%+ of what most people have they don't really need. I don't need a single DVD, for example. I guess it's the "because it's there" factor. In my defence, the doubling of the speed I get was done free of charge, as Virgin Media wants to stay ahead of BT for marketing purposes. | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... |
| | Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't know what any of this means but here's my results:  |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 347 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
I don't know what any of this means but here's my results:
In my opinion ... you would probably get stuff faster if it were sent to you in the mail  Just kidding of course . | | | | Antec Nine Hundred case, 4GB A-Data DDR2 800 RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz, ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP MB, XFX GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 video card, ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink, Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD, Zerodba 620W PSU, LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD with LightScribe SATA, Samsung CDDVDW SH-S203B SATA, Hanns-G HH281 28" monitor, Kodak ESP3250 printer, Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers, Windows 7 Professional | | | | Last edited: by mwkirchner |
| | Registered: October 30, 2011 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,870 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
I don't know what any of this means but here's my results:
what this means is...when people were making all those color updates after 3.8.1 went live it must have taken you forever to download them  |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,338 |
| | Posted: | | | |  doing pretty good over here  | | | | -JoN |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,911 |
| | Posted: | | | | Wireless on my laptop:  | | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
| | Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 663 |
| | Posted: | | | | Wireless laptop here as well  | | | We're on a mission from God.
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| | Registered: July 16, 2010 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 518 |
| | Posted: | | | | I might not have anything worthwhile to say or do, but I can do it quickly.  However, connecting to Fiji (on the other side of the world to me) is a somewhat more laid back affair.  | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... | | | | Last edited: by SpikyCactus |
| | Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | |  Just don't ask why it cost $2000 to get Comcast connected to my house. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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