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"The joys of 2mb adsl"

Ah, active at last, no longer do i fear large images, flash movies or online gaming.

Details of an adslguide speedtest will follow when this download has finished.

I use Limewrie. Seems to run quite quickly and doesn't come infected with adware. i.e Kazaa.

Whats the most reliable p2p program for non-hissy music?

Valentino Rossi wrote:
> adrian wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> That's nothing.
>
> Yeah I know its nothing. But 4Mb for like $30 is damn cheap. Plus
> they sent alot more than 4 DVDs in 2 hours. Its more like 2 DVDs a
> second or something.
>
> Friend in States told me his new line downloads 25mb in one minute 25
> secs. :) That's about 1.3gb an hour !

Thats only about 3Mb connection. Cable is now 3Mb as NTL etc have upgrade all speeds by 50%, probably alot more over here than what your friend is paying though :D

adrian wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> That's nothing.
>
> Yeah I know its nothing. But 4Mb for like $30 is damn cheap. Plus
> they sent alot more than 4 DVDs in 2 hours. Its more like 2 DVDs a
> second or something.

Friend in States told me his new line downloads 25mb in one minute 25 secs. :) That's about 1.3gb an hour !

Do i need to forward ports for kazaa even though i can download stuff?

Not to mention Google.

EVERY email that is sent in/to/from China is read by a third party. 30,000 odd people are employed solely to read emails.

Plus the BBC site is banned there too!

Only thing is, in Korea, or China, you can only access about 4 sites. Even mobile phones calls are heavily restricted over there.

Jonathan Nash wrote:
> My +1 Elvish army was triumphant in the end.
>
> Doesn't North Korea have like ultra-fast Broadband for about a penny
> a day or something?

Korea, Japan etc have fast connections. There 56K speed is something like 12Mb. Remember reading a few years ago that 12Mb was about £10 in Japan. Sweden also has very fast internet for cheap prices. VDSL is 26Mb/26Mb, ie 26Mbit/sec upload and download. You do have to be close to the exchange ie few hundred meters.

The UK is really behind in broadband which is a shame. Thinking of the overall structure of our economy etc we shouldnt be lagging behind with broadband speeds.

Jonathan Nash wrote:
> My +1 Elvish army was triumphant in the end.
>
> Doesn't North Korea have like ultra-fast Broadband for about a penny
> a day or something?

Dunno, but Japan is uber cheap for uber fastness.