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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.

STOP BOASTING.

And I never actually had 3mg bb ;'(
And I never did beat CM with my night elf army ;'(

He used to beat my army with 1 owl, or something.

I admit, it was lies.

You're all lying, breeding, homosexual, terrorist Elfs.

cookie monster wrote:
> Well ive been messing around with DR TCP for a few hours.
>
> Downstream 1859 Kbps (232.4 KB/sec) 2007 Kbps (inc. overheads)
> Upstream 244 Kbps (30.5 KB/sec) 263 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Looks pretty good. Should be able to get 240KB/sec in a download. ADSL guide speed tests dont seem to show the top speed, as I get something like 117KB/sec when I can download at 120KB/sec all day long.

Would love 2Mb, so once I get a job and my special 1Mb Pipex price has finished I might be off to PlusNet unless Pipex offer the same sort of deal. I do want to move off to the US for good in the near future so then I would love to have 4Mb+ :D

That's nothing. Some bods in America sent 4 DVDs worth of info in 2 hours. That's pretty flipping fast. Cost a bomb though, and the results were pretty obvious from the outset:

Lab guy #1: "I have a theory that the more money we pump into this connection, the bigger bandwidth we'll be able to get."
Lab guy #2: "Hmmm, your theory has attracted my attention. But will it help your Eldars defeat my +1 Elvish army?"

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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!