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How fast is your internet connection?
Topic Started: Jan 4 2007, 02:16 PM (882 Views)
***musical princess***
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HOLY CARP!!!
I just totally hadone of those 'WHOA' moments.

I tried it on New York and while it was downloading i thought, 'Holy Carp... Currently, there is a little tiny message zooming from America, all the way across the Atlantic, finding my home, going through my main server then buzzing through the air to my wireless laptop, all ina few seconds'

Bloody hell... technology dumbfounds me when i think about it...

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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
***musical princess***
Jan 4 2007, 03:28 PM
Aqua Letifer
Jan 4 2007, 11:25 PM
***musical princess***
Jan 4 2007, 03:24 PM

:shrug:  Why do they differ so much? This is my wireless laptop in my room.

Ten bucks says that's a big part of it. Never use wireless unless you have to use wireless.

Will my wireless by slower than the main router in our home study?

We're supposed to be getting 54Mbps.

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Depends, is it a wireless router?

If you're using a connection at home and you are able to hook up a cable line, I'd strongly suggest doing so.

A wireless connection can be interrupted by just about every other device in your home, from your walls to cordless phones and microwave ovens. Unless you do some things to your connection, you really can't expect any kind of consistency with your bandwidth. Wireless internet connections are intended to give internet access to areas where wires aren't feasible. If they are, then there's no point to having them as a cable connection will almost always be better.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Aqua Letifer
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***musical princess***
Jan 4 2007, 03:30 PM
I just totally hadone of those 'WHOA' moments.

I tried it on New York and while it was downloading i thought, 'Holy Carp... Currently, there is a little tiny message zooming from America, all the way across the Atlantic, finding my home, going through my main server then buzzing through the air to my wireless laptop, all ina few seconds'

Bloody hell... technology dumbfounds me when i think about it...

x

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet...rastructure.htm
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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***musical princess***
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HOLY CARP!!!
I don't have a telephone point in my room so i have to opt for wireless (same reason why the phone in my room comes fromthe main base station in the living room). :(


This is wild, i am getting a consistently better hook up to Chicago then i do to London. :lol: :P :silly:

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Aqua Letifer
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***musical princess***
Jan 4 2007, 03:38 PM
I don't have a telephone point in my room so i have to opt for wireless (same reason why the phone in my room comes fromthe main base station in the living room). :(


This is wild, i am getting a consistently better hook up to Chicago then i do to London. :lol: :P :silly:

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Well, unless you're doing a serious amount of downloading or uploading, your connection speed shouldn't matter all that much. 500kbps is pretty modest these days, and more than sufficient for web surfing.
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plays88keys
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Jan 4 2007, 06:17 PM
Poor poor Plays... She's upstairs running on a wireless connection at 1.5 mbps. If she ever read this, she'd make me go out and buy a faster router and wireless network card. :darthno:

That will be your Friday night project, dear.
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Improviso
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HOLY CARP!!!
Curses!!! You never read techie geek threads.
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The 89th Key
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Woot, somehow Aqua and my apartment beat my company's connection by .1 mbps.

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I have no idea what this means
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Jan 4 2007, 07:17 PM
Poor poor Plays... She's upstairs running on a wireless connection at 1.5 mbps. If she ever read this, she'd make me go out and buy a faster router and wireless network card. :darthno:

She's worth it.
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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I want your connection phykell!

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CTPianotech
Jan 4 2007, 07:49 PM
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I have no idea what this means

It means you can download pr0n faster than you can upload it. :D
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Jan 4 2007, 11:46 PM
Curses!!! You never read techie geek threads.

Plays, make sure you don't settle for anything less than the latest Wireless-N specification router. Post us the model number and we'll make sure he's got you something decent :) :D
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated. - Ghandhi

Evil cannot be conquered in the world. It can only be resisted within oneself.

Remember, bones heal and chicks dig scars
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:doh:
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
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It's a myth I tell ya......there is no Wireless N spec. :D

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Klaus
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Jan 4 2007, 03:25 PM
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Jan 4 2007, 05:19 PM
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Simply astonishing speed. The US is sooooo far behind.

I guess this is just because I work at a university, and I am connected directly to a big backbone via Gigabit Ethernet :whome:
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HAHAHAHA* :P
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George K
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The interesting thing is, Klaus, that when I got rid of my cable and switched to DSL I dropped from 5 megs to 768. Most of the time, I really don't notice a difference, since I don't download a ton of files. For average browsing, 768 is more than enough.
A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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HOLY CARP!!!
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1hp
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My lowly sbc-yahoo dsl line clocks 1.277Mbps on the download, and 317kbps on the upload. For $19 a month, more than ample for the 5 PCs and 1 laptop I have running in the house.

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SBC here, too.



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Steve Miller
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Also SBC.

How do you get it for $20/month? I pay nearly double that. Might be time for a phone call... :sword:
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Jan 4 2007, 10:32 PM
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Also SBC.

How do you get it for $20/month? I pay nearly double that. Might be time for a phone call... :sword:

Yes, make that call, both of you. I'm paying twelve bucks a month.



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