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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2007, 03:54:28 AM »
Probably the same as in Europe, 100 MB/s (hope I haven't misunderstood anything now).
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2007, 06:15:54 AM »
i have DSL, of some speed?



i do know that i can download a 20 second video in about 5 seconds.

but it did take about 15 minutes to donload Dunc's latest mix.
maybe it was just a slow day.
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2007, 06:38:43 AM »
Quote from: Litigious on April 04, 2007, 03:54:28 AM
Probably the same as in Europe, 100 MB/s (hope I haven't misunderstood anything now).

I don't know of any ISP's offering 100MB/s.  100Mb/s (which is 12.5MB/s)  is, however, the most common speed these days for ethernet, which is what your home network will use unless you have wireless, and what the networks in schools, universities and large companies use (though they might also have a 1000Mb/s backbone).
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2007, 06:40:22 AM »
I knew that I've misunderstood it. :GA: :wallbutt: :smash:
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2007, 03:45:37 PM »
Downloading at 7KB/s, uploading at 27KB/s.  :(
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2007, 11:25:03 AM »
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2007, 11:44:17 AM »
Contrast that with the figures BT's own speedtest gives.  Bunch of fucking liars.

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14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2007, 02:36:21 PM »
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2007, 04:08:05 PM »
Quote from: duncvis on April 10, 2007, 02:36:21 PM
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/117623724627109712753.html

Sure you won't give Virgin a try Pete?

I might go with Zen internet or bethere; they score pretty highly.

Now my connection's faster than yours.  Seems bizarre that it would go from 0.1Mb/s to 4Mb/s.   :-\

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/117624242077947614939.html
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2007, 04:18:25 PM »
I'm only managing about 25KB/s for bittorrent though.  I've switched from BitLord to Azureus, since Azureus supports encryption, which I've enabled, but it's not done anything to improve my download speed, and my upload speed is higher than my download speed; about 40KB/s.  Any idea why that would be?
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14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2007, 04:42:44 PM »
Meh. Tight bastards not seeding, perhaps?
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2007, 08:26:39 PM »
I doubt it.  I hit a ceiling where adding more active downloads doesn't do anything to increase my download speed.  Right now my download is running about as fast as it ever gets, and the graph of my download activity looks like this:

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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2007, 04:35:26 PM »
I use Zen and get this http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/11765901347653665444.html

pretty good, connection never drops, good customer service
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #28 on: April 14, 2007, 05:08:47 PM »
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #29 on: April 14, 2007, 05:12:11 PM »
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