two people voted 28.8k !!!!! well unless there on a mobile device maybe but 28.8k a fax machine is faster!
Appears to be the other way around here.... ISS (campus network) has a poor connection speed, seems a little faster (not much tho) than 56k at home.. Computing dept tho seems to have a much faster connection for some reason.... think we dump straight onto JANET (new fiibre link i think) which is nice, but still isnt anywhere as near as fast as here in halls...... + we are capped to 10 meg by routers/laser links etc... whereas campus has basically the speed of JANET available to it..... strange.....
My 10mbit here at uni seams to be a lot slower than its supposed to be Do you think their is any way that i could optomize it?
I have cable but the speed is 3mbit/1mbit and there is no option so i picked huge connection. REally onlY get about 300-400 k Down, 100k up.
2880/256 ADSL here. (That's 2Mb/256Kb) Download peaks of 300KB/s, so perfect for streaming NSV's. XRM TV rocks!
Got 512/256 ADSL atm, altho getting it upgraded to 1024/256 in the next week or two Wish I could go back on my uni connection tho, had a 10mbit line in my halls at UMIST which had consistent downloads of about 1 MB a second, could easily download a cd image (say linux) in 10 minutes. And isn't 2880/256 quite a bit more than 2Mb? Would be nearer to 3MB unless ur including 832kbits of tcp/ip overhead in that total.
<checks his RRAS box> You know, you're right. It's 2272/288Kbps. So that'd be 2Mb/256Kb including framing. Yay!
Yeah thought it seemed a little high, hopefully gonna upgrade my line again in a few months and take it all the way to a 2mbit line, preferably on a 20:1 contention ratio service.
I'm (Supposedly) on a 20:1 contention (http://www.bulldogdsl.com/), but I know how many people have DSL off my exchange. Just me.
adelphia just bumped up their service to 3mb/256k. sad thing is that before they moved it up, it was supposed to be 1.5mb/128k and i was pulling 3.9mb down . now i usually pull what they advertise, but sometimes i'll pull 4.9mb down only real drawback is that they do "maintanence" every evening in the wee hours of the morning that causes my connection to drop for a few minutes.
Just 56k at the moment. Will be getting a 2Mb satellite connection next week though (can't get ADSL...ISDN doesn't seem worth the money, so satellite is my only option).
Generally, Satellite is only 2Mb downstream (You use a modem for your upstream), unless you're willing to pay nasally for 2-way Satellite. And even then, the round-trip response time is horrible. No Internet gaming or VoIP for you...
