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Originally Posted by Mr K
All a bit pointless since it went above 20mb, which enough for 99% of people. Become a bit of my speed test is faster than yours 'Top Gear' mentality game. Look at the numpties that put speed test results in their signatures - surprised they don't add the size of their small manhood's too....
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*Snigger* you win Boxing Day.
>20Mb is I would say important for more people than 1%, though certainly not all that many need it for much more than downloading dodgy material faster, especially as you get up to 50Mb and beyond.
Those Linux ISOs are very important torrents, and the faster those newsgroups can be 'read' the better. Oddly many don't mind paying for newsgroup accounts and higher tier broadband but object to paying legitimately for content.
I do of course exclude the uber-chavs who either run with the lowest tier or negotiate others as cheaply as possible and refuse to use VPNs or third party Usenet but use VM's own Highwinds server and torrents
I also exclude those who download TV shows for the most part; that's actually largely legitimate and those cannot be purchased in a lot of cases as they may not be available.
Those assembling modern movie collections and video games on the cheap, paying out hundreds for several terabytes of storage, though...
And, yes, putting speedtest results in signatures or avatars is somewhat weird. I only did it for a time to annoy some people but those who obsessively keep it up to date with their latest tiers and measure their manhood (I've never seen a woman do it) by their broadband are entertaining. To each their own.
Happy Boxing Day everyone
