Whoooo HOOOOOoooooooooooo
Just downgraded my 10meg to 2meg and am happy for it.
Don't get me wrong I am a very
*HEAVY* inet4 user with around 10Terrabytes to prove it... stuff that will prolly take the rest of my life to shift through. My best run was to max out 4meg down for a whole 2 months !
Anyway why the downgrade ? I look at it this way : 384kbps -> 256kbps is not much of a loss.
Upstream is king not download (who gives a toss about 100meg down if u only have 1meg up ?) : saturate your upstream and you have no downstream no matter how big the downstream is. I remember a guy in Norway or was it Finland streaming a DVD rip over his 10meg up *AT HOME* I was awesmacked and had no response especially after teaching him how to broadcast video over the net. *doh*
Anyway having been with telewest with the best package they had to offer (think my first one was 512
128
) I've been automatically upgraded with time but the upstream improvements have been on the lack lustre side of things - so I've always had to traffic shape my upstream. The quality of the service in the early days was very good but is somewhat erratic nowadays.
WHY O WHY O WHY cant we in the UK get decent upstream ? Oh yeh we need to be ripped off : As long as the punter sees a fast loading webpage what the heck eh ?
Had an interesting day 2day and went out to the library (for the first time in 10 years prolly lulled in by the free wifi hotspot sign and to get away from the plethora of network machines and destracting goodies at home). To my suprise when I got there with it being Sunday n all it was like laptop city with more laptops in there than a shop down tottenham crt road.
As expected the library wifi was saturated but I noticed some tw8t using a netphone which got me thinking.... Turns out he was on a different AP which I also connected to but the the bandwidth was a bit shakey suprise suprise, so I got into the router and kicked him orrrrffffffffff he soon packed up and left
Interestingly this new AP was connected to Bulldog once I kicked him off and the bandwidth was free I got some pretty good pings and fluidity 8meg
500kbps
In all fairness I would like ADSL too but really NEED NNTP news server access too (to satisfy my download addiction) does anyone know of an ISP in the UK who proves this ? If so I can kiss Telewest goodbye and good riddence.
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After 5 years with Blueyonder I just DOWNGRADED :)
to the forum anyway m8
The same torrents he uses give me a faster speed. I checked his computer and put everything he needed but still his connect is slow so we have no choice but to stay with BY since they are reliable. Very rarely does BY's cable connection stop. Maybe 2 times this year I had problems which isnt so bad for a provider.
