I will soon conquer the inraweb!

[Adora]

Wizzle fo shizzle mah dizzle dawg. Guess who's getting broadband cable next month?

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MWUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Soon, chaos shall reign, and babies will be painted purple with green spots, and everyone's left ears will swell up and sing La Cucaracha 24/7.

At least, that's how it goes in my head.

[Dingfod]

OMG, you've been doing all this on dial-up.


Head for the hills! The end is nigh!!!

[livius drusus]

Welcome to high speed. May you never have to dick with monthly bandwidth allowances again.

[Goliath]

Yep, cable rules! I was on DSL for years before I moved to SD, but this cable crushes my old DSL with its bare hands! :D

Seriously, though, I can usually get download speeds of 330-360 KB/s, whereas on the DSL that I had, I'd be lucky to break 60 KB/s.

[Adora]

Haha I just realised my spelling mistake in the title. It's meant to be "intraweb". I'm too lazy to change it though.

Teh family is going with OptusNet, because they throw in all this shit like 4 months free out of every year, cheap local and STD calls, and free mobile calls to Optus-phones hooked up to our little web. I just hope their cable is good, because I am so sick of dialup, and the household phonebill has been suffering because of all the local calls made to dialup each time we connect.

We still have monthly bandwidth allowances, but I don't know yet whether we'll be at 1GB a month (300MB more than we have now) or 12 GB. We'll see how much we use in the first few months, because I shall undoubtably start leeching MP3s and looking at more and more art with it. Also, unclocked uploads= HAPPY HAPPY DAYS! I can finally upload pictures without worrying about bandwidth useage (current server clocks uploads on both dialup and broadband services, CUNTS!).

[Ex-zombie]

I will be looking forward to the chaos you shall spread.

Yeah I had dial-up for a little over a year then I got cable through my phone company. There is just no comparision.

[Dingfod]

They charge you for local calls? Wholly shit! Us Merkins don't normally have to pay for local calls, it's included in the basic phone rates.

I'm still looking forward to internet and phone service via my electric company. They've had the technology to pass information over the electrical lines for more than 20 years, maybe 30. It has proven to be safe and reliable. My local electric company, OG&E has put in a request to start installing systems soon. They promise internet speeds rivalling or exceeding cable. I've heard the reason this is possible is because the powerlines are much larger wires than coaxial cable. The digital signal for phones and internet is passed at a different frequency than the electricity and they have some sort of device that can filter that out. It'll be interesting.

The internet provider in the last place I lived in Utah was pushing wireless internet back in 2000. They were transmitting internet off the cellphone towers. To utilize it, they had to install an external antenna on the house and a receiver inside, back then the cost was considerable, perhaps $800. They had planned to eventually offer television and even home phone service via this signal. I wonder if all that came to fruition.

[dave_a]

Yep, cable rules! I was on DSL for years before I moved to SD, but this cable crushes my old DSL with its bare hands! :D

Seriously, though, I can usually get download speeds of 330-360 KB/s, whereas on the DSL that I had, I'd be lucky to break 60 KB/s.

What's it like living in BFE? Here cable and DSL download speed is around 3mb/sec and uploads around that of your download speed.

Nyah, nyah.

[Roland98]

I hate you all. Die, die, die.

[Goliath]

Yep, cable rules! I was on DSL for years before I moved to SD, but this cable crushes my old DSL with its bare hands! :D

Seriously, though, I can usually get download speeds of 330-360 KB/s, whereas on the DSL that I had, I'd be lucky to break 60 KB/s.

What's it like living in BFE? Here cable and DSL download speed is around 3mb/sec and uploads around that of your download speed.

Nyah, nyah.

:shrug: When I can download full-length DivX porn movies--uh, I mean...ummm....wholesome Disney movies for the whole family...or something :wink: --in about 5 minutes, I really don't need faster download speeds.

[beyelzu]

Wizzle fo shizzle mah dizzle dawg. Guess who's getting broadband cable next month?

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MWUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Soon, chaos shall reign, and babies will be painted purple with green spots, and everyone's left ears will swell up and sing La Cucaracha 24/7.

At least, that's how it goes in my head.
does this mean that I wont have to listen to you bitch about wasting your precious bandwith?



if so truly happy days are here.:hung:

[beyelzu]

Yep, cable rules! I was on DSL for years before I moved to SD, but this cable crushes my old DSL with its bare hands! :D

Seriously, though, I can usually get download speeds of 330-360 KB/s, whereas on the DSL that I had, I'd be lucky to break 60 KB/s.

What's it like living in BFE? Here cable and DSL download speed is around 3mb/sec and uploads around that of your download speed.

Nyah, nyah.
3 megs a second, how the fuck do you have any space on your harddrive.

or is that monstrous as well?

[Adora]

They charge you for local calls?
Yes, because this is Australia, where a stupid Korean fishing boat can destroy the telecommunications network of the entire East coast (I shit you not. It has actually happened). Whilst we have a few major Telecoms, they are actually pushed into strong competition because of the demand Australia has for good communication. Though 90% of the population lives on the East coast and 10ks from the water, we still rely heavily on telecom to provide good service. My family, for example, is all spread out over Australia. I have an aunty in Perth, one side of the family residing in Tasmania, another group in the Hunter Valley, some in Melbourne and Sydney and Western NSW, and I'm in Queensland. One of my best friends lives in Gove, right up on the peninsula that sticks into the Gulf of Carpentaria. She relies on her broadband access and phone service for practically everything, especially because she's in a wheelchair.

But yeah, local calls cost money, because there is a limited number of lines, and you simply have so many damn people using them. They're mostly all the old Telecom lines (which is now Telsuck... I mean Telstra, thanks to privatisation) but other groups are starting to install their own. The network isn't anything like the one in the US or Canada, so they can still do things like that.

This is why they also charge you by bandwidth these days and not by hours. It used to be hours back in the really early days, which was good for the small number of web users who would leech and leech and leech. Then the companies caught onto this fact and started charging by bandwidth, because that's really the most important part about the web in Australia. We have a limited number of cables coming in and going out, so we all kinda have to be logical about this.

I've already downloaded Bitorrent in joyous expectation. :D

does this mean that I wont have to listen to you bitch about wasting your precious bandwith?
Yes sweetums. Well, at least it looks that way currently. I'll give you an update after the first month, though.

[dave_a]

Nyah, nyah.
3 megs a second, how the fuck do you have any space on your harddrive.

or is that monstrous as well?[/QUOTE]

3mb/sec is megabit rather than megabyte and a byte is 8 bits so it isn't that fast if you were thinking megabytes.

The download speed is ample for my needs/wants, but the upload speed is too slow at 256k.

[Goliath]

3mb/sec is megabit rather than megabyte and a byte is 8 bits so it isn't that fast if you were thinking megabytes.

The download speed is ample for my needs/wants, but the upload speed is too slow at 256k.

Ah, well I meant 330-360 Kilobytes per second...which is problably right around 3 Megabits per second.

[dave_a]

3mb/sec is megabit rather than megabyte and a byte is 8 bits so it isn't that fast if you were thinking megabytes.

The download speed is ample for my needs/wants, but the upload speed is too slow at 256k.

Ah, well I meant 330-360 Kilobytes per second...which is problably right around 3 Megabits per second.

Ah, indeed it would be. Damn numbers, don'cha just hate them? :D

[wade-w]

It's an easy mistake to make. While storage and memory are measured in bytes, bandwidth is normally measured in bits. Which is being used in a particular situation can be confusing without some context since an abbreviation such as kb is the same for both.

Another thing about measurements in computer science that can be confusing to many is the prefixes like "kilo", "mega" and "giga." We usually associate these terms with factors of 10, as in the metric system. But while kilo is usually thought of as 10^3, in computers it's 2^10, so a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes. Similarly, a megabyte is 2^10 kilobytes, or 1,048,576 bytes.

[noblesavage]

Wizzle fo shizzle mah dizzle dawg. Guess who's getting broadband cable next month?


Don't make me call you on "the carpet". :whup:

[noblesavage]

Hey Babe, you will be ok! Some times you just have to break someones "will". !


Dan

[Adora]

Er...

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Adora]

*runs around happily like a humming bird on crack* Hee hee hee hee. I am no longer an atheist, since cable = god. Wheeeeeee.

Make your time.

[livius drusus]

Are you downloading a bunch of stupid shit just cause yet?

[Adora]

Well, no, because I always do that. It's just that I am now accessing all the stuff I've wanted to access for so long but have never been able to. Mmmm Limewire. Although yeah, some of the mp3s I'm getting are just for fun, but they're not *stupid* per-se.

[viscousmemories]

:welcome: to civilization, Adora. :D