Which broadband to choose? (1 Viewer)

[spleen]

256 too slowwwww =\

Yeah but it's unlimited. We have telstra 1gig cable right now, thats 512. and theres 4 people in my family, so we each get 250mb each, which is no where near enough.
If it's only half as fast, thats fine cause its unlimited.

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by tonberry_kun
i've been 300kb+ on kazaa

for how long did this last?? also what speed broadband ru on?

 

[freaking_out]

256 too slowwwww =\

well i guess for most people:

anything is better than 56k

 

[:: ck ::]

ahhh changed to iinet today

16gb per month yayyy *drools*

highly recommended ISP!

 

[tonberry_kun]

Originally posted by freaking_out
for how long did this last?? also what speed broadband ru on?

optus cable

2 files
1 at 200kb/s continuous till finished (200meg file)
1 at 150kb/s continuous till finished (also 200megs)

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by tonberry_kun
optus cable

2 files
1 at 200kb/s continuous till finished (200meg file)
1 at 150kb/s continuous till finished (also 200megs)

i guess it boils down to the following:

u want more bandwith for decent speed or less bandwith for good speed connection.

 

[Rahul]

that was more than a tenth of ur bandwith.
unless u want to go over the limit and pay through ur nose.

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Rahul
that was more than a tenth of ur bandwith.
unless u want to go over the limit and pay through ur nose.

thats, a good point- coz if i was on cable i would have been capped by the first week i guess (looking at those speeds)

but like i said for me (just got broadband couple of weeks ago) anything is better than 56k

 

[Rahul]

very true.

that is exactly the reason why i want to get broadband instead of cable.

 

[tonberry_kun]

adsl is a good alternative but its slower, which is weighed up by the nice d/l limits or non at all if ur lucky

 

[Rahul]

someone was telling me cable is 512kbs, i dont know if u can compare that adsl 512kbs

 

[anti]

cable isn't 512, it's something else again..
not to mention that it's hard to compare different connections because of different user loads and such

 

[Huy]

cable (optus/telstra) is 10mbit
adsl is 1.5mbit

which is, theoretically:
cable: 1250KB/s
adsl: 187.5KB/s

these are maximum values however.
i'm on telstra bigpond cable (3gb, yes... it sucks)
but my maximum single (no jets, no mirrors, no splitting/segmenting) download speed was about 1MB/s creeping up to 1.1MB/s

generally hitting 800-900KB/s

adsl is a 'better' deal, if you want more quota.
e.g. 10-12GB a month, instead of the lousy 3 from optus/telstra.

reliability is another issue,
availability is as well.

but overall, i'm on cable because i've been with telstra for about 4-5 years now, and it gives me fast internet access (at the cost of having a 3gb limit per month).

if you want 50-60KB/s transfers, go with adsl and get a larger quota

 

[freaking_out]

at the cost of having a 3gb limit per month

how could u live with such a constraint? i can't even survive that limit on dial up connection!!

 

[Huy]

i used to download a lot
(double figure GB's per month)

but now i share the cable with a few other networked pc's at home (family members, etc).

which means 100MB/day isnt a lot all things considered.
i keep things to a minimum and conserve

studying wastes a lot of time away from the computer

 

[freaking_out]

studying wastes a lot of time away from the computer

yeah, thats another thing i have problem with::: HOW CAN I GET MY SELF OFF THE COMPUTER AND INT0 STUDY?????? i am addicted to the internet/computer. .-maybe i should make a new thread on this .

 

[McLake]

Just justisfy any time spent here/ any time spent with a window of this forum open/ any time spent talking about BoS as study. Remember, some of the best in the state spent quite a bit of time here last year ...

 

[freaking_out]

no, its not the forum thats my problems it games, internet and movies that distract me too much.... sometimes i might come to check the forum and then end up doing other stuff- u know what i mean! so i just wanted to know how u guys make yourself get off the computer to study!!

 

[tonberry_kun]

lock it

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by tonberry_kun
lock it

na, can't coz i have to share the computer with other family members.:mad1: