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Post your sexy speedtest pt. 2

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by Patton, Sep 1, 2007.

  1. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    I've heard of some compatibility issues with optics too.
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    nothing I've ever heard of and networking is my field.
     
  3. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    Venezuela is heading that way, if the current governemnt cares to accomplish what they promised aside free Satelital tv with optic fiber wire the internet is gonna get cheap optic fiber internet
     
  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    'cheap' probably depends on takeup, unless its government subsidised. fibre optic networks are pretty expensive to deploy, especially when you're talking on a metropolitan or national scale
     
  5. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    They are government subsidised, it's what the government of venezuela does, current government sponsored cable is like that, it works in conjunction with our satelites
     
  6. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    Well, I figured out why I wasn't getting good speeds.
    My router can't go above 20/1 mb/s!

    So, we've upgraded our plan and data allowance and have ordered a new router.
     
  7. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    Best day of my life.

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  8. Albert X

    Albert X Well-Known Member

    Holy crap...
     
  9. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    i'm so jelly right now you could make a sandwich.
     
  10. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    It used to be a lot worse.

    :D
     
  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    for all of you jealous at Xenirina's speedtests, those speeds are only within australia. speeds to the rest of the world will be quite a bit slower because australia doesn't have much international bandwidth compared to its size/population.
     
  12. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    Cause it's just plopped down in the middle of the ocean?
     
  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    pretty much, its a very long way from anywhere and there's a lot of very deep water in the way, both of which make laying fiber very difficult and extremely expensive.
     
  14. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    I wonder if they should instead use an intranet.
     
  15. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    what good would that do?
     
  16. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    Well instead of having servers outside of the country. Put major servers inside the country for cache i guess you could call it.
     
  17. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    that isn't a solution, its not viable on a scale that would make a significant difference.
     
  18. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    i found something funny, i bougth a new modem and unlike the ad says it's way slower than my 6 year old one, when i swapped them the speed went from 1.5mbits/s to 120 kbps and that if wired, using the router oddly was of 200 kbps
     
  19. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    some technologies, particularly xDSL will artificially reduce the speed of the line on loss of signal. it does this because it assumes the loss of signal was due to a problem with the line, and therefore it reduces the speed in an attempt to stabilise what it thinks is a problematic line.
     
  20. msg2009

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