New Optical Connections!?
Jim_has_Skillz
Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12475Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12475Members, Constellation
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I don't know if this has been previously discussed because search didn't want to help me but here you go.
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Also check out the prices they are offering! ITS INSANE I TELL YOU
I don't know if this has been previously discussed because search didn't want to help me but here you go.
THIS
IS
AWESOME
I
CAN'T
WAIT
THIS
LONG
Also check out the prices they are offering! ITS INSANE I TELL YOU
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But according to the Verizon lady (my dad had to call to cancel some stuff since we all have cell phones with same features) its going to go into testing and I should have an optic line (Philly area) by the end of the year.
DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!
DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!
Especially since Hong Kong is teh uber lacking in the internet department. Sure we got broadband, but we most prolly will get Optic Fibre connections in like 2 years.
BTW, aren't optical fibres really fast at transmitting data, due to the fact that light travels really fast?
It's amusing how it runs at 30 mbps though....
Could this finally be the era of decent online MMO action games? =o
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that era shall occur when our grand children are our age.
On topic mode!
I WANT ONE OF THESE! *screams like a lil girl at an N'Sync concert*
Unfortunately, there's no Verizon provider anywhere near me :X
Its because the cable companies in the UK have no competition with other cable compaines (NTL and Telewest cannot operate in the same area) then DSL in the UK is pretty much at a stand still.
Even BT , the UK's larges provider of DSL, has a 1gig limit per month on 512k its internet package!!!!.
Rue, Ex-BT worker
~huggles Blueyonder 1mb connection~
We used to have a BT phoneline and 56k net a long time ago but I convinced my step-dad to switch to blueyonder after I got used to it's amazing goodness in university =3
~huggles Blueyonder 1mb connection~
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Yeh I am moving to a new flat in dundee on wed/25th and I think it has a Telewest line <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I am actualy quite happy with my oneTel 512/256 connection, in the 10months I've had it its never gone down and there is not any download limit.
I'm getting that next month <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
HEY Wisconsin doesn't suck....
It blows...bad.
Hm so only Verizon is offering it? (unsubscribes from Road Runner and signs up to Verizon)
At least it's better than at the university, where we get the awesome ResNet (school broadband) which is barely above 56k quality. I mean it's that bad. pings of 300+, download speeds of around 10kb/s...bah. Hopefully they've gone from their T1 to a T3...bunch of backwoods-school slacking networkers.
At least a lot of good single player games are coming out the first month during school - including Fable and possibly Rome Total War (demo on Monday on Fileplanet! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )...So I might not need my connection too much.
Since (...I keep spelling it sine and I haven't been in a math class for 2 years!) Time Warner's got the big monopoly over here, I don't see optical coming for a while. I don't see it coming anywhere in Wisconsin except Madison and Milwaukee for a long, long while <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
Especially since Hong Kong is teh uber lacking in the internet department. Sure we got broadband, but we most prolly will get Optic Fibre connections in like 2 years.
BTW, aren't optical fibres really fast at transmitting data, due to the fact that light travels really fast?
It's amusing how it runs at 30 mbps though.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You gotta remember though: Your broadband is higher quality. Here, broadband means a download speed from across town at a very max of 500kbps(at least with my ISP), anything out of state being about 150kbps. For you(from everything I've read at least), cross town would get you a few mbps, and cross country is like 1.5mbps. I'd kill for that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Sort of yes and no. No, because regular wire lets electricity travel at 300 million meters per second (speed of light) and an optical fibre "only" runs at 200 million meters per second. A lot more data can be transmitted at the same time though through an optical fibre making it much better. The speed difference isn't noticeable.
/end geeky mode.
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that's...amazing...
I'll be running webservers off my inet connection! WOOT!!
<a href='http://www.allwayson.net/company.html' target='_blank'>by the way...check out what my dad (Stu) is up to <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--></a>
Especially since Hong Kong is teh uber lacking in the internet department. Sure we got broadband, but we most prolly will get Optic Fibre connections in like 2 years.
BTW, aren't optical fibres really fast at transmitting data, due to the fact that light travels really fast?
It's amusing how it runs at 30 mbps though.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You gotta remember though: Your broadband is higher quality. Here, broadband means a download speed from across town at a very max of 500kbps(at least with my ISP), anything out of state being about 150kbps. For you(from everything I've read at least), cross town would get you a few mbps, and cross country is like 1.5mbps. I'd kill for that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Okay....
*hugs Netvigator*