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ImL
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Joined: Jun 25, 2004
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 1885
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:17 am |
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In N.Z. broadband speed is around 2mbits/sec and some time in the future, telecom are being forced to increase it to 3.5 and drop the price a tad. Since there's only 2 providers here, price fixing seems to be happening with vodafone and telecom which is making a lot of people angry.
During a heated interview tonight with telecom's ceo, it came out that even 3.5 is still a totally draconian speed compared with other countries. Finland, which has similar pop. without the high cute blonde ratio, is getting 24m/sec.
What speed is everyone here getting ? And do you pay for hours or per Mb /
Just curious |
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gunner
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Joined: Jan 30, 2004
Location: Planet Earth
Posts: 707
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:00 am |
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Ours is through our cable tv provider at an amazing 54megs per second,,
i can d/l a 5 meg song before i can blink,,,,,,,
but its pricey though, with basic cable and internet it runs us a little over $100.00
a month flat fee, but will be going up soon they say. |
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ImL
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Joined: Jun 25, 2004
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 1885
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:10 am |
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54 ...... 
sweet |
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unproject
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Joined: Jul 01, 2004
Location: Turkey
Posts: 2134
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:42 am |
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we have ADSL here. the service is really crap and fuckin expensive. i pay about $37/month for a 256k connection. boo... |
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gunner
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Joined: Jan 30, 2004
Location: Planet Earth
Posts: 707
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:02 am |
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54...maybe sweet sometimes,,,,but trust me,it isnt what it is all cracked up to be,,,,lol
i just heard they are going to raise it again next month,,,,,,bastards!! |
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smili
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Joined: Sep 11, 2004
Location: Nashville TN
Posts: 1225
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:25 pm |
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If your actual download speeds are 2m/sec you're doing pretty good. In my experience that'sa decent download speed. I'm on Comcast cable in Nashville TN, USA. I'm lucky if servers can stream at that rate though. Most downloads are slower in practice. |
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Ad-Na-Ma
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Joined: Mar 23, 2006
Location: CT, USA
Posts: 214
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:59 pm |
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Not sure what speed it is, but we recently just got DSL. 
Faster downloading of songs rocks. |
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Seneki
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Joined: Oct 21, 2004
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 636
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:09 am |
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Our unwired is 512kbps (around 64K/s), but it's unreliable half the time. (we're on the border of the coverage and in a slight valley from the tower...)
-Seneki |
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