ADSL....hmmm

[Embattle]

http://64.39.11.43/release4a/explore/demo.html - Click on the downloads section....to my knowledge none of those figures are right

 

[old.MeddlE]

That gives a standard modem the same d/l speed as my cable connection!!!! People who don't do their research properly, what a laugh.

 

[Embattle]

Really begs the question why did any of us change from modem, if it were true

 

[old.SUp3rFM]

As far as I can see, BT uses the same tactics as our phone company PT (in Portugal, monopoly is still running the show )

Ain't this called propaganda?

 

[stu]

I think the main problem is that that is displaying Kb/sec (as in Kilobits), whereas we're all more used to seeing KB/sec (ie Kilobytes). It doesn't help that most people use Kb to mean Kilobytes nowadays either.

 

[old.MeddlE]

Actually stu, the muppets who put up the website have got it the wrong way round and are displaying kilobytes rather than kilobits, which is why the ADSL demo downloads 1MegaByte in 2 seconds. Should we all order the service and then complain when it doesn't deliver? That's assuming you even get an installation date!

 

[Mr_Horus]

At the end of the day, its from BT and we all know BT are cunts. I certainally wont be paying them 40 quid a month for trash with blocked ports.
/me strokes the wire feeding his cable TV and prepares to phone NTL =]

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by Horus^
/me strokes the wire feeding his cable TV and prepares to phone NTL =]

We wait to see how long before you're kicking it

 

[Panda On Smack]

im on NTL and its superb old chap

keep stroking

 

[Xavier]

My NTL cablemodem seems to be pretty strokeworthy too

 

[Ono]

Yeah, but where the FCK is the gaming comparative showing the extra kills an LPB gets on CS!?

;p

 

[Xavier]

Trust me, as a sadistic lpb on an NTL Cablemodem, the kills are far more frequently and enjoyable at 1.5mbps

 

[Mr_Horus]

Errrrr you get 1.5 MBit on NTL Cable Moden?
Thats quite strange, seeing as its capped at 512k down and 128k up...

 

[Xavier]

Someone can't read...

the minimum guaranteed connection speed is 512kbps...

hence this:

either you don't have a cablemodem and are just going on what you read... or if you do then you live in a very busy area for ntlworld.

I don't have to worry about it dropping either, my home is in the CF24 area, one node hop from the main NTL pipe... (NTL's head office is about 3 minutes from my home)... everytime the amount of users increases I don't see my bandwidth dropping... but instead becoming more stable because cf24 is an important area for them, so they just chuck more and more bw at it

 

[Embattle]

I hope you're touching wood Xavier

 

[Xavier]

With a connection like that I'm touching everything!

rofl

 

[bodhi]

/me sits here smugly with a janet connection. Anyone want a pingflood battle?

PS You will lose. badly.

 

[Xavier]

sure, as one of my contracts involves the maintenance of the superJanet network I'm pretty confident

 

[bodhi]

yes and my daddy 0wns super janet. so fuck off.

 

[Stazbumpa]

yeah???? Well you're ugly.

 

[old.TUG]

...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he drives a fiat cinquecento

 

[stu]

When's SJ4 being implemented Xavier?

 

[Xavier]

There is a broad range of dates depending on your location as to rollout, but at the moment we have(had) a target of 31st March for the death of SJ III

ULCC/NNW - 5th December
Belfast - 12th December
Bristol/Cambridge - 9th January
Nottingham/ Newcastle - 16th January
Edinburgh/Glasgow - 23rd January
Cardiff/Leeds - 6th February
Reading/ Birmingham - 13th February
Exeter/RAL/Oxford - 20th February
Greenwich/Southampton - 6th March
UFI/LMN - 13th March
C&NL MAN - 20th March
SJ III Shutdown - 31st March 2001

We're on target for completion, but let's wait and see...

 

[stu]

ooh, pretty soon. Dunno why I'm bothered tbh, left uni. When I was there SJIII seemed to be pretty capable, but in the last year it seems to have turned to mush.

 

[bodhi]

SJIII is still rocking here. When we getting it in scotland? Or do we have to put up with the MAN's up here?

 

[Xavier]

Originally posted by Bodhi
yes and my daddy 0wns super janet. so fuck off.

Hmm, yea, the chances of me telling you that are as good as the chances of you actually treating these forums and their members with the respect and decency deserved.

 

[lucrezia]

NTL cable modem

Xavier, what NTL number did you phone to get your cable modem? I live in Cardiff and have been phoning for ages to try and get one. They either don't pick up or if they do, they transfer me and I just get passed around the houses.

Cheers

Lucrezia