Broadbean or 56k?

**puddytat** · 23rd March 2009, 22:29

On a good day I'll get 16.4 kbs.....on a bad day it gets down to 12.0kbs.

I can only dream about the videos posted on K.B....
I do have amazing "staying" power though,waiting on some shit to come through...

**Brian d marge** · 23rd March 2009, 22:34

but its true 56k..here in Japan I get 100 mbps ( ADVERTISED ) ....actual 1.6 international and 40 internal .... there are two small kanji on the third page of the contact that say .........

still another provider is laying tracks ,,,so I ll change ....

28k ,,,,,, eeewwww ...most of the work now days is internet ,,,and ALL my tv /movies /p,,,, /books is/are from the net ,,,( now phone , the books load on the phone just fine ,,, )

Stephen

**Cloggy** · 23rd March 2009, 22:36

It gets better than all that.
Who on here is old enough to remember what was probably the first mass sold and "affordable" home computer here in NZ back in '81 or '82 sometime.
From David Reid Electronics (remember them), the mighty Sinclair ZX 81, it had a whopping 1K (yes that is 1024 bytes) of memory.

**Max Preload** · 23rd March 2009, 22:37

Originally Posted by 3umph

I remember transferring game files with a mate.... fuck it took hours to do a 20mb transfer.... now thats under a minute....

On what plan with which provider does it now take 1 minute to transfer 20MB peer-to-peer? Very few plans I've seen have been more than 128kbps upload (only 4x dialup speed of 33.6kbps), which becomes the bottleneck meaning 20 minutes to transfer 20MB. Either way, I find it difficult to believe you're getting anywhere near 2.5Mbps upload.

Originally Posted by 3umph

has dial up ever got quicker to connect yet????

You mean the dialing & speed negotiating? No. Why would that matter though - it takes just 20 seconds.

**Cloggy** · 23rd March 2009, 22:56

Originally Posted by Max Preload

Either way, I find it difficult to believe you're getting anywhere near 2.5Mbps upload.

Not quite 2.5Mbps but at 1.97Mbps it's bloody close to the 2Mbps Telstraclear cable broadband is promising me. Supposed to be up to 10Mbps download so I am quite happy with 8008k (around 7.8Mbps)
It's quite possible Xtra might have burst speeds to 2.5Mbps if you're lucky to get a good connection and are close to the exchange.

**Slyer** · 23rd March 2009, 23:02

Originally Posted by 3umph

yip I can remember that.... also ram was $100 per mb and a 200mb hard drive was HUGE and people could not dream of filling one up.... haha how times have changed

I just downloaded 200mb of robot chicken in under 4 minutes.

Could never do dialup ever again.
(Remembers downloaded shareware games at 0.4kb/s)

**T.W.R** · 23rd March 2009, 23:05

Dial-up here

(currently running @ 46.6Kbps

)
Investigated getting B/B a while back

dear old telescum wanted close to $700 at the time and got the big

in response, 4mths later they came back with an offer of $400 and got

The cost just isn't worth it

**LBD** · 24th March 2009, 00:15

Takes me 2 to 3 minutes to change a page on this site....I do sudukos to kill the time while surfing....

From a wireless in the camp shared by about 50 other PCs, cable to the admin building, through the internal servers and security systems that can be viewed by the entire IT department, beamed out by Micro wave through repeaters and down to a fibre optic to Bishkek then??? Did I mention the pigeon mail link?

And if its snowing ...2 out of 5 evenings...forget it.

56K...luxer...lucksh... luxsure....your lucky!

(where do I find the spell checker on this thing?)

**Patch** · 24th March 2009, 06:06

This is Xnet provided by World Exchange. Best ISP I've had so far, don't even bother with whoosh - their customer service sucks, worse than what telecom use to be

Compared with what some friends in AU & US have, NZ is still in the dark ages

**MisterD** · 24th March 2009, 07:14

I''m just getting into the final stretch for first sales of VDSL2 test kit at the moment - that's gonna mean 50Mb download speeds 1km from the fibre node...

**Burtha** · 24th March 2009, 07:58

I'm with Patch - Xnet = best ISP.

I'm of old 5'1/4 floppies, old mainframes etc ie; pre PC's in the 80's. Some of this old time talk is makin me feel real old !

**Quasievil** · 24th March 2009, 08:22

With Ihug, promised everything and I got this, kinda crappy I reckon

**Finn** · 24th March 2009, 08:24

NZ has broadband?

**Beemer** · 24th March 2009, 09:16

Originally Posted by renegade master

alright who are the 2 people on 56k, and why are you on it?

We live in a rural area that only got broadband (or a rough version of it) a few years ago when the local school got it. Not everyone in our less than 3km road has it as there are not enough slots available. It's not fast but it's faster than dialup. I'm on a basic plan with TelstraClear as there is no point at all in paying for anything faster as it's physically impossible for us to get it without a satellite.

At least now some websites take seconds to open instead of minutes, and we can use the phone at the same time. Our exchange and cabling is pretty old and they won't upgrade it as there are only about 100 homes affected. Whenever it rained we'd lose the phone line for days but they seem to have fixed that as I can't recall that happening in the last year or two.

Just realise that some of us don't have an inexpensively priced choice with regards to speed.