Broadbean or 56k?

[megageoff76]

We have dial up here, always seem to get about 36-42kbps.

The trouble is the lines for the 4 houses under our shared driveway is rubbish according to Telecom, so even if we switch to B/B its still not going to be very good.

[3umph]

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.

Telstaclear cable network...

home plan 4mb down 2mb up
work plan 8mb down and 1mb up

I transfer quite a few big files through skype and msn and as long as the other person has a good connection we get really good transfer speeds

[davebullet]

Some of you may remember when modem speed was measured in BAUD not bps. My first modem was 300 baud (= 300 bps - yes -only 300 bps).

I only recently went from 56Kbps dialup to cable broadband. Cost was the main reason not to. Shitty websites with a lot of useless crappy bandwidth hungry graphics (with no real value add) was the reason I had to.

[Max Preload]

Some of you may remember when modem speed was measured in BAUD not bps. My first modem was 300 baud (= 300 bps - yes -only 300 bps).

That all changed when the bits per baud exceeded the baud.