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virgin 100Mbit/s dn | 10Mbit/s up | £45 (73 comments)
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Posted by p0rt @ 20:58 CDT, 27 October 2010 - iMsg
soon..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/27/virgi...d_cameron/
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<< Comment #1 @ 04:11 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Portugal u3a6 
Virgin media, you will still warp. when i play on uk servers and i see 25-30ms warping, it is virgin isp.

LOL @ 100mb xD In my country 200mb download and 10mb upload for 50ish euros, for more then a year now.

And if you want an 1Gb connection you have it, but you will pay with your soul.
<< Comment #18 @ 09:51 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By AUSNL by dann zkyp  - Reply to #1
lol@still portugal with shit routing outside portugal and shit network inside of portugal lol@still warping like a .pt
<< Comment #26 @ 12:41 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By Portugal u3a6  - Reply to #18
depends on isp.
<< Comment #28 @ 14:32 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By AUSNL by dann zkyp  - Reply to #26
warper, ylie
<< Comment #30 @ 16:48 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By Portugal u3a6  - Reply to #28
smoke some, and you will not notice the warp. but we have flat lagometers here, but some from zon isp have warps like biatches ye.
<< Comment #45 @ 03:15 CDT, 22 September 2011 >>
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By US-Kentucky ggnore  - Reply to #18
haha yes
<< Comment #2 @ 04:41 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark 
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007604434.png

£8 (~9€) since 4-5 years ago
<< Comment #3 @ 05:10 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Earth Lethe  - Reply to #2
9€???? get the FUCK out

i pay ~23€ for this

Edited by Lethe at 05:10 CDT, 28 October 2010
<< Comment #4 @ 05:19 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #3
http://www.rcs-rds.ro/internet-digi-net/fiberlink/pachete if you don't believe me

"Tarif lunar (lei, inclusiv TVA)"
means
"Monthly charge (lei, including VAT)"

http://www.google.com/search?q=39+lei+in+euros
Edited by Aquashark at 05:20 CDT, 28 October 2010
<< Comment #5 @ 05:21 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Earth Lethe  - Reply to #4
for that connection that is a fucking joke. they might as well pay you. lol.
<< Comment #6 @ 07:07 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By United Kingdom p0rt  - Reply to #3
i pay £2.50 every 5 days for and use tmobile web n walk, and probaly the only person that does, without the proper contract, so they monitor everything and now have the best contentlock, bandwidth filter around

and is always : atleast 45kbs dn, 6kbs up

and i gets to pullover in a layby, and whipout the laptop and have a smoke, and watch spongebob at work
Edited by p0rt at 07:12 CDT, 28 October 2010
<< Comment #57 @ 07:43 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By Lithuania GUArd  - Reply to #6
you work man? if its not a secret, what job do you work?
<< Comment #13 @ 10:34 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #3
oh and i forgot to mention my ISP also gave me an USB wireless modem with unlimited traffic and up to 7.2 Mbps

free of charge :)
<< Comment #34 @ 05:17 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By SQUAD cityy  - Reply to #3
Paying 45€ for this (+ phone).
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1324653920.png
<< Comment #39 @ 07:55 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By Nobles3 Drexciyian  - Reply to #3
Its Romania theres like 5 of them with internet, most likely kids of government people and leave next door do the countries backbones inside a compound to keep the pestants out
<< Comment #41 @ 03:32 CDT, 28 July 2011 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #39
In Romania there are 7.8 million connections to the Internet, out of which 4 million are broadband (end of 2010): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Romania (very outdated)

i just linked to a ISP website above: http://www.rcs-rds.ro/internet-digi-net/fiberlink/pachete - i pay 39 Lei (9 Euros) for my 100 Mbits connection. a 50 Mbits connection is 29 Lei (6 Euros).

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ - Romania is #3 in the world behind South Korea and Lithuania

problem?
Edited by Aquashark at 03:45 CDT, 28 July 2011
<< Comment #7 @ 07:17 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By SC_Zerg [mash]  - Reply to #2
TILT
Edited by [mash] at 07:18 CDT, 28 October 2010
<< Comment #10 @ 09:44 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By RusSFSR IrrSolicitude  - Reply to #2
Fucking sky broadband give me 40 ping on maidenhead servers and 60 ping on frankfurt ones.

With 15 quids a month.
<< Comment #38 @ 07:33 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By DoublePlus matuka  - Reply to #10
same shit here bruv. It's disgusting.
<< Comment #63 @ 09:31 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By Dird's Xmas tree ;o Bob  - Reply to #10
.
Edited by Bob at 13:45 CDT, 28 June 2024
<< Comment #11 @ 09:51 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Ireland lukee  - Reply to #2
and you're romanian?!
<< Comment #12 @ 10:30 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #11
you have a point here.. good or bad internet, my country is all sorts of fail at everything else :)
Edited by Aquashark at 10:30 CDT, 28 October 2010
<< Comment #20 @ 10:00 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By Beer! becks  - Reply to #12
at least now we know where all the EU billions went :P
<< Comment #22 @ 10:48 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #20
they didn't go anywhere m8
the internet infrastructure was built around 2003-2004 (we acceded in the EU in 2007) and the government had nothing to do with it.

also because the EU fundings are very hard to steal and you actually have to do something with the money (instead of dragging endlessly with virtual projects on paper) , they were almost untouched! we may even give more money to the EU then we get back for investments.

only in a country like this, politicians inaugurate a strip of 10 km (ten!?!?!) motorway, which isn't usable and breaks down from the weather after a few months..

now back to the internet.. because the housing in cities consists mainly of appartment flats (build in communist times) young people connected into lots of LANs to play games, share stuff.. then all these LANs interconnected into bigger and bigger networks, until people organized and negotiated with the underdog ISPs for access to their networks.

these underdog ISPs, who before that didn't have good penetration because of lacking infrastructure, had no choice but to sell at very low prices dragging the prices in the whole market down.

(excuse my poor writing, i barely arrived from a protest and i'm kind of tired)
Edited by Aquashark at 10:55 CST, 9 November 2010
<< Comment #24 @ 11:40 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By Beer! becks  - Reply to #22
I was kidding :/
<< Comment #25 @ 12:29 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #24
nah man.. you should've replied: tl;dr

:D
<< Comment #31 @ 16:51 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By grey kg  - Reply to #22
(excuse my poor writing, i barely arrived from a protest and i'm kind of tired)
ahah, good timing
<< Comment #61 @ 08:51 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By Seychelles zealot  - Reply to #22
a protest, one like this one?
http://www.frontpress.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/000000.jpg
<< Comment #65 @ 11:09 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #61
nope, that's some kind of a far right protest

i was at a protest regarding a TV Show (something like The Daily Show and Countdown combined) getting fined for political reasons :D
<< Comment #69 @ 05:56 CDT, 20 October 2011 >>
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By Seychelles zealot  - Reply to #65
i was only half serious, but good to know :p
<< Comment #14 @ 12:27 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By cooller skint  - Reply to #2
i thought these speeds were only when using the romanian network (or something like that?) and when you go outside that (rest of world?) the speeds are more normal
<< Comment #15 @ 12:51 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #14
yeah it used to be like that for a while, now i get fair speeds everywhere (depending on peering)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1008150377.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1008148099.png
<< Comment #17 @ 07:20 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By PerpetualWar PerpetualWar  - Reply to #2
I like your connection.
<< Comment #19 @ 09:53 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By AUSNL by dann zkyp  - Reply to #2
ah, warezcountry #1 has cheap 100mbit pipes, expected!

btw; is that avail in most of Bucharest? Or just near the uni's? Other (smaller) cities as well?
Edited by zkyp at 09:56 CST, 9 November 2010
<< Comment #23 @ 10:53 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #19
virtually in all of Bucharest.. and the bigger cities. i have no idea about countryside, small towns.

btw some ISPs provide exclusive torrent trackers for their clients or DC++ hubs :D
Edited by Aquashark at 10:53 CST, 9 November 2010
<< Comment #29 @ 14:32 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By AUSNL by dann zkyp  - Reply to #23
lol :D
<< Comment #8 @ 07:18 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By SC_Zerg [mash] 
jew
<< Comment #9 @ 09:20 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By United Kingdom Six16 
I was gonna get BT Infinity until i read they were traffic shaping :(
Edited by Six16 at 10:44 CDT, 28 October 2010
<< Comment #16 @ 13:13 CDT, 28 October 2010 >>
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By Lithuania son1dow 
4Mb\s for around ~15EU
We actually have good internet for cheap here in Lithuania, but people in less populated areas with that shitty "monopoly" ISP's internet, like me :(
<< Comment #21 @ 10:10 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By USA_UK Jamerio 
Cool, but I don't really care about 100mb download, I just want better than the shitty upload speds they currently have.
<< Comment #27 @ 12:51 CST, 9 November 2010 >>
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By cooller skint  - Reply to #21
yeah in the uk we do really seem to get the short straw with upload speeds. even the download speeds are very limited by area anyway
<< Comment #32 @ 09:07 CDT, 2 June 2011 >>
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By Romania Aquashark 
Greenland with better internet than USA? bump'd & LOL

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/
Edited by Aquashark at 09:07 CDT, 2 June 2011
<< Comment #33 @ 04:54 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By Mongolia kalston  - Reply to #32
yeah yanks have to cheat to compensate for their terrible interweb, please refer to the numerous cheater threads for more info.
<< Comment #35 @ 05:24 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By France Izi 
lol@UK warping ISP
<< Comment #36 @ 07:05 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By Mongolia kalston  - Reply to #35
even the packets practice binge drinking there
<< Comment #37 @ 07:30 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By rah GreenMeanie 
They could of done this years ago but they couldn't due to competition laws but because Virgin have made a deal with BT to use Virgins fibre optic cabling, Virgin can now make deal like this.
<< Comment #40 @ 07:56 CDT, 3 June 2011 >>
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By United Kingdom p0rt 
its nothing todo with compitition laws, BT is and always will be a monopoly who wont let any other telecoms into their exchanges or do minor maintanence on the network

BT cant afford to upgrade the whole network to fibre without a goverment grant while the goverment was try to force them to start an upgrade

the only way BT could get £20billion over 10 years was to open up a little

virgin sells janet connection cheaper then BT
Edited by p0rt at 07:57 CDT, 3 June 2011
<< Comment #42 @ 17:07 CDT, 21 September 2011 >>
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By Romania Aquashark 
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/24141-us-in...nd-romania - this was on frontpage of reddit a few days ago, but the stats seemed skewed

http://www.france24.com/en/20110921-south-kor...peed-study - this article gives us #2 place after SK
http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ - stats based on speedtest.net results

99 problems, but internet ain't one
Edited by Aquashark at 17:08 CDT, 21 September 2011
<< Comment #43 @ 17:30 CDT, 21 September 2011 >>
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By Poland vxd 
Poland, Wroclaw:

UPC, ~ 50 euros for televison, internet (120/10 mbits) and telephone (free calling no matter what time is, and free calling on cellular phones). 20 ms on polish servers, 45-50 on NL, DE, FR

I remember 2002/2003, I had 128 kbps, I think there was huge step forward in internet infrastructure from that time.
Edited by vxd at 17:31 CDT, 21 September 2011
<< Comment #44 @ 02:42 CDT, 22 September 2011 >>
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By Ireland lukee  - Reply to #43
upc are amazing
<< Comment #46 @ 03:39 CDT, 22 September 2011 >>
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By anonymous Anonymous (109.41.90.158) 
32mbit down
2mbit up
tel flat
digital tv
25 euro

Cable @Frankfurt

amazing pings

de 5-10
Nl 8-15
Uk/SE 15-25
<< Comment #47 @ 10:15 CDT, 17 October 2011 >>
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By Romania Aquashark 
oh and recently my ISP has set up ~180 free Wifi access points throughout the city (including most subway stations, malls and central pedestrian areas)
all i have to do is login with my bill number and a password i have to set. bandwidth is like ~800 KB/s (6-7 Mbps), but hey.. you can't argue with free ^_^

gets kind of obnoxious, i know :D
Edited by Aquashark at 10:24 CDT, 17 October 2011
<< Comment #48 @ 05:28 CDT, 18 October 2011 >>
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By Belgium Trance 
hmm I can get 1gbit @ home for like 100 eur, quite tempted :D
<< Comment #49 @ 10:11 CDT, 18 October 2011 >>
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By Hungary kapca  - Reply to #48
dedicated?
<< Comment #50 @ 10:18 CDT, 18 October 2011 >>
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By Belgium Trance  - Reply to #49
yep
<< Comment #52 @ 10:48 CDT, 18 October 2011 >>
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By Hungary kapca  - Reply to #50
1Gigabit dedicated for 100€ is huge!:).
I have 100Mbit for 16€. It's more than enough for me because I'm not torrenting, but I'm still curious: are you sure it's dedicated? Can you paste the link please?
<< Comment #54 @ 12:23 CDT, 18 October 2011 >>
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By Belgium Trance  - Reply to #52
I know they have 10gbit lines or more to the box on the street and the uplink to your home socket is already gigabit, then downgraded/locked to 100/50 mb depending on what you buy, so even if it's not fully dedicated as in server terms it's still kick ass!

http://www.telia.se/privat/katalog/VisaProduk....product#9
Edited by Trance at 12:28 CDT, 18 October 2011
5%
<< Comment #55 @ 07:18 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By Hungary kapca  - Reply to #54
ty, (it's not dedicated, but still nice)
<< Comment #72 @ 06:32 CDT, 9 April 2012 >>
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By Sweden fazz  - Reply to #52
1gbit dedicated for private use is also ALWAYS a lie. ISP's know the use will never be close to even 10% of what the people buy and thus can advertise those high speeds even if they only have a 10gbit backbone(=only 10 dedicated 1gb/s lines available)
<< Comment #51 @ 10:35 CDT, 18 October 2011 >>
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By United Kingdom Six16  - Reply to #48
Fuck you
<< Comment #66 @ 11:13 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #48
ok, you win. plus you moved to a far better place
am auzit ca au shaorma buna in Suedia :D
<< Comment #67 @ 11:29 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By grey kg  - Reply to #48
Can you actually use that to its full potential?
<< Comment #53 @ 10:57 CDT, 18 October 2011 >>
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By B2L - Barrysworld raw 
VM cable in my area isnt bad so when its available ill probably get it.

Currently getting my share of the 50mb - > http://www.speedtest.net/result/1541906450.png
<< Comment #56 @ 07:40 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By QW horf 
Thank you for making me a super sad panda :D, gonna punch the people working at the ISPs now.

2mb down/1mb up for 80~ euros a month.
Edited by Rauvz at 07:41 CDT, 19 October 2011
<< Comment #58 @ 08:22 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By United Kingdom p0rt  - Reply to #56
you will have 4g cellphones in a 2 or 3 years, use tmobile web n walk, it will probaly still be £2.50 for 5 days
Edited by p0rt at 08:23 CDT, 19 October 2011
<< Comment #59 @ 08:27 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By QW horf  - Reply to #58
I'm not in the UK anymore.....
was just there on holiday.
<< Comment #60 @ 08:29 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By United Kingdom p0rt  - Reply to #59
tmobile is international, and better then skodafone, tmobile and orange merged, tmobile was the biggest and best with all the deals and media loving and kept its name

no1 says a bad word about tmobile, all the journalists and on the move workers would be lost without laptop and web n walk, they wouild all be back to paying per page or kbs used, instead of £2.50 for 5 days
Edited by p0rt at 08:41 CDT, 19 October 2011
<< Comment #62 @ 08:59 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By Hungary kapca  - Reply to #56
:(

What about these guys?
<< Comment #64 @ 10:59 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By QW horf  - Reply to #62
can't play with wimax tbh even though I'll ping 60 I'll prolly get 90% pl
it is 5 times the bandwidth though.
Edited by Rauvz at 11:01 CDT, 19 October 2011
<< Comment #68 @ 12:19 CDT, 19 October 2011 >>
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By anonymous Anonymous (95.154.43.189) 
Your own personal internet speed is kinda pointless unless everything to your destination can keep up. I had 100mbit around 11 years ago but it was bleh since no-one else had a proper connection. I can still remember the idiocy of direct connect, trying to find someone with more than 10mbit upload and still only using 10% of your connection...

Nowadays it's gotten a bit better with torrents and stuff, but it's still kinda the same problem. It almost never happens that you cap out your connection, because even though you have been on 100/100 for over a decade, the majority is on shitty cable/dsl with crap upload speeds.
<< Comment #70 @ 06:17 CDT, 20 October 2011 >>
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By B2L - Barrysworld raw  - Reply to #68
I remember direct connect and yeah, it was shit unless you found someone with a XXmbit connection, thank god those days are behind us :)))
<< Comment #71 @ 05:20 CDT, 9 April 2012 >>
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By Romania Aquashark  - Reply to #68
DC++ has clients with segmented downloading (like StrongDC++)
still, direct connect is pretty outdated, but for some reason (habit?) it's still used a lot around here. i don't use it anymore since it's pretty filled with viruses from people who are computer illiterate
<< Comment #73 @ 06:34 CDT, 9 April 2012 >>
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By Sweden fazz  - Reply to #68
I max out my 100mbit all the time with torrents.

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