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weephun
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 		5MB!?!?!?

Ah, to live in a decent sized city .... I have the highest possible connection speed even available to residences here in Boise .... 1.5MB Crying or Very sad and I've never actually clocked it any higher than 800KB Crying or Very sad And I pay $45 a month for it Crying or Very sad
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Dasro_Kast
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 		Guys, that's 5 Mb (not MB) or megaBITS per second...which converts to about 625 KBps, kilaBYTES. Sorry to get all network geek on you Smile. Still that's pretty fast...I'm getting about 3 Mbps with Timewarner.

And Krystyn. Great Story.

*dasro r teh nerd.
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water10
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 		I have brighthouse and it's 3Mbps, which gives around 350KB/sec of download. To be honest, it's fast enough for most use! 5MB is very fast indeed!
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ROBOGriff
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Phaedra wrote:
vortech wrote:
Phaedra wrote:
Fenwicked wrote:
I hope you're all happy with yourselves.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/fiercesteyes


I feel your pain. Honestly I do. Because of the beekeepers, I've allowed software onto my computer that I swore would never breach my defenses (AIM, MSN Messenger), gotten a Gmail account, used a webcam and mic, and begun blogging.

If I have to do these things, so should you. Razz
Probably, but there is no reason to do it on LiveJournal. :shudder: Why not use Dana-approved Blogger? (we owe them for the bandwidth we used anyway)


Er...cause I followed some beekeepers to LiveJournal and now that I'm already there, moving does seem like a lot of work.


I'm not useing LiveJournal or Blogger. I'm using MSN spaces...
WAIT before you bash me...
This is just a temporary thing until a .NET solution to LiveWire is developed so I can host it on my servers.

Disclaimer over, anyone intrested in my rise to riches and financial freedom can check out

http://spaces.msn.com/members/robogriff/

I update it about once a week or so and you can plug in your favorite RSS reader to keep up.

Okay, now you can bash me.
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fugitivesoldier
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CoffeeJedi wrote:


well they said Friday, technically, didn't that mean that it already happened this morning?

or, if it is tonight, its only 30 minutes, they're just saying that those 30 minutes will be culled from somewhere in those 5 hours
either way, i think you'll be ok


I got the email at 8:05 AM today, so they must be doing it tonight.

I forgot it was only 30 minutes of that window, not just the whole window.

I live in Novi, Oakland County, 30+ minutes from Detroit.
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Nova
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fugitivesoldier wrote:
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As it is Bright House Networks' desire to provide customers with the most
advanced equipment and best online experience possible, in order to provide
these speeds, we will have to suspend your high speed access for about 30
minutes. This upgrade will take place between 12:00 midnight and 5:00 a.m.
Friday January 28th. Once our upgrade has been completed, your modem will
return to normal service and you can start experiencing the new 5 MB
speeds. We are providing this increase of speed at no additional cost.


TONIGHT?!? They tell me about this the DAY OF?

Oh well. Sorry my West Coast'ing friends, but it looks like I won't be on much tonight.


Let me tell you a great story. In New Zealand, broadband internet is not a big thing. For a long time, dialup was all we had. Then along came ISDN, 128kbps lines. However, since we have only one phone company in New Zealand, they had no incentive to offer this thing at a price lower than "exorbitant". This continued for a few years.

Then along came DSL. Hurrah, thought we, the internet nerds - we were few but proud, hardy people raised on the barren internet trails blazed at 14.4k and 28.8k. Up to 8Mbps! Holy crap! How fast was that, anyway? Pretty fast, it turned out. However! There was a 1 gigabyte per month data cap. That's right! One gigabyte. That's not much data at all, my friends! An analogy would be a brand new Ferrari with a petrol tank large enough to get you to the end of your driveway. It really wasn't much good.

So, most people stuck with dialup. The times began to change, though, with the arrival of Telstra, our cork-hatted, fibre-wielding friend from over the sea. Not so fast, said our monopolistic buddy Telecom. I own the copper phone lines, it said. You can't offer any decent services without buying bandwidth from us, and we shall make it expensive so you cannot. Mwa! Mwa ha ha. Ha.

And so the consumer was, by and large, boned. An interesting side note - a company came along and tried to lay cables nationwide - you know, for cable TVs, cable modems, the kind of cable you fellows have in the US - only for Telecom to buy them and shut them down, leaving millions of dollars of cable lying underground, dark and dormant. But I digress.

Telstra, too large for even Telecom to buy, laid cables and it was good. For some. They only laid cables in Wellington. And, coincdentally enough, those in Wellington found that Telecom decided to offer lower prices than the rest of the country. What a surprise. So those in Wellington enjoyed high speed cable access while the rest of the country languished with awful DSL.

Then along came "flat rate" DSL. 128kbit DSL, no data caps, hurrah! Three times as fast as a modem. Awesome. It wasn't much, but it was better, and the ping times were fantastic. Life was good. Sort of. It wasn't really "flat rate" per se - or, indeed, at all. You had a 10 gbyte cap, and if you went over it, you paid 20 cents per meg of data downloaded.

Time passed, the plans went from 128kbps to 258kbps and another innovation was introduced. People complained about being charged for excess data and getting $1000 phone bills in the mail at the end of the month so the system was revised. After you hit your 10 gigabyte cap, the speed was simply throttled back down to 64 kbps. DSL line and expense, with all the speed of a modem. Huzzah!

Time has changed little since then. We've now moved up to a blazingly fast 2Mbps, which is awesome as far as I am concerned and about as fast as I would ever need it to be. However the 10 gig cap is still in place and with two other internet nerds in the same house as me, it really doesn't last very long.

I won't even go into the details of the constant drop-outs and unannounced maintenance, or the periods when the authentication servers run out of IP addresses to assign.

Maybe, one day, we'll get internet access at high speed that we can actually use without having to scrimp and save data left and right in order to last the whole month. However, in the interim, I hope you'll understand if I don't feel too much empathy for the 30 mins downtime you're going through to get 5mbps. Smile

Wow, that rant turned out longer than I thought it'd be. I wonder how much of my monthly allowance I chewed through posting it.
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weephun
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 		Whoops, held the shift one too many letters. I meant 1.5Mb and 700Kb. Yah, 1.5MB would be nice, huh?
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fugitivesoldier
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 		yeah, I shouldn't complain.

For the record, I had to suffer through dial-up and 2 years of AOL myself, so I know it hurts.
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fugitivesoldier
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Dasro_Kast wrote:
Guys, that's 5 Mb (not MB) or megaBITS per second...which converts to about 625 KBps, kilaBYTES. Sorry to get all network geek on you Smile. Still that's pretty fast...I'm getting about 3 Mbps with Timewarner.

And Krystyn. Great Story.

*darso r teh nerd.


Time Warner's RoadRunner service morphed into Bright House Networks here.

Weird thing is they use both 5Mb and 5MB as designations.

One of them is false...
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hmrpita
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 		As someone who has been accused throughout her lifetime of "not living up to your potential," I am interested in possibility. My wireless connection has a potential speed of 54.0Mbps, though 3Mbps is my actual speed. Hm, perhaps my cable provider is not unlike me, not living up to its potential.

Apropos of nothing else in this thread, please read this post. If you don't want to read the post, but are itching (and why wouldn't you be itching?) to see a good documentary, go here.
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ubersaurus
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Phaedra wrote:
Okay, beekeepers on LiveJournal: I want to know who you are.


ubersaurus on there, just as I am pretty much everywhere that isn't gamefaqs. Anyone from here can feel free to add me if you are so inclined, going through the friends list is pretty much all I have to do at work ;p

Geez, I didn't know there were a number of people right nearby in Michigan. That's totally awesome.


I never quite grasped why anyone who's going to be hiding near a bunch of enemies for any length of time wouldn't bother to mute their mic. I mean, you don't want to talk to your teammates-everyone will know you're there. And when they hear you breathing, or something in the background, it can be killer-I know I've caught my friend unawares before in a one on one match because I heard his roommate yelling in the background.

Still, makes for some funny stories.
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DreamOfTheRood
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ubercado
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 		Had fun last night guys....it is not every day you see a platform disappear...Smile

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I live in Novi, Oakland County, 30+ minutes from Detroit.

Just too funny. I live in Novi as well ... 9 mile and haggerty.

And I'm getting 575KB/sec of download! Awesome speed!
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fugitivesoldier
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water10 wrote:
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I live in Novi, Oakland County, 30+ minutes from Detroit.

Just too funny. I live in Novi as well ... 9 mile and haggerty.

And I'm getting 575KB/sec of download! Awesome speed!


9 Mile and haggerty?

How come I never saw you at the axon at 8 mile and Haggerty?!?

lol, this is wild!
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