:o @ lurifax
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:o @ lurifax
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He must be the president of his ISP and we don't know xD
Depending on the outcome of Australia's federal election on the weekend, if the current Labour Govt retains power the National Broadband roll out will stay as it is and we will be getting similar internet as Lurifaxflux of 100mps.
If the Liberal/national party get in they intend to use a hotch-potch of several different technologies that will give a promised base speed of 12mps :lol:lol:lol.
Why even bother releasing any proposed counter policy if it's that pathetic, they haven't got a clue.
They had Tony Abott, the Leader of the Liberal party on the ABC's Lateline.
He was asked questions about their proposed Broadband plan, it was hilarious, it was like watching a episode of "Yes Minister", you have never seen a person look so completely lost, he didn't have a clue about the most basic internet terminology or what the interviewer was asking him.
He kept admitting that he was no Bill Gates during the interview, but that couldn't save his obvious ignorance in what is turning out to be a big election issue.
So it costs 274$ CAD per month for that connection. I want that kind of cash. :D
I want that kind of ping!! Changing from 104 to about 340 does my head in.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/919433875.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/22399230.png
The thing I'm most happy about with my connection is the upload speed... since that unannounced upgrade I can upload 6 or 7 videos an hour (hence how I got all those videos up so quick).
I think I know what I'll be voting for this weekend...
Well after having a Federal Election here in Australia and ending up with a hung Parliament just like in the UK, it was left to 3 independents who won seats to decide who they would give their preferences to, so that either the Labour [current Govt] or Liberal [opposition] could form a Government.
This has been drawn out over the last 17 days.
Finally a decision a few minutes ago, 1 went with the Liberals and 2 went with Labour.
Labour can now form government.
The deciding factor for the 2 that went for Labour was that they knew that the National Broadband roll out was a vital long term plan in the countries future, and that the Liberals half arsed hotch-potch use of many different technologies wouldn't work.
So fast broadband nation wide here we come, a win for common sense.:D [just - whew!]
I wouldn't call the decision for government branded infrastructure in an open (and thriving) market a win for common sense, but there's no doubt that it will offer benefits for the convenience of Australians and laying the groundwork for a hugely important appliance for the future.
Would've been so much better if the government never privatised Telecom Au., there would be absolutely no doubt that this would be a great thing.
I agree the Howard Govt should not have sold Telstra.
NO Govt should sell it's telecommunications base to private enterprise, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
If it were just small shareholders a lot of what happens would not go on.
But it's large fund managers that are calling the shots, they demand profits/dividends at all costs, otherwise they just sack the board and put "Their" people in, then the rot starts.
Nothing get's upgraded, no new infrastructure is even planned for let alone built, the current services are slowly cut and have a price hike at the same time, staff are layed off, usually long term Repair & Maintenance staff to reduce long service etc, so that leads to a huge knowledge base loss, then they have to retrain new people to replace them, they are overburdened and leave, and that circle perpetuates.
Pretty much every nation that has privatized it's telecommunications now has, or is heading for, the equivalent of the car situation in Cuba.
Just keep patching it up and hope it will still work because your not getting anything to replace what's breaking down.
Same situation with Electricity supply.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/943996856.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/23636648.png
Mah upload bandwidth is low ><.
I swear my ISP is putting Speed/Pingtest.net on high priority or something, because on Filefront/Rapidshare/Megaupload/online games I get pings of 350-400, download of 30-40kb/s, upload of 5-10kb/s whilst *test.net gets pings of 45-90, download of 1.5mb/s (you divide by eight to get megabytes rather than bits) and an upload of 300-400kb/s.
I tried Ubuntu the other day. I was amazed. Not only was it way faster than Windows XP as an operating system, but I was getting stable download speeds from video streaming sites which were maxing out my connection. I was amazed.
I looked into it to try and find out why it is that download speeds fluctuate so much when I use Windows, and by fluctuate, I mean typically starting at 700 kB/s and then dropping rapidly to 100 kB/s, and then fluctuating between that and 50 kB/s. Anyway, I found out about something called MTU, did a lot of reading, and then did some tweaking according to recommendations made by http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks. Now earlier today I was getting the same maxed out d/l as on Ubuntu. Score!
I've also done a lot to reduce the background programs, startup programs and especially unneeded services and pre-installed windows components. Now XP is running much faster too. I'm glad, because as much as I fell in love with Ubuntu very quickly, I also had problems with it very quickly, and whenever I tried a fix, the restart function failed to work and I was getting crashes, and then failure to start up again. I had no idea what to do in recovery mode. I'm sure I could create a boot disk and fix all that stuff with google and forum help, but I think it would turn into a bit of a project, which I don't want right now. Maybe some day I will return to it though, now that I know hoe loverly it could be.:D
Same here. 3Gb of my netbook's 4Gb SSD went down the drain for no aparrent reason. It's just not mapped to the filesystem. No files are using it, yet the space is consumed?Quote:
I fell in love with Ubuntu very quickly, I also had problems with it very quickly
Though I can't say I saw a speed increase over 7 and not only did I have to get my own graphics drivers because Ubuntu refused to bundle them, they only support TV resolutions over HDMI. Fffffuuuuuuu...!
I've just moved my router into the front room so I can connect via cable to the ps3. The problem is my internet speed has dropped from about 14Mbs to about 1.1Mbps and the ping has gone up from 50ms to 550ms! When I tried to do a network test on the ps3 the download and upload part of the test failed :frown:.If I had bought a cheap extension for my phone line from Argos (which I have) would it make a difference or are Sky just dicking around again?
Just tested it again the download speed is still the same but the Ping has dropped to 124ms now
EDIT: Never mind, taking out the filter that the extension was plugged into helped enormously :paperbag:D.
My connection for BT at the moment
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1317269261.png
Virgin will come shortly possibly today or in a few days cos, I already got Virgin but I yet to moved my stuff due I`m just too busy!:paperbag
stevie:)
I decided to go and take a look at mine just to give a checkup.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1317312294.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1324804002.png
Much better than BT! :D
stevie:)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1326305536.png
Not too bad, I might run it again when I don't have multiple things accessing the net at the same time.
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