50 Mbit being installed on friday
22 June 2009, 09:47 PM
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Actually it will 
it still has shared bandwidth on the card, which means that you wont always get 50mb (no one will actually get 50mb), you could get much lower during peak traffic hours, but near the numbers you want during the quiet periods
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it still has shared bandwidth on the card, which means that you wont always get 50mb (no one will actually get 50mb), you could get much lower during peak traffic hours, but near the numbers you want during the quiet periods Tony
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What i am worring about here is not traffic management at peak hours. 50 meg service with VM is advertised as not throttled. i have read on cable forum that there might be application throttling i.e bittorrent or newsgroup application that use certain ports on your computer. I have asked on the cable forum but no one seems to have an answer. some say that 50 meg is not throttled in anyway, while other are seeing ropey speed when using newsreaders to download stuff from newsgroups. as Tony say the lines will be contended when the 20 meg members get moved over to the new DOCSIS3equipment . lucky for me it is not that many on my UBR.
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23 June 2009, 02:49 PM
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I pay £46 with phone and £20 installation.
I use usenext I downloaded 7gig in 35 mins. But I've found smaller files by the time it's built speed up d/l one rar file it's finished and starts all over again on the next rar file. Through usenext I average 42-44mb d/l speed
I use usenext I downloaded 7gig in 35 mins. But I've found smaller files by the time it's built speed up d/l one rar file it's finished and starts all over again on the next rar file. Through usenext I average 42-44mb d/l speed
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good job. most of the 700mb avi files are in 14mb chunks. the HD stuff tends to be in 100mb chunks. i use giganews (newsbin pro) with the wee accelerator which seem to keep a constant 2.2MB. i assume maxed out the 50meg will be 5.5 meg/sec or there abouts
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Giganews is one of the better news servers. they have their own newsreader called newsbin pro. pretty simple to use. they also have a giganews accelerator which speeds up the download of the headers. having said that you can get a lot cheaper out there. $30 a month for 20 connections which can be SSL or not. unlimited download limits as well. last month downloaded about 200GB worth, yet this month so far only about 60gb, average is probably about 100gb a month
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ron it's mostly movies in HD (blu-ray releases), tv series in hd. the vast majority of US tv series are now transmitted in HD with Dolby Digital sound. just one episode in a .mkv format can be 1.4 - 1.6GB (24 episodes in a series) you do the maths and xbox 360 images (7 - 8 GB), some **** in there too 
currently about 11 - 12 TB of the stuff on my network and i am running out of space. some new 1TB drives coming to replace the 500GB drives that i have. i just stick the 500gb drives in caddies and use them as portable USB drives. had to buy a couple of 4 port usb cards for inside my rig.
currently about 11 - 12 TB of the stuff on my network and i am running out of space. some new 1TB drives coming to replace the 500GB drives that i have. i just stick the 500gb drives in caddies and use them as portable USB drives. had to buy a couple of 4 port usb cards for inside my rig.
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When i moved from BT to Be* my upload speed jumped from 400kbs, to 1.3mb and i find that i get picked to host Gears of War 2 pretty much all of the time when uk people are playing, the difference in my kills/scores was crazy to be honest
I dont play COD to much so can not really comment on that, but you can tell when you are host on gears, mainly because you can beast the full entire team with just a pistol, and you also can not mele anything after the round is over (if you are not dead)
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ron it's mostly movies in HD (blu-ray releases), tv series in hd. the vast majority of US tv series are now transmitted in HD with Dolby Digital sound. just one episode in a .mkv format can be 1.4 - 1.6GB (24 episodes in a series) you do the maths and xbox 360 images (7 - 8 GB), some **** in there too
currently about 11 - 12 TB of the stuff on my network and i am running out of space. some new 1TB drives coming to replace the 500GB drives that i have. i just stick the 500gb drives in caddies and use them as portable USB drives. had to buy a couple of 4 port usb cards for inside my rig.
currently about 11 - 12 TB of the stuff on my network and i am running out of space. some new 1TB drives coming to replace the 500GB drives that i have. i just stick the 500gb drives in caddies and use them as portable USB drives. had to buy a couple of 4 port usb cards for inside my rig.
