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Billy_Dean
11-14-2003, 04:36 PM
I'm waiting for broadband to be available where I live. At the moment I'm on 56k dial-up, currently pegged to 48k by my ISP for some reason.

I want to know just how fast the different broadband speeds are.

So click on this link, and tell me how fast your broadband is, and how long it took for this page to download.

Picture Gallery. (http://www.tk421.net/gallery/pictures/)

This took me 1 minute 55 seconds at 48k.


:)

clocker
11-14-2003, 04:43 PM
It took me about 3 seconds on DSL, Billy.

The Seventh Seal?

Yogi
11-14-2003, 04:43 PM
How plain, BD!!!

But okay: Took me 20 secs on adsl 1024.

The switch you're about to make will feel heavenly i promise!!!

Peace,

Yogi

dingoBaby
11-14-2003, 04:48 PM
9 seconds with adsl

SniperInTheShadows
11-14-2003, 04:50 PM
I don't need to click the link to be able to tell you that you'll be grinning from ear to ear when you get broadband after using dialup :-)

Now if only Telewest would get of their lazy asses and make the 1MB service available where I live so I can be even happier than I am with the 1/2MB service lol

Sniper.

thewizeard
11-14-2003, 04:51 PM
+/_ 8 secs, adsl 384/128

hobbes
11-14-2003, 04:55 PM
5.27 seconds on cable.

cable is to 56k

as

a telephone is to 2 empty coffee cans attached by a piece of string.

Billy_Dean
11-14-2003, 04:59 PM
Shit! I really am missing out. Although Cairns is a city, having only 130,000 people, we do lack many things other cities take for granted. At the moment we have no optical fibre cable here, and adsl only goes up to 3kms from the exchange. Our local electricity supplier is soon going to cable our area, I can't wait!


:)

brotherdoobie
11-14-2003, 05:01 PM
I have had broadband cable service for 4 years now.
I could never go back.......to dial up :(

It is a totaly differnt experience BD


Peace brotherdoobie

clocker
11-14-2003, 05:02 PM
Originally posted by Billy_Dean@14 November 2003 - 09:59
Shit! I really am missing out.
Yes Billy, you really are.

I find that being able to post my drivel very,very fast is a big advantage. :P

thewizeard
11-14-2003, 05:02 PM
Originally posted by Billy_Dean@14 November 2003 - 16:59
Shit! I really am missing out. Although Cairns is a city, having only 130,000 people, we do lack many things other cities take for granted. At the moment we have no optical fibre cable here, and adsl only goes up to 3kms from the exchange. Our local electricity supplier is soon going to cable our area, I can't wait!


:)
It does not impair your ability to find the right answers in "guess the picture"...fast!

UKMan
11-14-2003, 05:11 PM
8 seconds - adsl 0.5GB

Good luck BD

Spider_dude
11-14-2003, 05:30 PM
43 seconds, but thats cos i am leeching like a mofo of ukman.

MadDog-2000
11-14-2003, 05:33 PM
I got 1.5 Mbps DSL and it took 6 seconds to fully render this page in Opera 6.21

UKMan
11-14-2003, 05:33 PM
Originally posted by Spider_dude@14 November 2003 - 18:30
43 seconds, but thats cos i am leeching like a mofo of ukman.
good speed too :D

Spider_dude
11-14-2003, 05:39 PM
can you please click retry on all my transfers, before they diappear, i have been disconnected.

protak
11-14-2003, 08:21 PM
About 15 secs on cable, and I'm multitasking. Make the switch and feel free brother :D ;)

PinkPig
11-14-2003, 08:22 PM
13 seconds, using Pipex Xtreme Solo2Go 500

Cheese
11-14-2003, 08:41 PM
Originally posted by SniperInTheShadows@14 November 2003 - 17:50
I don't need to click the link to be able to tell you that you'll be grinning from ear to ear when you get broadband after using dialup :-)

Now if only Telewest would get of their lazy asses and make the 1MB service available where I live so I can be even happier than I am with the 1/2MB service lol

Sniper.
I'm with you on this one I've been bugging Telewest for months to upgrade in my area 1/2 mb is all fine and dandy but I just want more (and I'll probably want more after that :lol: )

DanB
11-14-2003, 08:43 PM
I got the 1MB connection wiith BT and its fast. I even noticed the difference when we moved up from 1/2MB :D :D