What happened to the Broadband!?

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2003-04-19 05:31pm

Broadband I have is suppose to deliver 512kb/sec, but now it takes forever to get anywhere on Internet, every website takes a minute to load, and none of the movies i am downloading from Kazaa is reaching above 1 kb/sec mark.
I had none of these problems before. And now suddenly everything goes so damn slow. Anyone else who has experienced this before?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-04-19 05:39pm

Dark Primus wrote:Broadband I have is suppose to deliver 512kb/sec, but now it takes forever to get anywhere on Internet, every website takes a minute to load, and none of the movies i am downloading from Kazaa is reaching above 1 kb/sec mark.
I had none of these problems before. And now suddenly everything goes so damn slow. Anyone else who has experienced this before?

No. I download files at 300kB/sec. Try checking your connection for line quality.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-04-19 05:52pm

Well, for Kazaa, it could be a problem with the uploader.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-04-19 05:54pm

Is your Ethernet card and connection still savvy?

Do you have any problems with say a firewall?

For Kazaa...usually is the uploader side.

But for the others...it could be a hardware malfunction.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-04-19 06:02pm

Darth Wong wrote: I download files at 300kB/sec.

And here's me stuck at 4kB/sec (on a good day) with my 28.8 modem, all because my parents don't want to pay the extra £5-£10 a month for broadband!
Gits!

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-04-19 06:13pm

Don't be a whiny freeloader. If you hate your connection go out and by a 56.6 or pay for bb yourself. If you lack funds, get a job.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-04-19 06:18pm

2000AD wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: I download files at 300kB/sec.
And here's me stuck at 4kB/sec (on a good day) with my 28.8 modem, all because my parents don't want to pay the extra £5-£10 a month for broadband!
Gits!

<NELSON>Ha ha!</NELSON>

I can download a 2MB file in six seconds (tee hee!)

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-04-19 06:19pm

2000AD wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: I download files at 300kB/sec.
And here's me stuck at 4kB/sec (on a good day) with my 28.8 modem, all because my parents don't want to pay the extra £5-£10 a month for broadband!
Gits!

Dude, when I had a 56K, 4KB/sec was RARE. Whiner

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-19 06:28pm

I once had a problem where Verizon was doing some testing and accidentially switched our 768/128 ADSL circuit to 64/64

Most annoying.

As for your end, probably an issue with the uploader.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-19 06:33pm

Im in a zone where i get a connection called WINFIRST. $50 a month for 10MB per second downloads. ( but now theres a 60 gig per month limit )

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-04-19 06:34pm

aphexmonster wrote:Im in a zone where i get a connection called WINFIRST. $50 a month for 10MB per second downloads. ( but now theres a 60 gig per month limit )

Nobody has 10MB/s; that's pushing the bandwidth of a 100Base-T LAN, never mind even the fastest ADSL. Even a T-3 can't do that. You must mean 10Mbps, which works out to roughly 1.2MB/s. Still pretty damned fast, though.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-04-19 07:43pm

What happened? I'm using it, that's what. Webpages load in seconds at most except the badly designed ones with loads of gimmicky java crap on them, and I can download porn movies in minutes.

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2003-04-19 11:22pm

Darth Wong wrote:Nobody has 10MB/s; that's pushing the bandwidth of a 100Base-T LAN, never mind even the fastest ADSL. Even a T-3 can't do that. You must mean 10Mbps, which works out to roughly 1.2MB/s. Still pretty damned fast, though.

Well, PMC-Sierra here it town has a fairly new chip that puts out SONET packets at 128 Gbps, and can be paralled with three others to get 512 Gbps. It's just too bad Sasktel won't put fiber into your house. There's also some research being done around here that's working towards putting 10 Gbps over cat-5 cable. I regularly get 1.5 Mbps on the ADSL line in my house from places like sourceforge.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-04-19 11:28pm

Shinova wrote:Dude, when I had a 56K, 4KB/sec was RARE. Whiner

Bah. Before we got cable, 3KB/sec was considered the almighty.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-04-19 11:31pm

I am in Australia where the Internet quality is apauling. got a special deal, $70/month, cable (speed uncapped, max available bandwidth at time), 3gb d/l limit (note it is 3000 ziggybytes i.e. 1000mb=1gb), and if i go over 3gb they cap my speed to 28.8 rather than demanding my first born. max download speed is about 800k/s from some au sites. average 300k/s.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-04-19 11:51pm

Bleh, my old phone line was crap... I was lucky to get 2Kb a sec and not get disconned every 5 (Literally) minutes.

Good thing we moved, and got broadband... I couldn't logon for most of the day because the DNS server failed, but luckily I managed to find another...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-20 12:20am

Exonerate wrote:Bleh, my old phone line was crap... I was lucky to get 2Kb a sec and not get disconned every 5 (Literally) minutes.

Good thing we moved, and got broadband... I couldn't logon for most of the day because the DNS server failed, but luckily I managed to find another...

I had the same problem, and I still do. I really don't know why my parents won't spend the extra few bucks a month for a broadband connection that won't clog up our only phone line. Maybe that will change when we move this summer.

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2003-04-20 06:54am

Ghost Rider wrote:Is your Ethernet card and connection still savvy?

Do you have any problems with say a firewall?

For Kazaa...usually is the uploader side.

But for the others...it could be a hardware malfunction.

Even the uploader is very slow. To slow actually.
Normally combined they could take around 50k/s now its barely above 15k/s.

It would not surprise me if Telia slowed the broadband down beliving we would pay extra money to get 1 Mb/s.

DeadM · Post by **DeadM** » 2003-04-20 07:17am

Where I live we get 3 services: Broadband unlimited download, ADSL limited download or ISDN single or dual.

I use the Broadband and I dont think I could live with the download limit, which, I think, is 1 GB.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-20 07:33am

Darth Wong wrote: Nobody has 10MB/s; that's pushing the bandwidth of a 100Base-T LAN, never mind even the fastest ADSL. Even a T-3 can't do that. You must mean 10Mbps, which works out to roughly 1.2MB/s. Still pretty damned fast, though.

Im on a fiber obtics network. If i send to someone else whos got the same connection, i can send at 1000/kbs ... other than that, mah bandwidth cant be fadded.

If the company wasn't bought recently, i would show you the website, but for now, we have to wait for the webmasters to finish it >_>

j1j2j3 · Post by **j1j2j3** » 2003-04-20 01:00pm

Darth Wong wrote:
aphexmonster wrote:Im in a zone where i get a connection called WINFIRST. $50 a month for 10MB per second downloads. ( but now theres a 60 gig per month limit )
Nobody has 10MB/s; that's pushing the bandwidth of a 100Base-T LAN, never mind even the fastest ADSL. Even a T-3 can't do that. You must mean 10Mbps, which works out to roughly 1.2MB/s. Still pretty damned fast, though.

Ha! I have 104Mpbs now!!! Was using 52Mbps but now I get 104Mbps!!

Of course I still don't get 10MB/s, only about 8MB/s~9MB/s. And Actually the limiting factor seems not to be 100Base-T LAN(I was considering a Gigabit ethernet card), but the hard drive. It doesn't seem to be able to maintain a 9MB/s write speed in conjunction with other drive I/Os.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-04-20 01:29pm

Graeme Dice wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Nobody has 10MB/s; that's pushing the bandwidth of a 100Base-T LAN, never mind even the fastest ADSL. Even a T-3 can't do that. You must mean 10Mbps, which works out to roughly 1.2MB/s. Still pretty damned fast, though.
Well, PMC-Sierra here it town has a fairly new chip that puts out SONET packets at 128 Gbps, and can be paralled with three others to get 512 Gbps. It's just too bad Sasktel won't put fiber into your house. There's also some research being done around here that's working towards putting 10 Gbps over cat-5 cable. I regularly get 1.5 Mbps on the ADSL line in my house from places like sourceforge.

PMC-Sierra? I thought they made bullets! Ah, found their website

and here's the bullets guys:
http://www.pmcammo.com/homepage4.html
http://www.sierrabullets.com/index.cfm

LOL silly me...

EDIT: And what exactly do you DO with half a Tbps? Transmit full-length DVD movies in two seconds? Build a Slashdot-proof website?

EDIT2 and EDIT3: DAMN TYPODEMONS!!!

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2003-04-20 05:13pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:EDIT: And what exactly do you DO with half a Tbps? Transmit full-length DVD movies in two seconds? Build a Slashdot-proof website?

Long-haul high-capacity connections of course. The mid-atlantic cables are about 3 gigabytes/second in total right now IIRC.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-04-20 05:17pm

Darth Wong wrote: <NELSON>Ha ha!</NELSON>

I can download a 2MB file in six seconds (tee hee!)

git

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