I'm back!

[CrackedButter]

Yes hello all, i'm back now after being booted off Tiscali Dial Up.

I've merely posted this to let you know of my return and a (my new) brilliant ISP for any UK mac users.

Demon Internet.

For £10 pounds more than what i was paying with Tiscali i can now use broadband 24/7 and users are allowed to stay on with no limits at all, no CAPS.

Even better i bought a router with microfilters and now have 2 pc's and a mac connected near enough all the time.

Anyway just thought i would share this as mac users do.

[Billicus]

Good for you...:rolleyes:

[benixau]

wow - congratulations.

i wish we had no cap broadband here in aus (i mean cable, i hate DSL, telstra sucks and optus is too slow (on DSL).)

[tazo]

Originally posted by Billicus
Good for you...:rolleyes:

don't be mean!

congrats on your new internet capabilities :)

[eyelikeart]

Actually...that's pretty damned cool. I wish I could get that.

So, have u done any bandwidth tests yet?

[mactastic]

Congrats!
I guess I'm a little jaded, since I've had broadband now for almost 4 years, I forget how damn cool it was when I first got it. I can't even imagine having to go back to a dial-up!

[BaghdadBob]

I hade to go back to dial up for five weeks, just got back (thus the flurry of posts lately) and man...the dialing...the slowness...the unreliable connection...the phone line occupation...I'm so glad to be back on high speed.

[CrackedButter]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
Actually...that's pretty damned cool. I wish I could get that.

So, have u done any bandwidth tests yet?

No not yet, you recommend any programs?

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by CrackedButter
No not yet, you recommend any programs?

there's your typical websites...

www.speed411.com

www.2wire.com

I know there's a few more, but that's all I have bookmarked. ;)

[CrackedButter]

Thanks alot, i got 155 but i am seriously downloading stuff at this moment anyway.

[BaghdadBob]

3284.2 Kbps on the wire2wire thing...is that good? It seems to high to be what I think it is, so I'm confused.

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
3284.2 Kbps on the wire2wire thing...is that good? It seems to high to be what I think it is, so I'm confused.

Yeah that one is high... I use dslreports.com

The test site that he posted is high because I have a 1 MB connection and it gave me well over 2,000+

[wdlove]

I use the 2Wire from Earthlink for my wireless DSL. 1166.4 Kbps

Speed411 02690Kbps

I wonder why the difference? Are these good numbers for DSL?

[Rower_CPU]

100baseT connection at work:

2wire ~ 4000Kbps
dslreports - 14065Kbps up / 10619Kbps down

dslreports seems more reliable, but that could be because they're closer to me, or on a good backbone.

These tests get flaky after you pass 5Mbit speeds anyway...:p

[britboy]

Originally posted by CrackedButter
No not yet, you recommend any programs?


A fairly accurate one that I tend to use is http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

On a 512k connection i get about 470 kilobits/sec, which seems reasonable to me.

[MacFan25]

heh...I just ran one of the tests...I got 27 kbps. I really need to get DSL or cable. :p

[hvfsl]

I am on NTL and get a constant 120K bytes per second (1Mbit) and only pay £35 a month (about $50). Although there is a cap of 1GB per day, I rarely approach it unless I am getting a new version of Linux, so it is no problem. While CrackerButter may have uncap internet, I bit it is only at 0.5Mbits ADSL. People who care about capping generally use Kazza alot.

Edit: I get 2Mbit on speed411.

[MrL22]

Im also on NTL with 150k (£17.99) decapped to 1,024k (£35.00), really dont ask how i decapped it, it did it on its own lol, i download about 5gb a day averageing arround 130kb/sec.

here is my info for my line:-

DSLReports

2003-09-14 23:10:47 EST: 868 / 240
Your download speed : 868727 bps, or 868 kbps.
A 106 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 240601 bps, or 240 kbps.


2Wire


Bandwidth = 972.4 Kbps

[cb911]

way to go on getting uncapped broadband!! :D we seriously need uncapped cable in Aus. it's easy enought to get unlimited ADSL... which i've got... but Comindico is upgrading it's network in Aus at the moment, or something... that means the now the net is ssllloooooww.:( :rolleyes:

[G4scott]

From 2wire: 4574 Kbps

Of course, i'm on the university resnet, which is nice and fast... I only pay $20 for 4 gigabytes per week, which I come nowhere near using, but I can upgrade to 8gigs for $30, and 12 gigs for $40, but I'm a poor college student, and I'm sticking with the cheapest one...

My cable modem at home is pretty fast too. Not as fast as this, but still fast.

Now dialup... my phone line at home is so bad, I hardly ever use the home phone to call people. Because of that, I never use the home phone in my room either, since I'm used to a really crappy line, but the one here is better...

edit: ran the test again, got 5887.4 Kbps... It's kinda funny how my connection speed can jump 1000 Kbps like that... oh well...

[Powerbook G5]

I too sometimes forget about how great broadband is. When I first got the internet I had dialup for about a week before my dad got us a cable modem so I practically only experienced the internet from the broadband point of view from the beginning. It wasn't until last year when my school hadn't integrated ADSL into the dorms when I was stuck with AOL dialup that I saw how slow, how unreliable, and how annoying the internet could be. I've also heard that in many parts of Europe it's almost unheard of to have 24/7 internet and unlimited bandwidth and all, so I am really glad to hear that someone there was able to find something that they are happy with.