FIBER IS GREAT!!! but.... I've noticed that the greatness of it mostly with my upstream rather than my down. I can download faster than when I had ADSL but my UPLOAD IS CRAZY!!! I sent my friend a 700 mb file in like 15 min.!!!!! Just wondering if there is some kind of setting that can make my download faster, I always thought down was faster than up??? why should everyone besides myself be benefiting from my FIBER CONNECTION??
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GOT FIBER!!! 100mpbs but.......
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JAPAN!! they are so advanced here!! It's FIBER or nothing!!!!! Cheap too! I pay like $40~$50 a month....
forthebrave said:
How does it get from the wall to the Mac?
What kind of socket/cable/modem-thingy does it use?
forthebrave said:
Seems like I have to move there some day!
Well actually that might very well happen since I'll most likely be starting my studies of Japanese language and coulture at the university next fall 
I want fiber!!!!
Where can I get it? Broadbandreports.com and other places only log little broadband like DSL and cable.
Where can I get it? Broadbandreports.com and other places only log little broadband like DSL and cable.
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people and their fibre australians are always last to get it like itunes and then telstra is going to sell it so it will be overpriced and ah damm it
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could it have been the website? or maybe your isp had a bottleneck their for a while.
people and their fibre australians are always last to get it like itunes and then telstra is going to sell it so it will be overpriced and ah damm it
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on a more serious notecould it have been the website? or maybe your isp had a bottleneck their for a while.
Not to be a spoil sport... but I did a little calculation over at google... Asuming you downloaded 700 mb in 15 minutes:
46 (megabytes per minute) = 6.13333333 megabits per second
Not shabby, but people... Sheesh... I was getting 4 megabits per second off of a cable modem in Phoenix, AZ. I get 3.5 megabits per second in the middle of nowhere Iowa.
Granted, that's a great connection... Just not the best I've heard.
46 (megabytes per minute) = 6.13333333 megabits per second
Not shabby, but people... Sheesh... I was getting 4 megabits per second off of a cable modem in Phoenix, AZ. I get 3.5 megabits per second in the middle of nowhere Iowa.
Granted, that's a great connection... Just not the best I've heard.
true that! Actually Japan advertises FIBER at 100mbps, but once again that depends on how close or far you are from the source. I know I'm not getting the whole 100mbps!! I don't think anybody right now can , unless you live right next door to the source.
neilrobinson said:start rant:
people and their fibre australians are always last to get it like itunes and then telstra is going to sell it so it will be overpriced and ah damm it
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could it have been the website? or maybe your isp had a bottleneck their for a while.
Ditto about Telstra mate, It really sux that we are governed by one Telco in this country. The philosophy down here is 'if Telstra doesn't do it - then we don't either'
aussie_geek
You got that uploading?!? If so, that's stunning here in the States. He sent the file at that speed.hcuar said:
I work for a cable internet isp, and i notice that too. Where the upload exceeds the down which seems retarded because you would think it would be the other way around. I'll look into it more and post back
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chris
aussie_geek said:
yeah!
i reckon 98% of australians agree, the other 2% either have shares in telstra or work for em!