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Fastest yet? Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 15 May 2004 Just upgraded to a 3 Mbit connection ... and finding that I can download a Megabyte in 3 seconds. That's six times the quoted speed of a standard ADSL connection (where there are contension issues as well) and some 20 times faster that some of the "broadband" offerings I've see advertised by folks like Tiscali of late.OK - let's be fair - most folks don't really need that much speed but it does mean that we've now got a classroom full of laptops with each looking like it has its own private broadband connection! Posted by Custard (Custard), 15 May 2004 I reckon your 1Mbit was more than most (small/medium) companies have for all their employees, so you are net-god with 3 to yourself!Take care Bruce Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 16 May 2004 Yeah - we don't 'alf know how lucky we are - it's at the stage where I can be running applications and I don't know if they're on the computer I'm seated at, elsewhere in the building, or halfway around the world.The 3 Mbit link *is* shared via a router, but the chance of 6 trainees plus 2 staff all using it at the same time is pretty remote, and even if they do, they have a response better that a regular (512k) ADSL link ... it might not appear that way mathematically, but because of contension issues, it is Oh - it's just struck me that I came on a course to your place, rather than you coming here, didn't I? The training centre and our home are in the same building and on the same connection - so I've not got the full 3Mb personally all the time - that would be just toooo much! This page is a thread posted to the opentalk forum
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