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Daniel Boisson
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 157
From: Buffalo, NY, USA
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 11-02-2002 03:38 PM

here at college, we have a dual OC3 with an OC12 back bone. It's pretty good.

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David Stambaugh
Film God

Posts: 4021
From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 11-02-2002 04:11 PM

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Remember David, you can only get your high download speeds from cable modem if your neighbors who are also in your pool are not also downloading all of their porn at the same time you are

I have a big sign in front of my house advising my neighbors: AT&T CABLE MODEM SERVICE SUCKS!! DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!

EDIT: This is a joke. AT&T cable service is great.

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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1723
From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 11-02-2002 05:37 PM

David,

That bad huh? Should be on TWC.. I'm satisfied with their service..

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Joshua Lott
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 246
From: Fairbanks, AK, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 11-02-2002 05:49 PM

Up until about a few weeks ago I was using a DSL connection. At times I was downloading things at about 1.2 MB/Sec. I recently moved, now I am using a dial up connection.

I can't wait till my new place is ready... I will then get DSL again...

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-Joshua S. Lott
President & Owner
Consulting, Supply & Design

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David Stambaugh
Film God

Posts: 4021
From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 11-02-2002 07:38 PM

Jason, I was just kidding. AT&T cable modem svc. rocks. The idea with the "IT SUCKS" sign is to discourage all my neighbors from also signing up for cable modem. That way I can have all that bandwidth to myself! I never was very good at sharing.

Just to be clear, I don't really have such a sign in my yard either!

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 11-03-2002 12:32 AM

At home, Earthlink DSL. Just now 463kbps down, 316 up, if DSLreports test is of any value.

At work, just dialup 56K.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Film God

Posts: 3977
From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 11-03-2002 01:41 AM

Usually DSLReport's tests are pretty reliable. I just got 458kbps down and 815kbps up. Which means I'm still in my office in (the basement of) the engineering building. Time to go home.

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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1723
From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 11-03-2002 09:34 AM

David,

Glad you cleard that up.. I see how you'd want all that extra bandwith for yourself..

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 11-03-2002 11:58 AM

Here is my speed interpretation from DSLReports:

Click here

My friend has said that this link doesn't work for him. But it works for me and everyone else I have sent it to.

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Martin Brooks
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 900
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: May 2002

posted 11-03-2002 12:53 PM

Your link already has the result built into it. You have to cut the URL after "...speedtests/" and hit the link on the page to run the tests. I knew my speed sounded too good to be true.

Your URL has a result built in of 5687kbps for download and 5819kbps for upload. That was hard to believe.

My actual result is 909kbps (110.9KB/sec transfer) and upload of 737 kbps. I've actually gotten better - I've seen transfers of up to about 175KB/sec, but this sounds about right.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-03-2002 03:46 PM

I am now using a DSL connection at home with sympatico and it seems to be stable at the shop and on the road it is a 56K dialup with ATT Canada

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Jeffry L. Johnson
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 809
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 11-03-2002 03:58 PM

If you need computational envy visit the Scientific Computing Division (SCD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
here New IBM system has peak computational capacity of 6.3 teraflops
here is the SCD home page
here is the NCAR home page
here is the UCAR home page

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System Notices
Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi

Posts: 215

Registered: Apr 2004

posted 01-30-2005 01:29 AM

It has been 818 days since the last post.

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Don Cross
Film Handler

Posts: 97
From: Charleston, WV, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted 01-30-2005 01:29 AM

This thread was worth bringing up to date.

Is anyone aware of a theater owner in Pennsylvania who has frame relay for their internet service? With those kinds of bells and whistles whats in the box office cubby; twin tera RAID?

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Sam Johnson II
Film Handler

Posts: 25
From: Waynesburg, KY, USA
Registered: Jan 2004

posted 01-30-2005 02:10 AM

I'm stuck using dial-up as DSL and cable are not available in my area. We're 2 miles away from being able to get it [Roll Eyes]

. But for dial-up, it isn't so bad. We had a local service called Hyperaction, but they were bought out by QX.net based in Lexington.

We used to use DirecWay (formerly known as DirecPC), and overall did pretty good. We started out having the one-way satellite, but eventually upgraded to two-way, so no modem was needed. Averaged around 120 kb/sec, which is great compared to 5 kb/sec (if we're lucky). But it was too expensive to keep, and plus there was like a limit of something like 150 MB/hour. If you broke that, you would run at the speed of dial-up (around 5 KB/sec) for 30 minute or an hour [Roll Eyes]

I think I read somewhere that Governor Fletcher is looking to have all of Kentucky have access to broadband by the year 2006 (or was it 2007?), but I guess we'll see.

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