What is your connection?

Matthew Gates · Mar 10th, 2001, 10:00 PM

Just curious about what kind of connection the average users of this site are using.

**Active** · Mar 10th, 2001, 10:43 PM

I can't Vote...I'm on 33.6K

Mar 10th, 2001, 10:43 PM

but how much do you actually get HB?.. I get just around 5000 cps

**Kzin** · Mar 11th, 2001, 05:59 AM

What I wondered (and was about to post a poll for when Matthew posted his) was the correlation between high speed connections and high numbers of VBWorld posting (i.e. if you had a perminant connection at work you might stay connected all the time whereas if you had to dial up at 14.4 then you might post less often!)

Mar 11th, 2001, 06:18 AM

Wheres the 64K-ISDN? and te OC12 and OC24 etc etc...

**parksie** · Mar 11th, 2001, 09:20 AM

If I had one of those last 2 I'd have downloaded basically the entire internet by now

Mar 11th, 2001, 09:23 AM

Me to, Im trying at the moment, but you wouldnt get full OC speed over the internet as traffic will slow it down, and your only as fast as the host

Still a weekend with napster and a OC connection will do me fine

Mar 11th, 2001, 09:34 AM

Just give me an OC768, and I'd be happy....

*drool*

Mar 11th, 2001, 09:37 AM

*drool*

What about two!

**parksie** · Mar 11th, 2001, 09:37 AM

Ohhhhhh....huge transfer rates........mmmmmmmm.........

*sigh*

**HarryW** · Mar 11th, 2001, 10:05 AM

Somebody pass Parksie a tissue.

**Chris** · Mar 11th, 2001, 10:29 AM

at home I juz have 56K modem with connection speed 26.4~28.8kbps

While I'm at office, I got 128kbps ISDN connection

**parksie** · Mar 11th, 2001, 10:52 AM

Originally posted by HarryW
Somebody pass Parksie a tissue.

Hehehehe

**Fox** · Mar 11th, 2001, 12:07 PM

Why do you ask for the connection type? I'd rather ask for the speed ... I'm on cable @ 2048 KB/s

Mar 11th, 2001, 12:09 PM

Kilobits, or KiloBytes?

**parksie** · Mar 11th, 2001, 12:11 PM

I'd expect kilobits...2GBytes a sec is WAY cool

**HarryW** · Mar 11th, 2001, 12:15 PM

I don't think cable will go up to 2 megabytes/sec. You hardly even find bandwidth like 2GB/sec on your motherboard, let alone an internet conn

**Chris** · Mar 11th, 2001, 12:23 PM

I think is KBytes (KB) and not Kilobits (Kb)

Originally posted by denniswrenn
Kilobits, or KiloBytes?

**parksie** · Mar 11th, 2001, 12:24 PM

Out of interest, what's the fastest in-PC transfer rate available, for anything?

**dimava** · Mar 11th, 2001, 04:32 PM

its IDE i think (or what ever the hard drive is on)
then its Firewire
then US8 (8mb per sec)
then anything else is slow

Mar 11th, 2001, 04:44 PM

SCSI is faster than IDE.

**dimava** · Mar 11th, 2001, 04:45 PM

o yea... thats right

**parksie** · Mar 11th, 2001, 04:48 PM

I meant on-board stuff, you know, cache-to-processor.....what sort of maximum speed does it get to inside?

**Fox** · Mar 11th, 2001, 04:55 PM

As I said, 2048 KB (that KiloByte, KiloBit is Kb)

Well the system bandwidth of the SGI Origin 3800 computers is 768 GB/s

In my opinion it does not matter where you have that speed *hehe*

**parksie** · Mar 11th, 2001, 05:39 PM

I want one!!!!!!

So you have 2gigabytes/sec transfer rates?

**HarryW** · Mar 11th, 2001, 05:55 PM

no, megabytes.

**Fox** · Mar 11th, 2001, 06:08 PM

*hehe* yes. 2GB would be nice, but you won't be able to use that speed... just because there's no server that would give you that speed

Hm, but you could try to download 1000 songs in Napster at the same time..

But I would not know that much songs

Mar 11th, 2001, 06:15 PM

How do you have cable that fast?!? how much does it cost per month?(I know you're in switzerland, and I couldn't get that service, but I'm just curious

)

Mar 11th, 2001, 07:28 PM

in India (at least in my town) cable costs.. around Rs 600.. thats $19 per month

**HarryW** · Mar 11th, 2001, 07:52 PM

That's very cheap, I have 512 Kb (downstream, upstream is slower) for £20/month here in England. I'm lucky it's available at all, most places you can't get broadband.

**Emo** · Mar 11th, 2001, 07:56 PM

Wow Fox,

You gotta pretty nice connection for cable...
I have a cable, and the fastest I got was 500KB/sec (it was last night

) but my usual rate is between 50KB/sec and 300!
I'm in Florida and I use Road Runner and I pay $40/month for it...

Hey, compared to a 56K, this is way too good for me... so I'm happy with what i got

-Emo

**Warmaster199** · Mar 11th, 2001, 09:18 PM

I got cable. The average rate is 60KB/s

**Fox** · Mar 12th, 2001, 01:15 AM

120 CHF / month. Our provider has several offers, depending on the price you get bandwidth - of course I took the fastest

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