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    Hello,

    I am having a cable modem installed this week, and they told me that the upstream is limited to 128k/sec...

    hmmmm, i guess it is kinda slow but i overheard that there is a way to speed things up a little bit with some kind of software.

    Anyone ever did that?!
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    Monday Morning Lunatic parksie's Avatar
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    If you use compatible networking compression (not sure what layer), then you can extract extra speed from it.
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    Talking

    If the telephone companies get their act together, within the next two years everyone could be running on ASDL lines & we'd all be at that speed.

    I have not heard of any software for this though...

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    Monday Morning Lunatic parksie's Avatar
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    Except in the UK, where BT have a stranglehold on the telecoms market.
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    Talking Can't wait

    Apparently, the licence for their "stranglehold" is up in a few months.

    Other 'phone companies will be able to join in the research soon and hopefully overtake the geedy b!*@*#ds (nothing against BT of course)!

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    Thumbs down Definitely greedy

    Remember all that stuff about a hyperlinks patent a few weeks ago?
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    I can recieve a max of 2mbps and send at 300bps i think.
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    300 bps?!!?!?!? My old 14.4 modem sends faster than that!! Don't you mean 300 kbps? Even so, that's DAMN FAST!
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    How much uploading do you Do? it's not like your uploading 2GB or something. Cable is as slow as the slowest part of your computer and the area your in. My CM recieves a max of 10MBPS, but i don't get speeds of over 2MBPS. Upstream is less, but still fast.
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    Well until BT stop being complete arseholes about this and sort out ADSL, I'm stuck with my 42 kbps connection.
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    yes your right its 300kbps.. I depends whose on the bandwidth with you. THe speed will always vary
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    Parksie: What's this about a hyperlinks patent? Tell me more - or point me in the direction of the discussion.

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    It was in all the newspapers and splattered across the web a few weeks ago. Basically, BT are claiming that one of their employees, during the 70s, invented the hyperlink, and they were trying to get all US and UK ISPs to pay them royalties. Needless to say, the world told them in one voice to sod off. It's quietened down again now.
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    It must have been when I was knocked out with flu. Sodding BT will try anything now that they are running scared because of NTL's free connection.

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    I am on NTL too!

    (Just thought I'd add that one incase anyone's interested)!

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