How do you connect to Farkin?

What sort of home internet connection do you have?

  • Dial Up (<56kb)

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  • Dial Up (56kb)

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  • ADSL (256kb)

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  • ADSL (512kb)

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  • ADSL (1500kb)

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  • Cable

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  • Total voters
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notb4dinner

Likes Dirt
Since I've seen a few people bitching about the sizes of downloads in Phat Vids I thought it might be interesting to get an idea of what sort of internet connection people are using.
 

protecon

Likes Dirt
Type of connection : 1.5Mb/s down 256Kb/s up
Provider : Westnet
Price : $109.95 / Month
Usage : 15GB on Peak / 15GB off Peak
Extras : Free WAIX traffic, Uploads not included in usage, Static IP.

I'd get asynchronous but the plans aren't suited to home/power users.
 

dumb 01

Likes Dirt
ours runs at 46.6 kbps or slowwer, ie dial up. anything under 30meg i have no trouble down loading. as long as the video is good who cares how big it is n how long it takes.

i tried to get the 75.5 meg movie yesterday but the computer froze at 39%, its being a piece of shit.
we download plenty of good 350+meg files no bitching.
 

RaID

Likes Bikes and Dirt
dumb 01 said:
i tried to get the 75.5 meg movie yesterday but the computer froze at 39%, its being a piece of shit.
we download plenty of good 350+meg files no bitching.
you should use a file downloading program like
GetRight that allows you to resume interrupted downloads
 

Rik

logged out
Direct link to my brain. I want to upgrade to a sattelite brain link, but that'd be dangerous.

Actually, optus cable, lovin' it.
 

Cúl-Báire

Likes Bikes and Dirt
My conection aint that bad on this PC 45,333bps, my g/f's computer conects at a higher bps, but is much slower downloading stuff for whatever reason. This is pretty quick, and if your limited to dial-up I would suggest Optus. The service is good IMO, and it seems pretty fast for dial-up.
 

RCOH

Eats Squid
cable@work :wink:

to all workers out there the money from your taxes (at least some of it) goes towards me getting paid to post on farkin!!! (not to mention some quality broadcasting, i work for ABC)

How d'ya like them apples 8)
 

cam-o

Likes Bikes and Dirt
RCOH said:
cable@work :wink:

to all workers out there the money from your taxes (at least some of it) goes towards me getting paid to post on farkin!!! (not to mention some quality broadcasting, i work for ABC)

How d'ya like them apples 8)
I reckon your posts are entertaining enough that I'm happy for a couple of my tax cents to fund it. Certainly more worthwhile than some of the things I pay for. :roll:
 

Rik

logged out
256kbit (bit) connection
26kB (byte) download speed
8 bits in a byte. Sounds about right to me...
 

hazman

Likes Bikes
256kbs refers to 256 kilobits per second, whereas your download speed is measured in kilobytes per second. there are 8 bits in a byte…

Edit: nearly beat rik, also my connection is 512k
 

XR51X

Likes Dirt
And before you say "But 256 devided by 8 is 32, so why do I only get 26?"
There's also transmission overheads. 26k is a good speed off a 256k line.

And for the record, bigpond DSL is for suckers :p
 

naz

Criminally Inane
bigpond unlimited cable
and mozilla browser only because of the tabbing(allows multible instances of web browser inside on browser rather than littering your taskbar with shit) especially helpful with porn :p keeps it all contained
 
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