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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Lito on May 27, 2004, 06:37:48 AM

Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Lito on May 27, 2004, 06:37:48 AM: My connection was upgraded for 'free' a few days ago~. Well, they claim its free, but then they jack up the price in what seems to be a totally unrelated matter. and by totally unrelated matter i mean a letter saying 'We're happy to be serving you. We raised the price of service to $**.**, but these are still competative' Which really comes out to 'That upgrade wasn't free; We're really just pushing you down further so we can stick our corporate No! Censored! farther up our customers'

Anyways, i went from 100 kb/s down and 12 kb/s up to 300 kb/s down and 100 kb/s up. I check my pings, and i rarely ever see a three digit ping anymore :D

I also have the luxury of having BT run. Constantly. Even when gaming. Then have my brother BT and game at the same time, and i only get about 70 (around 50 if my brother isn't gaming, and no BTs are on) ping on LM.

Now all i need is a bigger harddrive to fit all this anime...or atleast a dvd burner~
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Black Mage on May 27, 2004, 10:04:05 AM: nice ... i only get 150/50 (they say 150, i can get 162 on a good day)
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Sandrock on May 27, 2004, 11:32:38 AM: Thats a great increase in your upload. I would love to have that. I get about 350 kb/s down, and 40 kb/s up
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Sancho on May 27, 2004, 11:36:38 AM: How much do you pay for that? I get 512 down/256 up for $30 a month, but I get really bad pings everywhere. I very rarely get under 100 ping.
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: That Annoying Kid on May 27, 2004, 12:43:41 PM: nice

it's cool to be able to game and download anime or juarez!
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Black Mage on May 27, 2004, 01:00:30 PM: Quote
How much do you pay for that? I get 512 down/256 up for $30 a month, but I get really bad pings everywhere. I very rarely get under 100 ping.
with my 162/50 i can ping 30-40 to lunix on a really good day (40-110 on those other days)
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Venmoch on May 28, 2004, 02:29:44 AM: We in the UK are even luckier. We got a free 50% upgrade. (Yes you read that right Free)

So that means I've got a connection of about 750Kbs

Yeah!
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Uranium - 235 on May 28, 2004, 08:43:05 PM: I got upgraded for free from 1,500 kb/s to 3,000 kb/s and they said they're going up to 5,000 kb/s soon ;D
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Magmatron on May 29, 2004, 02:35:54 AM: I pay 50 bucks a month for a 28k connection. :(
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Dubbilex on May 29, 2004, 11:20:25 AM: Quote
I pay 50 bucks a month for a 28k connection. :(
*wince*

If there was a wincing emoticon, he would have had his place in the above post.
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Black Mage on May 29, 2004, 02:53:34 PM: Quote

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I pay 50 bucks a month for a 28k connection. :(
*wince*

If there was a wincing emoticon, he would have had his place in the above post.
>.<
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: BobTheJanitor on May 29, 2004, 04:47:29 PM: Ness, are you living in a cave? Or possibly on some sort of desert island? I mean, you'd get faster speeds cheaper using AOL for fork's sake!
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Uranium - 235 on May 30, 2004, 01:36:06 PM: Quote
Ness, are you living in a cave? Or possibly on some sort of desert island? I mean, you'd get faster speeds cheaper using AOL for fork's sake!
No ^^...
Title: Woo, Upgraded My Broadband
Post by: Dubbilex on May 30, 2004, 01:47:20 PM: Quote

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Ness, are you living in a cave? Or possibly on some sort of desert island? I mean, you'd get faster speeds cheaper using AOL for fork's sake!
No ^^...
Well, you'd at least get better speeds than either using an actual fork, at any rate.