INTERNET EXPLORER 8 AND INTERNET SPEED

[teamster1975]

mmm, I don't suppose this gets abused at all - dare I mention the 'C' word

The Carpenters?
Chas and Dave?

[Welly]

No, the Copyright brothers

[swiss]

mmm, I don't suppose this gets abused at all - dare I mention the 'C' word

Occasionally files might fall out of other people's pooters and on to my hard drive, but I assure you it's entirely by accident. The fact that I've almost filled my new terrabyte hard drive is entirely coincidental

Are you other techies following the Pirate Bay case? For those not in the know, Pirate Bay is a very popular Sweedish site. It hosts bajillions of torrent files which are perfectly legal in themselves, but which the likes of me could use to locate copies of files I want. The site's servers were raided by Sweedish cops once or twice and now the four owners have been banged up for a year and fined millions of euro. Of course they're appealing, but they've got the combined weight of various international copyright nazis against them. In response, Sweeden now has an official Pirate political party running for election

The beauty of this case is that there are many, much better torrent hosting sites out there. It takes you five years to organise and execute a law suit against one site, in which time fifty new ones have sprung up. The internet rules ^_^

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Also,

[teamster1975]

[steve_earwig]

Bustards

And I have to pay a fortune for the privilege

[mjb]

My dsl line has a static ip address range, but it's speed sucks thanks to crappy bt wiring


...so I have this one as well


(in case you're wondering about the high latency on the zen connection, I did it on this netbook which uses wireless and goes on the zen line on most ports. Couldn't be arsed changing my routing so ran the virgin test from another laptop which is on a wired connection and has port 80 and a few others going via virgin. using a wired connection, my latency on the dsl's about 30ms)

[teamster1975]

Can you get cable in your new place Matt?

[mjb]

Can you get cable in your new place Matt?

Yup, 3.1 miles from the bt exchange though :/

I check these things out before even viewing houses

[swiss]

You guys suck :p

[mjb]

You guys suck :p

Mechanics usually have a big stash of quality tools at home, artists/builders no doubt have tons of DIY kit at home, bank managers tend to have a healthy savings account... geeks have 23U cabinets full of servers/switches/routers/UPSs/KVMs/etc in their front room

[Doggy]

You guys suck :p

Mechanics usually have a big stash of quality tools at home, artists/builders no doubt have tons of DIY kit at home, bank managers tend to have a healthy savings account... geeks have 23U cabinets full of servers/switches/routers/UPSs/KVMs/etc in their front room

I've got a woodburning stove

[Welly]

Go go BT Business Broadband




There's a telegraph pole outside my office, a wire, a rusty old box, a loop over the road to another property, another pole, another box.....

[swiss]

And one-armed monkeys relaying the data packets?

[Doggy]

Anybody know whether this is crud, reasonable or what?
(Been tempted to change supplier, but I've only got Virgin cable phone line).

[highlander]

Guess it's the crappy BT wiring here as well, because I couldn't get any more than this with my last ISP either (Demon Internet). I'm not actually with Easynet, I'm with Sky Broadband, and I know that they have their own equipment installed in our local exchange.