About blue yonder and broadband

"Silk" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Gøñzølã wrote:
> > "Silk" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> >>Gøñzølã wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Steve?
> >>
> >>I think someone is confusing you with me.
> >>
> >> >Steve<
> >
> >
> > I know...
> > How am I sposed to take him seriously, and expect me to think he
knows
> > what he's talkin about, when he doesn't even know who he's talkin
to?
> >
> > Gizmo... shud be Notgotacluemo.
> >
>
> I've just been looking on b.y.d.gen - I might pop in later, to say
> hello. :-)

Say hello from me too when you do.
Don't mention nothin about the doors all bein widened over Xmas, he gets
embarrassed )

"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> >
> > I've tried a couple of puters with a BY connection, and compared to
my
> > connection they are really slow and unreliable.
> > Web is a lot slower, and when usin Grabit for Usenet, I can download
at
> > the full 2MB speed (around 250kbs)
>
> Newsleecher easily maxes out my connection here (from the BY news
> server, I only rarely connect to a Claranet newsserver for missing
> parts). BY internet has been 100% reliable for me. I had a problem
> recently with my phone line (internet was OK) and a tech came on a
> Sunday to fix it (there was a broken cable somewhere).

I think it depends on what part of the country you live in.

> I'm not saying the BY news server is perfect.

I know.
It's bloody diabolical )

> > It's sposed to be a Cable connection, so you wud expect to get the
full
> > 10MBs, not half or a quarter of it as you wud if it was ADSL.
>
> I assure you *I* get my full speed (4Mbs).

I think it depends on what part of the country you live in.

> In the BY support groups it seems a lot of people on the 10Mb service
> with speed problems have routers with 10Mbs ports... (which of course
> can't handle 10Mbs...)

I think it's more to do on what part of the country they live in )

Cable works in a way where you are more likely to see contention than ADSL.
With ADSL the exchange is contended and so is the network. With cable the
street, the node and the network can be contended. Localised speed problems
will be more common with cable and is one disadvantage compared to ADSL.

Dan

"Gøñzølã" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
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> I get a constant 2MB connection.
> Before that it was a constant 1MB connection.
> The next upgrade I no doubt that'll be a faultless and
> constant connection too.
>
> > > (soon to be upgraded to upto 8MB, next week)
> >
> > Ya de ya "up to 8Mb" Zzzz
> >
> > Is that before or after they drop the Wanadoo name? <g>
>
> Before...
> it's happenin next week.

Where..? No mention of it happening where I am yet.

I wonder if they'll change my username again like they did when I went
from 512kb to 1Mb and then again from 1 to 2Mb..?

I couldn't connect for 3 days afterwards until I realised what they'd
done.

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Before...
> > it's happenin next week.
>
> Where..? No mention of it happening where I am yet.
>
> I wonder if they'll change my username again like they did when I went
> from 512kb to 1Mb and then again from 1 to 2Mb..?
>
> I couldn't connect for 3 days afterwards until I realised what they'd
> done.

http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/8meg.htm

Mine's bein upgraded the 3rd Jan.

"Gøñzølã" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
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> "Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > > Before...
> > > it's happenin next week.
> >
> > Where..? No mention of it happening where I am yet.
> >
> > I wonder if they'll change my username again like they
> > did when I went from 512kb to 1Mb and then again from 1
> > to 2Mb..?
> >
> > I couldn't connect for 3 days afterwards until I
> > realised what they'd done.
>
> http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/8meg.htm
>
> Mine's bein upgraded the 3rd Jan.

My area isn't listed, although the neighbouring exchange 3 miles up the
road is. All that site tells me is "we'll tell you when" which doesn't
help much..!

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Gøñzølã" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
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> > "Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > > > Before...
> > > > it's happenin next week.
> > >
> > > Where..? No mention of it happening where I am yet.
> > >
> > > I wonder if they'll change my username again like they
> > > did when I went from 512kb to 1Mb and then again from 1
> > > to 2Mb..?
> > >
> > > I couldn't connect for 3 days afterwards until I
> > > realised what they'd done.
> >
> > http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/8meg.htm
> >
> > Mine's bein upgraded the 3rd Jan.
>
> My area isn't listed, although the neighbouring exchange 3 miles up
the
> road is. All that site tells me is "we'll tell you when" which doesn't
> help much..!

My contract with em ends the same time.
I'll wait to see what speed I get, and then start lookin around for
another ISP if they don't raise the monthly caps to go with the upgraded
speeds.

"Gøñzølã" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
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> "Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > My area isn't listed, although the neighbouring
> > exchange 3 miles up the road is. All that site tells me
> > is "we'll tell you when" which doesn't help much..!
>
> My contract with em ends the same time.
> I'll wait to see what speed I get, and then start lookin
> around for another ISP if they don't raise the monthly
> caps to go with the upgraded speeds.

Caps don't bother me as I never use more than 2Gb anyway. I'm more
interested in the speed for its own sake rather than downloading gigabytes
of music or whatever.

Ivor