(POLL) how fast can you go ???

[Sascha Franck]

Of course that logic doesn't apply to her little friend in the bottom drawer - put that through the mains instead of battery, and extra power is suddenly such a great thing.

Really not sure whether I understood that correctly - guess I did...

[jens]

I've been working on the missus to get broadband for ages...

You have to bribe her with... sex?

[androidlove]

I'm on dial up. It's $10 a month. Pages load fast. I DL a 1MB VST in the background on occasion. That takes about a minute. With large files, I load em into a DL agent and get em over night, or just surf, clean, etc while it comes in. I can't see a reason to spend the money on a faster connection.

[VitaminD]

dialup



If I need anything major.. I just go to uni and download... 1 Megabyte per second is the speed there.. its peppy.

[smp]

I often complain about this here..

I'm on dialup. There are two types of telco infrastructure that regularly block the installation of broadband in Australia - RIMs (Remote Integrated Multiplexer - the RIM box connects to the exchange with one big fat fibre optic pipe and then farms out lots of little copper lines to apartments, townhouse developments etc - cheaper than laying individual lines to each residence) and "pair gains" (instead of having a full paired copper phone line, the pair is split into two - cheaper than installing two separeate phone lines and often used by Telstra when people order a second phone line for their house).

My apartment building has a RIM and my unit is serviced by a pair gain. I get screwed twice over, and made worse by the fact that the combination of these two techs means my 56k dialup never goes faster than 31.2k. Ever. There is no prospect of ADSL for me where I live.

The two major cable companies do not attach to my building. One local fibre optic TV/Phone/Internet company says they do. However, to get this installed in my apartment, I first have to lodge a request with the building's body corporate to get the building "ready" for the service (and I have no idea if they will hit me up for some of the cost). I then have to seek permission from the owner of my apartment (I rent) to get the service installed. Finally, if all that is approved I can get it installed, but pay the $299 installation charge (that was what it cost when I last checked).

It's just not worth it. I'll wait until we move house eventually and try again.

There is the prospect of wireless broadband, which covers most of my city, just not my exact area yet. It is planned (apparently) but no ETA yet.

This is situation is the number one reason I don't even bother surfing in the cafe. Slow, flaky dialup connections are not compatible with downloading much of anything really.



-s

[VitaminD]

Whatever happened to the Powerline/Electric networking that was being worked on a couple years ago?


supposedly one would be connected to a network by just plugging in the main power of your PC to the wall..

[smp]

Whatever happened to the Powerline/Electric networking that was being worked on a couple years ago?


supposedly one would be connected to a network by just plugging in the main power of your PC to the wall..

There was talk about trialling it here in Australia, but I haven't heard anything in quite a while. I'm not sure it's ever got past the trial stage anywhere in the world.

Shame. Seems like a cool idea and a good solution to the "last mile" problem.

-s

[hao nao]

I switched to broadband as soon as I could afford it, especially because of my digital art and music hobbies