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Title: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: Apollo on November 30, 2004, 01:45:06 pm

He he I just upgraded my 256kb/s connection to 1Mb/s broadband and now for some reason my ISP is providing me with broadband at 7.6Mb/s! Holy cow that's quick. I hope they don't realise.

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: Sephroth57 on November 30, 2004, 01:59:11 pm

welcome to broadband =)

ive gotten some crazy speeds if the server im DLing from is fast enough, one time i had 3 downloads going each getting 450k/s +

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: JoyMonkey on November 30, 2004, 02:09:41 pm

Yowch! I thought my constant 190kb/s downloads were kick-ass!
Is that some kind of "broadband for business" package? Or are cable/phone companies in New Zealand the best in the world?

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: JCKnife on November 30, 2004, 02:37:22 pm

<---can only get dialup at home  :P :P :P

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: fredster on November 30, 2004, 03:32:30 pm

How much does that cost?

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: Stingray on November 30, 2004, 04:17:56 pm

Quote from: JCKnife on November 30, 2004, 02:37:22 pm

<---can only get dialup at home

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: Apollo on November 30, 2004, 05:05:39 pm

Well I get it free because I work for the biggest telco in New Zealand, Telecom. But if you were to pay for it it would cost $44.95 NZ for 1GB of download at 1Mb/s. I think at 7.6Mb/s I may need a higher download limit though, lol.

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: TalkingOctopus on November 30, 2004, 06:17:25 pm

If only we could get 20 Mbps for $20 like they supposedly do in Japan.  But broadband does rule.  I don't think I could ever go back to dial up. 

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: Dexter on December 01, 2004, 03:54:33 pm

Ditto. Just got the broadband at home and am hockeying the bandwidth out of it. 1GB per day limit. I would have had unlimited but for a failed line of sight test. Am able to view the BYOAC forums at home finally, but my firewall at work has started blocking it. Win some etc.

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: namzep on December 01, 2004, 07:34:03 pm

I hate enforced limits on bandwidth.  I use up 60GB or so a month (all Linux ISO images and game patches  ::) ).

Title: Re: Wahoo! Broadband rules!
Post by: Bomber on December 01, 2004, 07:37:44 pm

Quote from: JoyMonkey on November 30, 2004, 02:09:41 pm

Or are cable/phone companies in New Zealand the best in the world?

LOL - that's one of the funniest things I've ever heard. No offence Apollo :)