Let's Take This Baby For A Spin

My DSL connection dropped out at 12:15 last night. Right in the middle of prime blogging time. Well, I'm due to switch across to my new ISP today, so maybe the Telstra technicians were hard at work* and had implemented the change already?

After reconfiguring my router** I came to the conclusion: Maybe not.

Oh well. I went off and read Mary Gentle's Ancient Light instead. (This is the sequel to Golden Witchbreed.)

But now: Success! Yay! It works it works!

Let's find something to download... Sailor Moon Live episode 21? Sounds good. Hmm... 40k per second is nothing special. Oh, 50k per second. Which is about as fast as I ever got on my old DSL.*** Now, if I download Jubei Chan as well... 70k on that, 40k on Sailor Moon. Not amazing, but I expect I'll survive.

Since I can leave that running all day... Which would work out to about 300GB a month. Whee!

* Hahahahaha!

** Err... Entering the new username and password.

*** My old connection was 512k symmetric; my new connection is 1536k down, 256k up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:06 AM

Comments

1 My old connection was 512k symmetric; my new connection is 1536k down, 256k up.

That's not bad. Did I mention I'm currently getting 4957k down and 505k up?

Not that I would boasting...

Posted by: Rossz at March 10, 2004 01:36 PM (n5Jbg)

2 No, you haven't mentioned that. Not more than three or four times, anyway.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 10, 2004 01:57 PM (kOqZ6)

3 or my 2096k down / 512k up? But with a firewall that barfs on bittorrent for some reason (it's an old linux box that drops the internal NIC after about 1-2 hours of bittorrent running. I need to get around to rebuilding).

Posted by: Chris C. at March 11, 2004 05:10 AM (8LBIx)

4 BitTorrent is infamous for killing older NICs. I have no idea how it manages it, but it's a well-known problem.

Oh, and I hate you too.

One ISP here in Australia is working on rolling out 20Mbit down / 14Mbit up ADSL... Maybe in 2006 or so.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 11, 2004 02:11 PM (kOqZ6)

5 Wow. If that kind of bandwidth ever happens (and for a reasonable price) you can be sure I will be forced to hate you back.

Supposedly there's some ISP around here offering huge bandwidth for cheap, but it's via satellite and has an extremely crappy ping rate. So bad that real time games such as Diablo 2 and UT are impossible to play.

Posted by: Rossz at March 11, 2004 05:40 PM (n5Jbg)

6 Hmm, I Didn't know that about bittorrent. The NIC that keeps failing might be my 6(?) year old 10MBit 3Com. Maybe i can just swap in a new nic...now where'd I put all those nics? they were in the closet somewhere...

Posted by: Chris C. at March 12, 2004 04:10 AM (8LBIx)

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