Internet-Related Stuff

krim wrote:nah, someone on the 7th floor has a wireless router that's not protected, so im borrowing it for the day.

:hehe:
Let me guess. He's going to have a few gigabytes of dramas today?

according to some of these folders and files, it's a lawyers office, so i dont think ill do anything too bad.

Good idea. :mrgreen:

house = DSL
office = prepaid internet card :sweat:

makky wrote:house = DSL
office = prepaid internet card :sweat:

Man, your internet connection at home is better than the one at your office. Prepaid internet card is for dial up 56kbps, right? :sweat: The company that you are working at must have been really affected by the newly implemented E-VAT here in the Philippines :beaten: :hehe: .

By the way, my internet connection at home is also DSL and T1 at school :metaldevil:

Saito_Hajime wrote:

Man, your internet connection at home is better than the one at your office. Prepaid internet card is for dial up 56kbps, right? :sweat: The company that you are working at must have been really affected by the newly implemented E-VAT here in the Philippines :beaten: :hehe: .

By the way, my internet connection at home is also DSL and T1 at school :metaldevil:

what is T1? sorry, lot of things dunno yet :ashamed:

i wish it would be like that, 56kbps, :fingerscrossed: but unfortunately its not. it is only 33.6kbps. i can do a lot of work before i can submit a one post.... :sweat: :sweat:

makky wrote:

what is T1? sorry, lot of things dunno yet :ashamed:

i wish it would be like that, 56kbps, :fingerscrossed: but unfortunately its not. it is only 33.6kbps. i can do a lot of work before i can submit a one post.... :sweat: :sweat:

33.6kbps :shamefulcry: I don't know how you do it. :bow:

A full T1 line connection is 1.544Mbps. Fractional lines are also available, some common speeds are: 256kbps, 384kbps, 512kbps or 768kbps. It's a few times faster than dial-up.

8mbit down
0.8mbit up

Piss poor upload :bleh:

makky wrote:

what is T1? sorry, lot of things dunno yet :ashamed:

i wish it would be like that, 56kbps, :fingerscrossed: but unfortunately its not. it is only 33.6kbps. i can do a lot of work before i can submit a one post.... :sweat: :sweat:

Well, what do you expect from a prepaid internet card? :beaten: I use prepaid internet card before when I was still on dial-up 56kbps and yes, I don't reach that speed. The speed is mostly 45-50kbps :shakehead: By the way, T1 is a term for a digital carrier facility used to transmit a DS-1 formatted digital signals at 1.544 megabits per second. In my school, the speed is usually 768kbps.

How good is the DSL in the Philippines? The last time I was there, I had to use dialup.

dochira wrote:How good is the DSL in the Philippines? The last time I was there, I had to use dialup.

I'm using SkyDSL 384kbps for 1,699 pesos (30$)/month and so far, it's good :) . I heard that PLDT is offering a much cheaper price at the same speed for 999 pesos (17.84$)/month but I also heard that they got many complains from their customers :shakehead:

Saito_Hajime wrote:
I'm using SkyDSL 384kbps for 1,699 pesos (30$)/month and so far, it's good :) . I heard that PLDT is offering a much cheaper price at the same speed for 999 pesos (17.84$)/month but I also heard that they got many complains from their customers :shakehead:

$30? Not bad. What kinds of speeds do you see?

dochira wrote:
$30? Not bad. What kinds of speeds do you see?

I checked on the speedometer just now and it say that my DSL reaches 365kbps. There are times that it doesn't reach the maximum speed and slows down but at least it doesn't go below 320kbps......

Saito_Hajime wrote:

I checked on the speedometer just now and it say that my DSL reaches 365kbps. There are times that it doesn't reach the maximum speed and slows down but at least it doesn't go below 320kbps......

Hmm, 45.6KBps. I was hoping to hear better numbers, but compared to dialup, I suppose it's satisfactory.

Numbers? I hate math.....
I don't understand computer lingo :beaten:

What is a kbps btw? "Kilobites per second", perhaps? :sweat:

ahochaude wrote:

What is a kbps btw? "Kilobites per second", perhaps? :sweat:

It's Kilobits per second. We use capital B for bytes (or is it bites? :headscratch: .....Damn, now I'm confused :doh: :bonk: ).

i used to hve 1,500 kbps download from SBC.
But I recently upgraded to the pro version, 3,000kbps down speed, so far so good. been averaging 270KB/s for only $21.99/month

Saito_Hajime wrote:
It's Kilobits per second. We use capital B for bytes (or is it bites? :headscratch: .....Damn, now I'm confused :doh: :bonk: ).

Yes, capital B is for bytes. When it's used to calculate line speed, they use bits, but when you download it's in bytes. :headscratch:
8 bits = 1 byte.
1 bit is either 0 or 1. 1 byte is something like 01000101 (letter E) :confused:

tabana wrote:
Yes, capital B is for bytes. When it's used to calculate line speed, they use bits, but when you download it's in bytes. :headscratch:
8 bits = 1 byte.

Exactly.

tabana wrote:
1 bit is either 0 or 1. 1 byte is something like 01000101 (letter E) :confused:

That would be 0x45 in hexadecimal. 0xE is 1110.

Cool. I've never been good with binary anyway. :beaten: