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hahaha depending on the night... damn right!

ahochaude wrote: :lol: :rofl:

I like sex better though!!! But I have to admit that it's pretty close! :beaten:

speaking of hi tech "sukebe", check yo pm, aho...

niko2x wrote:speaking of hi tech "sukebe", check yo pm, aho...

Done! Thanks!

I have three different connections:

Home - Road Runner

Office at Pearl Harbor - Four T-1 running in parallel to the same ISP

Office at downtown - OC-3 line connecting to Los Angeles. I only use this connection to host my BitTorrent tracker/seed server.

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DSL 10mbs ..beh

but @ my college its T1 all the way!

groink wrote:Office at downtown - OC-3 line connecting to Los Angeles. I only use this connection to host my BitTorrent tracker/seed server.

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nice to see you doing BT from the companies resource. :mrgreen: BTW, is RR the predominate hi-speed internet in HI? and how much is it?

niko2x wrote:nice to see you doing BT from the companies resource. :mrgreen: BTW, is RR the predominate hi-speed internet in HI? and how much is it?

I think they have a special right now for $29.95/month for the first 3 or 6 months (I think it's 3 though) Regular price is like $45.00 or something.

DSL with 768 kbit/s download and 128 kbit/s upload! as well >_<
Hope they set it faster soon I have some serious problems being up to date with all series I want to download :angry:

niko2x wrote:nice to see you doing BT from the companies resource. :mrgreen: BTW, is RR the predominate hi-speed internet in HI? and how much is it?

The server's sitting in our lab. I actually have the vice-president's blessings, probalby because he's also a frequent leech. Helps when he's also a Jdorama fan (you should see his library of FUJI-TV VHS tapes.)

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i'm tired and fat and bored. so i decided to respond :P

DSL at home and T-1 in school. :P
great...i'm listeningin to...whitney houston's music. -_-x :rolleyes:

niko2x wrote:nice to see you doing BT from the companies resource. :mrgreen: BTW, is RR the predominate hi-speed internet in HI? and how much is it?

Wanted to comment on broadband in Hawaii...

I bought Verizon DSL a few months ago (bronze plus to be exact). The price is right -- about a few dollars less than Road Runner. About a week later, I got rid of it. I could never get the modem to work. It kept dropping my connection on the hour. Verizon just wouldn't send a technician to my home to troubleshoot. I kept telling them it wasn't my PC. I mean, if there's a red error light on the modem because it can't connect to the central office, what does THAT have to do with my PC. Idiot tier-1 techs!

Otherwise, cable modem and DSL are the only two choices for broadband in Hawaii. On DSL, you can receive your Intenet content from your favorite ISP. All the ISPs in Hawaii offer DSL. However, the problem is that you end up with two bills: one from Verizon to pay for the DSL, and the other coming from your ISP to pay for the Intenet content. Only Verizon as an ISP can combine your DSL and ISP bills into one. Even my company (an ISP) sells DSL... We sell Verizon DSL to our customers at wholesale prices. The problem is the wholesale price is only 10 to 15-percent less than full retail, and we still have to tack on our Internet content charges on top of the wholesale price. So our DSL/Internet package is still much more expensive than Verizon. That's why overall the DSL market in Hawaii just sucks!!!! There's only one DSL vendor here, and that's Verizon. Borderline monopoly if you ask me.

Cable modem... The only games in town are Road Runner (Time-Warner Cable), AOL Broadband, and EarthLink. We do not have ComCast in Hawaii (thank God) or any other cable TV vendors. Even with AOL and EarthLink, you still have Time-Warner involved in the physical hookup seeing they own the cabling infrastructure. However, the price for AOL and Earthlink is still about $45.00/month, so you don't have the same price issues as Verizon DSL.

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ahochaude wrote:

I think they have a special right now for $29.95/month for the first 3 or 6 months (I think it's 3 though) Regular price is like $45.00 or something.

Hehehe, usually RR does it for $22.95 for the first 3 months and then it's $44.95 every month. It's still worth it though :mrgreen: For some odd reason my city's cable companies vary by neighborhood :rolleyes: Up in my corner of the city, we have Time Warner for cable so they provide RR. The rest of the city has Comcast. I dunno if they are better or not but with my luck Comcast would be cheaper :beaten: When I moved I switched to a new package because their prices were going up for channel packages the next month. I took "The Works", so there's sort of a little discount overall. My sister pays $30 less than me a month for having all the same channels, but I have RR and she doesn't :P

Im rollin DSL.... ^_^ :hehe:

DSL - fast enough, I guess :) .

Check out these U.S. statistics on broadband usage:

http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5172107.html?tag=nefd_hed

I'm amazed how Comcast, with their download limits and such, is beating out Road Runner.

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dsl @ home
high speed @ school.. dunno what type of connection though but its fast :mrgreen:

i'm using broadband right now...300k :hehe:

DSL

cable approx. 512kbps download and 128kbps upload. Stupid ads here fake people at 1500kbps and 3000kbps packages in bits not bytes.

cyberarts wrote:cable approx. 512kbps download and 128kbps upload. Stupid ads here fake people at 1500kbps and 3000kbps packages in bits not bytes.

Yes!

For those who don't know... If you see "KB/sec", that's usually kilobytes. If you see "kbps", that's kilobits. kbit/sec is the same thing as kbps. Normally, you can divide the kilobits by 8* to get kilobytes.

We use bits to measure the designed speed. For example, let's say you're running Ethernet, and it's configured to run at 10 megabits per second. Even if the transmission itself is trickling very slowly, the speed is still 10 megabits. So when the cable modem company tells you that the speed is 10 megabits per second up to your PC, they're actually telling you the truth.

We use bytes when we want to know what the actual performance is. So taking the same example, even though your cable modem runs at 10mbit/sec, the actual throughput could be only 300 kilobytes per second.

So when you look at the numbers, you really must interpret the numbers properly and make sure you understand exactly what they're talking about: the designed speed or the actual speed.

*- or, if you're a geek like myself, you should really divide by 10 seeing you should also include the start and stop bits in the packet. Then you gotta factor in the CSMA/CD, adding another few bits.... and so on... :P

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