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antlists wrote: |
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> On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: |
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>> Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet |
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>> service. It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is |
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>> over 100 times faster than my current DSL. It only costs $4.00 a month |
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>> more than what I'm paying now. Their fastest package is 1GBs/sec. |
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>> Dang, I can't even imagine that sort of speed. Another good thing, same |
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>> speed BOTH ways. I can upload videos just as fast as I can download |
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>> one. Yeppie!! |
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>> My only thing now, I hope it works like DSL/cable/etc and just requires |
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>> me to plug in a ethernet cable. In other words, OS doesn't matter. I |
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>> suspect it does but we will see. |
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> We went to fibre recently. They put a new box on the wall which takes |
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> an RJ-45 instead of the previous situation where ADSL took an RJ-11. |
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> All the blurb says "works with BT Hub 6", which we already had, so I |
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> didn't bother getting a new router (you had to pay for the "latest and |
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> greatest" Hub 7). |
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> When the guy installed it - "where's you new router, it won't work |
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> with this one". No apparently you can't just plug it into any old |
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> network port, the router needs a dedicated WAN link and the Hub 6 came |
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> in two versions, one with an ADSL modem and one with a fibre uplink. |
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> So it sounds like you need to swap your ADSL router for a cable router |
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> or whatever it is, but apart from that you'll be fine. |
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> (And then some sales guy working on behalf of BT knocked on the door, |
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> was surprised to find we were already BT customers, and rigged up some |
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> deal that (a) threw in a Hub-7 free, (b) changed our calling plan to |
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> remove the one-hour limit and add free calls to mobiles, and (c) |
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> knocked about £2 off our monthly bill!!!) |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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I knew the modem or internet connection box would be different. They |
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generally are unless we go back to dial-up days. A friend of mine has a |
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similar service but with a different power company. I suspect tho they |
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will use the exact same box since the service is the same. If I can, I |
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may look at hers. She has two boxes. Pretty sure one is modem and |
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other is a router of some sort, likely with wi-fi as well. She said she |
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watches HD video on her laptop and TV without it ever pausing to cache |
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or anything. She pulled up a video on youtube that was HD and it |
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started playing as soon as she clicked on it and the little line at the |
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bottom that shows the cache and video time location filled up really |
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fast. I suspect you could set it to play at 10X and it still load it |
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faster than it can play. It is seriously fast. |
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Given the speed, I have no complaints on the price. I won't notice the |
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extra $4.00 a month. I'll notice the speed increase tho. |
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I can't wait until it gets here. It will be a bit but it's on the way. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |