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On Thursday, October 02, 2014 07:05:51 PM walt wrote: |
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> My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very |
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> little advance notice. |
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> I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times |
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> faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if |
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> I want to use my main desktop machine anywhere other than my kitchen. |
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What about upload speed? |
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Don't forget, with most domestic connections, if you use 50% of your uplink, |
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you loose 50% of your downlink. |
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For example: |
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You get 20Mbit down and 1Mbit up |
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You use something that continuously uses 512Kbit of your uplink, then you only |
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have 10Mbit downlink left. |
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This is really usefull (NOT) when you use remote control applications |
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(desktop, shells,...) where the used uplink and downlink are mostly similar. |
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> (Don't ask -- the details are too stupid to post -- but I'm now using |
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> a wired ethernet connection from my kitchen :) |
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Send it to me off-list if you prefer, I am curious why you think the details |
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are too "stupid" to post. |
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I've seen properties where various wires enter the building in the kitchen and |
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because that's where the main connections are, the modem/router/whatever needs |
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to be there. |
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Worst location I ever saw was a guy who had the modem installed in the |
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bathroom (by the ISP), because there was no room in the small cupboard where |
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the phone line entered the building. (Bathroom was on other side of the wall) |
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