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We have lift off!

Posted by Moikle on Feb. 4, 2012, 12:16 p.m.

Yay, I got home from work today to find the virgin media man setting up our new network.

I AM NO LONGER TIED DOWN WITH AOL! (and their 1-3Mb/s broadband)

This blog is not short, most of the content is just not written in it. (Modit: Noted.)

edit from the future

this is now, same package :(

less than 1% of what it is supposed to be, and it has been like this for a week so far

Comments

JuurianChi 12 years, 10 months ago

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I AM NO LONGER TIED DOWN WITH AOL!

Yeah! Awesome! Fight the Power!

Alert Games 12 years, 10 months ago

thats a fast download speed you got there…

Toast 12 years, 10 months ago

32? Jesus, when I finally witnessed 16 a few months ago I sharted

Eva unit-01 12 years, 10 months ago

Doesn't it depend on the server you're downloading from that determines the actual DL speed?

Cause last time I checked, Speedtest.net lets it all hang, so I often get up to 10mbps on Speedtest, and an average of 1.5mbps on Steam.

Toast 12 years, 10 months ago

Anyone remember picking up those free AOL cds you could get pretty much everywhere as a kid and then being like HAHAHAHA I DONT EVEN NEED THIS

JuurianChi 12 years, 10 months ago

Yeah, those were fun.

I used to have a collection that dated back to 1997, but I left it behind when I moved.

Eva unit-01 12 years, 10 months ago

Lool, I remember having all those AOL discs. Then we finally subscribed to them, and I remember getting called about an extra account I made, so I could bypass my mom's administrator stuff she set up on the main account.

I was like… 10 maybe.

Good times, good times.

Moikle 12 years, 10 months ago

Heh, I had parental controls on AOL when we first got it, I could get around them by opening internet explorer instead of the shitty AOL browser.

Rob 12 years, 10 months ago

…so where exactly can you download at 32MB/s from? I'd imagine in 99% of cases you would be limited by the other side capping you, rather than your connection.

Astryl 12 years, 10 months ago

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…so where exactly can you download at 32MB/s from? I'd imagine in 99% of cases you would be limited by the other side capping you, rather than your connection.

That's the case on most servers. Which is why the practicality of owning a military-speed connection won't benefit you. Unless you're running a server.

But that's a nice download speed. Perhaps you'd be 'capped' on some download servers, but nothing's stopping you from doing high-bandwidth tasks concurrently on that connection.