[JStergis]

Originally Posted by ACA529

Shaw Xtreme-I.

You know, the fastest I could possibly get (short of paying loads to get a T3 line) is Verizon 3 meg ADSL. Currently, I have 768K ADSL.

Some people here can get no better than 24 KBps Dialup.

The fastest connection I've ever used is a 15 meg RR connection, which, I believe is also the fastest you could get in this county. I really see no difference in browsing between the 15 meg and my 768K connection. Downloads are much faster, sure, but given that I can download a copy of Firefox in a minute and a big DVD Linux ISO overnight, I really don't see the need for more speed.

[JohnWill]

Get more than one person working on that line, and you'll quickly discover why the faster service is handy.

An interesting side issue. I recently upgraded my uplink speed to match the downlink speed, 15mbit/15mbit, and that significantly speeded up a lot of operations on the Internet. I wouldn't have thought it would make a lot of difference, but I'd have been wrong.

[JStergis]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

Get more than one person working on that line, and you'll quickly discover why the faster service is handy.

An interesting side issue. I recently upgraded my uplink speed to match the downlink speed, 15mbit/15mbit, and that significantly speeded up a lot of operations on the Internet. I wouldn't have thought it would make a lot of difference, but I'd have been wrong.

Oh yeah, I bet it does. The most I ever have using it at the same time is two other people, and with it being just browsing I don't notice it. Of course, the second someone decides to download something, I notice it.

[JohnWill]

Well, with a whole bunch of computers around here, when things get busy, I use more of the bandwidth.

[Irony_Pride]

Very Nice site.

My Bad Results: :P

[JohnWill]

You're right, that's pretty slow, but not as slow as a lot of folks have!

Talk about being jaded! It's not that many years ago that most of us were using dial-up 56kbit connections, not megabits are considered slow.