This post is just for information and novelty :-)
I'm not fishing for advice or whatever.
On dial-up, in a house where we have several filters to distinguish between
dial-up and broad-band, on dial-up I commonly get anything between 19.2
kbps to ( if lucky) 33.3 kbps. In urban Christchurch I used to get close to
what the modem allows - 55.6 kbps.
My partner's son who lives with us and uses broadband, typically gets about
100 kbps.
I noticed today when juggling images on facebook that mostly my speed
was anywhere between 600 and 800 bps. For about 15 minutes it was down
to an astounding 3 to 6 bps !! And still the electrons moved data.
Until about 8 months ago I used the computer at my partner's old house,
about 7 KM away, in a rural setting. Dialup speed there was about 30 kbps
(memory).
You can imagine my astonishment this afternoon when I visited an old
neighbour up her (ex) road. They have just bought a 2nd hand laptop ($500)
and it looks recent, with wireless communication inside the house to cover 3
metres through a wall, and they are on broadband with the SAME company
who delivers to my partner's son.
Their connection speed is 54MB/s 54 MB/s
I saw it myself. She knows very little about winders computers and let me
look at the connection details; Didn't take long to find. 54 MB/s ! Amazing.
I will be making some enquiries.
By the way, the i7 processor computers I referred to in a post yesterday,
were winders machines, and really quite affordable. About $1,800 NZ, but I
don't remember what that included. Naturally, many components could be
upgraded at increased cost(s).
These very fast machines were developed for people whose primary interest
is playing games online.
Brian Swale.
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