"Broadband" over phone line is DSL, and much, much slower than cable
broadband. A step up from regular dialup. If your friend with the
laptop is getting 54mps, that is more likely she has fiber-optic cable,
like the Verizon FiOS that we have.
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On 1/18/2011 7:48 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> 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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