My Broadband Is Slow...

Unidentified Assilant · Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:25 am

The internet today was running really slow............. has anybody else ran into these problems?

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:26 am

Nope.

Post by **gannon** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:05 pm

Call up your isp and ask for a oc-48 connection

Unidentified Assilant · Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:19 pm

WTF??????? I have an ADSL (which is supposed to be faster than IDSN, Cable and DSL connections)

Post by **gannon** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:25 pm

OC-48~2.5Gbps

Unidentified Assilant · Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:27 pm

OMG! Those modems must be really dear and stuff... and I'll have a bloody lot of megadrive games to build on emulated collection... woops, I hope no-body heard that to well. PLEASE DONT TELL THE POLICE!!!

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:14 pm

Those are legal downloads

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:26 pm

JackFrost22 wrote:Those are legal downloads

with the exception of a few public domain ROMs, they probably aren't. Just because it is not being made doesn't mean you can download it.

MR.MOD · Post by **MR.MOD** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:28 pm

Even if you own the game cart it still is Illegal.
Go take a look at the DMCA http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Unidentified Assilant · Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:34 pm

Come on, everybody emulates their favourite games, and whose gonna buy megadrive games (expect me and retro collectors), god, these people shouldn't care anymore for old crap (which isn't crap)

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:38 pm

MR.MOD wrote:Even if you own the game cart it still is Illegal.
Go take a look at the DMCA http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

The DMCA is very intruptive and so can not be taken at face value, it is by far the worst thing Bill wrote it.

Anyways, yes I have has my internet slow down scents I moved my computer a whole wopping 20 feet, maybe not even that far. But as I have a longer cable and and am using a new router I can only suspect those two of slowing it donw. Its not too bad just noticable and a little annoying waiting for pages like on the MB to load (like 30 seconds).

A.J. Franzman · Post by **A.J. Franzman** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:59 pm

Unidentified Assilant wrote:I have an ADSL (which is supposed to be faster than IDSN, Cable and DSL connections)

ADSL is DSL. DSL comes in two types, "Asymmetrical" and "Symmetrical". You might also see reference to xDSL, which includes both types. Asymmetrical just means that your download and upload speeds are different, for example one of the slowest ADSL speeds is 768/128 which is 768kbps download and 128kbps upload (theoretical maximum - if you get about 90% of those rates, there is probably nothing wrong with your connection). Symmetrical DSL means you can upload just as fast as you download. You could get SDSL at 3Mbps or more, which is about 4 times faster than 768/128 ADSL for downloading and 20 times faster for uploading.

Cable connections come in different speeds too, and their speed is highly variable depending on how many users are active on the "local loop" at the same time. I'm not sure if ISDN has different speeds, but when I got ADSL, it was way more expensive for about the same speed so the choice was obvious.

Post by **Triton** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:59 pm

wish i could get OC-48

but all we have out here is old copper phone lines. i have dialup but i want 256k reachDSL when its available in town (i likve like 2mi away reachDSL has 3.5mi range) but since it costs like several million dollars to instal it in a town thats kinda out now lol (thats cost to the company not the user lol) i HATE DIALUP WITH A VENGANCE!

dooda · Post by **dooda** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:51 pm

yeah

i hate dial up too!

but i guess i just got used to it

Post by **Black Six** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:06 pm

A.J. Franzman wrote:I'm not sure if ISDN has different speeds, but when I got ADSL, it was way more expensive for about the same speed so the choice was obvious.

With ISDN, you can get single or dual channel. Each channel is 64 kb/s up and down, so the max is 128 kb/s. At least for consumer, I do recall hearing about 'commercial-grade' ISDN which might have been faster. I was on ISDN for over six years until they finally put in DSL and two-way cable late last October (just in time for Halo 2).