Broadband speed to slow?

I remember back when 1200 baud modems were the top of the line. Though, my dad did buy a 300 baud modem, but we never got it to work on our Timex Sinclair 1000.

Anyway, downloading a "large" program using super fast z-modem 1200 baud took an hour or so.

Now, I'm complaining that having 6 MB/s broadband downloading a game demo that is 600 to 1,200 MBs takes to long.

Anyone else feel the same?

 

Those were the days, a hour to download 1 MB and now I get frustrated when it takes 45 minutes to download a 600 Mb file.

 

I think those modems were before my time but i do remember the days before broadband. I think we went through aol, compuserve, I think at&t.... a whole ton that i cant remember and whenever my dad would try to connect with his 26.6 modem on our old 120 MhZ cannon invovva that he bought from american appliance, (this is when it was top of the line) he would yell all over the house for everyone to get off the phone and every once in a while (i was five years old at the time) he would put me on disney blast. Yup those were the days...
-the new tech guy

 

Yup, I get irritated if my downloads are anywhere below 1.1mb/s.

yes, that is megabytes.

 

24 mb down and 1.x upstream? that's ridiculous and i want one.

 

I remember way back in '97 when I'd gladly spend an hour downloading a 4 MB mp3, thankful that I was no longer stuck on a 14.4 (56k, baby!) It seems like the size of files has grown faster than the speeds to transfer them, at least here in the U.S. I've heard that some other countries like Japan tend to have a lot faster connections.

 

Well they have the faster stuff because us US people are to dumnb to realize that we can treat our selves to better technology if we stop outsourcing our dirty work to japan and stuff so we can keep money in our pockets so they take advantage and all new technology they make there they release to their market first so they can enjoy it and get to laugh at us cause it will take like a year to be shipped to the US and they enjoy everything first.
-the new tech guy

 

I doubt that. I'd say that a lot of it depends on:

1. What we need. 70-80% of the servers I have ever downloaded from won't give me 1.2-1.2mb/s download speeds. Now consider a 24 Mbps connection. How many servers will support it? --few.
2. How much it costs the companies to provide it. Or you can look at it as how much a customer is willing to pay for it. If the companies can't make a buck at it, its not going to happen.

 

Actually, at least with Japan, the biggest factor is that they're all clustered t ogether a lot more than we are here in the US. We're spread out so much that it requires a lot more of an infrastructure than they require, so they're a ble to make pretty huge advances with minimal expenditure. At least, that's how it's been explained to me.

 

Pity us poor Aussies, then.
Roughly same land area as mainland USA, but only 20 million people.
Lack of competition, with Telstra owning nearly all of the copper landlines. Around 90% of our population live within 50 miles of the coast, so there is a big hole in the middle where infrastructure is pretty sparse. We now have a battle on to make the balance of Telstra (51% Government owned), available as a share issue, to anyone interested. Most Aussies are against it, but our Government is going to go ahead, anyway, when the share price rises.

The Broadband situation, and competition, is improving though. I'm doing some research on the best ISP, for my area, here in Cairns. Quite a few, with lots of contract/price/speed/hardware variations. Bazza
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Yea even all games today would be fine with 5 meg bandwidth, and very few apps can use a full 24 meg bandwidth. That being said, it would still be awesome for downloading linux iso's and tv shows like the broken.

 

I also agree with Kaula about the Japanese fixing bugs for us That is true. But they did snitch are money with the whole pokemon/digimon fad that went off for a short time. They sold us old crap from there that they could care less about and got filfthy rich off of us. Those were the days 120 MhZ was all you had for a cpu clock and now we complain about things being slow on 4 GIG processors w 2GIGS of ram. Yup those were the days when you would shotgun two modems. Those were the days....
-the new tech guy

 

Great news Dave, i checked it out gave my number and i am told feb 2006 and for £24 that is a cool price..Not sure what BT plans to do but if it does not get of its backside quick i will be moving very soon.

 

Anyone hear about the fiber optic dsl that just came out? I checked out the price and its like 40 us dollars for service but you get like 15 MBPS from it. Looks pretty good and if i upgrade to it i will forever be thankful for my father because now i can really play ps2 online without lag. Not that i get much on three but it will work even better. Heres the page about it from verizon: http://www22.verizon.com/FiosForHom...C&PromoTCode=FIOhp&PromoSrcCode=L&POEId=TL1HP
enjoy!
-the new tech guy

 

No, but one of the places I worked at had fiber connections instead of wired connections, throughout the entire place.

At the time fiber nics were about $250 or so, and 6' fiber cables from the fiber junction box to the machine were about $100 a piece. We probably only had 500 or so machines. Couldn't remember.

 

yeah but check that site out fool cause it is pretty nice. Only verizon is being retarted and saying i cannot get there service but yet i am running it on 3 megs. Go figure...
-the new tech guy

 

You arent using Verizon Fiber (FIOS) if you are @3Mbps. Thats just plain jane DSL.

 

I did not say that. I said that when you check to see if fios is availible it says you can t even get standard dsl and i have standard dsl with three megs.
-the new tech guy

 

Ah, while cable may be fiber fed, they dont run @ fiber speeds. I wouldn't mind getting a piece of that 30Mbps Verizon offers.

 

It does sound pretty nice , if you can afford 40 bucks a month.
-the new tech guy

 

I pay more for that now just to get 9Mbps.


However, 30Mbps FIOS is a lot more than 40 bucks:

Up to 30 Mbps/5 Mbps $179.95 - $199.95

http://www22.verizon.com/FiOSforhome/channels/FiOS/root/package.aspx

 

Its a nice connection speed but i doubt that many places will support it. Plus i am on a old wireless b lan connection so will be limited to the speed of that anyway. But it will help cause now the computer can guzzle more bandwidth and have less effect on other computers on the network. But that is very expensive internet. I know i cant afford it so i am happy with my 3meg dsl right now . When the price falls i will upgrade but i am happy right now though.
-the new tech guy