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is that a home connection?

severe bandwidth envy...

is it ten times as fast, and does it pump dependably or fluctuate some?

after a few megs, does it only serve for downloading large files faster to have such a big pipe? page draws are mostly pretty fast even at 3 megs, surely?

is this for your work you need that much, or is that a 'normal' household speed now in ireland?

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 03:09:05 PM EST
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That would be a cable modem connection?

My telephone line is several kilometers long and I'm lucky if I can get more than 2 Mbps out of my ADSL connection.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 04:23:27 PM EST
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Yes, cable modem. My phone line is like yours. They upgraded it recently so it could handle 4MB. <oooooooooh>
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 04:33:58 PM EST
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That's pretty top of the range - depends on being in an area with modern and upgraded cable service. It makes a visible difference to page render time, if only because it can grab all the bits at once.

The big difference is video though - it's on pretty much instantly.
 

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 04:41:12 PM EST
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