which is your internet connection ?

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5. January 2008 - 20:24
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@Linus: you forgot about PSTN lines with xDSL. That's what i got Happy

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6. January 2008 - 2:15
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Ping depend on quality of connection, ur provider routing and to what global routing ur provider has connection.

bert wrote:

1ms in beer freeze (netherlands)
10ms in people server (england)
17ms in rs servers (germany)
20ms on en root (germany)
31ms in aim rail server (poland)

that have nothing with real ping, maybe a feeling but not for sure real ping values.

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6. January 2008 - 4:15
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kek wrote:

@Linus: you forgot about PSTN lines with xDSL. That's what i got Happy

Actually I get exactly the same. It's PSTN (phone flat) + ISDN (MSN, multiple lines and numbers) + ADSL (flatrate with 3MBit/s DL) which I'm paying 28 Euro for.

There is just 1 cable which comes in my house (uk0). in my house it gets splitted into low (s0, telephony) and high frequency (internet/broadband).
I didn't mention it coz I thought it could confuse the others.

But PSTN + xDSL is absolutely standard here, even if the cable guys are trying their best. Winking

Btw: Even if it's standard in germany as well, most of the customers don't know what PSTN, GSTN and POTS (old name for PSTN when there were no data services integrated yet) stands for. It's just called analog and digital telephony. Happy

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6. January 2008 - 17:35
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which is your internet connection ?

i dont want to go into technical detail here coz i prob dont know wat im talking about lol.
but anyway ill give you my view on my isp.

ISP: Virgin ( Cable )
Location Falkirk ( Scotland, UK)
Bandwith: 4mb Download 512k upload.

Good things:

with cable internet im always connected to the internet 24/7 soon as i switch on my pc internet is allready on Happy
the speed i pay for is the speed i get Happy
they are no caps to how much u can download/upload Big grin
ping on beer is 22 an on peoples server somthing like 15.
i never lag on servers just my crappy pc that lags at times.
i can play on servers anytime an still have great connection.
ive never had a problem with this service provider in the 5 yrs being with them.
think only once when they were doing works outside my house it was off for about a day.

Bad points.

can be a bit pricey for internet.
phoning cutomer care can take a while getting through.
phone calls to cutomer care ONLY cost local rate if phoning from another phone ( FREE if using virgin house phone )
upload rate suks.

i think u can always try it for a month for free.
u should phone them see wat they say wax.

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6. January 2008 - 18:48
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Thanks for all the feedback guys, I think ill give it a go zack, like you say prob only a month contract but with the level of frustration I have with odd shot lag I would probably cut of my arm if it could be sorted, though that might make either my movement or shooting worse Happy

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6. January 2008 - 19:00
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|_EM*LINUS wrote:

I'm on ADSL which doesn't go thru satellite. It's coming in my house, as in most other households as well, via the telephone cable. For 1 euro a month I even could make my ADSL ping lower than yours, Ratz.

Ooops,I just noticed what I did there,mixed up satellite with subscribers Winking
Ofc,you are right.Just wanted to mention that there is no point in comparing germany to croatia,we are like 50 years behind,u could make ur ping lower theres no doubt about that,but the fact remains,that when I was starting with e+ my ping was lower on 64/64 kbps speed then someone elses 1 or 2 MBit ADSL.Later when I had 256/512 I had better ping then ppl with 4 MBps on ADSL.Now on high speeds pings are all almost identical,cable or adsl,fastpath or not,practicly doesnt matter anymore like it did on lower speeds.

Im only interested in fiber optic now,that will probably be the next step here since its available in my neighbourhood,2/2 MBit is the starting speed.Its the future and still cant beelieve it started so soon in croatia,I was expecting it for my retirement days..

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6. January 2008 - 20:45
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cable - ISP: UPC Czech Republic, a. s.

speed cca 5100/512 kbps
FUP 40GB for download per month + 40GB for upload per month
costs: 800 CZK (cca 28€) per month

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6. January 2008 - 22:42
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. wrote:

Just wanted to mention that there is no point in comparing germany to croatia,we are like 50 years behind,u could make ur ping lower theres no doubt about that,but the fact remains,that when I was starting with e+ my ping was lower on 64/64 kbps speed then someone elses 1 or 2 MBit ADSL.Later when I had 256/512 I had better ping then ppl with 4 MBps on ADSL.

Seems interleaving is disabled by default in croatia...and can't be enabled. Big grin
(Sry for that 1, had to say this, hehe)

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Im only interested in fiber optic now,that will probably be the next step here since its available in my neighbourhood,2/2 MBit is the starting speed.Its the future and still cant beelieve it started so soon in croatia,I was expecting it for my retirement days..


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Omg, I thought about this too, but just too keep in touch with my friends who are living in the same village (max. coaxial cable distance reached). Even some hundred metes of fiber optic cable are way too expensive for me.
And ofc there is no chance at all to get a ISP fiber optic connection.

Still I don't get why the want to use fiber optic. A downstream rate of 24MBit/s still is realized via coaxial cable here. Thinking

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6. January 2008 - 22:50
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|_EM*LINUS wrote:

. wrote:

Im only interested in fiber optic now,that will probably be the next step here since its available in my neighbourhood,2/2 MBit is the starting speed.Its the future and still cant beelieve it started so soon in croatia,I was expecting it for my retirement days..


Shock
Omg, I thought about this too, but just too keep in touch with my friends who are living in the same village (max. coaxial cable distance reached). Even some hundred metes of fiber optic cable are way too expensive for me.
And ofc there is no chance at all to get a ISP fiber optic connection.

Still I don't get why the want to use fiber optic. A downstream rate of 24MBit/s still is realized via coaxial cable here. Thinking

thinking about how fast light is it might be worth it :>>
also u can send a lot of traffic through one small fiber optic without loss, cuz u can split light into xxx million colors.

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6. January 2008 - 23:04
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|_EM*LINUS wrote:

Seems interleaving is disabled by default in croatia...and can't be enabled. Big grin
(Sry for that 1, had to say this, hehe)

Tongue
IIRC,u and me had a similar discussion in lem private and I asked some of my co-sufferers on my ISP which said on cable there is no interleaving,and no fastpath.

|_EM*LINUS wrote:


Even some hundred metes of fiber optic cable are way too expensive for me.
And ofc there is no chance at all to get a ISP fiber optic connection.
Still I don't get why the want to use fiber optic. A downstream rate of 24MBit/s still is realized via coaxial cable here. Thinking

Hehe yes,fiber optic cable is very expencive,u wanted to connect with ur friends and pay for the cables yourself/selves? Thats very brave if I must say so myself Big grin We have here only 1 ISP that recently started with commercial work and theyre the only ones offering FTTH atm in croatia (fiber to the home).But afaik theyre only available in my city...the capital city,and not in all 'hoods yet.

I dunno who u ment by they...ur ISP? Fiber has in theory unlimited bandwidth capacity,but some limit does exist,certain things affect the maximum achievable bandwidth.Fiber optic is also immune to electromagnetic interference.

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