Subj : Off-topic a bit
To   : Peter Knapper
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun May 15 2005 10:28 am

Hello, Peter.

On 15 May 05 at 15:29, Peter Knapper wrote to Sean Dennis:

 PK> Are you SURE about that?.........;-)

Well, guessing by the fact that I've been in here long enough to know who's who 
and what's what (I guess :), someone out there would have a guess.

 PK> Well I live nowhere near North America

You're on the same planet, so I guess that's near. ;)

 PK> , but DSL Reports usually has
 PK> something useful on the subject. They cover both DSL and Cable too.

Thanks for the information.  I'll look it up as soon as I get done here.

 PK> One other thing that I noticed with USA Cable/DSL provisioning, the
 PK> "speeds" that are quoted may be why the end user is not always happy,
 PK> it seems (to me) that the end user is often quoted the ACTUAL line
 PK> speed, which is NEVER attainable by the end user.

They /LIE/ like politicians to get people, heh.  Charter's advertised speeds 
are 3mb/256kb (ugh, that's a terrible upload).  Unfortunately, I can't get my 
DSL transferred up there (and /THAT'S/ gonna cost me $175 in "early 
termination" fees-I'm gonna terminate someone early when I have to cough that 
cash up!), so it's cable I go.  My parents can't use their satellite dish there 
(it's in an area of the country that isn't well-serviced, I guess).  But at 
least I can get cable and cable broadband.  Carbondale, Illinois (where I lived 
before here) didn't have ANY broadband until 2003.

As for the speeds, I just take off 10-15% and call it good for the upload 
speed.  Download speed doesn't bother me, but it's the upload.

 PK> Lastly, dont take any speed test site as genuine, they are so far off
 PK> the planet with reality their only value is for bragging.......;-)

Oh yes.  Like I said about politicians ...

 PK> However if you use a decent broadband Router you will find that OS/2
 PK> will be quite happy with whatever you get. There, I kept it on
 PK> topic..........;-)

Hee!  I'm actually thinking about installing Injoy Firewall as the main router 
for my system.  I've gone 100% OS/2 (I'm no longer running Windows for myself 
personally), so either this box will be the router or I'll go get a decent 
8-port router or something.  My wife wants wireless as she's buying a new 
Macintosh laptop for school, so I guess I'll be slapping a WAP on the router.

I personally don't want my machines on wireless (save for my laptop) as I have 
things going across the LAN that I don't want to be observed except for the 
people intended. ;)

Later,
Sean

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