My ADSL just landed

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koffiejunkie

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I thought I'd share with your all the joys of first world internet :)

I moved house last week. Phone line was installed after about a week, and I phoned the ISP for the new line. Install date (they're separate here since the phone company don't do the ADSL bit) is only in two days time, but when I got home I noticed my Netgear's i light was smiling at me. Whoohoo. Of course, my old setup was a static IP, which I couldn't keep, so still no connection. But what do you know, neigbour just rang the bell, the postman dropped off a parcel for me during the day. Ripped it open, pulled out the router, plugged it in.

Now here's the cool part. The router, out of the box, is already configured with my connection details. Wireless is already setup with WPA2 with a 10 character random PSK (printed on a sticker on the bottom of the router). So all I had to do is connect to the wireless, and I'm cruising... 24mbit/s.... :D :D :D :D :D
 
I don't even know the neighbours - first time I met the dude. Well, aside from hearing them fight in the morning - the walls aren't too thick...
 
Telkomisaloser said:
Thats soooooo cool :sick::sick::sick::sick::sick::sick::sick:

P.s. Trustworthy neighbors are rare here :(
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As is a postman who not only did not steal the item, but managed to read the address.

I receive mail, regularly, for houses streets away - sometimes its the same number in a different street, sometimes a different number in the same street, and sometimes its just pure randomness.

Sigh.
 
gregmcc eat your heart out. The best part is: no capping, no shaping, no port prioritisation or other BS. Can do with it whatever I like as much as I like, as long as it's not illegal. Last month I uploaded more than 200GB in torrents - have a quota to manage.

Moederloos, Her Majesty's postmen can read and generally do their work with some level of pride or respect at the very least. I've never waited longer than three days for something that was sent with ordinary mail.
 
koffiejunkie said:
gregmcc eat your heart out. The best part is: no capping, no shaping, no port prioritisation or other BS. Can do with it whatever I like as much as I like, as long as it's not illegal. Last month I uploaded more than 200GB in torrents - have a quota to manage.
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I hate you :D
 
Gru if you look at my profile you'll really hate me. My home connection is 56k dial-up compared to the one at work :D
 
Playing, I see a blue sky too...

Granted, you have the mountain. But I'd much rather take miserable weather and a flat landscape if I can have thunder and lightning to go with that...
 
Koffie, what TV package do you have? Who did you sign up with (if any)?

Do you have cable or satellite TV? Virgin offers cable TV and you can get fast broadband through them as well. The nice thing about that is that your TV, ADSL and VOIP phone comes from the same company, one bill and all the services are integrated.

What were your reasons for going with ADSL instead? For 24Mbps, I'm assuming you signed up with BE? So you have 3 different companies billing you, BE(?) for ADSL, BT for the phone line and someone else for TV.
From what I've read ADSL has its advantages over cable broadband since contention ratios are an issue with cable broadband. For example, if everyone on your street has cable broadband and everyone does heavy downloads at the same time, then everyone's speed is affected. Where this is not the case with ADSL.

However, the upside again of cable broadband is that they usually seem to offer faster speeds than ADSL in most countries. I saw an ad from Virgin that they'll be offering 50Mbps before the end of the year on their cable broadband service.

I'm just curious as to how you decided which service to go with, considering that you can get TV/phone and internet from the same company elsewhere etc.
 
Globetrotter, I took the BE offering initially because it was the only package available that didn't require a contract of at least a year. The fact that it was the fastest available option didn't hurt either. When I moved I decided to stick to them because I had nine months of absolutely trouble free service. Also nice is the static IP, large upload speed (1.3mbit) and the fact that it's not capped or shaped or grossly oversold like many of the other services. 7-10 at night when everyone else is on-line too, it doesn't get slower.

I'm not really too concerned about the separate bills. Between the four house-mates (all from different countries and with different dialling needs) the BT package we have turned out the best. We don't have any TV provider - just FreeView.

The downside to ADSL is your distance from the exchange affects the speed you get. I get closer to 15mbits down (although I get my full 1.3 up), where with cable you don't have that problem. But chatting to a colleague who has Virgin's 20mbit cable, he says he has only ever once gotten his full 20mbits - contention is obviously an issue.
 
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