[Nottingham] Broadband Bullwell

[Michael Simms]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 15:22, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Josh Lock wrote:
> 
> Hello Josh,
> 
> > I have poor netiquette I know. I actually expected to be brought up on
> > it sooner :)
> 
> I was actually quite impressed---you bottom bottom posting correctly (unlike
> Michael who's just sent a message! :-)

Heh, ok Im caught, Im bad {:-P.

To be honest I never have a problem with top-posting, in fact I prefer
top-posted replies, it means i save time scrolling to the bottom when I
already know the subject. If going through a load of emails, the
pertinent bits are always on screen when you flip to the next.

I think bottom-posting is pretty much a hangover from the dead-tree era,
and having a quick look through my mailbox I find almost none that were
bottom-posted. Just IMHO and Im sure many will disagree.

> > So let me see if I understand you correctly, I get 11Gb every 14 days?
> > I wonder how many other people will be using the same line?
> 
> GigaBytes (GB) are 8 times bigger than Gigabits (Gb).  You get 1GB per day.
> NTL don't care if you go over your 1GB limit 3 days in a fortnight.

Im not sure this is actually monitored, as I usually exceed this on a
daily basis. In fact over the last month taking a quick look at mrtg I
see I have averaged over this level continually. Maybe Im just lucky.

> IIRC, E&OE.
> 

> Personally, I've never found it a problem, whereas I have found the ADSL
> contention BTO and friends to be sucky.
>
> YMMV,

MMDDV

I find ADSL contention to be very good. I have the 50:1 instead of the
20:1 on the basis Id rather share with 50 people who read email and
occasionally download some pr0n, than to share with 20 people willing to
pay double for their power-usage.

I dont EVER remember a time I couldnt get maximum bandwidth from my adsl
link, even when I lived in London. The cablemodem I have also I dont
remember not ever being able to get maximum bandwidth (although beware
on NTL you will likely lose about 10% of your bandwidth with all the
viruses flying around there, even when my machine is idle I have a whole
load of crap coming down the line.

> 	-Paul
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