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Miscellaneous Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Qhimm on 2001-11-21 00:02:00
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Final Fantasy... Final Forum... :razz: All right, I'll stop.
The URL you all should bookmark is http://forums.qhimm.com.
The reason you have to click even more to get here is to break you out of any existing framesets. There still doesn't seem to be a way to combine redirections and frame targets... Silly web standards. Of course, feel free to bookmark the board URL too, but remember that site if the forums suddenly disappear again...
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maybe we should get a domain like that at namezero.
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Ehr... that is a namezero domain. What's the point of getting another one? Besides, Namezero also "captures" pages inside its evil frame set, so the cookie problem remains unless you use breakout pages like I did.
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I bought my domain name from NameZero, and got rid of that evil bar...
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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Hacking forums must be a new fad or something.....seems like all the forums are getting hacked.
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hehe im buying my domain from namezero so i dont have to host it myself.
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Well, I want them to host it until I'm ready to host it from home. (Come on DSL!)
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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theyre installing a Fiber Optic line 10 feet from my house! TEN FEET!!!! BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Too bad itll take months for the cable company to install it.
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:: quietly mentions the gigabit connection he'll be getting after christmas ::
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=( ill never win. stupid broadband. :grin:
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I WISH I had broadband. Actually, I want DSL, but with way, I wish I went faster than dail-up. :weep:
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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[edited] 135 2001-11-22 23:23
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:weep: Try living in malaysia, void of all fast internet connections!
(yep, I'm jealous!)
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I would do ANYTHING to get away from dial up (except give up my internet access) :grin:
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here here!
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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Qhimm: Gigabit? I still want my green smilie!
*Sulks in jealousy*
Though there is an option for some of us out here in the boonies of the good ole' USA-DirecPC satellite connections. Don't know how reliable it is, but you can still dial up if you suffer from rain fade or other gremlins.
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Are both up- and downstream via satellite? Because most european operators (not that there are too many) use regular modem, or some other thingy for upstream. Not _the_ solution for eDonkey, that's for sure. :smile:
Edit: Can't type.
[edited] 32 2001-11-23 04:18
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We have satelite access in M'sia too.
Only for downstream though
You still need a modem for upstream, so it isn't exactly the best solution.
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I know. But unfortunately they cost a fortune.
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i could get wireless broadband thats transmitted on radio waves right now, but you have to use a modem for upstream stuff. thats why i dont get it (an its about 50 dollrs more than dsl)
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In Europe at the mo they are launching two way sattelite internet, thry say the monthly fee will be less than adsl but I reckon installation is going to be hugely expensive.
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That's news to me M0T, do you have a link to any sites with info on it?
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Well, we could have cable if we wanted, but it's too expensive for me with my pocket money ... I hardly can pay my dialup prices ...
As for Sat connection: Am I wrong or is there also a connection that allows you up- and downstream?
As for DSL - in my part of our city, there most probably won't be DSL - there are too less ppl who want it - or better: who have the money for it :sad:
Some guys in my class (will) have DSL connection - but me not :sad:
- Alhexx
- Alhexx
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Alhexx: Two way sats are relatively new, but are available. Runs abt. $80 a month USD IIRC. I think DirecPC is the one who does it here in the states.
And I'm sure DSL is totally overrated. I mean, who the hell would want a fast connection to the internet, anyway? :mad:
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Oh, I seem to find ADSL fairly useful, y'know :grin:
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If I didn't know better, I'd think you were rubbing it in...
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Hey, you were the one who brought it up :wink:
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I want DSL... :weep:
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
[email protected]
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I WANT IT, TOO !! but i won't get it... at least within the next time...
- Alhexx
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im aiming for Q1 2002 :grin:
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Its from Aramiska and I think the link is http://www.aramiska.com and yes ADSL is very useful:)
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There seems to be another one, too: http://www.broadband4uk.com/aboutus.shtml
It does have lots of problems, though. Speeds are sucky, prices are unbelievable (do they really think that someone is going to pay all that money for so crappy connection?!) and then there's the delay. Remember, the satellite is over 35000 kilometres away and signal must travel that distance _twice_ before it gets from point a to point b. That alone will give you >200 ms ping, plus other delays. For example, my dial up connection has a ping of 117 ms at the moment, considerably less than with the satellite thingy. Yay! Modems are good at something! :razz:
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Heh... I'm the only person I know who has 10 megabit cable, everyone else has 100 megabit (grr).
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?! Your the only person I know with anything over 2Mb cable... In fact was was always told cable has a physical limit of 45Mb...
EDIT: Damn "" key
EDIT: Damn "r" key
[edited] 9 2001-11-26 01:10
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Oh well... um... remember this is megabit and not megabyte, but, I thought my friend had a 100 megabit cable (its a 100 megabit MODEM anyway). Plus... 750k/sec download is pretty fast (highest he's managed to get), I am limited to about 75.
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Remember there's a difference between the max speed the MODEM supports, and your *connection* supports.
For example, we have ADSL; the ADSL modem supports up to 8MB/sec download, but BT doesn't offer that, so we only (!) get 512KB/sec download. A standard modern network card will offer 100MB/sec connection, but it doesn't mean the device you've connected to will necessarily send out data at that rate ... it's just the rate YOUR computer can send/receive data at.
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Well you'd think if they came up with 100 megabit cable modems, it would be kinda dumb if cable's limit was 45 megabit?
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Yeah, I know. I'm talking 2Mb (~256KB). The RJ45 connect on the modem supports 100Mb (~12.5MB), but I've always understood Coax from the cable co. supported a max of 45Mb (~5.625MB). I could be wrong though...
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The reason would be that if it uses an Ethernet (RJ45) connection, there's only a limited number of protocols you can support: 10MBit, 100MBit or 1000MBit. Nothing in between, so if you need a modem that goes faster than 10MBit, it's gonna have to be 100 even if you're not actually able to reach that speed.