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See this and envy me!!!

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:13 pm
by liberator

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:58 pm
by Guest
umm is the speed of your internet connection supposed to be the new digital penis?

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:12 pm
by liberator
I just thought it was cool. I didn't mean to offend...:(

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:17 pm
by Holy imperial Gloriano
It's cool I'am almost there too heh

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:36 pm
by pyro-manic
How the hell did you manage that??

Would be cool, though...

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:40 pm
by Taristin
Bah... mine is good enough for ~30.00/mo

http://reviews.cnet.com/7009-7254_7-0.h ... bps=3306.3

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:12 am
by redmenace
liberator wrote:I just thought it was cool. I didn't mean to offend...:(
lol no sweat lib. I was just horsing around. I meant it in jest only.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:26 am
by liberator
No prob ;)

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:47 am
by Hippo

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:50 am
by Taristin
AOL @ 56K*

* - Actual speeds will vary.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:55 am
by Hippo
MTU's helped a LOT though...

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:07 am
by liberator
Hippo wrote:http://reviews.cnet.com/7009-7254_7-0.h ... &kbps=23.7


So, why do they call it 56k?
Maximum theoretical speed, though it's limited to 53k by federal law.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:08 am
by Taristin
And can someone explain why it's limited to 53k?

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:06 am
by redmenace
otherwise you start to get static on the line of other callers or something like that

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:08 am
by Flipside
It's to do with the quality of the connection. The signal still travels through the line as an audio signal, not a digital one, and the sound at the other end is reconverted into data. 56K is the maximum current speed that data can travel through a normal telephone line before the signal degrades too much for the other computer to decode it. :)