DOS Games Discussion

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:29 pm**

i just got broadband installed! 128k ain't much of an increase from 56k, but you can notice it in download times! where was thet demo you were downloading, k0?...

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:00 pm**

www.westwood.com

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:21 pm**

that was a joke. but thanks!

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:23 pm**

well now you knoe for future referance.

Is it DSL or Cabel?

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:24 pm**

I've got DSL... it runs about 20 times as fast as a 56k

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:25 pm**

It sure as hell can't be Cable. Cable goes over 300K

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:42 pm**

Youve been fooled. They are nearly even. Heres how it works:

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Topic..........................Cabel...................................................DSL

D/L.........Start Fast&#40;300Kb/s&#41;,End Slow&#40;10-20kb/s&#41;.......................Stay Fast&#40;200kb/s&#41;
Loading...............Can go either way...........................................Mostly Fast
Sharing.......................Yes......................................................No
Speed.........Depends on amount of users.......................................Fixed

Here is a graphical look:

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        Cabel                                         DSL

Fast |-,                                            |
       |  \_                                         |______________
       |     \_                                      |
       |        \_                                   |
       |           \_                                |
       |              \_                             |                 
Slow|__________\_                          |______________

           Amount of Time

Ok, the graphical didnt work, oh well, u get teh pont

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 5:32 am**

well, it's probably cable. the guy had to splice the TV wire and run it through there. we have cable tv, so why not cable internet?

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:06 am**

(I know Flaming is wrong for a mod to be doing, but I must let this out)
K0, You Fool! I've seen people use Cable before. Shit, cable dled Blood (30 MB) in less than a minute. Now why, may I ask, would cable be fast at the start, and slow at the end? Is it just because you wish to prove me wrong again for no reason?

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 12:58 pm**

Thats the way it is. Ive seen it l;ike that. And never, never, has gone 30m in a min. My DSL can go 20-25m a min tho.

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 1:12 pm**

There are different speeds of cable modems. I have the slower kind

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:22 pm**

Mine's pretty fast. A lot of it depends on servers, though. Fileplanet's decently fast, about 200KB/sec. Sometimes 100. Other servers can be really slow, like 10 KB/sec. I've gotten over 300KB/s with my cable on fast servers, though.

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:47 pm**

Mine on average goes about 200KB a second, a MB in 5 seconds, 12 MBs a minute. Not super-fast like a T1, but 24 times faster than my 56k that went a MB in 2 minutes...

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:25 pm**

thats still fst for 56k.....

My dsl, i have gotten it up to 600 kb/s for a while. Now it averages around 90-120 kb/s

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2003 10:55 pm**

:Angry: *DSL connection speed envy* Bah, the fastest mine has ever gone is 250p/s. I wonder if 56k is 56k per minute... (actually, per 10 seconds seems to be it)

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:09 pm**

56k is 56 kilobits per second. I dont klnow the conversion to kilobytes tho.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:12 pm**

Bits, Bytes, who gives a shit....

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:31 pm**

A bit is either 1 or 0. (Power or not power) Remember binary game?

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:05 am**

a byte is 4 bits.

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2003 7:50 am**

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