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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Swoop on October 01, 2002, 05:16:21 PM
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My ADSL just went out.
Now I know what you're thinking.....why would the title be woo bloody hoo if the ADSL is out and how did he post this?
Well.....everything stopped here, no more Kazaa, no more browsing, Jenga looking at me with those eyes that say "Go on then Mr-I'm-so-bloody-clever-network-engineer, fix it".
Ok so pinged the DNS, nothing. Pinged DHCP server, nothing. Hmmm. It's midnight here and the Dutch ISPs support line closes at 8pm......and they're all brain dead anyway. This could be bad.
Rebooted the ADSL box and it did a very strange thing. I have a 1Mb connection.......when the box reloaded it picked up a 2mb line.
And YEP ITS TRUE! Couldnt believe it at first but speed tests show 195kbps now. :D. We'll see how much the next bill is for......anything out of the ordinary and I'll immediately become Mr Thicky who really didnt notice that all those lights on the ADSL box changed.
Right then.....what to download next?!
(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
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Originally posted by Swoop
Right then.....what to download next?!
(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
Mingers, of course.
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All the movies and games your HD can handle. I hope you have a burner.
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baaaaaa when I was in houston I was the only person in my neighborhood that had a cable modem. I used to get 2meg/sec :p
Ofcourse now im in Austin so I'm lucky if I get 100k....
WTG you lucky bugger hehe.
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Swoop...
My line connects at 5Mb, but its a bandwidth throttled service down to 128kbps. Every now and then the throttling fails and it switchs to 5Mb :D
However, theres more. A mate of mine lives in town, he has Gig-Fibre into his flat.