Anyone heard of 16kbps cable?
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Guess what? In Trivandrum we have cable-internet but the speed for home users is about 16 kbps [means a maximum of 2 KB per second] I am planning to take one. I have paid for the modem [Rs 9,800], the installation charges [Rs 1,000] and the subscription for first three months [Rs, 2,775] Total :- Rs 13,574 :-( At least I'll have 24 hrs connection [even that is a vague hope] I have a friend who says during day times the speed is iften in bits per minute :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Guess what? In Trivandrum we have cable-internet but the speed for home users is about 16 kbps [means a maximum of 2 KB per second] I am planning to take one. I have paid for the modem [Rs 9,800], the installation charges [Rs 1,000] and the subscription for first three months [Rs, 2,775] Total :- Rs 13,574 :-( At least I'll have 24 hrs connection [even that is a vague hope] I have a friend who says during day times the speed is iften in bits per minute :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Hi Nish, Off late I had thoughts of taking a DSL / Cable Modem, but the problem is their connection is valid only in certain parts of the city and i have no guarantee that i will be put up in the same place.Meanwhile, who is ur ISP, i have taken the dial-up from dishnet and has a reasonable speed.Anyway, in cable-internet you dont have to pay your telephone bills, IMHO thats a huge benefit and is the killer if u r in a dial-up. Are you sure of the 2kb/sec,seems pretty slow. Anyway all the best. Happy surfing :-) regards Kannan
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Guess what? In Trivandrum we have cable-internet but the speed for home users is about 16 kbps [means a maximum of 2 KB per second] I am planning to take one. I have paid for the modem [Rs 9,800], the installation charges [Rs 1,000] and the subscription for first three months [Rs, 2,775] Total :- Rs 13,574 :-( At least I'll have 24 hrs connection [even that is a vague hope] I have a friend who says during day times the speed is iften in bits per minute :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Here in my city the only high-speed connection we had (for about a year) was cable-modem. People complained so much that I didn´t risk to get one. Just waited a little while with my good-and-old modem and so they came with the DSL stuff... pretty cool... pretty fast ...and cheaper (don´t need to tell you that I sign it up :) ). The problem is that the guys who had signed the cable modem was stucked with that extremely-expensive modem and with a 1 year subscription with the company that provide the service. So... my advice... if the connection is not goodm wait until the company in your city provide something better (like DSL :) ). Mauricio Teichmann Ritter Brazil mauricioritter@hotmail.com
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Guess what? In Trivandrum we have cable-internet but the speed for home users is about 16 kbps [means a maximum of 2 KB per second] I am planning to take one. I have paid for the modem [Rs 9,800], the installation charges [Rs 1,000] and the subscription for first three months [Rs, 2,775] Total :- Rs 13,574 :-( At least I'll have 24 hrs connection [even that is a vague hope] I have a friend who says during day times the speed is iften in bits per minute :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Nish have you ever tried setting up 2 modems on on your computer and have both of them connect to the net, therefore twice the bandwith? (close to twice anyway) I think I had something like this a long time a go (back when I had a 14k modem). But it has been many moons since this happened. If your ISP supports it, you should be able to do it. I think you'll have to pay extra, but aren't you willing to pay extra anyway for more bandwith? Rodrigo.
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Guess what? In Trivandrum we have cable-internet but the speed for home users is about 16 kbps [means a maximum of 2 KB per second] I am planning to take one. I have paid for the modem [Rs 9,800], the installation charges [Rs 1,000] and the subscription for first three months [Rs, 2,775] Total :- Rs 13,574 :-( At least I'll have 24 hrs connection [even that is a vague hope] I have a friend who says during day times the speed is iften in bits per minute :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Wow! What will you do with all that bandwidth? Play 'Pong'? Honestly, though, how do you ever get any work done at those rates? The first time I downloaded IE4 from Microsoft was over a 28800bps dialup line, and that took 14 hours! Are you close enough to a border to chuck a wire over the fence into a country with 20th century equipment? I'll be feeling much sympathy for you, Nish, each time I click on something and listen to the whooshing noise the bits make as they fly down the coax at 2Mbps.