To Blue Yonder and beyond!

[SteveC]

Woohoo!! I just got Telewest's cable modem service installed here at home, and am getting a nice ~50kb/sec to most sites. And the rate I'm downloading, I'll burn this thing out in a few hours!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Himself]

Congrat!

[Greebe]

Cheers Steve!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

I have a fire extinguisher at the ready!! lol.

[paulcs]

Always on and toll free I hope.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[SteveC]

oh yes - allways on and flat rate fee.

I found out a weird thing though - Telewest cap the sppeds at 512kbps down and 128kbps up, but I noticed that when you start off a download, it takes around a second before they cap the speeds, and I get nearly 100kb/sec during that time!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Taz]

Do you get a static IP address or are they using NAT?

[SteveC]

They give you a new IP address every 24 hours - the IP address they give is a proper internet address however. Plus, the new IP address that they give you each day is almost always the same one you had before - the installer said he had the same IP day after day for 5 months before. It only changes if a server change is made.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Rags]

Steve, that 100K/s you are seeing is not really happening. What is going on is the download has already partially begun before the browser begins to count, so it sees say 100 K already downloaded, and after a second it's there, so it rates it as 100K/s at first. I see this all the time, sometimes it was more obvious with my dialup connection.

Rags

[SteveC]

Yeah, i thought that, but Napster does it too... so I'm not too sure.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Rags]

It's the same deal there. You hardware starts going before the software can start to monitor it.

Rags