Want FASTER!

Bigchrome

I'm sure this is stating the obvious for just about everybody here but it's about time we got faster connections here! I was in UCC today and they have a 50mb/s connection which is pretty unreal tbh!:D Made me want something at least 20mb/s , so what can I get with that that won't cost 10k a year?:(

watty

10Mbps from Digiweb is about €2050 p.a. Buy 2 of it and aggregate them via a smart Router/NAT and you would have 20Mbps for under half of the 10K p.a. Though "up to" applies. Or buy 3 x 6Mbps from UPC/NTL

Or 7 phone lines with ADSL aggregated to 20Mbps might be around 1/2 the 10K too.

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Bigchrome

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What the absolute flying ****

And I meant the 10k as sarcastically btw...what I really mean was for less than 1k a year. What modem can I use to aggregate the lines? Would use 3x6mb/s smart broadband for ~100 a month but then there's line rental too.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

flee the country tbh

watty

Bigchrome wrote: »

What the absolute flying ****

And I meant the 10k as sarcastically btw...what I really mean was for less than 1k a year. What modem can I use to aggregate the lines? Would use 3x6mb/s smart broadband for ~100 a month but then there's line rental too.

You use 3 modems:

Then a Cisco box or customised Linux box with 3 WAN ethernet and one WAN ethernet.
You can't get a single connection faster than the fastest link, but if your PC has multiple connections (torrents) or you have multiple PCs, then the connections a re load balanced.

You can get true aggregation, but that needs a box at the ISP end too, then a single connection is possible at sum of individual links. That is seriously expensive as the ISP has to have a fancy box at their end dedicated to you.

steve-hosting36

Just buy your own dark fiber to the nearest data centre The transit is cheap, altho the fiber might cost a 'few' euro a year

BeerWolf

Consider yourself lucky that you can get whatever form of broadband. I've been stuck on Dial-up ever since the internet was available in Ireland... !

tonton-bob

Move to another country ( avoid Belgium though )

Best solution :cool:

bungholio

move into a magnet ftth development, their fibre i can download at 2.2MBps which equals a 20mb line

MeWantBroadband

bungholio wrote: »

move into a magnet ftth development, their fibre i can download at 2.2MBps which equals a 20mb line

So? I am on the 8 Mb package (for now anyway) and it gives 5 Mb download on speed test and 9(!) Mb upload. :cool:

MeWantBroadband

move into a magnet ftth development, their fibre i can download at 2.2MBps which equals a 20mb line

MeWantBroadband wrote: »

So? I am on the 8 Mb package (for now anyway) and it gives 5 Mb download on speed test and 9(!) Mb upload. :cool:

Ok scratch that:

1. Tonight I am actually getting 12 Mb down and almost 9Mb down according to Speedtest.net.

2. I noticed you are using megaBITs and megaBYTEs in your comment. Please don't - that confuses any thread.

2. I don't know how you are getting 2 MB/sec which would be 16 Mb/sec. They only do up to 8 Mb, but maybe that is conservative.

bungholio

try and download a file from rapidshare and look at your download speed, it averages around 1.9MB, i get that on just about anything i download, even from alternative sites, see the screenshot below

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