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well limit is doubled not moved by zero, also faster speed is a benefit itself, doesn't mean you have to download more you know.jeez, I'm on the 15Mb and not worthwhile moving up to the 30Mb because of the same 250gig limit, most definitely not worth my while moving to 100Mb line with such a (relatively) low limit, would hit 500gig in less than a week given those download speeds.
Also answers another speculation about how much the limits may move once 100Mb launched, answer = zero
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Also answers another speculation about how much the limits may move once 100Mb launched, answer = zero
Did you actually think a company introducing a new product would effect the workings of their current and still sold product??? :rolleyes::eek:
Shucks, hard life alright... guess your gonna have to make do with the same pathetic old highest current AUP limit in Ireland. Tough break alright. :rolleyes:
For literally years this forum has been full of whines and moans about speeds here being way behind europe and when an ISP starts to buck the trend and gives what was being asked for they get met with more whinges and moans!!! Sure they aint giving it away for free but we hardly expected them to , so cut them a little slack for being trend setters in the area of speeds at least, if they didnt bring on higher speeds how long do you think you'd be waiting for Eircom and the likes to get their act together.
I for one am glad UPC are now giving me the option to go for higher speeds if I choose to where before I couldnt literally pay for it even if I wanted to.0 -
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ah you're not admit it, you're just glad UPC have given everyone here something to moan about so you can moan about them!hightower1 wrote: »I for one am glad UPC are now giving me the option to go for higher speeds if I choose to where before I couldnt literally pay for it even if I wanted to.
you went dark there for a while, i thought you have gone on your holiers or something.
i knew i'd regret putting you on ignore sooner or later, its just not been the same without you.
it's actually 100 megabits per second (there's 8 bits in a byte) which works out at 12.5 megabytes a second, so you'd only have a bottleneck if you were writing directly to a particularly slow USB drive or something like that so no need for an SSD at the moment.How useful would this be? By this I mean will I ever actually be downloading anything at 100mb? Does the data even write to my hard disk that fast? I have 7200RPM hard drives. Would you need a SS drive to get these speeds?
I am currently on the 30mb package and it runs at 30mb 90% of the time, I mainly use my internet for online poker so need an extremely reliable connection with good ping times, I doubt that the 100mb is going to be any different in this regard 0 -
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ah you're not admit it, you're just glad UPC have given everyone here something to moan about so you can moan about them!
you went dark there for a while, i thought you have gone on your holiers or something.
i knew i'd regret putting you on ignore sooner or later, its just not been the same without you.
vibe666 are you a UPC customer or what ISP do you use?0 -
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ah you're not admit it, you're just glad UPC have given everyone here something to moan about so you can moan about them!
you went dark there for a while, i thought you have gone on your holiers or something.
i knew i'd regret putting you on ignore sooner or later, its just not been the same without you.
it's actually 100 megabits per second (there's 8 bits in a byte) which works out at 12.5 megabytes a second, so you'd only have a bottleneck if you were writing directly to a particularly slow USB drive or something like that so no need for an SSD at the moment.
Cool, dont worry I know the difference between bits and bytes, I am a telcoms enginseer after all!! Just was not sure if the hard drive could write fast enough compared to the download speed!!0 -
err, yes we do because he told us in an earlier post. he's trialling the 100mbps UPC service with the 802.11n wireless router they gave him. :rolleyes:
you personally? you must have a really big wireless network. :rolleyes:
you can read all the articles you like about what standards are licenced where, but if you actually had a decent amount of real world experience of wireless devices, you'd know that 802.11a is about as popular as syphilis and as such is very rarely if ever actually used and as such has only limited support.
the dominating wireless standard in Europe WAS initially 802.11b IS currently 802.11g, and is rapidly being overtaken by 802.11n as people demand faster wireless access than 802.11g can deliver, such as with 100mbps broadband.
I'm one of the few with 802.11a gear. I'm using it due to heavy congestion on 2.4 GHz in my area. Unfortunately my Wii and Nokia N86 don't support it.0 -
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yup, we have electricity and hot and cold runnin' wimmin here now too! :pac:IrishTonyO wrote: »Just wasn't sure if they were in Navan or not
we actually used to just have chorus TV here for ages, then there was that whole MAN broadband project that was part funded by the EU in 2006 and we got a MAN ring right round Navan (possibly even two) that never actually seemed to go anywhere and then next thing you knew, when it actually got officially lit in 2008 (2 years late) UPC swooped in and took over and hooked us up with their triple play thingamybob. its not everywhere in navan, but a lot of navan is reasonably new and most of the newer estates were wired for chorus when they were built, at least the ones in the last 10 years or so anyways.
aha, you'll be useful here then, stick around!Cool, dont worry I know the difference between bits and bytes, I am a telcoms enginseer after all!!
you could probably cook your xmas turkey on my street with the amount of wifi AP's around me, so i ended up just running ethernet cable in the end as the 2.4ghz interference was driving me batty.I'm one of the few with 802.11a gear. I'm using it due to heavy congestion on 2.4 GHz in my area. Unfortunately my Wii and Nokia N86 don't support it. 0 -
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jeez, I'm on the 15Mb and not worthwhile moving up to the 30Mb because of the same 250gig limit, most definitely not worth my while moving to 100Mb line with such a (relatively) low limit, would hit 500gig in less than a week given those download speeds.
Also answers another speculation about how much the limits may move once 100Mb launched, answer = zeroIrishTonyO wrote: »well limit is doubled not moved by zero, also faster speed is a benefit itself, doesn't mean you have to download more you know.
My point was the existing packages did not got an upgrade, a reasonable comment given they did in the past and there was speculation it could happen again along with the 100Mb package being launchedhightower1 wrote: »Did you actually think a company introducing a new product would effect the workings of their current and still sold product??? :rolleyes::eek:
Shucks, hard life alright... guess your gonna have to make do with the same pathetic old highest current AUP limit in Ireland. Tough break alright. :rolleyes:
For literally years this forum has been full of whines and moans about speeds here being way behind europe and when an ISP starts to buck the trend and gives what was being asked for they get met with more whinges and moans!!! Sure they aint giving it away for free but we hardly expected them to , so cut them a little slack for being trend setters in the area of speeds at least, if they didnt bring on higher speeds how long do you think you'd be waiting for Eircom and the likes to get their act together.
Tough break, well this is 2010, I have 4 PCs, Wii, Xbox 360, Archos, Kindle, Internet TV etc etc and constant user of RTE player and it's similar programs on other sites due to lack of ability to receive any analog or digital ariel reception where I live. With a family using PC's for watching TV/educational and entertainment purposes I would welcome a higher limit because it's most annoying having this concern about excessive use in the back of the mind. From my perspective though a cost jump to €80/month is not worth a double AUP limit so I'll stay put.
If limit is truly an unsustainable problems for others the - unadvertised - extreme package is now the obvious answer with it's true unlimited option.
I have not knocked UPC anywhere WRT their service and innovative speeds and high AUP, merely providing a comment that a sidebar speculative thought of existing packages being upgraded was also answered with the launch of UPC. I've no problem with the UPC service, this thread is about their annoying AUP debate and that up until recently they never let customers know the limit was 250gig and the ongoing lack of monitoring to let folk track themselves.
Perhaps your 'whing' and 'slur' comments are a generalisation as I do not believe my comment was a whinge nor slur.0 -
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if it was a UPC brain upgrade you'd only be able to use it for a few hours a month at full speed before they gave you a lobotomy.IrishTonyO wrote: »well when you can get a brain upgrade to match their speed everything will fine
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it does, they're just not in the pic on the spec sheet for some reason.Alofthedunnes wrote: »I've been testing it and it looks like that model (although the one I have has two fold out aerials at the back that I can't see on the one you linked). I'll check for definate when at home later.
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is that router any good? it would be nice if they offered a dual mode 2.4/5ghz variety.it does, they're just not in the pic on the spec sheet for some reason.
also, is there any word on the current packages being automatically upgraded in the near future, when this is out of beta stage?0 -
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