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I wish .... my line comes off a RIM, so ADSL1+ is the best it is capable of - and I only get 3Mb out of the theoretical maximum of 8Mb :P

I get 2.3Mb stable @ 4.8km dsl2+ out of the theoretical 24Mb.

Awesome quality lines telstra laid for us around the place  :blush:

The oldest I can do you for is an old PIII 600Mhz with around 256 or 384Mb PC100/133 ram and slot 1 mobo...... then again I don't remember if I threw all that old junk out. If I come across it and you're interested it's yours.

hahahah what you mean another you've prolly never given them a dollar anyways

side note

saw your mum driving home tonight was going to wave but knew she wouldn't recognise me in the camry and traffic was hectic

:blush: Believe it or not, I used to be with them LONG ago, cable, and from the day I left them I vowed never to return. Disgraceful service for top dollar and even worse support. Wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

And my mother never notices anything going on around her when she's driving anyways :P

:blush: Believe it or not, I used to be with them LONG ago, cable, and from the day I left them I vowed never to return. Disgraceful service for top dollar and even worse support. Wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

+1. I signed up with telstra as soon as I moved out of my parents house when adsl had just come out (2001) and telstra ended up billing me $1100 and $1200 for two months internet respectively. Seems they decided to turn the 'unlimited' account I'd signed up for into a 3gb limited account (for $99 per month plus a stupendous stipend for extra downloads. Did 15 gigs two months running. Had to set the ACCC on their arse. Ended up winning but I'd never go with them again for internet.

I am however with them for NextG which works pretty much as advertised - I have no complaints with that, but I'm sure if I had the misfortune to need to call them, I'd probably be spitting chips

And Kralster, use Dosbox. It'll emulate everything.

-D

Does anyone have a really good old dos PC?

I'm talking like pimpin 486DX2100 with 16 mb or ram and stuff

i want a proper old dos based computer to play all my old games on.

I've got a Pentium 60 with 16MB RAM, 15" colour monitor, keyboard, mouse etc still.

whilst i am happy with the cable service here and dad seems happy with 10% discount off each phone, cable, and foxtel for having 3 telstra services

if i left home i wouldn't go with them if i close enough to the exchange for good adsl2+

I've had Telstra cable many moons ago when living at home, and it was great for the time.

I won't use bigpond as an ISP if I ever have the choice anywhere again though, and seeing as they wholesale 2+ now it's unlikely that will be ever.

I do however use them for NextG wireless access through my phone when on the road, and that works well.

I don't think I'd ever have a mobile phone with anyone else.

guys i have a small issue with my Toshiba Laptop, windows takes ages to boot, the loading screen stays up for about 3-5 minutes before i can log-in. What usually slows this down?

Services...

Check services.msc or the Registry for shit that's either hanging on start-up, taking ages to start or shit you don't need.

Services.msc:

Start/Run

type services.msc

Registry:

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

HKCU/" " " "

Going to start placing orders for the parts for my new system... got a $1700 budgets and am gonna get the following:

Intel i7 920 CPU

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Motherboard

OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Platinum 12GB RAM

Powercolor 4890 1GB Radeon

Zalman 850watt Modular PSU

Already got the other components required but will be buying the following couple of months :starwars:

150gb Raptor SATA drive (To replace the 36gb raptor drive for the Operating system(s))

2 x WD 1TB AV HDD's (Raid 1)

LG L246WHX 24" Widescreen monitor

Logitech G19 Keyboard

BluRay Burner

AIT Internal Tape Drive

And in October I'll buy Windows 7 - having played around with the release candidate I can say its pretty funky, and should run nicely with 12 gigs of ram...

Now, does anyone want to buy my other kidney?

-D

Edited by Dohmar
May I ask why you went with the tape drive? Not keen on cheaper external backup options... eg. USB drive, network storage, etc?

USB drives and HDD based backups are too unreliable and flash based hdd backup isnt economically viable. Tape is pretty reliable and does a significant amount of data. If i could get a 1tb flash drive to back up to, I'd consider doing it but even then thats the sort of backup in which you can't rotate the media and have restore points over the course of the year... tapes are cheap enough were you can do this. And the tape drive I'll be getting is a SATAII based model for $650 and it does approx 50GB per tape.

-D

Yeah good point, but the issue with tapes are that they tend to wear out over a period of time, depending on the backup cycle. Same with the tape drive.

We've experienced this at my old job... with a nightly backup rotation on 5 tapes, we'd chew through at least 2 tapes every few months. Not to mention the ones that the tape drive don't eject correctly and leave the tape in a tangled mess!!

The more pertinent fact is that you could buy 4 WD 1TB Green Drives and run them SATA mirror RAID in a self-powered exterrnal enclosure to backup onto for around the same price as a SATAII tape drive and tapes - then you have 4 x 1Tb drives - couldn't see them all failing. but for my mind I would stripe raid 2 drives together and then have a redundant 2 as well - that way you get insane access speeds, and 2 x Gb arrays for backup. Your insanely vital stuff just chuck on a DVD or 3, and then buy a cheap 10Gb online storage account for insane peace of mind.

Screw 50Gb of inferior technology to back up onto.

guys i have a small issue with my Toshiba Laptop, windows takes ages to boot, the loading screen stays up for about 3-5 minutes before i can log-in. What usually slows this down?

Could be a plethora of things... easiest option, reformat. Put Windows 7 on it while you're at it :thumbsup:

The more pertinent fact is that you could buy 4 WD 1TB Green Drives and run them SATA mirror RAID in a self-powered exterrnal enclosure to backup onto for around the same price as a SATAII tape drive and tapes - then you have 4 x 1Tb drives - couldn't see them all failing. but for my mind I would stripe raid 2 drives together and then have a redundant 2 as well - that way you get insane access speeds, and 2 x Gb arrays for backup. Your insanely vital stuff just chuck on a DVD or 3, and then buy a cheap 10Gb online storage account for insane peace of mind.

Screw 50Gb of inferior technology to back up onto.

QFT. Mirrored RAID array is how I'd do it too

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