Computer Jargon

[Damo_R34]

Telstra Boradband here, weve had foxtel for 13 years, broadband for a long time, home phone and 1 mobile. We recently upgraded 50gig to 200gig per month, and SAVED $20 per month. So dad got an extra foxtel box for the family room

[S1LV3RTRACKS]

Yeah Telstra have some nice deals going on at the moment plus their cable internet service is extremely reliable with great speeds. Hopefully we will get the speed upgrade to 100Mbps that was in the pipeline.

[jrm]

Hmm, I agree to some extent, but already many companies are offering uncapped internet for around the $150 a month mark when bundled with home phone and mobile. There is no other country in the world that I know of that caps there internet (not for the past 5 years or so anyways). We are WAAAAAAAAAAAY behind. It will become essencially free, or to the point that its so cheap that it might as well be uncapped. We are not far off it. We are actually getting limited by speed more so then download limit with caps these days.

There are a few ISPs in Australia offering unlimited downloads, but typically only on limited exchanges. These ISPs also typically have a lower quality of network, lower-quality service/support, and over-subscribe their service to the hilt - to try and cut the costs.

As for the rest of the world - not sure if you don't read the IT news websites or what ... lots of places around the globe are implementing capped internet.

Comcast in the US with a 250GB cap, back in 2008:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/its_...h_bandwidth_cap

ATT in the US followed up with their own bandwidth caps:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/att_...b_bandwidth_cap

http://www.dailytech.com/ATT+Experiments+w...rticle13355.htm

TimeWarner 40GB for $50 bandwidth caps:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/06...caps-arrive.ars

These are just three I can find quickly on the web.

I'm not saying bandwidth caps are a good thing - I don't particularly agree with them. But users are downloading more and more, and right now with the structure of the internet - particularly in Australia - those bits of data cost real money. The ISPs do typically still get charged on a per/gb download fee for their users, and then they have to cover the costs of their own network, infrastructure, support services, etc, etc. The more bandwidth they're pushing through their network, the bigger and more capable routers they need etc. What worked 6-12 months ago may not scale up to the same capacity today. Margins in the ISP world are typically small - it's a business that I'm glad to be out of these days.

I don't think internet will ever be free. What we'll probably find is a convergence between our various services - phone, media/entertainment (music/TV) & internet, offered under perhaps an access fee and a monthly content fee (or perhaps a per-download fee for the content), which is then stored locally (likely DRMd). Who knows how far away that is down the track though, 5 years? 10?

We're a media and entertainment hungry society - I can imagine a situation where we'll end up with is agreements between the content/media providers content distribution networks and the end-users ISPs to essentially provide our media content for free and the rest of our internet access at a nominal rate - download limits won't mean much then because most of our content will be via local CDN nodes. We may end up probably have to pay the content/media providers a monthly access fee for the service. Think ABC iView that is offered un-metered to many ISPs. The whole face of the internet and how we get our content is changing dramatically - some companies are moving with the times and recognising how things are changing, others are falling behind.

[Madaz]

Yeah Telstra have some nice deals going on at the moment plus their cable internet service is extremely reliable with great speeds. Hopefully we will get the speed upgrade to 100Mbps that was in the pipeline.

yeah not wrong then i can even quicker not use my 50gb

pity they don't upgrade the pipe on foxtel on demand i tried to download a movie but it seemed a bit slow

[Damo_R34]

Not bad for Vodafone 3G broadband USB modem, test running with 1 download going.

Run 1st time on recommended Melbourne Server:

Then run on Adelaide server

[Madaz]

yeah very nice speed

[Damo_R34]

If you are familiar with the facebook game "CarTown", and are addicted like me, Volk and IronChef, post your pics

[Nightcrawler]

For those Starcraft II fans, I have just finished the game for the 2nd time (first on Normal, then on Hard) - F$#k me some of the Hard missions are Hard (yeah yeah, I know how stupid that sounds) - especially if you are trying to get the extra achievements (some of them are near impossible trying to get the extra achievements as well). I am contemplating doing it on Brutal, but don't know if I have the fortitude to go through it again. Might leave it a few weeks and work on some of the league achievements instead. How many points do you guys have now? I have 2,000 exactly.

[heslo]

For those Starcraft II fans, I have just finished the game for the 2nd time (first on Normal, then on Hard) - F$#k me some of the Hard missions are Hard (yeah yeah, I know how stupid that sounds) - especially if you are trying to get the extra achievements (some of them are near impossible trying to get the extra achievements as well). I am contemplating doing it on Brutal, but don't know if I have the fortitude to go through it again. Might leave it a few weeks and work on some of the league achievements instead. How many points do you guys have now? I have 2,000 exactly.

Yeah it's a bitch on hard. All In was a particular nightmare

[Nightcrawler]

Yep, finished it just now so it is very fresh in my mind. Took about 3.5 hours, due to save games and what not. Especially hard since I was trying to get the ALL IN achievement and only used the Artifact once right near the end.

Can't even imagine how hard it is going to be on Brutal. At least I will be able to use the Artifact on that one though, since the achievement is done.

[Madaz]

[Nightcrawler]

^^ Absolutely beautiful graphics detail! Looks like a cool game, but I wonder how quickly one would get bored of it?

[Madaz]

yeah will install it in a min and see if its a lame as the other hunter game walk for ever for nothing

[Madaz]

when looking for a SSD what should one look for

trying to keep it under $200 as its for a Gamer Build im quoting

>>OCZ List Here<<

i was thinking this as its not over the top but will get better performance compared with a platter HDD

>>OCZ 60gb <<

come to look @ it the Vertex 2 would probably be better

>> OCZ 60gb Vertex2<<

[Nightcrawler]

Yep the Vertex 2 isn't bad. I have the similar Falcon 2 in my rig. Big problem is for any gamers is that 60Gb is WAY too small to keep your Win and games on (my Steam directory alone is 80Gb), so you end up putting your games directory on a 2nd drive which all but 100% negates any speed benefit of an SSD. TBH my preference in hindsight would be to raid 3 x 1Tb drives together (for similar money of 1 x 60Gb SSD), and have a 4th 2Tb drive for all the important docs/data whatever in case the array ever fails. Even better you can keep everything - your Win, games and data on the array and backup any important data to the 4th drive and you are set.

[Madaz]

yeah i was well ahead of you Andrew

this is drive number 2, now i know green aren't the sought after drive but i don't think it should matter too much but i may consult with the guy as its a flight sim X machine

>>WD green 1.5tb 300mb/s<<

[bezender]

for teh HL2 fans

[Pepsinator]

i recently got a samsung 1.5 tb external

for 100 bux brand new

also downloading that hunting game

looks cool

[Madaz]

yeah was a bit cool i shot 6 dear and first kill was like within 5 mins i think i played for like 1 hr

you need to read a bit before going in as i forgot bullets my first time out

[Madaz]

rFactor 2 rain eXperiment