Steve said:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 81-86-179-244.dsl.pipex.com
What's Pipex's ADSL like?
Is the 1MB connection worth the cost or in practice do you only get a
marginally faster through rate than the 512Mb version?
I have a friend on Pipex ADSL 512. We were discussing this a couple of
days ago actually, here's the mIRC transcript:
[:22:01:55] <Wey|avp> bT have announced the first UK 512knps broadband
system thing for under £20
[:22:02:03] <Wey|avp> £19.99 a month
[:22:02:05] <Wey|avp> sound good?
[:22:02:06] <Wey|avp> lol
[:22:02:15] <Wey|avp> it has a 1 gigabyte PER MONTH download limit
[:22:03:35] <Shao1in> that would be **** all use for me as i get 4-5 GB
a day
[:22:03:43] <Vissy> really
[:22:03:47] <Vissy> I never had a limit with vibe
[:22:03:48] <Shao1in> 24/03/2004 5,013,353 KB 773,211 KB 5,786,564 KB
86,401 sec
[:22:03:49] <Shao1in> 25/03/2004 4,467,006 KB 831,740 KB 5,298,746 KB
86,399 sec
[:22:03:49] <Shao1in> 26/03/2004 4,315,042 KB 1,137,615 KB 5,452,658 KB
86,400 sec
[:22:03:49] <Shao1in> 27/03/2004 4,079,775 KB 1,024,211 KB 5,103,985 KB
86,399 sec
[:22:04:27] * Wey|avp has (in theory) a 1gb a day cap on his, but I
regularly do what shaolin does
[:22:04:33] <Wey|avp> ie 5gb+ a day
[:22:04:36] <Wey|avp> and no complaints so far
[:22:05:19] <SmallBlackDog> apparently i dont have a cap on my bandwidth
usage
[:22:05:28] <Wey|avp> who you with?
[:22:05:36] <Shao1in> i dont ahve any caps
[:22:05:41] <Shao1in> but then pipex pwn
[:22:05:52] <Wey|avp> but your connection is onyl 512, right?
[:22:06:02] <Wey|avp> "only"
[:22:06:03] <Shao1in> with 256 up, cable boi
[:22:06:58] <Wey|avp> you are 512 download, 256 upload,,,,, im 1mb
download, 256 upload
[:22:07:03] <Wey|avp> i have a 1gb cap, in theory, you dont
[:22:07:06] <Shao1in> you have 256 up as you have 1 mb down. if yo were
on 512, you would be 126 up
[:22:07:10] <Wey|avp> but ntl cant fund the people to check it
[:22:07:19] <Wey|avp> oh I see
[:22:07:21] <Wey|avp> yes
[:22:07:25] <Wey|avp> you are correct, sorry
[:22:07:34] <Shao1in> it happens
[:22:07:38] <Shao1in> ;-)
[:22:07:44] <Wey|avp> heh