What connections are we all on - please vote

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Posted by Pointy on Oct-05-2002 08:06:

What connections are we all on - please vote

Evening all, in light of having to download many sets for the upcoming AU.TA Mixing Competition (tm)(c), what connections are we all on? Because if the majority of us are on wee little modems, the contestants should record no longer than a CD-length mix, and should encode it at 128kbps. If you really do care about wether the mix is 128kbps instead of 192kbps quality, you really needa get out more heheh. And dont worry about being marked down cos of 128kbps quality, as everyone who enters will be on the same level. So vote up ppl

Ciao
Pointy

Posted by Philby on Oct-05-2002 08:59:

28.8 for me

Posted by escee on Oct-05-2002 09:21:

go the 512/128k ADSL!

Posted by j�c� on Oct-05-2002 09:32:

broadband/cable for me

Posted by matt_a on Oct-05-2002 11:53:

I used to be on 2 cans, but i decided to upgrade to 56k. Dunno why spur of the moment decision.

Posted by DJ Dowlz on Oct-05-2002 12:48:

quote:
Originally posted by Philby
28.8 for me

Philby, I feel really sorry for you.

Muhahahaha 10240k (10Mbit) connection for me

And please, could we make it at least 160kbps. 128 is just too poor IMO.

Posted by Philby on Oct-05-2002 12:55:

stfu

man even the modems we dial into are 28.8k!! so if we got 56 it wouldn't make a difference! oh well, its free, unlimited, un-restricted, no disconnections, dont even have to pay for the phone line.... i can live with it

and with the shitty old school little sound blaster speakers we have here the bit rate isnt that important!

Posted by webmeister on Oct-05-2002 12:56:

Still stuck on 56k

i've been thwarted at every turn in my quest for broadband...

Posted by Pointy on Oct-05-2002 13:15:

Damn dowlz, didn't know that kinda connection existed in Australia..hahahah

How about 128kbps using MP3PRO.. meaning if you use the mp3PRO codec, you'll have superduper quality, but in a smaller filesize

Posted by DJ Dowlz on Oct-05-2002 13:23:

quote:
Originally posted by PointyDC
Damn dowlz, didn't know that kinda connection existed in Australia..hahahah

It's called the University of Adelaide's backbone connection to the internet. I think the backbone is at least a gigabit but unfortunately our college only has a 10mbit microwave connection to the Uni.

Posted by Pointy on Oct-05-2002 13:24:

"only"......HA!

Posted by webmeister on Oct-05-2002 13:47:

Pointy - consider that at any given moment, probably a hundred or so people are using part of that bandwidth...

it gets segmented quicker than u can imagine

Posted by DJ Dowlz on Oct-05-2002 13:48:

quote:
Originally posted by PointyDC
"only"......HA!

When you've got 200 people sharing 10mbit it can be a little slow at times (down to 20k/sec). Especially when this one guy has 4 porn streams running at once! He's got a dual monitor setup and so he has one monitor with Babes and Lesbians and the other with Asians and Hardcore. Funny thing is he has a really hot girlfriend.

Posted by webmeister on Oct-05-2002 13:58:

hahaha
thats awesome!

babes and lesbians, plus asians and hardcore!!

i love it

Posted by Pointy on Oct-05-2002 14:02:

4 porn streams... god damn, porn overload. I know the bandwidth would get split up alot, but in the low usage times... whaaaaaa!!... Speederama Or are there no low usage times and that porn guy goes all nite and day?

Posted by DJ Dowlz on Oct-05-2002 14:17:

While you might think that with 200 users 10mbit wouldn't go far, the net at college never really gets overloaded. The slowest its ever got down to was (as I said) around 20k/sec. And that was only cause there were problems at the Adelaide Uni end. At our college they have a Sun Ray system, so most people use that for net use. And since you can only view websites (and not download files) the bandwidth usage is minimal. That said, there are around 30 of us who have their own computers (and think that Sunrays are the worlds largest paper weights). But unless we all happens to be downloading at once, the bandwidth never really gets chewed. Plus 99% of the time your download speed is faster than their upload speed, so you're limited by that factor too. Mind you, it's pretty cool having that much bandwidth cause you can have 10 DC downloads going at 20k/sec and surf the web at the same time.

So in summary, a 10mbit connection is rather sweeeeeet.

Posted by escee on Oct-05-2002 16:15:

haha
i guess if youve got 2 monitors you need to use them for something.

Posted by escee on Oct-05-2002 16:19:

here is an interesting bandwidth fact about european unis. Many universities in finland (one domain is hut.fi) have 155 megabit connections to the backbone. Yes 155 megabit. Transferring between fast ftps in Europe you can get in excess of 1 meg a sec, usually below 2 meg though. Also in Sweden, people have 10megabit fibre, to their door, for seriously cheap prices.

They also have more trance than us

Posted by webmeister on Oct-06-2002 00:21:

Yeah but when we have a hot sunny day, they get snow :P

Posted by Tranzmit on Oct-06-2002 02:03:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Dowlz

Funny thing is he has a really hot girlfriend.

Perhaps she is yet to taste of the forbidden fruits yet?

Posted by dj_nomiz on Oct-06-2002 04:12:

quote:
Originally posted by escee
here is an interesting bandwidth fact about european unis. Many universities in finland (one domain is hut.fi) have 155 megabit connections to the backbone. Yes 155 megabit. Transferring between fast ftps in Europe you can get in excess of 1 meg a sec, usually below 2 meg though. Also in Sweden, people have 10megabit fibre, to their door, for seriously cheap prices.

They also have more trance than us

im not much of a internet person, but i heard the super duper rich companies who need fast internet... use some connection that lets u dl around 1 gigz per second/minute... or else somewhere near that is that true?

i heard this off of my computer friend

Posted by DJ_Ballistic on Oct-06-2002 09:11:

they make copper string now????

well im on dial-up, and to make things worse, i had adsl for like a yr before this as well

Posted by DJ_Ballistic on Oct-06-2002 09:14:

also a gig/second is impossible

well its possible, but i dont think anything bar the line leading out of australia can get that high

Posted by resisted on Oct-06-2002 09:40:

cable here.

fibre optic cable can run at gigbits, which is obviously more than 1gig/sec im sure some infrastuctures use this technology such as sun valley in the US.

Posted by DJ_Ballistic on Oct-06-2002 09:53:

1 byte = 8 bits

gigabyte > gigabit

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