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    W00t upgrading to 1MB DSL

    Well after 6 months of indecision I have finally decided to take the plunge and get 1MB DSL Just hope BT get a finger out and do it ASAP. Anyone else taken the plunge? Was it worth it? How long did BT take to do the regrade?

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    I have just upgraded from 1mb to 2mb ADSL. Gonna take up to 5 working days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FordPrefect
    Well after 6 months of indecision I have finally decided to take the plunge and get 1MB DSL Just hope BT get a finger out and do it ASAP. Anyone else taken the plunge? Was it worth it? How long did BT take to do the regrade?

    Yup i did that a few months ago but found it wasn't worth, makes no difference in games and i found i wasn't using the machine as much so downgraded back to 512k.

    and bt where quick with the regrade in each case.



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    It's true 1mb makes little to no difference with online games, you need a better upload speed to get better pings. Unless you download a lot then 512k is more than enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trashman
    It's true 1mb makes little to no difference with online games, you need a better upload speed to get better pings.
    2 Mb makes no difference as well apart from when you need to download the valve security module or maps from a CS server

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    Quote Originally Posted by WildmonkeyUK
    2 Mb makes no difference as well apart from when you need to download the valve security module or maps from a CS server

    And it's worth doubling you ISP cost to download a map faster? You must download a lot of CS maps

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trash Man
    And it's worth doubling you ISP cost to download a map faster? You must download a lot of CS maps
    yeap fy_marioworld is quite fun when drunk

    As for the ADSL costs, believe it or not I only pay 29.99 a month as its 2 Mb from 6pm to 9am and all weekends and bank holidays ( bulldog primetime 2000 )

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    Well I am happy with my response times with zen generally although they did used to be approx 19ms they are now 24ms, not really something I notice when playing online. I dont really download all that much either its mainly cause I am impatient and why wait an hour to download a patch when you can do it 30 mins

    Main thing I would like would be larger uploads, 4MB down and 2MB up would do me fine

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    Bulldog are doing 2mbit SDSL for £160 a month if your really need that extra upstream bandwidth

    Setup costs £250+ mind you =/

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    Quote Originally Posted by WildmonkeyUK
    yeap fy_marioworld is quite fun when drunk

    As for the ADSL costs, believe it or not I only pay 29.99 a month as its 2 Mb from 6pm to 9am and all weekends and bank holidays ( bulldog primetime 2000 )

    Is that like Dollars? We pay 39.95 a month for 512 DSL!

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    That would be £ not $. I pay £22.99 for my 512k which is $42.40 according to XE.com. As for upgrading to 1 or 2mb, i wish i could
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    Quote Originally Posted by spazman
    i wish i could
    Hopefully you soon will be able. BT are doing an extended trial for ADSL in Milton Keynes and if all goes well then 512 Mb and 1 Mb adsl will have no limits to SNR and line length it will be a case of install and see if it works.

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    i wish you could choose what speed you want and then then choose the % that is upstream/downstream. that would rock.
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    Well the extra speed is very nice Wish I could get SDSL at my exchange, although at 160 quid a month I couldnt justify the cost

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    Grr, I need at least 1 meg downstream. 512k would be enough for me, but it's a network and so that 512k has gotta go a long way.

    Which it doesn't too well.

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    Id like a better upload I host a lot of IL2 games and the bottle neck is uploads, takes 16 to 18 easy but gets flakey round the 20 make unless all in UK. Id love to be able to host 16 v 16 But till I can get 512 or 1mb upload ill stay with 512/256

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