The question is, which is better, the price is so similar but i've only ever used the 50:1 at 512k connection....
Which would you choose ?
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512k ADSL at 20:1 Contention
1M ADSL at 50:1 Contention
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The question is, which is better, the price is so similar but i've only ever used the 50:1 at 512k connection....
Which would you choose ?
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Last edited by Barakka; 17-08-2004 at 02:59 PM.
System:Atari 2600 CPU:8-bit 6507 (1.19MHz) RAM:128 bytes Colours: 16 (4 on screen) Resolution: 192x160Originally Posted by The Mock Turtle
1m is always going to be faster
1Meg is definitely the better option![]()
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as said above the 1Mb would be faster 99% of the time.
Contention only really makes a difference if you have a lot of neighbours with ADSL, and as only about an eighth of the population has broadband, you should be fine - even at 50:1
Um. What? A Uni / Student residences don't use ADSL...Originally Posted by këö¬t
but a lot of student houses in the same street might. then again what are the chances of there being 40-50 student house in one street?
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Depends a bit on what you want it for. Games, it's latency all the way, and so the lower contention ration will be better. for Leeching, u want bandwidth, and so go for the 1 meg.
We had several student houses with cable or adsl bandwidth and a most of our neighbours were students. The xtra hassle with students using broadband is they (we) tend(ed) to share it between all the peeps in the house, so there was allways someone using Napster (this is back in the good old days). We actually drilled a hole through the wall and poked the cat5 cables through to our neighbours house, which involved me sitting in the cupboard under the stairs with a drill for about an hour, of course Funnelhead (who was my housemate at the time) trapped me in there, comedy genius that he is![]()
Our NTL cable started out great, and would get progresively worse for about six months, then go down for a day, and come back better than ever. Did this about three times, presumably as more and more customers loaded the system until eventually ntl (tightwads that they are) were forced to keep their servers up to date.
Got to admit though, I'd probably go for the one meg connection if it was me.
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