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Tag: bandwidth

  • Bandwidth Upgrade

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThose stats are the current upload and download speed test results whilst watching France 24 on Zattoo. In other words I should have enough bandwidth to use operator11 without too many problems now.

  • Net Neutrality and The United Kingdom

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSlashdot today quoted Small fries as saying that the Net Neutrality Debate crosses the Atlantic. Analysts believe that ISPs will be forced to place stringent caps on consumers’ internet use and raise prices to curb usage. Attempts have been made by players in the industry to form a united front against the…

  • 860 k/bits per second on wifi

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am currently downloading at about 800 k/bits per second which is some of the fastest downloading I’ve done, especially from home over a wifi connection. It’s a broadband connection but using one of the latest wifi cards. That’s the current speed

  • A Healthy Amount Of Downloading

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere is a reason for the Halls ISP to complain. today’s usage 862 when the limit is only 500 a day. Look at how much bandwidth I have remaining though. How am I going to get through 26 gigs in thee days I wonder.

  • Excess Use of Network

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesHere is my daily good morning message from the ISP: Yesterday you exceeded the daily usage limit of 500MB as referred to in our Terms and Conditions. This type of activity could have a detrimental affect on our network unfortunately be forced to downgrade your service to a throughput limit of 56Kbs…

  • Podcasts and Bandwidth

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere have been a lot of discussions between podcasters and the amount of bandwidth that is needed to serve these files. Successful podcasters shift several gigabytes of data with each episode of their podcast and since everything is automated everyone requests and receives the file at this time. This means there’s a…

  • I’ve been joost(ed)

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter informed me that a friend got his Joost invite whilst I was in the library. I was looking for some books that had been recommended to me by someone I had interviewed for my dissertation so I did not pay much attention to this at the time.

  • Unreasonably low – a rant against a certain ISP

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDear Victim, Yesterday you exceeded the daily usage limit of 500MB as referred to in our Terms and Conditions.   This type of activity could have a detrimental effect on our network and therefore we cannot allow this to continue.   Should you continue to exceed the daily download limit we will,…

  • Over 400 views of the Sandstorm video

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve just checked the number of hits on the Silent disco hits and it’s now up to over four hundred views. That’s a nice amount. I’m quite happy with this number because it’s from my website rather than another source. I’ve been posting videos on the web for many years and I’ve…