Nice. Cable is much faster then DSL. Now, Gigabit....Mmmmmm...Optical.....

yep cable owns dsl only cuz the dsl companies are cheapo.. i have gigabit lan on my mobo.. but makes no diff other than the name for now.. in fact its a hassle because XP doesn't have the drivers

Jason425 is right, DSL is far more potent, its potential just isn't taken advantage of. With regard to 56k, the upload speed is 33.6k on V.90 and 48.0k on V.92. The download is rarely ever 53.3k, the max speed for 56k according to FCC specs, but is slower for other reasons. The TCP that we use today reduces the speed of transmission of a packet to 50% of the previous attempt if the previous attempt failed. That, along with congestion, gives us speeds lower than the real life speeds we are connected/rated at.

Yeah. Bellsouth will never use dsl to its full potential. They (the phone company) are a monopoly and have no competition in the dsl market, so they don't have to speed it up....

i'm on crap local phone company dsl and i have no other choice, no cable and no other dsl gets here

Same here. There is another company, I51 that does dsl, but it's easier to have it all on the same bill.

:wavey: *** Dell PrecisionWorkstation 650:*** :wavey:

- Intel® Xeon Processor, 3.06GHz, 1MB L3 Cache

- 2nd Processor Intel® Xeon Processor, 3.06GHz, 1MB L3 CACHE

- Operating System: Microsoft®Windows® 2000 Professional (SP4)

- Memory: 4GB,DDR266 SDRAM Memory,NECC (4 DIMMS)

- 1st Hard Drive: 146GB Ultra 320 SCSI, 1 inch 15,000 rpm for PERC320

- CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices: 4X DVD+RW/+R AND 16XDVD-ROM,DVD Decode/Sonic SE(for Professional Authoring)

. Graphics Cards: 3Dlabs® Wildcat®4 7110,256MB,Dual VGA/DVI (dual monitor capable)

- Sound Card: Sound Blaster® Audigy II with onboard 1394

- Modems: 56K,v.92 data/fax modem,PCI

- Monitor: Dell UltraSharp 2000FP 20 inch Flat Panel Monitor (20.0 inch vis)

- 2nd Monitor: Dell UltraSharp 2000FP 20 inch Flat Panel Monitor (20.0 inch vis)

- Keyboard: Enhanced Performance, USB (8 Hot Keys)

- Mouse: USB,Logitech MX-500,7 button w/scroll

- Speakers: High-End Speakers,2.0,HarmonKardon,HK395

- Mouse Pad: Mouse Pad

- 2rd Hard Drive: 146GB Ultra 320 SCSI, 1 inch (15,000 rpm) for PERC320

- 3rd Hard Drive: 146GB Ultra 320 SCSI, 1 inch (15,000 rpm) for PERC320

- 4th Hard Drive: 146GB Ultra 320 SCSI, 1 inch (15,000 rpm) for PERC320

- 4th Hard Drive Bracket: 4th Hard Drive Bracket, SCSI, Gray

- 2nd SCSI Controller: U320 SCSI ADAPTER,64B PCIX,EXT

- Optional SCSI/RAID: PERC320,RAID1,Mirror,for 4 SCSI Hard Drives

- Floppy Drive: 3.5 inch 1.44MB Floppy Drive

- Internal Zip Drive: Iomega ZIP,250MB,IDE,bezel,F5 bay

>:) - BROADBAND INTERNET CONECTION (1Gbit/Sec). >:)

Now..... I have a question! :shake:

Where can I get a GameSpy ID to download Counter-Strike Full Version from FilePlanet.com???

That’s all folks….. I really appreciate your help :)

you have that comp.. go buy cs..

Look, if you people want to pay money to a company that has been greedy as your average oil company since they started making money with gamespy, that's your perogative. But what about the fact that these people _force_ everyone they host to put files exclusively on their sites; or the fact that they actively give services AT A LOSS to game develeopers to trade for exclusive downloads...

What we have here is a trend that will sooner, rather than later, force people to pay money to download FREE files. Period. Unless people make a stand and say "I refuse", that's our future. And you won't be able to blame me. I had a mod on planetunreal. Just to piss them off we put exlusives on unreality.dk. I have refused to use gamespy or fileplanet since fp required signin. I guess i'll sink with my ideals, but i'll have a clean conscience.

You're paying for bandwidth. I paid $5 for a lifetime subscription to gamespy, so I'll never have to pay again, but that was the deal then, now you have to pay a monthly fee, but I don't. As for Fileplanet, I only pay $6 per month. That's not a lot for the bandwidth that I use up.