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oceanicitl
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
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Location: London
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Was shocked to find one of the companies I work for only has a 10mb line. That's for an office of about 40 people on a busy day. What do the rest of you have? I'm curious and nosey.
This is BUSINESS accounts, I don't want to know what all you home gamers have lol.
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:42 am |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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*cough* last time I looked our JANET line was something like 100Gb/s....
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:46 am |
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okenobi
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Up to 20. Averages 6mb, 400k up (we're in the middle of nowhere) 20:1 contention though and generally adequate for the two people who might ever be using the internet concurrently
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:52 am |
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james016
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 5:52 pm
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At home I have a 16Mb ADSL line with a 1.3Mb upload speed (that is "up to 20Mb"). Not sure what the contention ratio is but it has never been slow in the year that I have had it.
At work we have a 10Mb leased line.
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:57 am |
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John_Vella
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Location: Manchester.
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According to Broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk we have 43856 Kbps
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:59 am |
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tombolt
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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8mb ADSL line. Get about 6mb download speed. There's only three of us though.
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:02 pm |
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Fogmeister
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Location: Getting there
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We've got a 100Mb fibre line down to our data centre which is in the same office building.
For the internet there is a self implemented speed limit of only around 5-10Mb as we use the rest of our bandwidth to transfer data to and from depots.
Not sure what speed the depots have? Maybe 2-5Mbs for around 3 to 4 people per depot.
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EddArmitage
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What sort of contention do people have? I think that's as important a question here.
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Fogmeister
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I'm guessing we have a dedicated line. And I think we may even have 3 or 4 lines.
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:36 pm |
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tombolt
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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I guess it's 20:1, but it seems like 2:1 as it seems to run at full speed most of the time.
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:13 pm |
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AlunD
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Location: Wiltshire
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Amnesia10
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But still a residential speed in Sweden or Korea. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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AlunD
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what 100 Gb / second................... 
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:29 pm |
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jonbwfc
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It is a bit silly. We do a lot of collab work with other unis on stuff like high energy physics and biogenetics that require absolute wadloads of data to be passed around. Pretty much all the academic & technical staff have 100mb/s direct internet access to their desktop.. Jon
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| Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:48 pm |
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JJW009
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We have 2x 8Meg 20:1 ADSL2 lines, one for backup. There's only 5 of us here so it's fine.
There are a lot of businesses with ~50 people running on "normal" 20:1 broadband lines, and the speed they get is often nowhere near the 20Meg max due to line lengths. The price difference between ADSL and a leased line is just too big to justify anything better, and most companies do not need everyone browsing all the time.
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