speed up the internet.

Tue Feb 26 11:13:33 MST 2013

Should I start digging by the phone box or the house first ?
And should I use a square shovel or a round shovel ?
Would my minecraft character be able to dig the hole any faster ?

:PPPPP

On 2/25/2013 10:09 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> Sounds like you need to dig up your phone line and wrap a spare 
> ethernet cable around both ends :)
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 02/25/2013 04:48 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>> Doesn't 175 KB work out to around 1.5 mb? That's about the rate I got
>> when I had 1.5 Mbit from Qworst years ago.  It's my understanding that
>> bandwidth is determined by your ISP.  The more you pay, the more you
>> get.  With DSL the quality of the line between the phone company's local
>> office and your home is the main limiting factor with DSL.  Of course
>> the longer the line is, the lower the maximum possible speed is.  I live
>> about 1000 feet or so and AT&T tells me I could get 20 Mb, but they
>> don't offer that speed here.
>>
>> On 02/25/2013 02:20 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>>> I can get 4000+KBps on a regular basis over my unmodified cable to the
>>> Internet.  The very same cable will give me 48000+KBps over my Lan.
>>>
>>> The speeds you are talking about are so low that even a badly mad, or
>>> damaged cable would achieve them thought much trouble.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>> On 02/25/2013 01:17 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>> 175kbps. or is it mbps?
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Lee Reynolds <Lee.Reynolds at asu.edu
>>>> <mailto:Lee.Reynolds at asu.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Good point.
>>>>
>>>>     For example, 175 is my IQ, measured in Poodle Points.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>     Stephen [cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>]
>>>>     Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:10 PM
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>>>>     Subject: Re: speed up the internet.
>>>>
>>>>     175 is a number, without context of what unit that 175 is its 
>>>> just a
>>>>     number, between 150 and 200. :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com><mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>>     is 175 a normal download speed with a standard dsl speed?
>>>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com><mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>>     Thanks Nathan... I appreciate that.
>>>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com
>>>> <mailto:nathan at nmecs.com><mailto:nathan at nmecs.com
>>>> <mailto:nathan at nmecs.com>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Countless scientific studies in the medical community have proven
>>>>     that, in many cases, the placebos are as or more effective than 
>>>> the
>>>>     prescribed medication. I believe you are a primary candidate for
>>>>     placebo trials Michael!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On Monday, February 25, 2013 11:58:16 AM Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     remember a few weeks ago when someone post a link some young guy
>>>>     made  on speeding up a person's internet by putting a strand of 
>>>> cat5
>>>>     next to your existing cat 5? Everyone said that was stupid but 
>>>> I did
>>>>     it anyways. Well, my download speeds seem to have increased. Prior
>>>>     to my experiment I used to stay around 145 while maxing at 159. 
>>>> Now
>>>>     I am usually at 175 and it goes down to 159. Maybe I'm just paying
>>>>     closer attention but if someone has some spare cat 5 test it and
>>>>     tell me I'm right or just being stupid:)
>>>>
>>>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> <mailto:nathan at nmecs.com>>)
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