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From: bumblebee30 Sep 2010 13:24
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 91 of 100
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Oh, I meant operating one's own server at home. I used to be an a huge German board (about 50k users) whose owner/programmer/admin operates his own server from his living room :)
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From: ANT_THOMAS30 Sep 2010 13:28
To: bumblebee 92 of 100
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And what sort of internet connection did he have?
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From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)30 Sep 2010 13:57
To: bumblebee 93 of 100
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What Ant said - unless he had a special internet connection, he almost certainly wouldn't be getting connection speeds like this:

quote:
Pinging www.tehforum.co.uk [178.79.137.101] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 178.79.137.101: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=54
Reply from 178.79.137.101: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=54
Reply from 178.79.137.101: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=54
Reply from 178.79.137.101: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 178.79.137.101:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 3ms, Average = 3ms


It'd be nice if we had home connections that responded like that... maybe in Germany they do... but generally they're much slower and less reliable.
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From: ANT_THOMAS30 Sep 2010 14:02
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 94 of 100
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Haha, them replies are quicker than me pinging another pc on my network over WiFi!
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From: bumblebee30 Sep 2010 14:33
To: ANT_THOMAS 95 of 100
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No idea, probably fast DSL since he lives in Berlin...
I was on that board for 6 years and usually it was no slower than this one.
Admittedly, maybe once a year the board was gone for a few hours or even a day when hardware had to be replaced :D

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From: ANT_THOMAS30 Sep 2010 14:36
To: bumblebee 96 of 100
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It would've been an extremely fast line to handle that many users and no doubt very expensive!!
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From: bumblebee30 Sep 2010 15:32
To: ANT_THOMAS 97 of 100
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Here they offer fiber connections now (200Mbps down, 10Mbps up guaranteed) for about 50€/month. They also offer 1Gbps connections (both up and down) for 250€/month, but who can afford that... ;P
EDITED: 30 Sep 2010 15:33 by BUMBLEBEE
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From: ANT_THOMAS30 Sep 2010 15:39
To: bumblebee 98 of 100
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:O I'd definitely take the €50/month option.
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From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)30 Sep 2010 15:56
To: bumblebee 99 of 100
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:O I need to move to Germany.

There isn't some evil catch, like a 1GB/month "fair use" limit on that is there?
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From: bumblebee30 Sep 2010 16:11
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 100 of 100
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No, no limit whatsoever. It also includes 100+ TV stations and unlimited phone calls.
I live in Portugal by the way ;)

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