Re: [BLUG] insight broadband vs. flets

I'm curious, are you actually getting the advertised speeds? What
would be a good way to test? I would only consider it to be what they
are advertising if you could download from a single site at a rate of
about 5 to 6 megabytes per second (for the 50Mbit connection).

Probably downloading an iso from one of the large mirrors would do the
trick.

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:53:11PM GMT, Ben Shewmaker [benshewmaker@yahoo.com] said the following:
> Visiting my in laws in Japan, I can't help but gawk at how much faster broadband you can get over here. My in laws (unfortunately) are on ISDN, but the isp they are with (Flets), offers 50M aDSL connections for US $42/month, or I can even get a 100M fiber connection for US $57/month. Makes Insight broadband's advertised 10M cable connections look like a joke.
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Re: [BLUG] insight broadband vs. flets

yep your right some of the speeds isp's offer are ridicuolos but on the other hand which is easier to cover the entire us with high speed or the entirety of japan.

On 5/21/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:

Visiting my in laws in Japan, I can't help but gawk at how much faster broadband you can get over here.  My in laws (unfortunately) are on ISDN, but the isp they are with (Flets), offers 50M aDSL connections for US $42/month, or I can even get a 100M fiber connection for US $57/month.  Makes Insight broadband's advertised 10M cable connections look like a joke.  

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[BLUG] insight broadband vs. flets

Visiting my in laws in Japan, I can't help but gawk at how much faster broadband you can get over here.  My in laws (unfortunately) are on ISDN, but the isp they are with (Flets), offers 50M aDSL connections for US $42/month, or I can even get a 100M fiber connection for US $57/month.  Makes Insight broadband's advertised 10M cable connections look like a joke.  

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Re: [BLUG] Gaming Night Suggestion

Well, what's keeping me from playing is not the choice of games
(though, admittedly, having to run out and buy NWN was a factor in my
not showing up this past weekend), but of life circumstances.

This coming weekend, for instance, I'll be in Bloomington packing more
stuff to bring to my new apartment. Add to that the fact that I have
very little social life up here as of yet so I'll likely be calling up
friends to do some socializing if I get a free moment while I'm down
there, and chances I'll have the time to sit and rock the BZFlag on
Saturday at 9 fall slightly.

On 5/21/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
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> Ok, if all of you are going to play then I'll put it on the schedule.
> I'll knock off one of the ut2004 sessions. There need to be more weeks
> in a month. ;-)
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> I'll be sending out a survey this week to try to collect everyone's
> opinions about what games to play, when to play them and how you
> generally feel about these gaming sessions.

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Re: [BLUG] Gaming Night Suggestion

Ok, if all of you are going to play then I'll put it on the schedule.
I'll knock off one of the ut2004 sessions. There need to be more weeks
in a month. ;-)

I'll be sending out a survey this week to try to collect everyone's
opinions about what games to play, when to play them and how you
generally feel about these gaming sessions.

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Re: [BLUG] Gaming Night Suggestion

I third the motion.

Josh

On 5/21/07, Matt Standish <mstandish@gmail.com> wrote:

I second the motion

On 5/20/07, "Simón A. Ruiz" < simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:

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Re: [BLUG] Gaming Night Suggestion

I second the motion

On 5/20/07, "Simón A. Ruiz" <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:

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