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Apr 28, 2008, 03:53 PM // 15:53
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Minnesota
Guild: Black Widows of Death
Profession: W/Mo
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Question on Internet Connection Speed
My local internet company is offering 10 meg service (I currently have a 3 meg service) which seems fast enough. But………This is a package deal with phone and TV so you get it no matter what if I switch.
Do you need a special modem or card to process this fast? (I have just the standard card that came with the computer which is a few years old already) |
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Apr 28, 2008, 03:59 PM // 15:59
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Desert Nomad
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Location: Toronto, Ont.
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Apr 28, 2008, 03:59 PM // 15:59
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2008
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if you mean your ethernet card then it should be at least 100 mb/s which should be fine. I don't think I've seen anything slower than that for ethernet.
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Apr 28, 2008, 04:20 PM // 16:20
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Minnesota
Guild: Black Widows of Death
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Thanks and yeah its a standard 100 card (modem not sure so I will give them a buzz) Thanks again
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Apr 28, 2008, 05:08 PM // 17:08
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rattus rattus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK GMT±0 ±1hr DST
Guild: [GURU]GW [wiki]GW2
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The arcane arts of internet speedery :/
You should be ok with a 100. Most computers come with 10/100/1000 built in nowadays, but the top-end is for local networking rather than internet. Obviously the 10Mb is theoretical top speed that will never be achieved - assuming US law allows the same luxury of optimistic advertising that English law does. [noob note: do ISP figures and NIC figures both refer to Megabits, rather than Megabytes? Always wondered ^^]
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Apr 28, 2008, 09:15 PM // 21:15
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Feb 2008
Guild: AFO
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snog they usually refer to megabits instead of megabytes however there are small exceptions
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Apr 28, 2008, 11:53 PM // 23:53
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: California
Guild: Xen of Heroes
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You're talking about DSL right?
If you upgrade to 10Mbit, make sure you have an ADSL2+ modem because the max for that regular DSL crap is like 6Mbits? So going from 3 to 10, you'll have to check that your modem is go. I cleaned out the server room at work and I found some base 10T hubs. But that's off topic 
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Apr 29, 2008, 12:00 AM // 00:00
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Forge Runner
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