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Staralfur · 12-02-2001, 08:35 AM

I'm not in the Netherlands, so I don't know exactly what the service will be like there. However, having just had cable put in here (UK), I'll will warn you that it will ruin your life. You won't do anything else apart from use the internet, because it is so much quicker that 56k, and the novelty doesn't wear off.

On the plus side, there are 4 people in my house on the one connection, and we can happily all use it at the same time (and it is still ridiculously fast), a feat you could never perform on a 56k connection. Also, we can all be downloading at the same time and all get the quoted connection speed (56Kish), which seems very odd.
One thing I've found is that you play games online the pings can be very variable, it never lags, but I get ping times ranging from 30ms to 600ms. As far as I can tell this is the cable providers system, not our home network, or the game server. This is not good for gaming, I've tried to play Counterstrike 0.5 seconds behind the server time - this doesn't work.

Anyway overall I'd say leave the world wide wait and jump on board the world wide whoosh.

12-02-2001, 08:35 AM	#7
Staralfur Baaz Draconian Join Date: April 8, 2001 Location: Nottingham, UK Age: 45 Posts: 786	I'm not in the Netherlands, so I don't know exactly what the service will be like there. However, having just had cable put in here (UK), I'll will warn you that it will ruin your life. You won't do anything else apart from use the internet, because it is so much quicker that 56k, and the novelty doesn't wear off. On the plus side, there are 4 people in my house on the one connection, and we can happily all use it at the same time (and it is still ridiculously fast), a feat you could never perform on a 56k connection. Also, we can all be downloading at the same time and all get the quoted connection speed (56Kish), which seems very odd. One thing I've found is that you play games online the pings can be very variable, it never lags, but I get ping times ranging from 30ms to 600ms. As far as I can tell this is the cable providers system, not our home network, or the game server. This is not good for gaming, I've tried to play Counterstrike 0.5 seconds behind the server time - this doesn't work. Anyway overall I'd say leave the world wide wait and jump on board the world wide whoosh. __________________ We\'ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.\"<br />Robert Wilensky <br /><br />\"Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?\" <br />Screaming Lord Sutch<br /><br />If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?