Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

[Dennis Smith]

That reminds me when I was on good old dial-up. You had to wait until
the US started to go to sleep to play on some Quake servers. The lag
was awful until then. We didn't have very many servers here in the UK
then. I ended up getting ISDN because ADSL was never going to happen
in BT's words, although it did about 8 years after I moved from my old
village.

George, I had to double check what list I was reading when I saw your
name here! Small world.

Dennis Smith
M1DLG

On 18 November 2014 18:46, George Eycott <george at eycott.co.uk> wrote:
>> 5 Mbps, 11 Mbps, 60 Mbps - these are numbers I just don't recognise -:(
>> Here in rural Pembrokeshire, West Wales, I consider myself lucky if I get
>> the nominal 2Mbps that BT rate the line (upload about 250Kbps!!).
>> Fortunately Get_iPlayer trundles along quite happily and next morning I
>> usually have the programmes I requested. Long live GIP -:)
>
> Luxury.
>
> 2Mb/s download, yep we get that OK until the schoolbus pulls up in the
> village in the afternoon then 10 minutes later everything slows to a crawl.
> We are lucky to get 100Kb/s upload speed at any time, often it would
> actually be quicker to use a dial up connection! Apparently our exchange is
> known to be in congestion but nothing is planned to be done about it.....
>
> "And you tell the young folk that today, they won't believe you...."
>
>
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