AOL Broadband

[Bob Cratchitt]

MtS - People at work use Bulldog as it seems to be only available in London. They are very happy with it all. I would say for £24.99 a month best to go for the 1MB.

Papa - You have been brainwashed

that is what Microsoft want you to think. At the end of the day people are using these machines in their daily life at work or at school. So it is only exposure to such things do you learn. If M$ wasnt here then we would all be using something else. Also for the record Apple was doing the user friendliness thing M$ does in 2000/XP years ago.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Bob Cratchitt @ Feb. 13 2004,12:10)]MtS - People at work use Bulldog as it seems to be only available in London. They are very happy with it all. I would say for £24.99 a month best to go for the 1MB.

Cool - my thoughts exactly (esp. as I'm a London resident). Thanks Chairman Bob.

Matt

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Bob Cratchitt @ Feb. 13 2004,12:10)]Also for the record  Apple was doing the user friendliness thing M$ does in 2000/XP years ago.

Xerox were doing it in the 70's at PARC but other people saw the potential of the windows based GUI and reaped the rewards.

Yes I am a geek BTW.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Feb. 13 2004,13:59)]Yes I am a geek BTW.

And the proud owner of a BBC B as well...

Any joy with the disk drive, Matt?

Matt

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Feb. 13 2004,14:34)]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Feb. 13 2004,13:59)]Yes I am a geek BTW.

And the proud owner of a BBC B as well...

Any joy with the disk drive, Matt?

Matt

Not yet!

 

[Kenny]

Quote[/b] (Bob Cratchitt @ Feb. 13 2004,12:10)]MtS - People at work use Bulldog as it seems to be only available in London. They are very happy with it all. I would say for £24.99 a month best to go for the 1MB.

Bulldog do cover this area as well I remember looking into it as Bulldog are doing 1 meg DSL for about 33.99 a month IIRC.

 

[The Fitter]

I use a 1 meg telewest connection. I can't step up again to the 2 meg as I use wireless and you have to have a fixed line for 2 meg. My download speed is 120k a sec so long as the site allows it.

Only reason I use 1 meg over 512k is that I like to have a sub 50 ping when playing counter strike and download stuff in the background.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Kenny @ Feb. 13 2004,17:59)]Bulldog do cover this area as well I remember looking into it as Bulldog are doing 1 meg DSL for about 33.99 a month IIRC.

It's on special offer, Kenny - £24.99 a month at the mo.

Matt

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (The Fitter @ Feb. 13 2004,18:29)]Only reason I use 1 meg over 512k is that I like to have a sub 50 ping when playing counter strike and download stuff in the background.

Apologies for my ignorance, but what's that in English...? Quite seriously, I'm not extracting the michael - I just don't understand the jargonese...

Matt

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Feb. 13 2004,13:59)]Xerox were doing it in the 70's at PARC but other people saw the potential of the windows based GUI and reaped the rewards.

Yes I am a geek BTW.

Yep I know that Cyril, and the fact a certain Steve Jobs was allowed to look at this project as the hierarchy at xerox thought the whole gui thing was a silly idea and naturally he took everything he could. Later Bill Gates befriended Jobs and then did the same to Jobs and bingo Windows is born. And that was the beginning of the bad blood between Apple and M$. Until this decade when M$ buy into Apple.

See we are both geeks

 

[The Fitter]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Feb. 13 2004,18:41)]

Quote[/b] (The Fitter @ Feb. 13 2004,18:29)]Only reason I use 1 meg over 512k is that I like to have a sub 50 ping when playing counter strike and download stuff in the background.

Apologies for my ignorance, but what's that in English...?  Quite seriously, I'm not extracting the michael - I just don't understand the jargonese...

Matt

Ping eh! whats it all about

Put simply, when you play games online your pc needs to talk to the server pc and then the server needs to talk back. The ping, or latency, is the time it takes for each little chat between the 2. So a lower ping the better.

It is easy to spot the players with a slow connection as they tend to stutter and jolt about the screen as you play.
Hope that helps.