Is your sager fast enough to watch this? The advantage of 8x agp heh... - Page 2

Just be careful though. With these new Sagers connected to a fast link you might just suck the network dry and end up here .

Wow

Wow that was amazing. My 8890 had no problem!
True high definition picture. Can hardly wait till films are shot in that.
Here's Terminator 2 in 1080p along with others:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...tShowcase.aspx

Bob

Films ARE shot in that. Remember Episode 2?

Umm, when I try to run it it says its not a valid win-32 application.

How many times did I tell you to get the 8890 Nathan.
No you knew better, the 5680 was for you.
Now see what you have done. I knew it would all end in tears .

It sounds like you might have got some form of corruption during the download or something.

I repeated the download several times . . . maybe I'll try downlaoding it using IE.

I wouldn't put it past microsoft to . . . well . . .

Someone needs to bonk Microsofts head this time. There is no technologial reason why a non Microsoft browser should be incapable of downloading an exe file.

In other words, IE worked.

Where I'm at (Bay Area Northern CA) it's just the opposite.
DSL is just under $30/mo. Cable is around $56/mo if you are not a cable subscriber.
I'm led to understand that because so many people use cable here, the line can/does get overloaded and significantly slows down.

My prior DSL was downloading at over 1MB/sec. I think I was kinda close to CO.

Oh well; Could be worse. A friend in this Townhome complex connects at less than 30k baud.
So I guess around here my 33.6k is screamin fast!

That's hilarious!

CO what do you mean?

CO = Central Office -- A local telephone company switching center.

Do a define CO or Central Office on this site for full explaination.
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/

dsl speed increases come from your proximity to the DSLAM not the office

DSLAM
(DSL Access Multiplexor) A central office (CO) device for ADSL service that intermixes voice traffic and DSL traffic onto a customer's DSL line. It also separates incoming phone and data signals and directs them onto the appropriate carrier's network. See DSL.


The multiplexor (signal mixing device) has to sit somewhere. I'm guessing from this definition it probably sits in the Central Office.

not neccesarily
im not that farmiliar with phone company terms but i do know that dslams dont have to sit at a central switch location. they can be placed sporadically to increase coverage area

1. The telco tech who checked out my house before I got my DSL equipment told me that I would get great connection speeds because I was close to the CO.

2. Here's text from DSL definition on techweb.com site.:
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1) (Digital Subscriber Line) A technology that dramatically increases the digital capacity of ordinary telephone lines (the local loops) into the home or office. DSL speeds are tied to the distance between the customer and the telco central office. DSL is geared to two types of usage. Asymmetric DSL (ADSL) is for Internet access, where fast downstream is required, but slow upstream is acceptable. Symmetric DSL (SDSL, HDSL, etc.) is designed for short haul connections that require high speed in both directions.

Unlike ISDN, which is also digital but travels through the switched telephone network, DSL provides "always-on" operation. At the telco central office, DSL traffic is aggregated in a unit called the DSL Access Multiplexor (DSLAM) and forwarded to the appropriate ISP or data network.
______________

If you read in the first paragraph:
"DSL speeds are tied to the distance between the customer and the telco central office."

If you read in the second paragraph:
"At the telco central office, DSL traffic is aggregated in a unit called the DSL Access Multiplexor (DSLAM)."


3. If you go to the site and get the definition of DSL you will see an image which shows the
DSLAM INSIDE THE CENTRAL OFFICE.

I'm tired and not going to link the image to this post.

According to what I've read DSLAM sits in the CO.

Since you are
"not that farmiliar with phone company terms "

How do you know that
"dslams dont have to sit at a central switch location. they can be placed sporadically to increase coverage area"?

Is there some point to this????

Damn it! Stupid M$ can't have enough bandwidth. It goes at 30KB/sec (while I can pipe through 180KB/sec) and it keeps failing someway through the download. MF!

Guys, what you might also try are ATI's Real-time Demos. They are REALLY cool. Take a look at the ones for Radeon 9700s and 9800s: http://www.ati.com/developer/demos.html . They come in forms of just stand-alone demos or both stand-alones and screensavers.

Due to the fact that DSL can only work over so many feet of cable, Phone companies thought that instead of opening a CO every few miles they could instead make these little boxes that they could strategicly place that would handle the multiplexing. With these boxes in place, you no longer have to live withing a mile or two from the CO. Now they could take one of these boxes and put it somewhere in your subdivision and you to will receive DSL at great speeds.


It's called looking at a problem and fixing it...
Maybe the phone company, in some plot to actually turn a profit figured they didn't want to build a CO every 3 miles...

the pipe dream demo is really cool...i haven't checked out the other ones yet tho.

yea, i was downloading at 165kb/s but that was only because i had another download going for "the italian job" on a nother computer going at 100 kb/s.

my isp (charter communications) screwed up in my area or something because im only supposed to get 768 down, and now i get 3.1 mb!

but yea, anyways my ti4200 handeled that no prob

-Jcc2k4