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Getting 6mb speed, what can i do with it?

download anime, thats what i use the bulk of my bandwidth for, so far on SBC my 24 hour period download record is 37 GB lets see if i can break that... =)

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Good question. Now-a-days, it seems like much of the content you'd download with that kind of bandwidth would be illegal stuff :/

But it would have its uses. Faster OS updates from windows update, faster demo downloads for new games, faster patch downloads for games, etc.

I myself would love it for my debian updates, which can sometimes be 30MB+ when they update XFree and stuff like that, but it's nothing I can't wait a little while extra for. I'd personally rather have 768/768 than 3.0/384 or something like that Too bad SDSL is insanely expensive (and doesn't work via RTs).

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608k is fairly close to 768k, MUCH better than 384k anyhow. The 6 mbit down is a nice "bonus" when you buy a high upstream. It's pretty clear from SBC's pricing that the upstream is where they see value, just look at the price on the 384/384 package.

-- Rob

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online gaming would be a treat with this package, over the net installs of Linux/BSD/whatever, windows updates and remote file transfers would all go really quick. Start getting into online audio/video, real player and windows media player have links to start to do it. You could easily watch an online video stream with very good quality, game, surf, do a multimonitor media center. BBC has a hi bw stream at »www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq···_ost.ram, showing just how good streaming can be.

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Download every Linux distribution known to man and play around with them all

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said by brisonic:

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BBC has a hi bw stream at »www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq···_ost.ram, showing just how good streaming can be.

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reply to IceNineJon
pr0n = )

u can stream music all day
play as many computer games as u want
download movies
get all the linux distroz and play with them

- just a few things i would do = )

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IRC would be fun

Man...is there anyway to lift the cap on my 384 but not upgrade to 1.5MB?

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More Bounce To The Ounce, your icon is distracting me

said by psianime:

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More Bounce To The Ounce, your icon is distracting me

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definately nice to hear some good news from the forums . Its been awhile, wow , somebody actually has higher speeds than he know what to do with, lol, gotta love it.

by the way , that avatar is the most original I have seen in some time!!

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Well guys thanks for all the suggestions.

But I realized that I have 3 active computer users and one often user. Which that in it self should eat up the bandwidth.

It’s like being in a dorm with no download caps!!!

Let’s see what new uses I will find for all this bandwidth...

reply to hmm 6mb
"illegal stuff", because we all know how much piracy laws are enforced online. Not that I'm sudgesting anything, god knows even if I was a pirate I'd need my dsl fixed first. Good luck finding stuff ; )

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I use up all 4 of my megabits pretty regularly. Downloading SDKs from Microsoft, Linux ISOs, driver updates, etc. I see over 250KB/sec on a VERY regular basis, 400KB/sec happens only from tme to time. I'm definitely finding having more than 1.5 megabits worthwhile although I don't know if 6 would be that much better than 4. It's the 608k upstream that I'm really salivating for though.

-- Rob

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crimany!!!

haha, they have 12-step programs out there that would probably help you :P