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by **Robotbeat** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 7:11am

I have AT&T broadband as well, and it gets "officially" 1.5 megabits/second download, 300kbits/sec upload, but I've achieved greater than that for both. (the modem's hardware is capable of 3 megabits download and like something like 700k upload or something) I've heard that you can also hack your cable modem to unlock that 3 megabits, but I've heard of people getting caught and I like my broadband, I'm not willing to risk it being taken away

. I often get up to 1000 times the download speed from KAZAA at home with AT&T broadband than I get at my college dorm LAN connection, even when using the same exact downloads/number of people. It's pretty sad. 1000 times. I've calculated it.

by **James S** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 4:41pm

by **Annoying Snails Master** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 6:16pm

by **damian** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 7:08pm

by **James S** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 7:56pm

Ya, if you had an 8megabyte/second cable connection than you've got a faster backbone to the internet than 95% of the websites out there! It's not POSSIBLE to download at 8 megabytes/second because no servers can provide that fast a dedicated stream to a single IP address. You'd nuke a server just by visiting it!

by **sponge** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 8:00pm

I hate you all. 1mbit down, 128kbit up, and they enforce that as strict as can be.

by **James S** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 8:03pm

... uhm, that's what I have. I'm not complaining. Ooh, except my upload speed is 64Kbits.

http://computingcentral.msn.com/internet/speedtest.asp

by **damian** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 9:02pm

Meh, the MSN/CNET speed test is very inaccurate. Use the speed test (under "our tools") instead.

by **Village_Ideot** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 10:41pm

ok i get 630 kbps download, 350 upload. (those are BITS)

which isnt that great, but it is so much better than a modem...ill take it!

by **Village_Ideot** » Jan 4, 2003 @ 10:43pm

hey moose what was that link to the reg edit which made broadband connections faster? (this is a new comp, i may as well try it again, it worked last time)

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