In Chiba. It's her first time on a foreign exchange so she's just getting use to the trains, the expensive groceries, the heat, etc. haha
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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT3| Two-sided triangles
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In Chiba. It's her first time on a foreign exchange so she's just getting use to the trains, the expensive groceries, the heat, etc. haha
Dark Machine
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Korea is even better. They have 100% fibre optic to the premises coverage if I remember correctly. Mine's some super-fast ADSL type stuff until it gets to the street, then it's fibre optic. I'm paying for 100/50 mb/s so it's not too bad actually.
Edit: It's VDSL that I get from my apartment to the street apparently.
Meus Renaissance
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Yes, and so does BT (for P2P traffic)
They do, aye.
The trains are easy to get used to, the heat as well. Surprised the groceries are expensive though, but a lot of people tend to buy vegetables/food they're comfortable with from the US, which is more expensive than Japanese stuff, like pickled plums, daikon radishes, etc., which are cheap as dirt.
Who is Sian Welby?
Meus Renaissance
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That defence is tragic from Arsene. Jenkinson isn't even a Championship player. Why not use any of our academy players instead?
Dark Machine
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Mine's fucking pants.
My hangover's taken a real turn for the worst. I'm dribbling and shivering.
O2 broadband is superior. They had really great speed when I had my apartment at uni. Got about 70% of advertised rate as I recall and was over 5 miles from the exchange on ADSL. They were only £8 a month because I was a mobile user too.
What the fuck were you drinking? Antifreeze?
Football gaf's queen.
My ISP does this thing where if you use a shit load of bandwidth, they throttle your P2P. It's based on some kind of bell curve. If you're downloading way more than anyone else, you'll be on the top of the list, so to speak, and you'll be throttled.
But you can just turn your computer off or unplug your modem for an hour and you get reset all the way back to the bottom.
It's annoying but manageable.
But you can just turn your computer off or unplug your modem for an hour and you get reset all the way back to the bottom.
It's annoying but manageable.
/epeen
Gave my younger brother my ticket for the game today. Rough as fuck when I woke up this morning.
That's huge. How much are you paying a month for that?
Dark Machine
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I'm still at home at the moment, move back to Uni next week. At Uni we have Sky which is pretty quick, but for some reason my mum got fucking Orange internet or some crap here, and it's wank.
The night started with a cocktail experience, where we received a masterclass on how to make a few cocktails. I was slogging mojitos and cosmopolitans and shit.
Meus Renaissance
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There is a point, though, that you dont notice any difference in speed when browsing. And in many cases, the servers you download from won't even max out your throughput speed. Unless you do a lot of streaming video, then you're not really missing out on anything with fibre optic
Dark Machine
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Indeed. It also depends on the speed of your PC. If you have brilliant internet-speed but an old pc (like mine, still on Vista and 3 years old now) the speed doesn't matter because your computer can't process it all fast enough.
Well you'll always be limited by the servers you're downloading from, too.
The most I've ever seen is about 9 MB/sec. from Steam.
Virgin took over NTL right? I used to have NTL cable and it was utter utter dog shite. Virgin is satisfactory I assume?
Yeah they did.
Meus Renaissance
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Get Sky and join Team Meus
Then you look at your defence and shed your tears
Yep, its been great. Don't notice any caps (one day downloaded all my steam library after a format fucked up my steamapps)
Probably gonna downgrade the TV though. We hardly watch the movie channels, but since it's all part of the package I don't think we'd save much just cancelling them.
I haven't drunk since I made a tit of myself about a month ago. Don't remember a thing about the evening. Been told some horror stories.
They have been fine...as long as the other team stays in their half...
Meus Renaissance
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best thing about virgin is that my connection has decent latency which ping sme to our natural selection server @10ms.
Everything else about virgin media is pure shit and i'd change if i knew what the other providers are like around here.
Terrible fucking company with some of the worst customer service, even had a scouse CS girl be an angry racist down the phone to me because of my surname.
Everything else about virgin media is pure shit and i'd change if i knew what the other providers are like around here.
Terrible fucking company with some of the worst customer service, even had a scouse CS girl be an angry racist down the phone to me because of my surname.
You'd take it, if it were offered ?
Meus Renaissance
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No way. What happened exactly
They're all knobheads. Slater and Bosnich are painful.
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On paper, yes, but considering we only have 2 points so far nothing but a win is acceptable knowing anything else will cause trouble
Just got this installed today, was expecting a lot slower because :lol China, a pleasant surprise. Though I guess given the cost it should be a given that it would be this fast.
edit: damn at F1, that the start of the race?
At 400 miles from your server, that's not a bad speed at all.
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