Cable modems

[[DFA]Lonedeath]

Oohh...i cant wait till first quarter of 2000...cable modems are coming to my house....my house, in the middle of our street!(well under the street actually)

enough of that though...i just wana know will the first quarter be january, febuary or march. if its march im afriad i cant wait that long...u see i have a sh1tty winmodem and was gona buy a nice gleaming shiny new 56k v.90 diamond supra pro..(i think thats right) but when i heard that cable modems were on their way i thought..hey......hold out till then...but if its march then i just cant go on with a ping of 300+.

btw i live in Belfast
Oh and i already have cable tv(NTL)
cheers
[DFA]Lonedeath

[This message has been edited by [DFA]Lonedeath (edited 20-10-1999).]

I have that V90 modem, and for games like TFC and Q2 my ping is usually about 150, sometimes even lower... which was nice !

[VIZARD]

Well I know that Telewest will be launching a FULL cable modem service with a 10Mbit connection on the 31st of March 2000. As supposed to NTL's scanky 512k connection

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Gopal Patel

[SchizoidMan]

Right, and what chance have you got of getting your full 10Meg all the time?

That's why NTL capped theirs. It means you get used to a realistic bandwidth, which means there's more chance of them being able to sustain it.

After all, there's few sites you'd actually be able to leach that much from anyway, and it'll make sod all difference for games.

Oh, and if you think these boards will run faster in the evenings-forget it. The bottleneck is at WP's end. I get marginally better performance with my NTL cable modem than analogue dial-up.

[Molloy]

Still m8, i bet you wouldn't mind the chance of getting the full 10mb would you? I don't particularly care if its 512kb or 10mb, anythings gotta be better than this crappy damn modem. http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/tongue.gif

[SchizoidMan]

Ain't that the truth http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif