OMG my friend chose AOL over a T1 line

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: baffled2
what kind of drugs is he on ? :Q

Apparently its not enough.

-PAB

 

[andrey]

I don't believe that story a bit.

 

[dc]

st@b him for being a moron.

then st@b yourself for believing him.

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whoa since when is st@b a forbidden word? guess the mods got fed up with the pointless st@bbing.

 

[Kevin]

With a T1 line, you can become an ISP and share your bandwidth. If you go to your local Telephone Center or whatever its called, you can see the AOL and other T1 racks.

 

[her209]

Maybe he has a life and doesn't spend most of his time in front of his computer at ATOT.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: kevin000
With a T1 line, you can become an ISP and share your bandwidth. If you go to your local Telephone Center or whatever its called, you can see the AOL and other T1 racks.

How many people do you want to share your 1.5mbps with? Seriously... T1 is not God like alot of fools are posting.

 

[Kevin]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: kevin000 With a T1 line, you can become an ISP and share your bandwidth. If you go to your local Telephone Center or whatever its called, you can see the AOL and other T1 racks.

How many people do you want to share your 1.5mbps with? Seriously... T1 is not God like alot of fools are posting.

Yes, but a T1 is a dedicated line that has support for many users. You could allocate half of that to yourself and cap the other half for your ISP. Even if you were connected with a dedicated T1 on a single computer, it wouldn't matter because websites are hosted on shared T1s and T3s. You're performance would be very slight considering websites aren't giving you a dedicated connection.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: kevin000

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: kevin000 With a T1 line, you can become an ISP and share your bandwidth. If you go to your local Telephone Center or whatever its called, you can see the AOL and other T1 racks.

How many people do you want to share your 1.5mbps with? Seriously... T1 is not God like alot of fools are posting.

Yes, but a T1 is a dedicated line that has support for many users. You could allocate half of that to yourself and cap the other half for your ISP. Even if you were connected with a dedicated T1 on a single computer, it wouldn't matter because websites are hosted on shared T1s and T3s. You're performance would be very slight considering websites aren't giving you a dedicated connection.

A website hosted on a T1 is going to be slow anyway, but what about those T3s and higher? I dunno about you, but I've gotten 2mbps downloads from alot of sites.

 

[Kevin]

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode - maximum bandwidth is currently 622 Mbps
SMDS - Switched Multimegabit Data Service - maximum bandwidth is 44.736 Mbps
T series of services in the U.S. and the E series of services in Europe
T1 - 1.544 Mbps
T3 - 44.736 Mbps
E1 - 2.048 Mbps
E3 - 34.368 Mbps
xDSL - Digital Subscriber Line and x for a family of technologies - top speeds of 51.84 Mbps are possible near a phone company office, more common are much lower bandwidths (from 100s of kbps to several Mbps)
SONET - Synchronous Optical Network - levels range from 51.84 Mbps (OC-1) to 9,952 Mbps (OC-192)
Dial-up Modems - switched analog - maximum bandwidth approx. 56 kbps
Cable Modems - shared analog - maximum bandwidth can be 10 Mbps
Wireless - terrestrial - bandwidths typically in the 11 Mbps range
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network - maximum bandwidth is 128 kbps for the lower cost BRI (Basic Rate Interface) and about 3 Mbps for the PRI (Primary Rate Interface)
Frame Relay - maximum bandwidth is 44.736 Mbps

Very few of the listed are for residential use, most are used by your telephone company and ISPs.