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Offline Streak

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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2014, 02:28:46 PM »
Interesting, sounds like your Fibre to the Node, rather then Ballarat's Fibre to the home...

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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2014, 02:49:00 PM »
I've got optical fibre to the home.  I checked with Telstra, and I'd have to pay $5 more per month to get 25 Mbps or $20 to get 100 Mbps.  So it's money rather than the NBN that's missing.  I whinged that ADSL2 are getting the same speeds for less money and the response was that depends on the load.  When a lot of people are connected the speed goes down, but the NBN conduit can carry a greatly increased volume of traffic with no loss of speed.
So- what I have works fine- I don't need 25 Mbps badly enough to pay another $5 per month. 
I lived in PNG where 9600 kbps was bliss when you were lucky enough to get a connection.

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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2014, 03:06:32 PM »
I don't need 25 Mbps badly enough to pay another $5 per month. 

I download ALOT. And to be honest its the upload speed I care about.
 

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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2014, 05:32:43 PM »
I don't need 25 Mbps badly enough to pay another $5 per month. 

I download ALOT. And to be honest its the upload speed I care about.

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I dream of those upload speeds .....    :|||| :|||| :||||  ADSL1 here. 7Mbps Down and .25Mbps up ..... 2 VoIP trunks totaling 5 lines, Exchange server with about 6 external mailboxes (Friends), ClearOS server running another 3 external mailboxes (testing Linux alternative to Exchange) plus "normal usage" ...  before you ask, i have a /30 subnet on my ADSL connection giving me 3 WAN IP Addresses (So I can run 2 mail servers on 1 connection)
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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2014, 06:32:52 PM »
I am on cable with Optus Down at 19.06 and up at 4.9 all good. :wht11
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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #30 on: July 09, 2014, 06:50:25 PM »
I dream of those upload speeds .....    :|||| :|||| :||||  ADSL1 here. 7Mbps Down and .25Mbps up ..... 2 VoIP trunks totaling 5 lines, Exchange server with about 6 external mailboxes (Friends), ClearOS server running another 3 external mailboxes (testing Linux alternative to Exchange) plus "normal usage" ...  before you ask, i have a /30 subnet on my ADSL connection giving me 3 WAN IP Addresses (So I can run 2 mail servers on 1 connection)
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Yeah I'm on .8 up at best, it sucks, when you uploading 100ds of gigs worth of data a day
 

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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #31 on: January 11, 2015, 07:31:26 PM »
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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #32 on: January 11, 2015, 08:28:18 PM »
That's a great vid.  Well worth pausing at the disclaimers.  His wit is as dry as some of the dust he rides in.
Confirms for me there's a VStrom in my future multi-bike shed (don't tell the Missus!)     |-i
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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #33 on: January 11, 2015, 08:39:36 PM »
Brilliant find Gavo, even recognised a few of those eastcoast trails that I rode years ago on my XT550  :like
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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #34 on: January 11, 2015, 08:42:53 PM »
That's a great vid.  Well worth pausing at the disclaimers.  His wit is as dry as some of the dust he rides in.
Confirms for me there's a VStrom in my future multi-bike shed (don't tell the Missus!)     |-i

I'm with you there Biggles  ++
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Re: Why We Ride
« Reply #35 on: January 11, 2015, 10:48:15 PM »
I'll stick with my ST thanks and my own delusion........
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