>>>    What's your internet speed Andrew? (Just curious)
>> 5.2 Mb/sec. Apparently. (Only downstream, obviously.)
> 
>   Oh, nice! That's what I should be on now but over the last 6 months it's 
> been steadily dropping on my SpeedTouch 330. Sometimes I could  barely get 
> 2.5Mbps, and other times, I'd get a top slot of 4.5Mbps whereas I should be 
> getting something like 6 to 7 Mbps (being on an "upto 8Mb's" connection, 
> that is). No idea what's going on, but it's part of why I changed to a 
> router, to see if it would be any better. And to be honest, it is, even 
> though I'm still getting 3.9Mbps.

The figure I quoted is only the reported data link speed. That doesn't 
mean my ISP will actually *deliver* data that fast. ;-)

>    What's with the 'packages' in the status dialogue?

If it in fact says "packets" rather than "packages" that would make more 
sense...

>> At work it's 5.0 Mb/sec, but that's both ways, and it's guaranteed. (And 

> 
>       That's what you should be on...  :/



>> Scary fact: Your new router is *probably* just a customised computer 
>> running a customised version of Linux! (My dad's router - Belkin I think - 
>> gives you telnet access to a Bash shell...)
> 
>        No idea what that means, but...  O_O

It means... It probably has all the standard Linux tools, and if you're 
a Linux hacker, you can probably change the configuration in ways that 
the pretty HTTP interface doesn't have a button for. ;-)

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