"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>>>    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...

  Yeah, yeah, sorry, I meant 'packets'. That's just me being hyperactive 
when I got a router working, lol. :)


>
>>> 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...  :/
>


    If you did something programming-wise exclusively for me, and it worked, 
you would surely have a large proportion of that figure.



>
>>> 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. ;-)

    HAHA! Ok, explained perfectly.


        ~Steve~


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