Interesting Links for 11-01-2012

[andrewducker]

• The Biggest Change in DNS Since Dot-Com
  (tags: internet names )
• Positive-Case-For-The-Union Watch
  (tags: scotland independence uk funny )
• Olivia’s Invention Workshop (one of those new girl-friendly Lego sets)
  (tags: women lego )
• The Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald's Burger That Just Won't Rot (Now with Science!)
  (tags: science food mcdonalds )

Comments

[simont]

Looks like I'll be going to 60Mbps for free!

Ha, I'll believe that when I see it. I just attempted to get myself upgraded from 10Mbps to 30Mbps, and despite no end of faffing with a new modem, signing new pieces of paper, reacquiring a year of contract lockin and so on, I have yet to actually see an improved download rate from any site I've tested.

[andrewducker]

I doubt any individual site will give you a download speed about 2MBps - I've not encountered one, no matter what speed connection I'm on.

I have been able to have multiple downloads going that were each huge though.

[simont]

I tried that too, but no joy there either.

I'm hoping that they're still just shuffling paper around and will actually bump my speed in another week or so once my signed contract finds its way into the right pair of hands. If there turns out to be an actual technical difficulty, I'll be rather less hopeful that it'll ever be sorted out!

[andrewducker]

They don't actually have the faster speeds in my area yet. You can check yours here. If you look under "When will I get them?" then there's a PDF with the planned exchange upgrades.

[simont]

That seems to be about upload speeds, rather than speed in general. (Which I do care about too, but it's not the thing I tried to get upgraded recently!)

[philmophlegm]

What speed do you get if you test at http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedtest/?gclid=CKr6ycX7x60CFYEmtAod8A8Biw ?

[octopoid_horror]

I'm paying Virgin for 30mb, and at 4 in the afternoon on a weekday, I get 28.4. Tasty :-)

[andrewducker]

Right now I'm getting 3.2/0.2 - but I'm fairly sure that I'm currently capped by Virgin for downloading oodles of stuff this afternoon. I'll try again when I haven't been doing that...

[andrewducker]

This morning - 13.8 down and 0.5 up. Much better! (Looking forward to doubling that up speed in March, and then going up to 60MB in October.)