Broadband at work

dglancy

I use eircom DSL 512k at home and am very pleased with it - I think it's very fast and I now don't know how I put up with a modem connection for so long!

However, I was wondering how many of you folks have access to an even faster service at work/college? Would you notice the difference?

Do you think that in a few years we will be scrambling for 8Mb/s DSL connections or will 512k-1Mb be sufficient for the next few years?

At my workplace we have a 55Mb/s connection to the Internet (I work for a large bank), but we all have to go through a damn web proxy which is melting in it's rack and means I experience a 5k/sec service!

-D.

BigEejit

for browsing the work connection dosent make a difference ... but when it comes to downloads ...zzziiiiiippppppp ... I have taken files (that i am pretty sure wouldnt have been proxied) down at 1.5MByte / s ... depends onwhat site and when I do it though ... weekends its always good, early mornings is good too...after 1PM on weekdays it is about the same as at home

steve-hosting36

Downloads and media/streaming are the main benefits, we've 155mbps in the office, and files, especially from Irish mirrors hop down at several MB per second. We'll all have 10gb fibre links at home in ten years

Duritz

Originally posted by steve-hosting36
We'll all have 10gb fibre links at home in ten years

Eircom told me "Four weeks"

oneweb

Only thing I'll miss about college is the net connection*

Start of the college year d/l'ing @ roughly 12 megs in 10 seconds :eek:

*and classmates of course.