ComputerForum.com ComputerForum.com  
TigerDirect
 
Go Back   Computer Forum > Internet > Internet Discussion

Closed Thread
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-09-2004, 08:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
rijaalharat
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Default free broadband internet access 2Mbps!!

I just get a great news about internet.There is a company in British that would give free broadband internet access 2Mbps when this program is launching on october 2004.

Just take a look on http://www.juiceboosted.com to read the explanation.
This program would be blasting to all around the world early, and it's free for everyone join before october 2004, so let gets surfing fastly.
 


Old 08-09-2004, 08:48 PM   #2 (permalink)
Silver Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Essex, england
Age: 20
Posts: 142
Default

There has to be a catch though
Hellfire is offline  
Old 08-09-2004, 10:37 PM   #3 (permalink)
Administrator
 
Praetor's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 25
Posts: 19,951
Default

I'd like to see my 5Mbit cable like get "improved" to 2Mbits Nah seriously, there IS a catch (well at least in US/Canada I dunno how the rest of the world works) but there's something called the FCC and they've put a trasnmission cap of 53K on any 56K (or older) device .. the only reason 'x'DSL works and gets around these FCC regulations is becausre they have a specialized modem and require line filtering etc.

Now I didnt bother reading completely but if it's suggesting that a PROGRAM can boost your performance; that's a loada crap unless it's some form of clientside compression which would be a useless comparison (i.e., you compress a 500MB file down to 100MB and then they argue that your connection is 5x faster). The bottomline of inet performance is capped right at your modem; if your modem cant physically handle it than you cant get the speeds. If this program is a publically advertised modem hack then good luck to them as it's only a matter of time before ISPs find out.

In the slightest chance that this isnt some stupid scam, free 2Mbit access isnt that impressive (ok it's fairly impressive over in England as they get screwed hardcore for their internet) but a lot of places (big tech centres and tech-universities etc) have free wireless accesss near and around campus (and with more than enough of a backbone to handle common student arrangements) so I guess it's feasible; my only contest to that would be: why make it a wired connection as that would increase your setup fees... making it wireless would reduce the amount of infrastructure required to get it up and running and since its free, no fancy security/access hardware would be required.
__________________
ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8
4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400
5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10
OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI
Praetor is offline  
Old 08-09-2004, 11:51 PM   #4 (permalink)
ian
Administrator
 
ian's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 7,471
Default

This is spam, the affiliate ID has been removed from the link.
__________________
Computer Forum
ian is offline  
Closed Thread

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT +1. The time now is 10:02 PM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.7.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
SEO by vBSEO 3.1.0 ©2007, Crawlability, Inc.
Copyright © 2002-2007 Computer Forum and Web Design Forum