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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > I have the need, the need for obscenely fast internet speed.
 
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HalloKitty
Sep 30, 2005

Adjust the bass and let the Alpine blast

BurritoJustice posted:


:australia: Paying $120 a month including home line, phones/modem etc. This is a bad day, but the good days are still terrible. The speed they are selling me is 24MB/s, but they won't do anything about my lovely rear end connection even when we call/complain. gently caress that company and gently caress this country when it comes to internet. It is the only internet I can get in the area really, too.

What the gently caress, and I thought the previous post was bad.
Yours is shoot-up-the-ISP bad.

Not that mine is any good of course (here in the UK).


It is, however, cheap, and honestly, no better options are available, as I live in a small village connected to an exchange that hasn't been unbundled.

HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Nov 20, 2013

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HalloKitty
Sep 30, 2005

Adjust the bass and let the Alpine blast

3peat posted:


1000/100 for the equivalent of $18/month

I don't wanna use up my SSD with torrents so I need to get a normal hard drive that can stand over 100MBps without doing the disk overload thing, I'm thinking a WD black might work? I don't wanna deal with RAID..
That and the cost of a gigabit wireless router makes this gigabit internet thing kind of a pain in the rear end :(

The problem is if you're downloading multiple torrents, any hard drive is quickly going to be overwhelmed because you're not using the strongest point of HDDs - sequential speed - you're going to do a lot of random writes.

Essentially, a couple of raid 0 fast hard drives is a reasonable option, an SSD would be better.

Can you get a slower connection? Maybe you can save some goddamn money. Also, nobody feels sorry for you.

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