Hi Paul,
to be honest.. IMHO jetstart should be perfectly adequate for your
"main" tasks as you have listed... text/email/surfing works sweet on
jetstart... the movie trailers will probably take a while longer... but
at 16k/sec you can get around 1meg every minute (1024K/16Ksec = 64sec)
or so... so you can do the math :)
as for gaming... jetstart pings are sweet... i dont bother with gaming
context coz i cant be fagged changing the router setup... i'm usually at
a good speed compared to other lpbs... from xtra to paradise CS servers
i am usually around 50-70 ping... i havent actually tried the gaming
context to see if it works any better... coz i can own at that ping...
considering i could usually do scores like 30-10 on my 56k dialup with a
160-180ping :)))
also, so far... in just over a week... i have dloaded about 5gigs of
data (5125.82megs as of 8:11am this morning)... which i calculated would
have cost me somewhere in the order of $1013.164c in extra traffic
charges alone on jetstream... in comparison... the $34.95 for jetstart
seems somewhat the better deal :)
granted... my traffic is somewhat unusual... and is not likely to be
that high everyweek... but i'm sure i'd burn 600megs in no time and
start racking up the data charges.... for a lot less money and a
sacrifice in speed.. i'm willing to queue things to dload while i'm at
work :)
cheers,
J
Paul Brislen wrote:
>
> So can I ask about this from the other end of the spectrum...
>
> how much better than JetStart is JetStream?
>
> I'm asking because I worked from home (WFH) for a couple of days last month
> and almost doubled my bill....
>
> I like to game online and really like the JetStream ping (mmmm, ping) -
> will JetStart make me into a living target again?
>
> I watch the odd movie trailer but most of my work is text/email/surfing
> based... not a lot of huge file transfers and the like.
>
> Is it worth my while dropping down to a capped-price service or will I miss
> that V6 performance?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
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Received on Thu Nov 1 10:19:16 2001