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Originally Posted by Flacolaco
That's true. The vast majority of the time you'll never utilize the bandwidth your service is capable of.All I know, is that my ping while playing Counter-Strike with my Fios is wicked low.
But the best consistent speed I've ever experienced was living in the UNT dorms. That sh&*t was fast.
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No kidding. I spent one semester in the dorms at UNT, and speeds on the weekends were just ungodly fast.
That was during the final good run of Napster, and there was another big p2p at that time, one of the first to do video files. Can't remember the name...[edit]Scour! Man I loved Scour.
Plus the entire dorm was on a domain and most people didn't know anything about sharing or security back then........maybe I should leave it at that.....
Ah those were the days....
As far as FIOS speeds, I do get to take advantage of the 15 down because I use newsgroups along with a download manager, for multiple connections at once. When I was doing torrents the upload was quite nice to keep you in good standing on monitored sites.
But yeah, 30 is not really needed right now, unless you have several computers that need bandwidth at the same time.