Ever pause to consider that this may have been done intentionally as an example to demonstrate how bad grammar and punctuation can really fsck up the comprehension of a story?
Please learn the correct, use of the comma. This sentence does not make any sense as it is written... "When strained in a particular manner, nanobubbles formed on a sheet of graphene, within which electrons came to occupy particular, quantum energy levels rather than the usual, continuous range of energies in unstrained graphene."
Someone finally worked out what Telstra are doing (apart from those of us that work there). The Telstra cable modem service is currently run with NO restrictions. You can run a pRoN FTP site, host web servers, use it as point to point high speed data link, whatever you want. There are no service limits either, if you're the only ftp server running then you get the whole upstream bandwidth to yourself. The product has been poorly marketed (I often wonder if any marketing types know what mis-representation means), but the technically astute could see the service for what it really was, a 24/7 big pipe to the Australian backbone, and with no charging for internal (to the cable network) traffic you could go sick with point to point data. This has been abused to the point where the average net surfer Joe now notices that his email with the jpg attachment takes a lot longer to send that it did a few months back. He logs a call with the helldesk and they send a tech to check the network. All the tech finds is that the guy down the street is running an ftp server and hogging the upstream bandwidth. He's not doing anything wrong, but Joe still has a 'slow' connection and isn't happy. IMO service limits (1.5Mb down/64kb up) would cure most of these problems, and differential rates for internal and external traffic would probably be palatable.
I wonder, has anyone tried to get xDSL to work over a line concentrator like pair gain or even better a remote integrated mux? In Oz there are thousands of these things in the local loop network, not a chance of deploying xDSL to everybody, only to the lucky few on a direct connect to the exchange. Oh well, at least some of us have cable.
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Ever pause to consider that this may have been done intentionally as an example to demonstrate how bad grammar and punctuation can really fsck up the comprehension of a story?
otz.
Please learn the correct, use of the comma. This sentence does not make any sense as it is written...
"When strained in a particular manner, nanobubbles formed on a sheet of graphene, within which electrons came to occupy particular, quantum energy levels rather than the usual, continuous range of energies in unstrained graphene."
otz.
Someone finally worked out what Telstra are doing (apart from those of us that work there).
The Telstra cable modem service is currently run with NO restrictions.
You can run a pRoN FTP site, host web servers, use it as point to point high speed data link, whatever you want.
There are no service limits either, if you're the only ftp server running then you get the whole upstream bandwidth to yourself.
The product has been poorly marketed (I often wonder if any marketing types know what mis-representation means), but the technically astute could see the service for what it really was, a 24/7 big pipe to the Australian backbone, and with no charging for internal (to the cable network) traffic you could go sick with point to point data.
This has been abused to the point where the average net surfer Joe now notices that his email with the jpg attachment takes a lot longer to send that it did a few months back. He logs a call with the helldesk and they send a tech to check the network. All the tech finds is that the guy down the street is running an ftp server and hogging the upstream bandwidth. He's not doing anything wrong, but Joe still has a 'slow' connection and isn't happy.
IMO service limits (1.5Mb down/64kb up) would cure most of these problems, and differential rates for internal and external traffic would probably be palatable.
OtzInOz
I wonder, has anyone tried to get xDSL to work over a line concentrator like pair gain or even better a remote integrated mux?
In Oz there are thousands of these things in the local loop network, not a chance of deploying xDSL to everybody, only to the lucky few on a direct connect to the exchange.
Oh well, at least some of us have cable.
OtzInOz.