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[LivinLOS]

I posted recently about how I was having trouble with my ADSL line.. For nearly 2 weeks I was back on terrible dialup taking minutes to open simple text pages etc and really frustrated. Well the problem isnt properly fixed and wont be fixed on this line (the engineers went through all the lines in the box finding the line with the least signal loss and gave me that as a temp measure.. However the route to where I live is a very lossy setup) the longer term solution that is the next step is to get a new line installed with a new number from a recently added new junction box on Nanai.. Hopefully then things should settle down and not drop out all the time.

Anyway the line is working again and speed tests have been giving me 650 - 950 kbps tests all the time (200 - 240 upload) which is not too bad for 1000 baht 1024 TOT contract (gold cyber on pacific).

The point of the post was not to talk about my line but its important I guess that I am getting over 500kbps measured international speeds. The point is I have been using CNN's pipeline internet video and wow !!!

The video takes maybe 20 secs to buffer for a 6 - 8 min clip (10 secs or so for only a 1 or 2 min one).. Its plays without stuttering and pausing, the video is clean and not postage stamp sized (shame the 200% doesnt work on the embedded WMV player though, as on a high rez monitor it could be expanded a little).. All in all its fast real net video that works like it should !!! While that might be the norm for users back in the west with multi megabit / sec links net video has always been a dissapointment here until now.

No wonder traditional advertising are looking to leverage viral video etc fast.. You can sit there and browse the cnn stories you want.. Customise your news info in real time to your tastes.. I can see that as newsfeeds go online and get indexed by a (for example) google news video page you will be able to go into as much detail or skim over what you dont care about in a really interesting way. No reason why this wont be in HiDef very rapidly !!

[laflafs]

I get 175 kpbs download and 100kbps upload here in WAustralia. Wait awhile more like!!

[Nicke]

My plan was to have more video (clips, content) here in the future as bandwidth costs is getting cheaper and cheaper and broadband users is the majority of surfers these days. Will use the movie camera more instead of just still pics.

Originally Posted by LivinLOS

I posted recently about how I was having trouble with my ADSL line.. For nearly 2 weeks I was back on terrible dialup taking minutes to open simple text pages etc and really frustrated. Well the problem isnt properly fixed and wont be fixed on this line (the engineers went through all the lines in the box finding the line with the least signal loss and gave me that as a temp measure.. However the route to where I live is a very lossy setup) the longer term solution that is the next step is to get a new line installed with a new number from a recently added new junction box on Nanai.. Hopefully then things should settle down and not drop out all the time.

Anyway the line is working again and speed tests have been giving me 650 - 950 kbps tests all the time (200 - 240 upload) which is not too bad for 1000 baht 1024 TOT contract (gold cyber on pacific).

The point of the post was not to talk about my line but its important I guess that I am getting over 500kbps measured international speeds. The point is I have been using CNN's pipeline internet video and wow !!!

The video takes maybe 20 secs to buffer for a 6 - 8 min clip (10 secs or so for only a 1 or 2 min one).. Its plays without stuttering and pausing, the video is clean and not postage stamp sized (shame the 200% doesnt work on the embedded WMV player though, as on a high rez monitor it could be expanded a little).. All in all its fast real net video that works like it should !!! While that might be the norm for users back in the west with multi megabit / sec links net video has always been a dissapointment here until now.

No wonder traditional advertising are looking to leverage viral video etc fast.. You can sit there and browse the cnn stories you want.. Customise your news info in real time to your tastes.. I can see that as newsfeeds go online and get indexed by a (for example) google news video page you will be able to go into as much detail or skim over what you dont care about in a really interesting way. No reason why this wont be in HiDef very rapidly !!