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You know what's funny? To this day I still forget that Vista and Win7 exist. XP continues to be my "standard paradigm" for what Windows is, and even that's a bit of a stretch as I run the "Windows Classic" theme in it, so it's more like "Windows 2000, but with functional support for real-mode applications."
Which is weird, because I didn't always have these problems. The transition from the C= to my first DOS machine was pretty painless, as was learning Unix after having been immersed in VMS. But I just can't bring myself to embrace the new Windowses. (Windi?)
I have the same problem with MS2/3 sometimes.
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More of a "pong". Yes, that's satellite but I'm happy with the speed. We have been running on a tether from my wife's phone at 50K download speeds so this is epic even without the gaming.
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We are moving to a new house, and going from Comcast @ 26 down to Centurylink DSL at 7 meg down.
The surprising thing is that the Centurylink service feels much faster and has consistently lower ping times.
I suspect that it takes more hops to get off the Comcast network and out to the sites I frequent than Centurylink.
So, bandwidth is important, but latency and number of hops to get to where you want to go are really critical to total user experience.
The surprising thing is that the Centurylink service feels much faster and has consistently lower ping times.
I suspect that it takes more hops to get off the Comcast network and out to the sites I frequent than Centurylink.
So, bandwidth is important, but latency and number of hops to get to where you want to go are really critical to total user experience.
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