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Probably anybody under 50 !!!! -- I think even the KGB in Old Soviet days stopped using those in around 1975 !!!

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jimbo

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Hayes smartmodem -- "incredible speed 1200 baud - later upped to blindingly fast 2400 baud".

I still have that acoustic coupler -- but no landline though to test it on !!! --- could...

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Try this -- might be faster !!!!!

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jimbo

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CountMike
I used to drive parents mad at around that age - on Sunday afternoons had friends round and we spent the afternoon repairing Motorbikes -- lots of engine noise, smelly blue /...

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reason things are different is usually different / ageing infrastructure, currency fluctuations, local taxation policies, workforce available to build and maintain the networks and of...

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I understand how useless those stats are

in Iceland with about 97% of population regularly using Internet the stats aren't even available or even the country doesn't appear -- when such...

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Solidjeuh

been in Belgium loads of times -- Proximus (Belgacom) usually has pretty good internet speeds -- are you on 2.4GHZ wifi - that's slow anyway whatever ISP can deliver.
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I'm 100 metres away from router and 50 metres away from Wifi extender

So on Wifi I think this is pretty good

We have totally unlimited -- what's the point of > 1 Gb/s with a cap ...

Hi no that was OOKLA - the original problem

Will try the APP

There's some message in Serbian wanting to check location -- I assume it's OK and not some type of "Russian Spyware" !!!!

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CountMike

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will try that

Here's what I was getting from OOKLA

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then whole computer hangs -- only way to restart was via task manager to cancel.

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count Mike

says Discontinued !!!

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jimbo

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after 10Gb/s upgrade installed I can't get OOKLA speed test to work any more -- gets ping and then stops after 1 sec or so and computer hangs.

Tried in FF, Edge, IE11 on W10 --same...

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I suggested this as a lot of people who have both don't realize how much faster the 5Ghz system is than the more usual 2.4 Ghz system -- even on an 83 Mb wifi connection on 2.4ghz you'll...

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When I see some of the price (and Caps) of some of the USA posters here - I'm really glad to say at least "in the middle of the Pond" I get a much better deal -- 35 EUR - unlimited usage...

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Wifi test with laptop old wifi card 2.4GHZ (I've also got one with 5GHZ band)

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5GHZ Wifi speed test -- note the difference -- funnily enough the upload speed is slower on the...