My New Pc Specs

[mickq]

Its worth noting that some smaller suburbs with many fewer users wont have a 155Mbps fiber feeding their CMUX/ASAM/DSLAM so may be a bit more susceptible to slow downs caused by others in their suburb - but this is typically a small percentage of users. Then there are the new ones which are even better and have the brand new equipment....gigabit speed instead of just 155Mbps.

Give the sparse nature of the groupings of residential users, you'd find that not all CMUX, ASAM, or DSLAMs are connected to 155Mbit fiber fed exchanges. Take a microwave fed integrated RIM hut with remote CMUX ports (hardware lives in parent exchange, prime example of one we have here in WA from CANN being the parent node and Roley Stone being the exchange) for example that both share the same bandwith. Or even an average RIM cabinet with a mini mux or non-attached CMUX/DSLAM. These situations are more predominant than I suspect you may think.

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Im well aware of whats deployed, the volumes, and whats planned for the next couple of years.

There are a fair few minimuxes but in terms of services deployed there are stuff all. Makes sense....takes a ton of minimuxes to make up for one full blown CMUX, ASAM or IPDSLAM.

The later parts of my post made reference to there being exceptions as there are dslams not serviced by 155Mbps, but they are by faaaaar the minority which is why what I wrote holds true for the majority of users.

Edited 20/12/06 12:15 PM by mickq

[Evil F6]

For those who are technology inclined....here are the specs of my new PC.

Intel QX6700 Quad core CPU

2 GB Corsair Dominator PC-9136 RAM

Asus Striker Extreme 680i based motherboard

Nvidia 8800GTX 768MB vid card

680w Thermaltake Purepower powersupply

2 x 150GB WD Raptor 10,000rpm hard disks in striped array (Windows drives)

2 x 320GB SATA HDD's in mirrored array for important stuff like MP3's etc

1 x 750GB SATA drive for storage etc

1 x 250GB SATA drive for other crap

and a couple of other drives (bringing it up to ~2.2TB)

The top 4 pieces are my new goodies....and three of them -the hottest hardware on the planet at the moment - are sitting under my couch as I type this, doing nothing while I wait to get my Striker Extreme motherboard!

I am tossing up doing water cooling too, at least for the CPU. Will wait and see how it goes, and how overclocking goes if I feel the urge to go faster. Am reasonably tempted to buy a water cooling kit and speed up the CPU a fair bit, and maybe later add water cooling to the video card and motherboard chips as well, but will see how it goes.

So there it is. Cant wait for the damn motherboard to arrive so I can finally use it all!

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Man I'd be getting 4GB for this monster setup.

What do you use the hp for; games, maths, photoshop?