Lovin every minute of it!
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- urj2ic8
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Robert Wagers wrote:
It appears one must have an invite before being able to use Joost... Hmm, kinda weird.
Don't know anyone using Joost to ask for an invite...
Wage
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- James Spencer
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3mb down 300kb up. Don't I fell special
I would still prefer the internet upgrade my norwegion friend got 20mb down, 10mb up. Craziness - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Robert D. Wagers
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Thanks, I already got in. I'm am loving this 10mb download in about 25seconds instead of about 1 1/2 minutes.
My quick review on Joost so far... My Pluses (+) and Minuses (-)
(+) Neat concept with the interface and method of selection.
(+) Videos seem to stream fairly nice at times.
(+) The 5.1 digital surround sound is absolutely AWESOME!
(-) Picture quality is a bit less than DVD standards, which is kinda pixelated and washed out at times. This is kinda expected with the compression that they must be forced to use for streaming.
(-) Stream rate get affected by numerous factors such as; number of viewers online, general web traffic, commercial downloads, etc.
(-) Commercials interrupt movies at weird times (at random it seems) and sound levels are not adjusted to meet medial levels of the regular broadcast. EXAMPLE- I was watching the movie "Dragonslayer" and had the 5.1 digital surround soun set to optimum levels. At a very random point in the movie, a Ball-Park Franks Commercial came on and the sound was so loud, it was distorted through my speakers.
(-) Commercial downloads interrupt the streamrate of the movie and cause tons of pixelation.
(-) Overall selection (at this time) is a bit lacking but the program is still in beta and I am sure that this will improve with time.
Just a brief "what's-what" from me...
Wage - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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A quote attributed to my Grandpa Wagers
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- Mack
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I got 12mb down and 1mb up through cox.net. The first time I used it it made the airbag in my monitor deploy.
They recently added this new powerboost download feature. Don't really know how it works but when I download huge files I get way over my 12mb speed. www.cox.com/sandiego/highspeedinternet/powerboost.asp
Although I do still suffer sometimes when on the road. My wireless Merlin card only gets 1.4mb down and 500kbs up. Sucks having to wait.
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- GollumX
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Mack wrote:
My wireless Merlin card only gets 1.4mb down and 500kbs up. Sucks having to wait.*Laughs out loud, then begins to sob like a baby*
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- Robert D. Wagers
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I use
http://www.speedtest.net/
for measuring bandwidth. I rarely test-out less than 4.23 MB/sec... The max that I have tested out 5.83 MB/sec. Which is higher than I expected since my package is 5MB max (my understanding), maybe it was a calculation error on the testing server... but I am not gonna complain!
Wage - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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A quote attributed to my Grandpa Wagers
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- We have vios optical here. I have been toying with converting over to that. They say it is crazy fast.
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- Robert D. Wagers
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DSL is GREAT!
Cable can be better if the conditions are right...
But Fiber...
Fiber is KING!!!!!
Wage - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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A quote attributed to my Grandpa Wagers
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Robert what area are you in?
What sort of install headaches did you have?
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