Connection speed

SimonAH

My office broadband about ten minutes ago FFS (not joking about the numbers)

Agent57

cee

ahhhh. JANET! I remember the heady days of uni internet access...in my department, we had our own spur, so used to see some astonishing rates!

suzyb

And we're (partly) an internet company :roll:

Pufftmw

Not too shabby

soundninjauk

Agent57 wrote:

Hey, I went to uni there not so long ago!

Still raining? How's all the shiny new campus building going?

EDIT: Go go gadget media company.

SamWise72

Allez Mark

Not too hot.

Agent57

soundninjauk wrote:

Still raining? How's all the shiny new campus building going?

Still raining? You know Lancaster. To be fair, it doesn't rain that much, but we do get rain when everyone else is enjoying the snow...

The building's coming along nicely. The new ISS building was completed last year, as was the Learning Zone in Alexandra Square. The Charles Carter building looks like it's almost complete (in front of the George Fox building), and the swanky new sports centre should open next summer.

Shame I'm being TUPEd across to Lancashire County Council in February.

re-cycles

Oh dear! Might as well have dial up!

soundninjauk

Agent57 wrote:

soundninjauk wrote:

Still raining? How's all the shiny new campus building going?

Still raining? You know Lancaster. To be fair, it doesn't rain that much, but we do get rain when everyone else is enjoying the snow...

The building's coming along nicely. The new ISS building was completed last year, as was the Learning Zone in Alexandra Square. The Charles Carter building looks like it's almost complete (in front of the George Fox building), and the swanky new sports centre should open next summer.

Shame I'm being TUPEd across to Lancashire County Council in February.

I bet that place looks completely different now from how I remember. I left just as they were kicking most of the new building work off, although South West campus had been there for a bit, as had the big green copper IT building at the end of the main campus. Have they done anything with the underpass?

phearnde

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gbsahne001

Agent57

soundninjauk wrote:

as had the big green copper IT building at the end of the main campus. Have they done anything with the underpass?

That "big green copper IT building" is called InfoLab21, and is where I'm sitting right now. The new ISS building is just opposite InfoLab21.

The underpass is having some work done on it at the moment as part of the Alexandra Square and Underpass Rejuvenation Project. I don't know exactly what they're doing to the underpass, but a new lift's going in. I think they're going to brighten it up, judging by the last page of http://www.lancs.ac.uk/alexsquare/Docum ... isplay.pdf

attica

Kingston line in Bristol


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From the datacentre at Brick Lane - go Easynet woot!

soundninjauk

Agent57 wrote:

soundninjauk wrote:

as had the big green copper IT building at the end of the main campus. Have they done anything with the underpass?

That "big green copper IT building" is called InfoLab21, and is where I'm sitting right now. The new ISS building is just opposite InfoLab21.

You know, I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called. I only worked in there once, when showing a big project we'd put together for the Underpass Art/Media system thing they installed a few years ago. I spent most of my time hanging out in the music studio at the other end of campus, or in town.

County College ftw!

Agent57

soundninjauk wrote:

County College ftw!

I was allocated to Pendle (all staff are assigned to a college if they don't already have one); we had James May at our grad ceremony this year; he's a Pendle alumnus, and was being awarded an honourary degree. I didn't meet him though.

unixnerd

Getting 4.50Mb/s up here in Aviemore using Demon Internet.

Snowing here by the way, if any of you are skiers the slopes should be in great condition this weekend.

nicklouse

at home no super uni connection.

here was an odd one some time ago.

Kieran_Burns

This is from home:



8)

attica

Just got this at home

Which is interesting because the wireless link to my router is only running at 54MBPS

What's that all about?

Cafewanda

Yay!

cyberknight

These folk who live in the city /have cable some of us are still on the crappy copper wire !!

I did not even get broadband till they extended the range a few years back.

Kieran_Burns

cyberknight wrote:

These folk who live in the city /have cable some of us are still on the crappy copper wire !!

I did not even get broadband till they extended the range a few years back.

I live in a village of about 2500 people.... so nuh. :P

Kieran_Burns

Attica wrote:

Just got this at home

Which is interesting because the wireless link to my router is only running at 54MBPS

What's that all about?

It's BT. They lie about everything. I sometimes think it's the same company as the BBC.

mtb-idle

pianoleo

From home :-(

Cafewanda

cyberknight

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyberknight wrote:

These folk who live in the city /have cable some of us are still on the crappy copper wire !!

I did not even get broadband till they extended the range a few years back.

I live in a village of about 2500 people.... so nuh. :P

That many ? cable though?

Kieran_Burns

cyberknight wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyberknight wrote:

These folk who live in the city /have cable some of us are still on the crappy copper wire !!

I did not even get broadband till they extended the range a few years back.

I live in a village of about 2500 people.... so nuh. :P

That many ? cable though?

Oh, yes 8) Virgin Cable and Sky TV ('cos cable HD is naff)

cyberknight

Cable has not arrived here, it finished about 8 miles away :shock: