GO BLACKHAWKS

My nine year old Pothole's soccer team
The Blackhawks
has blitzed its way through the local competition and won the Premiership, Major Semi Final and now will play in the Grand Final in a couple of weeks!


__W E L L__D O N E__B O Y S__!__

ADSL2+ speeds?

looking at changing over to ADSL2+ in October as my ISP will be providing it from early Oct.?, so I have been doing my research on line speeds possible at my distance from the exchange..

using the formula attenuation in decibels/13.81 (13.81 db loss per km of telstra copper wire) where my line attenuation at the moment as reported by my modem is 51db, I'm approximately 3.7 km from the exchange as the electrons flow...

using my 51db figure...


here is a link to a site that gives you the graphical representation shown above...just feed it your attenuation figure if known.

here is a link to the oz-broadband speed test site

this all adds up to a theoretical speed around 5500k which is about 21 times faster than my 256k adsl1 connection now but only about a quarter of the speed someone living next door to the exchange will theoretically get...(up to 24000)

be interesting to see what i get in reality!

Hair (not the musical...more the lack of it!)

Got the poops with my hair being a bit long last week so i got the clippers out and gave m'self a "number 4" ,...( just as well the potholes gave me a "Parra" beanie...it REALLY comes in handy on those cold days now!)...one of the mates online commented my msn mug shot looked like "chopper" ..lol






..Though my Princess Bride says "the difference between a good haircut and a bad one is about a week!"