danhicks22

No worries - sounds good

If their claims about the bandwidth and contention are to be believed then it sounds like a pretty good service. The idea of 'bonding' multiple ADSL lines is also quite appealing, allowing you to combine the bandwidth of the lines into what appears to your usage to be one line. A contention of 2.5:1 means that on average you'd expect up to 2 and a half 'computers' (your business being a 'computer' and someone else's similar/personal use being a 'computer') sharing each megabit of bandwidth. As he mentions, typically you'd expect a contention of around 20:1 on a normal connection. Two separate lines could also be useful for you, enabling you to keep general Internet traffic on one line and comms between here and Finland on the other, potentially decreasing the conflicting demands on the bandwidth. Afraid I can't really give much opinion on the price itself - you will always pay more for a business connection than personal, but if the contention really is that good then it's probably a good deal. There's also only so much you can get from a broadband connection before your requirements lead you to leased lines, and they're crazy expensive. As for the quoted bandwidths, I wouldn't bank on getting the maximum out of them. It may be my personal cynicism, but I'd say it's probably best to use an estimate of around 60-70% of those figures for a more realistic reflection of what you'll probably get (if 60% gives you enough then anything more is a bonus!). Hope some of that makes sense, it's probably a bit all over the place! Overall it sounds like it could be a good deal, pending some shopping around. A useful benchmark if nothing else, and I do like the idea of 'bonding' multiple connections, which they may be uniquely placed to offer.

There are ADSL standards that support up to 3.5mb/s upstreams but as to which ISPs support them, I don't know. This link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsl#ADSL_standards) will show the different ADSL standards available and a quick Google pulls back a discussion thread (http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-broadband-feedback/8096-sky-say-max-g-dmt-product.html) about Sky Max, which seems to offer ITU-T Recommendation G.992.1, which has up to 1.3mb/s upstream. You could try Googling for some of the other standards to see what comes up I guess.

It depends on your requirements. I'd suggest working through some typical scenarios and calculating some metrics on your expected usage. Work out how often you want to transfer data, how much data you want to transfer and when you want to be doing the transfer. If your only requirements can be satisfied by overnight jobs with ADSL bandwidth being sufficient then it might not be worth the money now. SDSL is only a better option if it has a real benefit and you can only really decide that by formalising your requirements of the connection.

Access to your local server from your office here won't take any of your download allowance, since it's all within your LAN. Access to your server here from Finland will though, since that has to travel over the Internet, and vice-versa for access of your Finland server from here. 40gb should go quite a long way and if most of your access is the local server you should be fine.

Basshunter? Just, no. Nice vid with the sound off though

Ooh, do they do it in Beech? All my Ikea stuff is in Beech.

Your broadband is only concerned with transferring data from your connection point (i.e. a router or a single computer) to the wider Internet (or WAN - Wide Area Network). Your LAN is a separate concept, it's a closed group of machines connected to each other by small-coverage wireless or physical cable. You can have a LAN without a connection to the Internet (broadband or otherwise) and you'll be able to share files between machines and survive happily. Here, any traffic will flow at the rate of 100mb, or whatever your network is capable of handling. Similarly, you can have an Internet connection to a single machine without a LAN or router of any kind being involved, with data being transferred at a rate up to the capacity of your Internet connection (e.g. 8mb broadband). A router, wireless or wired, allows you to join the two together. The broadband connection plugs into the router, the machines on the LAN connect to the router and the router controls the traffic moving between the machines on the LAN and between the LAN and the Internet. The 100mb speed applies to data being transferred between machines physically connected locally by cables (i.e. the LAN) - so that would be between any computer and the router or the router and any computer etc. The 8mb applies to the transfer of data between your router and the Internet. The two seperate speeds are for different types of transfer.

An 8mb broadband connection doesn't go that far. The 'mb' part, stands for megabits, rather than megabytes as it usually does which means a theoretical maximum download rate of 1 megabyte per second (8 bits in a byte) and you probably won't ever actually reach the full 8mb capacity. If you want all 15 laptops accessing the Internet at once, as well as a remote site taking files from your servers (bear in mind that upload streams are generally of significantly smaller capactity than download) then you don't have a lot of bandwidth to spread around. Having said that, if your 15 laptops aren't likely to be accessing the Internet that often or all at once then you're probably ok.

It becomes more complicated when you want to introduce remote sites and allow them access to your local resources (and vice versa) as you will need hardware to control the access. A standard wireless router probably won't allow for this so you might need a more sophisticated hardware infrastructure. You also need to consider the security implications of having a corporate network completely linked to the Internet, as yours would be in the simple scenario discussed. Ideally you need to hide and firewall your corporate servers away from the Internet. You'd then have a hardware controlled VPN tunnel only allowing known hosts to have access to your network.

LAN stands for Local Area Network. It's a wired network that allows for 100 megabits per second of data to be transported around (assuming it's a 100mb LAN. It's possible to get gigabit LAN - 1000mb - or fibre, which is much faster but much more expensive). It's separate to your broadband. Broadband is a connection to the Internet, your LAN is a way of connecting machines near each other and of sharing the Internet connection. If you're going wireless then you'll probably have a 54mb WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) router that will allow all your laptopts to share the broadband Internet connection and talk to each other.

Cheers mate - thought I'd open that one to the group instead of bugging you with yet more PMs

Hey all, I've tried searching and not found anything so thought I'd give this a crack... I'm currently in the process of imorting (well, Jurgen of jm-imports fame is importing) a 93 RZ (my first Supra) from Japan and I'm looking at getting some after-market wheels fitted to it (it's not even reached the docks from the auction house and I'm already modding it ). I like Work Emotion XT7s and XD9s but haven't been able to find pics of any fitted to a Supra (or any other car for that matter) so was wondering if anyone has any they could post? I'd be getting them in silver but any pics would be extremely helpful. Also if anyone knows whether or not they're any good, it'd be useful to know! Cheers!

Not yet I suck as making decisions!

At a guess I'd say that it's a tad outside my budget? Got any more pics - I think you might have missed a few angles there Jurgen

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Cheers for that - exactly the picture I needed. I didn't realise the interior sticks so far inward in the back, the bag definitely won't fit in that way. Might fit in over the seats down though. Probably should have checked before I bought it. Thanks for the replies guys

Bump. Anyone? You could just say hello, the post looks so lonely with no replies well, one now I suppose!

Hi guys, I've tried searching for the back seat internal dimensions but haven't come up with anything so thought I'd start a new thread - apologies if there's a discussion I've missed. Basically, I know I can fit my mountain bike in the back of a Supra, plenty of people do, but I've just bought a bag for my bike to protect it better and keep the inside of my car clean after a muddy ride. Unfortunately, the bag is massive, much bigger than I was expecting (since it came with separate wheel bags and only needs to hold the frame!) and it takes a bit of persuasion to get in the back of my Astra; the bag has a stiff base that doesn't fold up to make it shorter, although it does bend slightly. I'm worried that the Supra won't be as wide and the bag won't fit at all. If that's the case then I'll send the bag back, because it's pretty pointless since I bought it mainly in anticipation of getting my Supra. I was wondering if anyone knows the internal width of the back seat area or if someone would be willing to measure for me? Also, slightly off topic but I'm thinking about the year/model of Supra to get and was checking the model differences chart, which says that Toyota didn't offer cruise control on facelift models - anyone got anything contradictory, because I'd quite like a facelift but really want cruise control. Thanks for reading! Cheers, Dan.

This game's awesome! I'm rank 1071 with 566,856. Think I'll settle for that before I lose my entire evening!

El Tel has also been sacked and Shearer has no experience. O'Neill is one of the best managers in the game, as is Redknapp although I think of the 2 only O'Neill would take the job. The problems go way further than the manager anyway - I don't think McClaren did that bad a job. He made a few mistakes but if you've got a team of players worth well over £100 million in club terms, I don't care what tactics you tell them to play, they have to do a job. They didn't, we deserve to be out on their performances. Not sure about Jose for the job. He'd get us achieving but we wouldn't play 'The English Way'. Not that we ever do at international level mind...

I'm 23 with one years ncb and I tried doing a multiple car quote with admiral (2 on one policy) and they wanted to charge me £700 for a 1993 1.4 litre 106 diesel. They also quoted me £900 for a UK Supra. Don't know about Bell doing multiples - that put me off asking. I'm sure that doesn't help, but I like to share

Didn't you say you wanted to run a monitor in your bedroom and one in your lounge? If you want them in separate rooms your options are a video sender, a really long cable (probably only DVI will have a chance of holding signal over distance and if you don't have a HD TV then you would need to use S-Video which will look pretty crappy) or a media pc. Dual output graphics card probably isn't what you want.

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No probs Columns C and D do it. You can use '&' as an in-line operator or use the 'concatenate' function with a comma separated list of values/cell references within the brackets.