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Title: Fast Broadband
Post by: Inchlaggan on February 06, 2017, 04:54:36 PM
Anyone got it?
I have been trying to download a free, essential, software update (257MB) but speeds here are so slow that the connection drops out.
As far as I can find out, download is the only way to get the update.
So, could a nice person download it for me and post it on a CD?
Costs covered or a donation to the forum.
Link is - http://www.redway3d.com/drivers/Win_seven64_NVIDIA%20Forceware%20344.11.php (http://www.redway3d.com/drivers/Win_seven64_NVIDIA%20Forceware%20344.11.php)
Thanks
Ken
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Wildfisher on February 06, 2017, 05:08:31 PM
I've downloaded it for you  Ken, PM me your address
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Inchlaggan on February 06, 2017, 05:15:03 PM
Thanks Fred, PM on its way.
Ken
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Wildfisher on February 06, 2017, 05:46:19 PM
Nae problem, it's on a CD I'll post it tomorrow.

It downloaded in 2 minutes by the way, not that I'm gloating of course!   :D 

Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Inchlaggan on February 06, 2017, 05:52:35 PM
Of course you are not gloating- as in not much!
One of the kids in the Glen was given homework that required a video to be downloaded, it took fourteen hours!
Donation made.

Ken
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Wildfisher on February 06, 2017, 06:03:33 PM
Thank for the donation Ken. Broadband speeds in rural areas is a scandal. It was shit beyond belief where I lived before, We are rural here but  not remote. I get 20 Meg download on the old system and was told high speed fibre would be here in  6 months. That was almost 2 years ago.   :roll:  20 Meg is fast enough for everything I do so I'm not too bothered.
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Inchlaggan on February 06, 2017, 06:19:58 PM
0.2- 0.5 Meg here, promises of 10 Meg "within a year" when we made our decision to move here thirteen years ago- hee haw chance of that.
Move here now and you will get no broadband whatsoever, the exchange is at capacity.
You have to resort to satellite, at £20 per month with a download limit of 10GB- a family of four will use that easily on Windows and security updates.
For information, the statement that "all of the UK will have the right to fast broadband by 2020" is worth examining. In the new doublespeak "all" means 95% (one in twenty households get zip) and the "right" is similar to my "right" to a 100 meter, luxury, super yacht for my fishing- I have the right but not the money.
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: smackinnon on February 07, 2017, 04:09:14 PM
Currently getting about 140Meg  Must admit i like Virgin .....
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Inchlaggan on February 08, 2017, 05:38:59 PM
Disc has arrived safe and well, update installed.
Many thanks Fred.
Ken
Title: Re: Fast Broadband
Post by: Wildfisher on February 08, 2017, 06:01:58 PM
Good stuff!   :D