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[kikouas]

you believe this is true?
i found a site about this i don't know if is true
http://www.intothetec.com/page/cyta/

[Sotos]

This is nonsense spam. What it is said there is doesn't even make sense in English! You made the page kikouas?

[Crivens]

Perhaps. At the minute I think you get 1mbit for internet and something like 3mbit set apart for MiVision (goes through the same router though, just cleverly keeps them seperate), even if you don't use it. I do have MiVision though, and I don't really want the TV effected by my browsing. I can just see it now "Stop watching football videos on the net! I'm trying to watch shark documentries!!!!" Plus you never know how Cyta would react. I mean as far as I know they have pretty much a total monopoly at the minute over the cabling. Everyone else (all the other ISPs) just sits on top of their system. Fair enough if PrimeTel ban you (just change ISP) but what happens if Cyta cut you off?

Think I'll wait for the (massively rumoured) net speedup that Cyta are supposed to do this year. Or at least this decade. Anything to catch up with everywhere else (I miss my 10mbits for about half the price )!

Cheers

[Sotos]

What speedup rumor is that? I didn't hear anything!!

[raymanuva]

what a bunch of crap... cant beleive ppl fall for that.

[Sotos]

what a bunch of crap... cant beleive ppl fall for that.

They do. My girlfriend got a chain email about sending this email to 18 people to stop Microsoft from adding charges to MSN Messenger. If you did that as a bonus your MSN icon would change color All friends of my girlfriend forwarded that chain email and one of them even insisted that her MSN icon changed color after

[Crivens]

Meh, regardless of if that method works or not, I don't see why it would be impossible for a hack to access the extra 3mbits or so bandwidth used by MiVision. I remember years ago there was supposedly a dodgy patch in the UK to fool a 600kbit account NTL cable modem into accessing the full 1mbit at the time.

What speedup rumor is that? I didn't hear anything!!

Just what I gathered from reading various forums (inc. this one). I mean it's all rumours, but it wouldn't surprise me. I mean surely they can't stop speed increases for much longer? 1mbit is like so last century Seriously though, isn't one of the other ISPs starting to bring out 2mbit (and then 4mbit apparently)? Ok they still use Cyta cabling I would have thought, but Cyta are basically giving us 4mbit now, just shared with MiVision. Even if it isn't their cabling (isn't there one that is using seperate cabling I think I remember?) then Cyta have to respond to competition. Hell, if Cyta said you had a 1mbit/MiVision or 4mbit/No MiVision option then you just know what will happen to my cute little Mivision box. But no. 1mbit with MiVision or not basically. Ho hum...

Cheers

[Crivens]

My girlfriend got a chain email about sending this email to 18 people to stop Microsoft from adding charges to MSN Messenger

Heh I wish chain mail authors would just die. Hate them. Funniest I've heard was the MS will pay you £1 (or whatever) per email that happens from a result of your email. God....

I remember once though that my boss sent this chain email to me (and the rest of the department). Something to do with if you didn't send it to 6 people then bad luck would come your way, backed up by testimonials from loads of people claiming it was all real, and good luck came their way by sending 10 etc etc etc (funny how people believe that something is true once they read comments from faceless "people" on the net, much like how a lot of people believe they can tell someone is lying by looking in their eyes... aaaawwwwww....). Anyway, my boss turned around to me and said "I only sent it to you for a laugh. But you never know...". You never know? You never know!?!!?!?!? The funny part is I am a computer programmer, as is he (one of the best I have ever met), and this is what we do for a living. And he was the technology director. Sigh. I'll set my XP clock by stonehenge or my star signs or whatever.

Cheers

[Sotos]

I would imagine the speed would be controlled by Cyta or the ISP as well not just from the modem. If it was like that then you could get Primetel and hack it and get 24Mbit for 24.99 About the rumors I don't know. Other ISPs offer 4Mbits now so I guess Cyta will also when they have their ADSL2 ready.

[Crivens]

Ah, your account is limited to your package, so that of course is controlled by Cyta, but they are sending you 4mbits of bandwidth (or so) if you have MiVision (perhaps even if not but I doubt it). At the end the router would then split between the packages. The MiVision box is a PC at the end of the day (running Linux at a guess, which is what all my media streamers use; you even see a mouse pointer sometimes at boot up). At a guess though I would imagine there is some protection built in so that the PC wouldn't connect and the MiVision box only works off the one link. Still, if you know what you are doing (would be a very small party of people though, and then they would have to be here on Cyprus; I mean I wouldn't have the foggiest and I have a Comp Sci degree and been programming for a living for over a decade) then I'm sure some sort of patch to fool it could be made. If you could emulate the software (and probably the hardware too) then you could make your PC into a fake MiVision box (which would, at a guess, give you 3mbit/256kbit instead of 1mbit/128kbit, and probably with less people to share with if totally seperate). Making it then work like a normal modem to browse the web rather than as an Emulated MiVision box would be interesting. Still, if someone with the know how and time on their hands got down to it then I'm sure something could be done. Unfortuantly this isn't Tivo or even Sky so there won't be the sheer amount of interest to look into it (can't be more than a few thousand MiVision users surely?). And by the time someone could do it I'm guessing we would have our speed upgrades anyway.

Still, hacking HD MiVision (got to come at somepoint) would be good You need somewhere around 19mbits for top quality HD apparently. God I hope they don't do that and then do the same thing as now. So you get 4mbit's of ADSL2 for internet and 19Mbits (or whatever) for Mivision HD. No options. Nooo... Although I would kill for 4mbits at a decent price right now.

Cheers