Is it the right time to upgrade your connection?

First of all, this post is from Kuwaiti citizen, so please foreigns just keep a blind eye on the speeds, we’re paying a lot for them!

One of the things I noted when I upgraded to 512 kbps is I was able to watch YouTube videos without waiting. Downloading goes faster than playing, so you don’t get the annoying idle waiting time. Now is there a need for extra speed if you just like YouTube? For me there is more reasons than just that, but with YouTube testing new HD streaming, this extra bandwidth could sure come in handy. Why would I download few hundreds of MB just to watch a trailer, when I can just stream it on the fly? The link shows picture of the HD and normal streaming, and tips on how to stream using HD. In a nutshell, all you need to do is add a &fmt=6 to the end of the url, like this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0&fmt=6

Add the &fmt6 to the end of any video URL you like, and you may get the HD format. Then again, maybe not. It’s only testing.

By the way, Qnet is having special offer right now double speed for same price for 256 & 512 kbps valid until mid March. Could be the only good thing in Hala February. See if it fits you. And no, I wish I was getting paid to link it :)

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13 Responses to “ Is it the right time to upgrade your connection? ”

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Mai says:
March 5th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Cool. I watched the skatboard dog in SD and HD! 7ADA FARG !! But, although I use 512, in SD there is a waiting time, so when I played the HD, heheheh 10000 more waiting ! But wow its highhhh quality !

Thanks for sharing this…

LOL on what u wrote awal shay :P 7ada fashLa il awadm using Tera w e7na kb :P

Ruby Redux says:
March 5th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Hmm.. I did notice a difference. I will wait until later though to see how fast ER torrents work as I seed them.

Bashar says:
March 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

Mai: Thanks. Glad you liked it :). I am using Qnet by the way. I know relatives using FastTelco and they also have to wait sometimes. Perhaps Qnet is better, not sure.
And, I know they’re a lot faster but not Tera bytes I doubt it :>

Ruby Redux: I did feel it’s better, but I do notice double object showing when moving fast in a close up. Guess that’s why it’s still under testing

Ruby Redux says:
March 5th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

That might be it.

3baid says:
March 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

Prices are still too high :/

G and L says:
March 7th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Thanks for the heads-up

MacaholiQ8 says:
March 7th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

That’s great news but I’m still living in the stone age, my 256 connection is even slower that it used to be before the so-called cable incident. I guess I need to upgrade my connection asap.

Bashar says:
March 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am

3baid: I know, for a student it is. Unless you’ve got business online. For me, it’s a need. I paid a lot to install air-phone cable in those areas with no phone lines. I need it for work… and fun as well :)

MacaholiQ8: Well, if you can afford it, and if you’re not planning on new Apple product purchase, I would say go for it. 512 is barely good enough for real use.

MacaholiQ8 says:
March 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Define “Real Use”?

Bashar says:
March 10th, 2008 at 10:26 am

MacaholiQ8: OK :). BitTorrent on top of the list, even though I dont use it so often. For me, I do real work programming, development, and I always need to search and browse pages, sometimes I need a certain piece of software right now, I can’t wait for the download this would waste my time.

Also, video streaming is becoming more and more useful. Sometimes I watch over 1 hour lectures of streaming, and to wait for it to Buffer is really annoying.

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