The Conservative Cave
The Help Desk => Suggestions and Feedback => Topic started by: Janice on July 27, 2011, 02:49:52 AM
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Just wondering. Are there a lot of folks here on dial up?
Or does anyone (admins/ global mods) have an approximation?
Sorry, I have to ask.
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I really don't know if there's any practical method of identifying connection types as such.
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I a m o n d a i l u p , c a n y o u t e l l ?
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I was on dial up years ago.
slower...........................than.......................snail..............................shit
a lotta software today checks your internet connection for speed. if your dial up they won't allow the download
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I stopped using dialup in 2000. My God, the wait for shit to load would drive me nuts. :mental:
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I stopped using dialup in 2000. My God, the wait for shit to load would drive me nuts. :mental:
that's about the time I went online. you could take a vacation and come back and still be waiting on a download !!!!
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Not on dialup, although sometimes my Cox connection feels as slow. :mad:
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I remember dial up well, good old slow as hell 56kbps. It was slow in 2001 when I got rid of it, I can't imagine what it's like today.
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from what ive heard DSL is not much faster. plus they add hardware to the PC.
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from what ive heard DSL is not much faster. plus they add hardware to the PC.
I had AT&T DSL at the other house, and our computers were networked. Mine had the modem or whatever it was called and did ok, but M's was so slow. Our offices were on the same floor, and there was just a bathroom and a closet between us.
Have Comcast here, still networked, and had to get a new computer less than a month later, because the one I had couldn't handle Comcast's speed. He has the main modem attached to his computer, and I'm upstairs in the attic.
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I had AT&T DSL at the other house, and our computers were networked. Mine had the modem or whatever it was called and did ok, but M's was so slow. Our offices were on the same floor, and there was just a bathroom and a closet between us.
Have Comcast here, still networked, and had to get a new computer less than a month later, because the one I had couldn't handle Comcast's speed. He has the main modem attached to his computer, and I'm upstairs in the attic.
We have Comcrap, but the modem is connected to a wireless router, but we still have the computers hardwired to the router for better speed.
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Comcast is the only choice here. Too many trees for a dish, area wiring not upgraded for AT&T.
I wouldn't want AT&T anyway, and we once had dish but lost the signal WAY to often.
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We've never done the dish except for tv and if the wind blew, we lost the signal.
We have the wireless router attached to the modem for my computer, but since I have the newer computer, it's quite quick.
I think the biggest problem with M's computer is that he prefers AOL, because he's too lazy to learn anything else, and wants it to go straight to AOL when he turns it on. It goes from IE/MSN to AOL and he wonders why it takes so long to load. When I use it on MSN or Firefox, it's fine. :argh:
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Not on dialup, although sometimes my Cox connection feels as slow. :mad:
Same.
We got rid of dial up around 1999 or 2000. Cannot remember.
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new neighbors down the street are getting direct tv
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I think the biggest problem with M's computer is that he prefers AOL,
America On Leave????? Geez.
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Has he run out of free discs yet? :rofl:
I think I still have a few hanging around somewhere.
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I think my old dial-up was Earthlink.
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My first "connection" was to a local BBS @ 1200baud. No internetz back then.
First "internet" connection was 14.4K Dialup.
Fast Froward a few years and I can get 8 meg a sec down on some well populated torrents.
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My first "connection" was to a local BBS @ 1200baud. No internetz back then.
First "internet" connection was 14.4K Dialup.
Fast Froward a few years and I can get 8 meg a sec down on some well populated torrents.
I remember BBS. Ran one for a while too, mind you by that time they we're starting to be replaced by websites.
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my speed test results
(http://speedtest.net/result/1405176735.png)
check yours here:
http://www.speedtest.net/
I started out with compuserve in 2000. on dial up. peeee ewwww
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1405226483.png)
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1405229889.png)
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1405282407.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
:sad1:
It's dirt cheap though. I can't really complain.
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Too tired to copy the results.
Ping 17 ms
Download 24.18 Mbps
Upload 4.08 Mbps
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Ping 85 ms
DS 6.84 Mbps
US 0.39 Mbps
When I had dial up my house was cleaner and I did more baking. Gave my service a D+, but I'm pretty happy to have this where I am.