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Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/28/2007 11:52:22 PM · #1

DSL!! I'm happy, happy, happy!
I have been trying to get high-speed forever because both neighbors have it but every time I inquired I was given a different reason as to why I couldn't get it. Frustrating. I was on every list for potential service and checked with them monthly for years. Finally, I ran into a nice older gentleman (my age...lol) in a Verizon vehicle at the gas station and blatantly flirted with him in an extreme way. It worked. That same afternoon he ordered a service call and the maintenance crew showed up the next day. They found something on the pole giving an erroneous signal, corrected it and then submitted the paperwork. That took about a month but Stan (the nice gentleman) followed up and made sure that it went through and TA DA! We finally joined the majority. No more loosing calls or getting knocked off line. I can actually talk on the phone at the same time I'm on line. How amazing is that? Just joking but YES, I'm excited.

suemack

Canon EOS-20D

04/29/2007 12:18:02 AM · #2

LOL I know how you feel! Took me like forever to get broadband, it's still slow, can't talk on the phone without getting cut off.......but I don't get knocked off the net and it's way faster than my dial up was.

amandalore

Canon EOS-40D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

04/29/2007 01:00:58 AM · #3

welcome to the light

: )

04/29/2007 01:03:51 AM · #4

Heh i Still cant stand DSL.

1.8 GB Download

Dialup = Dont even try it
DSL = 4 to 6 Hours
6 Mbit Cable = 1 to 2 Hours

Originally posted by suemack:

Your DSL Package came with filters. Little dongle things. You plug EVERY single thing except the dsl modem into those. Every Phone in the house, every fax machine yada yada.

If you dont have these installed you will have problems with dsl.

Message edited by author 2007-04-29 01:05:23.

sabphoto

Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+

04/29/2007 02:53:47 AM · #5

lol ok I shouldn't admit this but I will...being a photography site it took me like 3 times to read your message before I actually understood what you were talking about. lol I kept seeing DSL but thinking DSLR. I kept asking, what the heck does an error on the pole have to do with getting a camera? lol

Welcome to ~~high~~ medium speed internet, it may not be the best in the world but when that's all you got you got to be happy.

04/29/2007 02:57:00 AM · #6

Originally posted by sabphoto:

Heh and i remember when a Dual Line 112K Modem running over 2 Phone lines to a local provider was high speed lol.

Then again i started out on a 14.4

My 1983 8088 has a 300 baud modem in it.

Message edited by author 2007-04-29 02:57:20.

MelonMusketeer

Nikon D7000

Nikon MF 50mm f/1.4

04/29/2007 03:11:50 AM · #7

Ah, you kids. I can remember when you put the rotary phone reciever in a little cradle and the computer talked in binary to another computer over the phone. You had to call the other party first and intiate the same action on the other end. It seemed to take about 30 sec per KB. It was like magic.
DSL is faster than I can think, so I am fine with it, and happy to have it.
Now I need to learn how to use a camera.

04/29/2007 03:17:11 AM · #8

Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:

Screw your acoustic coupler modems! He He

Dont take it the wrong way lol. Im familiar with teletypes. Hell I program object pascal they dont even teach it in the US anymore. Based off Pascal which is in turn Algol 60. We can run that further back to dartmouth college running Basic for the first time lol.

Message edited by author 2007-04-29 03:19:42.

MelonMusketeer

Nikon D7000

Nikon MF 50mm f/1.4

04/29/2007 03:30:34 AM · #9

Let's just all be happy for

Marjo now being able to wait till 11:59 PM to upload a challenge entry. Woo Hoo : )

04/29/2007 03:54:42 AM · #10

Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:

Let's just all be happy for Marjo now being able to wait till 11:59 PM to upload a challenge entry. Woo Hoo : )

Oh you mean what im doing for my triptych?

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

04/29/2007 08:39:14 AM · #11

You guys are funny...

MikeJ

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

04/29/2007 11:31:17 AM · #12

Man, kids, no appreciation of what us oldies had to go through... when I got involved in computers, the only way they talked to each other was with punch cards... If you wanted to copy something to another computer, you had it punch out holes on stiff cardboard cards (sometimes 10's of thousands for a little bit of information), take it to the other computer and feed them back in. And if you got them out of order (like dropping a whole stack of them) you can forget trying to load it, you had to go back and punch them out again. It was much better and faster when we moved up to tape.

I love my fiber link. Much better than my DSL was. But no matter how fast we have, we soon get use to it and it seems slow or we connect to places that are much slower and we have to wait for them. I hate slow web sites. LOL!

Mike

Dantzr

Pentax K-x

04/29/2007 12:50:47 PM · #13

I too am one of the oldsters...and I remember 9600 baud modems...but, remember... modems, fast or slow, are only considered fast if the computer is equal to it. My first PC was a Tandy from Radio Shack with 100 meg hard-drive (which the salesman assured me that I would NEVER be able to fill it up) and had a total of 1meg RAM. Top of the line at that time. I remember downloading one of the first versions of Mosaic, a program the size of about 200 meg if I remember right... and it took me like an hour or two to download it.

Nowadays, on some of the sites I deal with, I can download 1.5 gig program in less than 5 minutes. Me...I will take speed.

And...Marjo...congrats with the working DSL!!

04/29/2007 02:11:00 PM · #14

Originally posted by Dantzr:

Well since I'm a youngster my first computer was a 486 with a 28.8. But 6 months later i got my hands on a 286. And over the years ive gotten my hands on various machines that belong in a museum.

Im still waiting to get a Cray XMP1. They were 8 Million Dollars new and Huge looked like a circular post couch. You can pick one up for 1,000 dollars plus shipping if you can find it. The main issue is you have to section it which releases the stored freon. That and you have to convert the R-12 Freon to R-134a which requires a new pump and seals. Anyone have the copy of photoshop 0.9 that ran on the Cray? LMAO.

Anyways i unfortunatly turned a internet conenction thread into a computer history thread.

PhantomEWO

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

04/29/2007 04:12:18 PM · #15

Ya'll can't remember the early days of an Atari 800 and accustic cup telephone modems. Hech the phones now won't even fit into the round cups. ANd I can't believe I spent over $3,000 for the Atari 800 , 16 Kb of memory, no monitor (used a TV), tape drive and accustic cup modem. Oh ya I pais another $400 to get memory up to 32Kb and then another $500 each for two single sided 96Kb floppy disks. Sure happy with my business class dsl and a lot more reliable that the sucky Time Warner cable that is here.

//www.benheck.com/Games/Atari_800/Atari_800_laptop_5.htm

04/29/2007 04:16:05 PM · #16

Originally posted by PhantomEWO:

Theres a guy who makes game consoles into portable units.

Well he chopped up an Atari 800 Computer into a laptop. He even add compact flash memory lol.

SteveJ

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM

04/29/2007 04:25:51 PM · #17

You are all kids!! I remember when I had to get up at 5 in the morning to stoke up the steam generator so I could get my 2kb abacus to work out how much steam I needed to work my 2kb abacus!!

Coooee! Those were heady days, we were wild then!! :))

PhilipDyer

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/29/2007 04:40:59 PM · #18

Originally posted by sabphoto:

Heh heh -- I did the exact same thing. I was about to post a note congratulating Marj on buying her 20D.

On the modem speed topic, when my friend, Jason, bought his first 300-baud modem he said, "That's as much speed as we'll ever need since people can't read faster than that." It's so funny talking with people who don't realize that the needs of the porn industry drive all technological advancements. ;-)

04/29/2007 04:41:08 PM · #19

Originally posted by formerlee:

You know what im off to tune a carburetor and straighten out my starter crank handle......

Fujifilm XC 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS

05/04/2007 09:20:54 AM · #20

Interesting history lessons. Thanks for sharing. Even though I'm an old poop, too, I don't have a clue as to what the heck you all are talking about. ;)

paddles

Pentax K10D

Pentax FA 50mm f/1.4 AF

05/04/2007 05:36:57 PM · #21

Originally posted by PhilipDyer:

On the modem speed topic, when my friend, Jason, bought his first 300-baud modem he said, "That's as much speed as we'll ever need since people can't read faster than that." It's so funny talking with people who don't realize that the needs of the porn industry drive all technological advancements. ;-)

Really? That's strange because I remember getting excited when we upgraded from a 300 to a 2400 baud modem, because at last the text appeared faster than my reading speed.

Originally posted by RainMotorsports:

And over the years ive gotten my hands on various machines that belong in a museum.

The first time my dad started feeling old was when he visited a sugar industry museum and saw the actual computer one of his friends had worked on, back when an organisation even having a computer was pretty cutting edge.

Originally posted by Marjo:

... Finally, I ran into a nice older gentleman (my age...lol) in a Verizon vehicle at the gas station and blatantly flirted with him in an extreme way. It worked. ... That took about a month but Stan (the nice gentleman) followed up and made sure that it went through and TA DA!

And how are things going with Stan?

buzzrock

Fujifilm X-M1

05/04/2007 05:57:43 PM · #22

My first modem was the "VicModem" for Commodore Vic-20 and later the C64.

VicModem

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

05/04/2007 07:41:43 PM · #23

Originally posted by paddles:

Originally posted by Marjo:
... Finally, I ran into a nice older gentleman (my age...lol) in a Verizon vehicle at the gas station and blatantly flirted with him in an extreme way. It worked. ... That took about a month but Stan (the nice gentleman) followed up and made sure that it went through and TA DA!

And how are things going with Stan?

I'm not at liberty to discuss it. ;) Just joking, of course. I'm married to a wonderful man who is well aware that I'm a flirt...I mean, a talker...and actually...the majority of the calls from "Stan the Man" were handled by my hubby.

TechnoShroom

Canon EOS-30D

05/04/2007 07:50:13 PM · #24

Originally posted by RainMotorsports:

Heh i Still cant stand DSL.

1.8 GB Download

Dialup = Dont even try it
DSL = 4 to 6 Hours
6 Mbit Cable = 1 to 2 Hours

Highly dependent on the service. 6Mbs DSL is commonly available here, offers more consistent speed, and is cheaper than cable unless you bundle your TV and telephone service. I still love DSL. :) Although I must admit I'm biased against Comcast, the major cable provider here, because they screw up everything they touch.