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06/25/2003 11:49:10 AM · #1 |
| I've had a taste of dial-up modem speeds again and it sucks. I've moved this past week into my wife's parent's basement to get out of debt while I go to school. They don't have DSL and can't get there at their house and I hate dial-up since having a fast connection. I am feelin' for all you with dial-up cause I can relate now and this sucks. What used to take me less than five minutes to check email, go through this site and whatnot now takes like half an hour. |
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06/25/2003 12:26:00 PM · #2 |
LOL, I have it worse - before moving into my current house, I rented a house in a pretty good location, giving me an average of 44-52kbps each time I connected with my US Robotics 56K modem.
Now I am only getting 28.8kbps and am feeling the *speed*..... :~(
:)atwl
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06/25/2003 12:31:47 PM · #3 |
I have 56k, but way out here in the middle of nowhere, we never connect at a decent speed. Probably about 1/2 of what it should be. So I feel your pain.
~Heather~ |
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06/25/2003 01:01:09 PM · #4 |
I feel your pain brother. I would get rid of cable tv if I had 2 choose between the two. I've seen the whole spread of speeds. 300baud (anyone else remember this) then got a 1200 baud and boy were we flying. I have a dsl connection with 768Kbps-1.5Mbps down 256Kbps up. Who needs TV at these speeds ;-)
Message edited by author 2003-06-25 13:01:35.
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06/25/2003 01:05:48 PM · #5 |
| I have highspeed internet as opposed to cable TV.... while sometimes it would be nice to have, I'd rather my highspeed connection. As it is, I can watch my beloved Aussie rules football over the internet whenver I want and it's pretty good quality really. AFL is something we don't seem to get on TV here in Canada. :( |
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06/25/2003 02:19:18 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Diversq:
I feel your pain brother. I would get rid of cable tv if I had 2 choose between the two. I've seen the whole spread of speeds. 300baud (anyone else remember this) then got a 1200 baud and boy were we flying. I have a dsl connection with 768Kbps-1.5Mbps down 256Kbps up. Who needs TV at these speeds ;-) |
I have a 300 baud modem in my drawer right now ... when I got it the 1200's were still too unreliable to pay the two- or three-fold extra price.
Now I have DSL at a pretty consistent (approximately) 200kbps and it makes all the difference. I don't want cable TV anyway.
Message edited by author 2003-06-25 14:19:30. |
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06/25/2003 02:22:47 PM · #7 |
ESPN used to carry Australian Rules Football. I loved the guys in fedoras and trenchcoats who ruled on the kicks, although I have no understanding of the game itself.
Be careful with your acronyms since we seem to have a fairly well-established Arena Football League in the US which also uses AFL. |
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06/25/2003 02:33:02 PM · #8 |
| GeneralE, they are the Mr Bean's of the sporting world! |
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06/25/2003 03:08:14 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Adrian Tung:
Now I am only getting 28.8kbps and am feeling the *speed*..... :~(
:)atwl |
I am getting the same as you. When I connect there it is between 24.0 and 28.8kbps. I would trade my cable tv for faster speed aas well. I called to find out about getting the satelite internet and it's $60 a month for the service and then an additional $40 for the equipment. I don't have an extra $100 a month to spend on that. |
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06/25/2003 03:24:46 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Jubei Kibagami:
I called to find out about getting the satelite internet and it's $60 a month for the service and then an additional $40 for the equipment. I don't have an extra $100 a month to spend on that. |
Dont forget that Satelite is one way also. You still need a connection, dial up, dsl, whatever, to upload. That sucks too cause I thought about a satelite connection. ahh well.
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06/26/2003 12:37:51 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Diversq:
Dont forget that Satelite is one way also. You still need a connection, dial up, dsl, whatever, to upload. That sucks too cause I thought about a satelite connection. ahh well. |
I did not know that so that would be out anyway because I would want to upload big images and stuff to my website as well as DCPrints. What I figured out that I'm going to do is just put my photos on a CD and take them to school or parents house to upload them. |
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