Your internet connection?
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Jordan you should edit your poll because DSL and ISDN are not the same. DSL can have speeds up to 4 mb per second and ISDN is only 128 kb per second. Big difference. 
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Yes, I know, but I really don't think there will be enough people using ISDN to make a big difference.Originally posted by ghostrider
Jordan you should edit your poll because DSL and ISDN are not the same. DSL can have speeds up to 4 mb per second and ISDN is only 128 kb per second. Big difference.
On second thought, I'll just remove it...
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I use ISDN but hopefully not for long..
I'm am probably the only one..
At home that is. Now at work DSL..
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ADSL
(Stated Service) 512/download 256/upload
(Actual Service) 426/download 216/upload *best case*
www.dslreports.com has some good info in regards to XDLS connections.
(Stated Service) 512/download 256/upload
(Actual Service) 426/download 216/upload *best case*
www.dslreports.com has some good info in regards to XDLS connections.
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Cable
it sucks sometimes 
sometimes it just cuts off for no reason. I call for help and the operator just tells me that im the 1st in my area to to say something is wrong
it sucks sometimes sometimes it just cuts off for no reason. I call for help and the operator just tells me that im the 1st in my area to to say something is wrong
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Cable in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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At home I have 1.4mbit cable service. It's pretty decent I guess. I've gotten download speeds up to 380kbs on a single file.
At work (main work) I've got 6mbit DSL, and yes, I've maxed that bad boy out. For the less knowledgeable, that's 6,144kbit, which I got over 700Kb/s total download speed for multiple files (aproximately 30 simultaneous Napster connections). Compare that to 56k dialup sometime (:
At my other work (and school) we have a 10mbit connection. Unfortunately it's shared to the entire campus, 15,000+ students and roughly 2,000 faculty/staff. I still get good speeds there.
At my last abode (house) I was living with two guys that worked at ISPs at the time. We had 1.4mbit cable, 3mbit DSL, 128kbit ISDN, and as many dial up accounts as we could sign on with ... juuussssst in case. We also had our own 10/100mbit network with a 280GB Mp3 server, and a really bad ass game server running CounterStrike, and various versions of Quake. Yea, we're geeks, that's why we make the big bucks (:
But my all time favorite connection was the 128kbit ISDN connection I had two houses back. I lived about 500 yards from the telephone company, and it was about three miles from the ISP. That was the most rock solid connection I've ever had. The only times it wasn't connected were during the ice storm when the power went out over half of Little Rock, and the day someone driving (drunk) over 50mph smacked into the telephone pole outside my house. That pretty much dropped my connection until they raised a new poll and pulled new lines.
Remember when they used to say that the Internet was just a fad, and it would go away in a couple months, maybe a year? HA HA! That was over 15 years ago! I see no signs of it going away. However, the popularity and demand have slowed, but not stopped. It's still growing every day. And for the most part, it's getting better all the time.
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At work (main work) I've got 6mbit DSL, and yes, I've maxed that bad boy out. For the less knowledgeable, that's 6,144kbit, which I got over 700Kb/s total download speed for multiple files (aproximately 30 simultaneous Napster connections). Compare that to 56k dialup sometime (:
At my other work (and school) we have a 10mbit connection. Unfortunately it's shared to the entire campus, 15,000+ students and roughly 2,000 faculty/staff. I still get good speeds there.
At my last abode (house) I was living with two guys that worked at ISPs at the time. We had 1.4mbit cable, 3mbit DSL, 128kbit ISDN, and as many dial up accounts as we could sign on with ... juuussssst in case. We also had our own 10/100mbit network with a 280GB Mp3 server, and a really bad ass game server running CounterStrike, and various versions of Quake. Yea, we're geeks, that's why we make the big bucks (:
But my all time favorite connection was the 128kbit ISDN connection I had two houses back. I lived about 500 yards from the telephone company, and it was about three miles from the ISP. That was the most rock solid connection I've ever had. The only times it wasn't connected were during the ice storm when the power went out over half of Little Rock, and the day someone driving (drunk) over 50mph smacked into the telephone pole outside my house. That pretty much dropped my connection until they raised a new poll and pulled new lines.
Remember when they used to say that the Internet was just a fad, and it would go away in a couple months, maybe a year? HA HA! That was over 15 years ago! I see no signs of it going away. However, the popularity and demand have slowed, but not stopped. It's still growing every day. And for the most part, it's getting better all the time.
~LoudMusic
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Originally posted by ghostrider
Cable in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait !!!!!!!!!!!!!
So two days are here. How do you like it? Dumb question isn't? What kind of download/upload speeds do you get?
There's a pretty good tester here:
www.dslreports.com
~later~
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Ok here's the story at 7:52 pm10/26/01
Test running..........
** Speed 961(down)/349(up) kbps **
(At least 19 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
Smokin!!
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Hey, I wanted to get this back at the top of the lists. Can everybody vote on this? It can be quite helpful for anybody making webpages and stuff. If too many of you guys are on dialup we might want to stop posting external images (like using the tag) strait to the threads. It makes it take longer to download the page. But if we're mostly on better than 56k dialup, it could be nice to have the images load with the thread.
Just a thought ... so VOTE!
~LoudMusic
Just a thought ... so VOTE!
~LoudMusic
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22nd Dec, 11:30GMT:
** Speed 551(down)/209(up) kbps **
(At least 11 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
This is interesting since it's a 512/256 service, and I'm in the UK, so there should have been some net congestion getting to the test server, but all is well. I'm pleased
Thing is that there are issues with the ISP's DHCP server, and sometimes you can't get a connection
** Speed 551(down)/209(up) kbps **
(At least 11 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
This is interesting since it's a 512/256 service, and I'm in the UK, so there should have been some net congestion getting to the test server, but all is well. I'm pleased
Thing is that there are issues with the ISP's DHCP server, and sometimes you can't get a connection
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Originally posted by Schumy
we get free cable so we didn't bother getting internet by cable b/c we don't want them to find out.......so we got Bell High Speed Sympatico which is just as good or better
You should buy a 3Com cable modem from ebay and see if it will work. Sometimes (most of the time) they can't turn one or the other off, so you get them both without paying.
Something a little birdie told me one time ... (and it worked, for 3 years)
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Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
22nd Dec, 11:30GMT:
** Speed 551(down)/209(up) kbps **
(At least 11 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
This is interesting since it's a 512/256 service, and I'm in the UK, so there should have been some net congestion getting to the test server, but all is well. I'm pleased
Thing is that there are issues with the ISP's DHCP server, and sometimes you can't get a connection
Well that's just stupid dumb. DHCP is so easy to manage.
~LoudMusic
GilesGuthrie
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I suppose that depends upon how many scopes you're trying to manage!
I don't know if I'm expecting too much, but being unable to connect 2 - 3 times per month is unacceptable to me, and I get all worked up about it,
and I phone them up to complain, and their on-hold music has this woman saying that I can do all sorts of stuff with my account if I connect to their website, and I get so and then the wife gets worried for my heart, and tells me to calm down!I think I'm a bit too dependent upon my internet connection!
GilesGuthrie
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