What kind of connection do you have?

[kbasa]

Well?

[Win3855]

Once I switched from a dialup. I never looked back.:clap

[The_Veg]

High-speed internet is the best drug.

I have DSL but it isn't the greatest. I once had cable net and it was great 97+% of the time.
My current DSL is good most of the time but I have a couple of gripes with it, including that I have to turn it on every time I use it.

[Cliffy777]

Went to cable over a year ago. Well worth the $42 a month. We run two computers with a wireless network connection and she rocks almost all of the time.

[kbasa]

Originally posted by Cliffy777
Went to cable over a year ago. Well worth the $42 a month. We run two computers with a wireless network connection and she rocks almost all of the time.

That's exactly what we have. I work from home, so my company pays for our connection too.

[YB in IN]

I mooch off the fact that I live a ten-minute walk from a computer lab at school (Indiana University). It's wicked fast. I have to pay a technology fee in tuition, so I might as well take advantage of it!

[oldcarkook]

I've had cable modem for 3 years here. It's the best. The speed has dropped by about 50% since it was first installed. I did speed tests and consistently had speeds about 2 times a T1 line for the first year or two, but now as my neighbors all figure it out and the bandwidth is getting sucked up, I am dropping down to just cable modem speeds.

Once you go cable, you never go back.

[kbasa]

Blast from the past.

[RebeccaV]

Reading this one was like taking the WAY back machine!!!

[PAULBACH]

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/PaulBach/Famous%20Mugs/roadrunner.jpg
Roadrunner


Unlimited long distance (great for calling RedRider and Toruingo)
Internet
Cable TV - all in one package


But will probably switch to Verizon and Fiber Optic when that arrives here next year.

[bobs98]

Three service package installed at home last week. Lightning fast and I can see all the pictures clearly now.

[Sue]

.... We live so far out in the country that cable is non-existent. Direct TV is too expensive. :banghead

I can still dial-up (for free) using my company's ISP connection, which works when I really, REALLY have to get online. But I avoid any good websites from that computer. I mainly use it to simply check my email by using the web client.

For real Internet access, I just come into the office or stop at a nearby coffee shop when I need to get on-line.

[DarrylRi]

.... We live so far out in the country that cable is non-existent. Direct TV is too expensive. :banghead

I'm with Sue, sort of. I'm not that far in the country, but there's no cable or DSL here. (I run a webserver here, so satellite is out.) But I've had DSL before, and you can't give it up once you've had the drug.

So, I have a radio ISP. It's essentially directional WiFi B, and I'm sharing the 11Mb bandwidth with a bunch of people out this way. I have an antenna that looks like an old fashioned BBQ grill that someone dropped a bowling ball on, mounted on my roof and aimed at Mt. Loma Prieta. (That's the epicenter of the World Series earthquake in 1989, about 10 miles as the crow flies from here.) I typically get 600Kb service, but they only guarantee me 256Kb.

It's damned expensive, too, but I bring it into the realm of reality by sharing the connection with a couple neighbors who can't even get satellite.

[mikeinpittsburgh]

I know a few people who know some people.

Is that the kind of connections you were talking about?

[OfficerImpersonator]

I'll talk up DirecTV satellite service to anyone who'll listen, but I've heard their satellite internet connection is a joke - downloading is not much faster than dial-up, and uploading is very similar to dial-up.

I've had Verizon DSL for 8 years now. In that time, I've had one modem go TU, but they FedExed me a new one the next day. The wireless router sends the signal around our house and yard, so the wife can connect with her work laptop, our "just for fun" PowerBook, or with the desktop PC hardwired into the network.

I'd go with cable internet, but I hate Comcast and have the aforementioned DirecTV satellite service, so I have no use for cable television.

I'll go with Verizon's fiber optic service when the finally get around to rolling it out here in the Silicon Forest. On-demand sounds cool, but I won't pay Comcast for it. Besides, DirecTV provides a much better picture and sound quality than cable. But now I'm off-topic.

[PGlaves]

Whippersnappers!!

I remember when my 300 baud modem was the hot deal!

My how these new features chew up bandwidth.

[kbasa]

Reading this one was like taking the WAY back machine!!!

Makes me wonder if some of the folks on this thread are getting a thread notification and saying "WTF?".

Well, except Garth, of course.

We miss you, man. :buds

[wezul]

Waxing nostalgic are you, Dave?
So many blasts from the past.
I wish i could have met Garth.

[kbasa]

Waxing nostalgic are you, Dave?
So many blasts from the past.
I wish i could have met Garth.

A bit. This place is much more of a community now, I think, than it was back then. We were all sort of feeling the place out, back before it had that stinky beer smell in the halls.

There are some pretty classic threads back there that probably deserve to be reinvigorated, so I've been mining them and popping them back up for the masses.

I'm still trying to find the "How old are you" thread.

[jdmetzger]

Whippersnappers!!

I remember when my 300 baud modem was the hot deal!

My how these new features chew up bandwidth.

Did we have an acoustic coupler, as well?

[80's computer voice] Would. you. like. to. play. a. game.? [/computer voice]

:wave

[PAULBACH]

Whippersnappers!!

I remember when my 300 baud modem was the hot deal!

My how these new features chew up bandwidth.

300 baud?

That used to be fast:

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/PaulBach/Misc%20Stuff/www.jpg

Did anyone here play Pong - on a B&W TV?

[flgoff]

I have a close friend named Vinny Castellari . . . always has money, never has a job, and . . . oh, never mind . . .:dunno

[BMWDEAN]

You missed satellite.

[PGlaves]

300 baud?

That used to be fast:

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/PaulBach/Misc%20Stuff/www.jpg

Did anyone here play Pong - on a B&W TV?

Yes I did.

Then I drove myself nuts trying to find out how that could even be possible. Raster scan indeed.

[KGT1200]

satellite service. Now I could download at speeds ten times as fast as dial up, but uploads? Don't hold yer breath!

Reliability? Say goodnight, it stinks!

Put it this way, I can shop on line now, but after paying my satellite service bill, I'm too broke to buy anything!

Red

[bubbagazoo]

Did we have an acoustic coupler, as well?

[80's computer voice] Would. you. like. to. play. a. game.? [/computer voice]

:wave

As a matter of fact, I have used an acoustic coupler. Way back in the mid 80s. When data network goes down, you go to plan B -- the acoustic coupler. That was a work thing.

[Motor31]

None of the above, I have satellite internet.

[wmubrown]

Whippersnappers!!

I remember when my 300 baud modem was the hot deal!

My how these new features chew up bandwidth.

Acoustic? I started off with a 150 baud acoustic coupler modem. That was on a RadioShack Trash-80 Color computer II with a floppy disk interface I designed. Man that's going back some...!

[rocketman]

Acoustic? I started off with a 150 baud acoustic coupler modem. That was on a RadioShack Trash-80 Color computer II with a floppy disk interface I designed. Man that's going back some...!


Wow! your first computer had a Disk?!

I'm SO jelous, mine was a TI-994A, only backup was tape!



i can still hear the soft high-pitched whine of Kisssh-cusssh-kissh......beeeeeeep (damn, mis-write AGAIN!:banghead )

16 K of memory, Hmmm don't think you could do much with that little these days! Ha Ha!

Ha Ha. Modem? dial-up internet? yeah I remember those. place the handset in the little rubber cups and Pray!
Hmmm.. and how about Archie, and Veronica and Kermit and Gofer? (and I'm not talking cartoon charactors or little green felt frogs or little critters that dig hole in your yard here folks!:laugh )

Them were the good 'ol days (NOT!):p

Now i can cruise into any Starbucks or sit outside of any number of hotels and WiFi into the net with my Archos 605 or Palm or dial in on the cell (not that you can SEE anything on that itty-bitty screen mind you).

Now I got so many WiFi networks within range of my house I could probably just drop mine alltogether, most of them are wide open since most users don't have a clue about Wep and any kind of lock-down, heck they probably don't even know that every Tom Dick and Harry could surf on thier nickle and then wonder why their connection was so slow!

RM