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Does anyone here actually still use dial-up?
AuburnTiger
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Seeing all of these threads marked with warnings for 56k users made me wonder if there were people out there that actually still had dial-up. Hell, even my parents who live out in the middle of the woods and have no real need for a speedy connection have Cable.
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I remember having dial-up about 10 years ago, and trying to download songs at around 2.5kbps. God that sucked.
Now I have a 16mbs cable connection. Oh how things have changed.
If you are lucky, you will find a spot with FiOS. And the world of the internet will stream into your life.
Believe it or not, there are games that don't require an internet connection to play.
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Playing CS with 300+ ping,
Downloading songs off of Napster at 2kbps,
and everyone's favorite: listening to SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGGGErrrrrrrrrrrrEEEEEEdnnnnnnnEEEEddnnnnnnnnEEEEEEE for two minutes every time you wanted to connect.
Oh, and that's not to mention if you were one of the unlucky rastards with one phone line and got dc'ed every time someone called your house.
I hated how everyone complained about that, even though it was easy to turn off the modem speaker.
I remember being surprisingly good at sniping in BF1942 with 200+ ping, though.
Come to think of it, it sucked.
Goddamn download limits.
Me too, finally "Verizon High Speed Internet" AKA DSL became available in our area. Ugh. That's our only option.
I wouldn't even begin to know where I had to go to purchase a dial-up connection, especially getting the hardware would involve digging and a lot of confused stares from electronicstore clerks.
I do approve of the NSF56K tags though as I often browse the internet from my phone and my phonebill dosn't like large images.
Oh how I long for upcoming broadband...
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Oh my god I had dial-up, then satellite for 2 years, and now i'm on DSL and satellite was worse than dial-up. Hughesnet started capping my internet speed between 4PM-midnight, and they did it for a lot of people. so we were paying $80 a month for them to cap our speed at 80KBPS and lie to us and say they weren't. I loved taking that satellite dish down when we got DSL, I told it "fuck you satellite, fuck you."
Luckily for me even when I was younger the 'dial-up we had was 100kbps or some multitude of 8 around that mark. My dad needed a fater connection for home for his work so I was lucky. We have had cable internet for like 12 years or something. It has been a pretty sweet upbringing
Otherwise I wouldn't have an issue with Dial-Up. Fast enough for me.
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Yeah he probably had that tech that went through two phone lines to double the speed.
I remember when we first had the internet, back in the day. 14.4 modem and holy shit that thing was slow.
Though it is kind of appalling that people can't get DSL in some places - I guess in very rural areas.
I can't remember what it was, we were talking about it not to long ago. I remember it was a second line but it didn't tie p the first and it was a direct link to the office. I remember the modem we had at home was massive and it cost about 2 grand. Luckily the company paid for all of it though
Probably ISDN, I remember that.
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Think again. Verizon in particular (in my experience) has been VERY stingy with DSL coverage. I live in the middle of a fairly large housing area just outside the center of town, and it's not worth Verizon's bother to bring DSL or FiOS to us. Though, I don't think they have FiOS in the entire lower half of NJ yet either. They were the same way when I lived in my parents' house, the town just north of us. The center city of Vineland could get DSL, but if you lived more than a few blocks away from the center, nothing. A friend of mine lived probably about 5-6 blocks from the center, and his DSL coverage was down a lot, and finally a tech told him he was on the outskirts of the serviceable area, so he switched to cable.
DSL coverage is about the green circle, perhaps a bit more to the east, but everything outside of it is nothing but cable or dial up. South a bit, under the O is the development I'm talking about. The dirt patches are now a bunch more houses, brand new, so there are hundreds of houses in the area.
So Comcast just keeps upping rates because there's no competition, and I'm stuck with them since Verizon doesn't think my money is worth anything.
It's not that surprising... just think of the strangely huge amount of people who have held on to AOL as their ISP.
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oh god =(
Glad I moved back into cable territory.
in Maryland, if there are less then 25-30 houses per linear mile, no one will run cable or FiOS to you.
a LOT of MD. does not have anything but dial up.
It's strange seeing the US being one of the most developed countries yet have such shitty internet connection choice.
In Japan, it's 63 mbps.
Admittedly, part of the reason ours is so low is that it's tough/expensive to get to all those spread-out, rural areas, while European and Japanese towns are more compact by nature. Still, damn.