Post #235,329
11/21/05 12:19:27 PM
8/21/07 6:29:02 AM
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People still dial up to the internet?
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #235,331
11/21/05 12:21:33 PM
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I'm sore that I can't get 8Mb on my cable provider.
I've got 3Mb now.
Peter
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Post #235,405
11/21/05 7:41:26 PM
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Colour me green with envy.
I've got 256k at home. That sometimes feels slow compared to the 1Mb here at work... :-/
Wade.
"Insert crowbar. Apply force."
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Post #235,416
11/21/05 8:58:25 PM
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Pretty sure that the last upgrade
took us comcast folks to 6.
Of course, now that I have the latest modem I can actually take advantage of it. The tech came in when I was having line trouble...looked at my old USR and laughed...went straight to the truck and got a new one.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #235,535
11/22/05 1:04:58 PM
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Actually, 6Mb is only for real "web traffic"
not going to Giganews.
Comcast and giganews (as I understand it) have multiple Gig-E fibers tween them. I also am getting better than 10Mb speeds with my newsgroups downloading.
My fastest speed so far grabbing newsgroups stuff from Giganews is 1475 Kilo Bytes (not bits) per second, sustained.
That is right 1,475KB/sec. Running seven sessions to Giganews grabbing articles.
Let me see... that is right up there ~ 16Megabits/second (including encoding alogs). Which I thought was the maximum DOCSIS could do on the service lines.
Cool. I'll take it.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
0 rows returned.
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Post #236,887
12/2/05 5:17:25 PM
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Wow - that's a lot of porn.
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Post #236,913
12/2/05 11:03:20 PM
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Yeah, my twitching finger is getting tired!
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
0 rows returned.
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Post #236,938
12/3/05 10:58:09 AM
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Arrrgh! Can't claw image out of brain!
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Post #236,946
12/3/05 2:23:01 PM
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What? Que'n up newsgroup posting for download? Mouse Twitch?
But, the general effect has been a *GREAT* affect... hasnnit?
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
0 rows returned.
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Post #235,417
11/21/05 8:59:22 PM
11/21/05 8:59:46 PM
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dupe
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
Edited by bepatient
Nov. 21, 2005, 08:59:46 PM EST
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Post #235,429
11/21/05 10:01:43 PM
11/21/05 10:02:33 PM
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My sister does.
Anyone who is serious about the net does not. But a lot of people out there still use dialup.
A lot of my co-workers use Treos as well. That's slower than dialup.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Edited by ben_tilly
Nov. 21, 2005, 10:02:33 PM EST
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Post #235,445
11/21/05 10:48:48 PM
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I love my Treo!
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Post #235,569
11/22/05 5:40:53 PM
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It works for me
I'm not all that "serious" I guess, I just run mail, a few groups, and sites like this one, and that's really the main stuff.
We've had a lot of obstacles in our way to getting DSL, but we might manage to overcome them next year. Meanwhile, I'm happy with my new faster speed dial-up modem.
Brenda
"I'll rock the darn boat all I want to, and if it's meant to stay afloat, then it will. If not, then we'll just all go down with the bloody ship!"
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Post #237,099
12/5/05 2:34:07 PM
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You're in SBC-Land...Don't hold breath!
I'm in the largest city (and the count seat) of what's purported to be the Richest county this side of the Mississippi, and I can't get DSL. (My daughter, on the other hand, who lives 5 miles outside of Bumfuck Heights in central Illinoise, had DSL pre-installed into her new houls. Go figure.) Promises of service RSN, where RSN is, at current count, > 5 years (i.e. it's been 5 years since they promised service in my area "RSN").
Puh-leeze!
Do yourself a favor, and call your cable company.
jb4
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