Do you HATE dial-up?

[smarteyeball]

I can only smile at the OPs question; 26.4 kbps dial-up connection.

I can only grimace and empathize at the far from fond memories that dial-up evokes

 

[holo88]

yeah dial up sucks. but it's good when there is nothing else. the last place i lived, had no internet. i couldnt get internet due to the residence haveing the same adress as the the company i worked for (that sucked in itself). so what i did, was .. hack my cell phone (prepaid MoTo RAZR) to use as a modem, plug it in, and then piggyback back off a server in NYC. it was slow, but it worked for checking mail, and foruming. as long as i never deleted my temp files, pages wouldnt take that long to load, after a while.

the best part was, with the plan on my phone, i had free nights and weekends. so i could make a 36 hour 'call' @ 9:01pm on a friday, and it didnt cost a thing. idk if it was legal or not, but i lvl.^ my 1337 h4xor skilz

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

yeah dial up sucks. but it's good when there is nothing else. the last place i lived, had no internet. i couldnt get internet due to the residence haveing the same adress as the the company i worked for (that sucked in itself). so what i did, was .. hack my cell phone (prepaid MoTo RAZR) to use as a modem, plug it in, and then piggyback back off a server in NYC. it was slow, but it worked for checking mail, and foruming. as long as i never deleted my temp files, pages wouldnt take that long to load, after a while.

the best part was, with the plan on my phone, i had free nights and weekends. so i could make a 36 hour 'call' @ 9:01pm on a friday, and it didnt cost a thing. idk if it was legal or not, but i lvl.^ my 1337 h4xor skilz

I look at it this way, theres always a legal way to do something.

 

[mickey megabyte]

i remember the good old days - windows ME and dial-up! (celeron 300 and 32 megs ram iirc)

oh what sweet nostalgic joy...:sarc:

 

[Kari]

I can not remember when was the last time I used dial-up. Today I have a 50/10 Mbs VDSL line. We have two IPTV systems (German and Finnish TV), both using 10/1 Mbs leaving 30/8 Mbs for surfing and downloading. Had some problems to assign certain bandwidhts for IPTV boxes, but Netlimiter fixed all the problems. It's enough, I don't need any faster.

Kari

 

[zigzag3143]

I love dial-up it gives me less time to have to do work around the house.

Kari

You're a dog. may your ISp cap you at 55Kb

 

[holo88]

i remember when my friend discovered you can "dial out" on his computer.... we used it to order pizza, on bass phone (a phone tapped to a bass guitar, and hardwired to his pc, another one of my genius inventions)

in a way it made life more interesting. all the neat things that work with a dial tone. you'd be surprised what would work

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

i remember the good old days - windows ME and dial-up! (celeron 300 and 32 megs ram iirc)

oh what sweet nostalgic joy...:sarc:

I can not remember when was the last time I used dial-up. Today I have a 50/10 Mbs VDSL line. We have two IPTV systems (German and Finnish TV), both using 10/1 Mbs leaving 30/8 Mbs for surfing and downloading. Had some problems to assign certain bandwidhts for IPTV boxes, but Netlimiter fixed all the problems. It's enough, I don't need any faster.

Kari

i remember when my friend discovered you can "dial out" on his computer.... we used it to order pizza, on bass phone (a phone tapped to a bass guitar, and hardwired to his pc, another one of my genius inventions)

in a way it made life more interesting. all the neat things that work with a dial tone. you'd be surprised what would work

Not even going to comment lol.

 

[mickey megabyte]

you used a bass pickup as a phone mic or speaker? :shock:

 

[Jacee]

Dial-up was all I could get in my neck of the 'woods'. I had it at 52kbs for 9 years ...

last year I was able to get Broadband, its top speed is about 256 Mbps, but I rarely see that

 

[mickey megabyte]

i forgot about the other dial-up problems apart from speed - it ties up your phone line, and you're paying by the second!

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

This thread already depresses me, everyone's got hi-speed but me!

Oh, thats a nice top-speed Jacee, is a shame you rarely see it. :|

 

[Lanthus20]

I hate it, I live in a small town where our internet is slow to begin with. When I go visit friends in a city I always am like wow. The internet is way faster. Here if you live out of town you need dialup and a friend has to use it. Poor guy it can take 5 minutes to load a single page.

 

[holo88]

This thread already depresses me, everyone's got hi-speed but me!

Oh, thats a nice top-speed Jacee, is a shame you rarely see it. :|

lol. sorry bro, if it makes you feel better, i didnt know wtf this "internet" thing was till around 2002 ... :roflmao:

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I hate it, I live in a small town where our internet is slow to begin with. When I go visit friends in a city I always am like wow. The internet is way faster. Here if you live out of town you need dialup and a friend has to use it. Poor guy it can take 5 minutes to load a single page.

That poor guy is me. :| You wouldn't believe how long it took to load hotmail last night.

lol. sorry bro, if it makes you feel better, i didnt know wtf this "internet" thing was till around 2002 ... :roflmao:

LOL not really but thanks for trying lol, hows your hunt to find that one mobile suit that fires lasers from it mouth going? =)

 

[Kari]

i remember the good old days - windows ME and dial-up! (celeron 300 and 32 megs ram iirc)

oh what sweet nostalgic joy...:sarc:

I hope you got some psychiatric help to overcome the trauma causeb by ME...

I love dial-up it gives me less time to have to do work around the house.

Kari

You're a dog. may your ISp cap you at 55Kb

Have to thank you, Ken, for that Netlimiter tip a couple of weeks ago, chatting on SevenGadget. Netlimiter really solved my problem, I can now assign the bandwidth how I like.

Not even going to comment lol.

I can understand you. Can't you use some mobile solution? I mean, when I'm on the road I use my Nokia N95 as a modem and get 3/1 Mbs.

BTW, in my opinion you have the most informative sig showing great community spirit:

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Nice!

Kari

 

[zigzag3143]

Kari

Netlimiter on 50Mb, now thats funny

I like Darknovagundam sig too

 

[holo88]

i just realized.... i am the only one who voted "it's OK"...

anonymous. i am not.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I hope you got some psychiatric help to overcome the trauma causeb by ME...


Have to thank you, Ken, for that Netlimiter tip a couple of weeks ago, chatting on SevenGadget. Netlimiter really solved my problem, I can now assign the bandwidth how I like.


I can understand you. Can't you use some mobile solution? I mean, when I'm on the road I use my Nokia N95 as a modem and get 3/1 Mbs.

BTW, in my opinion you have the most informative sig showing great community spirit:

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Nice!

Kari

Thanks for the signature compliment. Decided to keep it simple instead of a distracting picture one.

I could try the Mobile alternative but we live around hills so signals for cell phones are usually at 1 bar here. Cut out a lot

 

[zigzag3143]

DNG

Does Onstar work up there?