The pain of dial-up

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:26 am

I'm down in Adelaide (my hometown) for 2 weeks, but I transfered my DSL account to Brisbane when I moved there.. So I'm stuck with this slow backup dial-up account..

Ahhhhhhhh the slowness!!!!!!!

GLneo · Post by **GLneo** » Fri May 11, 2007 5:53 am

redo your sig now!

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Fri May 11, 2007 8:33 am

Ahhhhhhhh the slowness!!!!!!!

"Ahhh?" What you are talking about? I played formerly CS 1.6 *even* with a dial-up connection!

Of course, it was the curse of 250 ms latency and CS was almost unplayable, lags and even more lags, LAGS squared, in short. But I played this game even with my slow net, added a "MODEM" prefix to my nickname, so everybody knew that I am playing on a modem connection.

Now, on a average 1,5 Mbits/s net, i have ping from 20 ms to 65 ms. Having a 1,5 Mb/s Internet connection, in my city, is some kind of "luck". Not to mention the bigger cities in my land,... More people, more companies, and a faster Internet connection through cable television, up to 15+ Mbit/s.

But it is kinda pain if you even try to switch from 40000 kbps to, ehm, 56 kpbs net connection, when you compare that you can download 1 MB in less than one second,... Dial-up? Almost two minutes.

inflater

frank · Post by **frank** » Fri May 11, 2007 9:43 am

Well at least you all have to option of getting high speed internet. Where I live the only way to get it is via satelite. It costs way too much.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:00 pm

I probably shouldn't gloat about my 16megabit line.. but I'm going to anyway..

I can download at around 1900 kilobytes/ps

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:01 pm

I think I have 3meg down, and 128-256 up....Or something....It's fast enough for everything I do. Surf the web, read documentation, etc.

I don't see why anyone needs more than that....Unless they're downloading software or movies or something, and in that case they probably shouldn't be anyway.

Aali · Post by **Aali** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:11 pm

Brynet-Inc wrote:I probably shouldn't gloat about my 16megabit line.. but I'm going to anyway..

I can download at around 1900 kilobytes/ps

pssh, my e-penis beats your e-penis
i can download at 2.7megabytes/s (24mbit)

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:55 pm

Brynet-Inc wrote:I probably shouldn't gloat about my 16megabit line.. but I'm going to anyway..

I can download at around 1900 kilobytes/ps

I've seen wireless broadband download at 300 kilobytes a second (Telstra's Next-G network)...

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:02 am

pcmattman wrote:
Brynet-Inc wrote:I probably shouldn't gloat about my 16megabit line.. but I'm going to anyway..

I can download at around 1900 kilobytes/ps
I've seen wireless broadband download at 300 kilobytes a second (Telstra's Next-G network)...

Thats not reall amazing though... my cheap wireless does that. What i don't get is how Brynet hits 1900... my 8 megabit line usually downloads at about 800kb/s and only at 3am

bubach · Post by **bubach** » Sat May 12, 2007 6:24 pm

I haev friends complaining about their 100/100mbit connections being to slow..

elderK · Post by **elderK** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:56 am

Quit yer whinin

.
I have 8mbit down, but if I download more than 500mb over three days, I get two weeks of 36k capped-pain.

Im considering GOING back to Dialup.

~zeii

frank · Post by **frank** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:13 pm

Really? 5k down and 2k up is what mine normally runs at. It seems at times that my ISP caps the speed at 2.5k down if I download so much.