Page 1 of 1
The pain of dial-up
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:26 am
by AndrewAPrice
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!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:53 am
by GLneo
redo your sig now!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:33 am
by inflater
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
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:43 am
by frank
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.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 1:00 pm
by Brynet-Inc
I probably shouldn't gloat about my 16megabit line.. but I'm going to anyway..
I can download at around 1900 kilobytes/ps
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:01 pm
by Alboin
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.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:11 pm
by Aali
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)
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:55 pm
by pcmattman
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)...
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:02 am
by Tyler
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
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 6:24 pm
by bubach
I haev friends complaining about their 100/100mbit connections being to slow..
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:56 am
by elderK
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
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:13 pm
by frank
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.