Boba Rhett Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. The world has changed, my friends! Today I finally got my DSL hookup! But the good news continues, oh yes, it does! I'm one of only two people out here using the local "DSLAM" and it's only about 100 feet from my house. So I am now surfing at 1.5 megabits "downstream"!!! 2.5kbs to THAT is quite a jump! Happy Day! HAPPY DAY! *Starts throwing giftbaskets out to assembled audiance* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havoc Stryphe Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 WOOHOO!!!!! Congrats Rhett, now you are actually competetion for my T1 connection here at work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 one o' my friends recently got a cable hook up and when he tested it he was getting 2800 k/sec! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Lucky boy. In a few weeks I'm getting at least a T3 up at college. Let's all join the broadband bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 lol.. you just got DSL now :p i have it like a year now . But im glad to see faster connection picking up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfmanNCSU Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Congrats on your internet update. I have been on T1 for over a year now, and its been the best thing ever for my computer, since I am constantly working with it, especially online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Good for you, Rhett. If you use the internet fairly often then there is really no excuse not to have broadband, unless you can't get it where you are. The maximum bandwidth is my area is 280 k/s i think. Not incredible but its still a ton faster than 56 k. And now with my new NIC card i can usually get it going up to maximum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artoo Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Betrayer to the 56k! You have just lost your right to be one of the masters of the web! It's you DSL/Cable I hate. You people who eat up all of a site's bandwidth to where it won't send any information to the slower dial-ups. Just because it's that fast you all think that you must have anything on the internet in less than half a second or the website is "incredibly slow." You people with no sense of patience or value. Whatever it is you'll load it, even if you don't care about it cause hey, you can do it in less than a second. But it takes a truly patient and smart person to use a 56k. These are the modems that it takes 10-15 seconds average to load a page. The people surfing with these modems don't have time to do or download whatever just because someone told them to. They have to pick their priorities, but they are continually frustrated, cause some ubernoob at his 286 with his DSL is eating all the bandwidth a site has to offer and the 56ker is getting nowhere. That is why a 56ker is the true master of the web. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am incredibly mad at you people cause today he had to log back on 3 or 4 times to get a response out of the site. Also he had to wait close to a minute to see this page when he finally logged on because the server was too busy sending all that precious information to you fancy-shmancy DSL/Cablers. *No offense was ment by this post, it was just a rant made by a very mad droid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Hey! That means you can add articles faster to LC! *HINT HINT HINT!!!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Just wait till you get a faster modem, Artoo. I think you'll be singing a different tune when you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artoo Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 That's cause by the time I get DSL it will be considered a normal service, and T3's or better will be the thing that's everywhere. I am eternally cursed with a slow modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eets Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 My internet connection status window says I'm getting 10MB/S WTG RHETT! It's about ****ing time! ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 congrats Rhett! Artoo, you need to move with time You do have a lightbulb, right? or is it still the candle? :D:D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatt13 Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 like artoo, i too am cursed w/ an eternally slow modem! 56k will live on forever, w/ me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Originally posted by darthfergie Hey! That means you can add articles faster to LC! *HINT HINT HINT!!!* Yeah, and since you already have broadband you can put up those reviews you were gonna write faster. Or at least add all the games to the lists. *nudge* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 I happen to be running at 100 Mbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 *SOB* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DashRendar Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 What are you SOBing about Redwing? A slow cable isn't any worse than a fast 56k, in fact probably better. At the moment, I'm cursed with a 56k, but if our Cable company is as good to us as it has been in the past, we ought to have a Cable connection within the year-Woo Hoo-They CLAIM to have good speed (194k upward and 600k downward) at a price better than Rhett's DSL. Man that sounded SO like a commercial that it even caught ME off guard. O and Eets PLZ tell me that your 10 mb is Megabits and not Megabytes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eets Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 it says mbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Originally posted by Tie Guy Yeah, and since you already have broadband you can put up those reviews you were gonna write faster. Or at least add all the games to the lists. *nudge* Yeah not until Rhett adds my account into LC *HINT HINT!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherack Nhar Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Unfortunately for Rhett, he also has to access the net from behind a router now. Same as me. ... Anybody know how to configure a router so we can stop having various problems in some applications like games and IMs? For example, I can't initiate file transfers in MSN Messenger because of it. Also, I can't host a game of Jedi Outcast or Neverwinter Nights; the game doesn't show up on the client's list. I also can't use my webcam as a live stream, can't connect for voice chatting, etc. Can anybody help us out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfnshannon Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 ooo my DSL is coming on the 28th!!! I can't wait...got a sweet computer too...I have to check what it has yet. It burns cds in like a min or 2!! I have a T1 at work. Yay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Sherack...I could help you if I knew more about your connection. And what software you're using to config the router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clefo Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Damn you people, I'm in the SECOND biggest city in Arizona and I'M NOT IN THE AREA FOR JACK ****! Although, a brochure for Qwest DSL came, I'm thinking of putting it in my mom's purse with a post it note attached "hint hint" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishflesh Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 1,5 mb per second? i got about 2200 kb an i got cabel but in the netherland everything gowse faster so its normal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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