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| 56K Dial-Up |
   
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19 | 31.15% |
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1 | 1.64% |
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17 | 27.87% |
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22 | 36.07% |
| Sattelite |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Other |
  
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2 | 3.28% |
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02-06-2002, 08:00 PM
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Member (7 bit)
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Scotland
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Is Broadband available in your area
How many people are still using 56K dial-up to connect to the Internet?
I am and I'm thoroughly p***ed-off with it. 3D games are are a joke with my connection and the connections are slowwww and unreliable. Typically I connect at 33.6 kbps due to my distance form the phone adapter (50 metres) and the local phone system. The page you are reading would take me around 20s to download! My alternatives? ISDN: out dated, expensive and with the state of our old phone lines locally the connection won't appreciably better. Satellite: yeah, I'll get it straight after I buy my luxury yacht in the Med and a garage full of Ferraris. I live in the back of beyond and there is nothing else available to me for the foreseeable future, I would like a poll on who is using what to connect, what kind of price you pay and whether you are happy with the service you get. As you may notice from my profile I live in the UK where a former Nationalised industry has it's hands around the nuts of the smaller Telco's and therefore a virtual monopoly. I would like to know what the situation is in the States, Australasia, Western Europe and even in the rest of Britain. Your thoughts.... |
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02-06-2002, 08:17 PM
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Member (13 bit)
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
Posts: 4,130
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Using Cable now
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02-06-2002, 08:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,392
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Hey, what about Canada?
Cable here with a dial-up account as a backup ... just in case. The pages take about 2-4 seconds to load ... not to rub it in or anything.
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02-06-2002, 08:38 PM
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Member (10 bit)
Premium Member
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: N'Awlins, LA
Posts: 517
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Sattelite......
My sister lives in a rural area and needed a more reilable internet hook up that dial-up. She went to sattelite. It's not cable fast or dsl fast, but it beat dial-up hands down.
It is very reliable and there is the TV service. The initial expense is great if you don't get the tv service, but it still beats dial up. CaptTuna |
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02-06-2002, 08:40 PM
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Member (13 bit)
Join Date: Mar 1999
Posts: 6,796
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Dial-up here still, unfortunately. The connection is not too bad (46-49k), but still too slow. I can't wait until college....
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02-06-2002, 08:48 PM
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HOT ROD
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: On the Edge
Posts: 4,565
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Wireless
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02-06-2002, 08:52 PM
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Member (13 bit)
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Fullerton, CA
Posts: 7,030
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DSL for me, readily avaiable from 2 or 3 TelCo's and ISPs nearby.
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02-06-2002, 09:00 PM
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Member (8 bit)
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Tonto Basin, AZ (boonies)
Posts: 173
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56k.......I wish....80 miles from Phoenix and on a good day,33.6 never on Sat or Sunday or evenings............wish there was something else..thats the boonies for ya
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02-06-2002, 09:10 PM
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Retired
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Modesto,Calif
Posts: 4,060
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DSL and wireless here with cable in about 6 months.
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02-06-2002, 09:17 PM
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Member (5 bit)
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Riverside, CA USA
Posts: 26
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Cable now. Had DSL til the provider, MSN, pulled the plug. Really like the speed.
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02-06-2002, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 977
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I am using DSL provided through a partnership between the local Telco (Qwest) and MSN Broadband. If I understand correctly, the actual physical connection is provided by the Telco and the service by MSN. Cost: $49.99 month Speed: Advertised at 256 up and 640 down. Actual speed 248 up and 572 down.
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02-06-2002, 09:29 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: East of Lake Michigan -- West of Lake Huron -- South of Lake Superior and North of civilization.
Posts: 2,219
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Had DSL via Ameritech that was very reliable albeit somewhat slow. Now I'm stuck with AT&Tbi cable -- faster, but much less reliable and according to ATTbi, won't "work with Netscape because of a security breach in the Netescape browser". I was actually told that this afternoon while trying to deal with a problem. BTW, I'm using NS6 right now and don't even have IE on this machine.
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02-06-2002, 09:55 PM
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Member (7 bit)
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Miami, FL
Posts: 112
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Cable user here
 Unfortunately, in my immediate area there's only 1 broadband provider to choose from (Adelphia/Powerlink). Whenever I find something that p's me off (such as a continously down e-mail server), I just take a deep breath, count to 10, and think back to those terrible 56k days. If that doesn't work, then I go to a nudie website and watch a dirty picture load in a blink of an eye. Nothing beats bad ISP service like instant porn! haha..j/k! |
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02-06-2002, 11:00 PM
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The Preacher Man
Premium Member
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Dallas
Posts: 5,166
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DSL with local telco, 1307/133. BTW, ISDN still a good & reliable technology, with all the bugs ironed out by now. Not restricted by length, but can be a tad expensive. All depends on what you want, in the priorities of life.
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02-06-2002, 11:13 PM
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Member (10 bit)
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Canada
Posts: 526
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Cable user....and lovin' it.
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02-06-2002, 11:16 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Skingrad
Posts: 8,970
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What is broadband?
 My better connection is 33.6, sometimes it's 31.2 and sometimes 28.8. So that is the reason why online gaming is foreign to me. Heck! I spent almost 24 h to download the new HL patch just to be able to play online, guess what? I NEVER could log on to no server, AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
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02-07-2002, 12:30 AM
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Member (14 bit)
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Offenbach/Main (Germany)
Posts: 8,485
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DSL here. Currently with 768K down and 128K up, but next month our provider will offer the doulbe data rate
RJ
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02-07-2002, 01:14 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Bakersfield,CA
Posts: 7,761
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Was like the 5th person to have Road Runner here in Bakersfield. DSL is available, but thanks to PacBell not wanting to spend money, there is only about a two mile radius around their downtown offices where you can get it.
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02-07-2002, 02:12 AM
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Member (8 bit)
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: PA.
Posts: 167
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Dial up here...
 Connect pretty good though, around 45333 to 48000.....Adelphia just bought up the ATT around here and they seem comitted to cable service within the next year. Ahhh I can just imagine....
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02-07-2002, 04:52 AM
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Power in the Box-P4 XEON!
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Europe >Swiss
Posts: 3,023
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56K modem - High speed - PCMECH loads in under 2 seconds..most web do.
Regular DL Rate - 6 K up..Upload slow..
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02-07-2002, 02:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,965
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Slow dial-up, using 56K modem, ~4KB/sec for download.
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02-07-2002, 03:33 PM
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Member (9 bit)
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Michigan, USA
Posts: 445
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Was on Mediaone Road Runner Cable until the recent @Home fiasco. Now I've been transferred to Comcast. I was the very first Road Runner customer in my city. Comcast is OK although I can never hit the 800/300 they promise. More like 700/200. Mediaone was much better.
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02-07-2002, 05:50 PM
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Member (11 bit)
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Toronto Canada
Posts: 1,714
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Ive got bell sympatico highspeed. (in canada), and the service is 1meg down/128k up, and its been very reliable.
The worst part is the pppoe software, but that hasnt been a problem since i got a linux server, it handles the pppoe very nicely. The only other stuff thats avaliable here is Rogers Cable internet (previously Rogers @ Home), and theres a small local company which offers ipDSL, it requires a second dedicated phone line, but it claims 4meg up/down, so it is very good speed, and it only costs $23cdn/month. (althought you have to also pay for the second phone line, and you need to buy the modem for $300)
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02-07-2002, 09:19 PM
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Member (9 bit)
Join Date: May 1999
Location: TX
Posts: 341
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I'm out in the sticks with my 56K - usually more like 26400.
On the slow days watching paint dry is fast-paced compared to surfing the web. We almost had wireless, but it got canned at the last moment. We have ISDN at the office - DSL is available now, but just at one location...
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02-08-2002, 08:43 AM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Joplin MO
Posts: 41,189
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56k modem that connects at 38.6.
Cable company is lame, broadband has been "coming soon" for 3 years now, I think AT&T has bigger fish to fry right now than open a new area. I'm 24000 feet from the phone switch, Ameritech has a Project Pronto box 4 blocks away but refuses to turn it on, probably because they don't want to offer "equal access" as mandated by law. Only options are ISDN and satellite, neither of which would fit my budget. |
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02-08-2002, 09:14 AM
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Member (8 bit)
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: arizona
Posts: 225
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cable for $35 through cox. used to be @home. speed changes all the time. usually pretty fast, but nothing ever seems fast enough. given the options available right now, I'm very pleased.
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02-08-2002, 09:14 AM
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"Normal" again....??
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Posts: 17,600
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Cable here. We have a promised 1 Megabit up/down, but it's more like 800 up, 1350 down
 Not that I'm complaining or anything.
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02-08-2002, 09:21 AM
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Member (5 bit)
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: West Lothian, Scotland
Posts: 25
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Yeh, I live in Scotland too and while most of the cities and towns in Scotland now offer broadband I also live in the back of beyond with no sign of ever getting broadband.
56K is a real joke! |
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02-08-2002, 09:41 AM
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Professional gadfly
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 6,364
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56K dialup here. I'm not a gamer so it works okay for me, although I would prefer something faster. Usually get good throughput, although a couple weeks ago it dropped to below 3K/s for some odd reason. Normally it is at least 4.5K/s.
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02-08-2002, 10:35 AM
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Member (11 bit)
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 1,487
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Cable here, and I've had it for just about three years. So whenever I'm at someone's house who has dialup I can't stand it. Especially when they only have one phone line. We were paying something like around $50 a month, but that was because we were renting the modem and had another IP. Well I got a router and bought a modem, and also got Cox Digital telephone (which means we have all three cox services so the price goes down) so now we are paying around $35-$40 a month, I'm not quite sure. For speed I'm getting 3059(about 382 kBps) down and 247(about 31 kBps) up, according to a speed test. The max I've seen programs report is about 500 kBps for downloading and about 35 kBps for uploading.
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