Man, this thing works faster than I can think! (ok, ok I’m a little slow) Think I will go to the pictures section and enjoy all of the projects I didn’t have the patience for. DanT
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you like to rub it in doncha?
plodding along ....................
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
and in about three days it will slow down. it aint never fast enough, need more speed dude.
DanT,
Many different kinds/speeds of broadband out there. So what did you get? A co-worker just got SBC DSL, whoppin' 320 Kps, and to him a BIG difference over dial-up. Me.....way faster, but surfing is like changin' channels on a TV.
Jon
I have 2684k. The installer said he had never had any come out that fast. Said all the cable in my area must be perfect. I really don't know what the number means but it is supposed to be twice as fast as a t-1 can provide. Anyway its faster than I can think. As fast as I can click and count 1 everything is loaded. Amazing. Pictures, films everything. Even ESPN is fast. DanT
yea, youll never go back to modems. While just the other day i heard a modem doing its carrier detects... Sometimes the good ole days are best left forgotten......
Still snailing along at 28.8 here. Sometimes I think standing on the roof waving flags would be faster. Sigh.
"Still snailing along at 28.8 here."
4Lorn1,
OK, you've given me plenty of good advice for a long time. Now mine to you ,.....get some form of broadband. I'm spoiled, but at 2am to 3am, I randomly hit 20,000Kps. Think about that. Almost 800X faster than your connection...........worth every penny. 600Kps to 1200Kps during the day though.
Jon
28.8. Gee, I didn't realize that anyone was using that speed even on the telephone modems today.
I'm thinking of using bigger flags or supplementing my peak throughput with notes wrapped around rocks. I knew there was a reason I have been working on my upper body strength.
The only broad band available in this area is the local cable company. As for dealing with them I would sooner bait alligators with my wedding tackle.
I keep hoping that the telephone companies will upgrade the lines to accept DSL, they have compatible lines on both sides of my location, but so far no dice.
28.8....WOW how do manage such speed???
I'm still in 12/14 realm. No other choices... Aside from Sattilite...
Some body sent me 4.1MB attachment today. 64min 19sec to down load....
Must be nice....
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Re: "I'm still in 12/14 realm."
I get a high speed connection and I'll send you my flags and rocks. Slightly used but still plenty of life in them.
It's a deal... Thanks...
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
I'd almost be willing to bet that you could get yourself a fast connection, and for free, no less... If you used a wireless card, and a pringles can.
; )
I don't have even that option. No neighbors on my side of the ridge. Can't get satelite on this side, either. No cable out here. And dsl is just a pipe dream. Where I live, I can't even use a cell-phone without taking a half mile hike.
We will not see cable or dsl for a decade or two, at least. I'll never have satelite, unless they start running some of the satelites farther north. Hey, why can't they just sit a ring of those around the north pole ? Or at least run another ring halfway between the ones they have, and the NP...
Posting at Breaktime should not be a full contact sport.
quittintime
BTW: I hope you don't think I was serious about that pringles can.
If I lived where that was possible, I would probably buy the parts, and play with it until I got it working. Just so I could see if I could do it.
Then I'd tear up the can, and put away the card. Even though I don't think that it is technically illegal yet, it just seems to me like it should be. So I wouldn't actually use it.
The exception being if the owner of the wireless connection knows about it, and says it's ok.
Posting at Breaktime should not be a full contact sport.
quittintime
There are a couple of different types of satellite service. The cheapest is to have downloads only via the satellite and use the land line telephone to send the request to the server. I have seen ads for this type of service for about $40/mo., but I assume (but didn't check it out) that this is a "teaser" rate that will probably go up later.
The higher speed satellite link in both directions is offered by a couple of services. The low price I have seen was $59.95/mo. plus something like $695 for equipment. There are also plans where you can pay less up front for equipment and pay more each month.
The other type of service is a mobile service where you can affix your satellite dish to your RV or your limo and when you stop and push a button, it will lock onto the satellite. I think I remember this as starting around $79/mo. plus several grand for the self aiming dish setup.
These prices are from memory (thus not guaranteed for more than thirty seconds) and since the info was gathered several months ago, prices could have changed drastically. The guy hawking Dish satellites said he had been told that Dish was coming out with a satellite internet system this summer that "would blow everyone away". However, he said he had absolutely no details, so figure that as a promotional puff piece...
You can get a lot of links from Google on Internet satellite, but a couple are:
http://www.starrcomm.net/starband/starband_discount_setup_fee.html
http://www.starrcomm.net/satellite/
http://www.myrateplan.com/internet/satellite.php
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Digital_Satellite/
I have a question........
Why 28.8?
Is that the speed of your modem or the best connection you can get from your ISP?
You should be able to upgrade to 56K for next to nothing. Still nothing like cable, but twice as fast.
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28.8 is the speed. a 56 wouldn't help. The phone lines are the week link.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Not really sure just what you are saying........
I have a 56k modem, using phone lines, too.
And right now my connection is 52,000.
Less during the day, but never lower than 49,000.
another thing that will help a internet experience is maxing out your ram.
You said your connection was in the 12 to 14 range. That has to be more than a phone line problem. What have you got going?
You use Earthlink as a provider, right? It's still a local call, isn't it?View Image
I use a 56k modem as well. External. In years of using both, I have seen averages of sometimes almost double the speed using an external modem compared to an internal.
My connection speeds currently average 35. Downloads average about 13 to 28. And I have the strongest signal that one local phone engineer has ever seen in this area.
Where Imerc is, is way worse than where I am.
I have 256 megs of ram. I think Imerc has more than that.
Sometimes, it is what it is, no matter what you do on your end of the connection...
Posting at Breaktime should not be a full contact sport.
quittintime
8GB of shared RAM on a 266MHz buss.. 10GB swap.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Yeah, so you got two or three more megs than I have.
LOL
My first computer had 16 K of ram...
Next was 64 K. Then when I got one that I could put 256 K into.... whoooo weeeeee !!!!
Posting at Breaktime should not be a full contact sport.
quittintime
I remember 4 on the RAM and 250MB on the HD and COBALT was the order of the day..
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
"I use a 56k modem as well. External. In years of using both, I have seen averages of sometimes almost double the speed using an external modem compared to an internal."
A REAL internal modem will be just as fast as an external modem.
But it is hard to find a real internal modem. Most of them are "fake" winmodems.
The don't have the hardware to fully process the signals and decode them.
Just enough hardware to say I have a signal and the processor has to do all of the work.
True.
I haven't seen a real internal modem in the store for years. When I did, they were more expensive than the externals.
The majority of people just get the internal winmodems because they are the cheapest. They do not know the difference.
Posting at Breaktime should not be a full contact sport.
quittintime
If your phone lines are noisey or stacked (electronic party line) or old or substandard they wil only handel so much.
Right now my connection 16.4KBS on V92 capable of handeling 128,900KBS. Down load is around 2KPS. At about 3 AM the speed will jump to the middle to high 30's. In the afternoon I'm lucky to get 8 or 9KPS
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Guess that's the price you are paying for your privacy.
Maybe you can get a couple a bears with strings and tin cans to increase your line speed. Of course one fool's hen on the string would mess that all up, too.
But this all started by my asking 4lorn about his stated 28.8. I was just wondering if that was his modem speed.View Image
It cost me 6400$ to put in the line and I had to have a trunk line brought in and a D box installed. Waited 14 months for a phone # to become available.
I'm much better off than most of the others around here.
A lot folks still lead/fabric/tinned copper or steel lines.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
I dunno, bro...$6400 buys a lot of semaphore flags and rocks. You maybe shoulda taken up 4LORN on his offer....LOL
I've got two choices here besides the dial-up I'm on (38kbps avg): DSL or TV cable. I don't have a television, so no cable. DSL requires a hardware box of some sort that I'm not sure I understand completely. Got to admit it'd be nice to be able to download one of those 1.5meg photo panoramas you send me in less than 10 minutes. Good thing I'm on unlimited dial-up, heh, heh, heh....
My phone line to the network is not exactly brand new, either. When I moved the house 20 feet back in '95, I forgot about the phone line until the house was actually rolling down the rails, so I reached up with a pair of dykes and cut it just before it tore loose on its own. Once we had it up on caissons and things calmed down a bit, I wired up a modular jack to the cut wire and screwed it to a yellow birch tree in the front yard. Plugged in my wireless base-station and dropped an old stainless-steel sink over it with some duct-tape over the drain and the antenna poking out from underneath on one side. Stayed that way for six months and worked fine. Later I hooked it up to the house again using some Station D wire and a couple of cable hooks to take the load off the splice. It's still that way, but I've got no idea if it's affecting my internet speed....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
I visited my sister over Christmas and she had a new computer. Don't remember the specs, but fairly fast.
I used it a couple of times to check what was going at Breaktime and I could not believe how slow it was.
Now I just got DSL about 6 weeks earlier and thought maybe I was just used to the faster connection.
But I felt that some thing must be wrong. I started checking if there where any new drivers available and for conflicts, etc.
Then I happend to notice that it was connecting at 14.4. I knew that they had good phone service and that SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
Found out that she moved it to a different room where they did not have a phone jack so she used a wireless jack.
Jury rigged a couple of long phone cords and used some splitters and coupler and connected it to a real jack and verified that was the problem.
I did not have any tools with me so I could put in a new jack.
But I might even got her "free" high broadband connections.
Her daughter lives in the house directly behind hers. And they had cable with a wireless router to connect to the kids commputers and his laptop.
Suggested that they would see if the signal would reach the 200 ft or so between houses.
I have a 56K modem. Never even gets close due to the line limitations.
I was just wondering.
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Telephone lines going to my house are evidently made of whatever was left. Scrap bits of tie wire, cattle fences that were running roughly in the right direction. I suspect a section or two made with tin cans and kite string.
They are all right for simple voice. The original reason they were run. But they are weak connections and, from what I hear (literally) noisy.
BEE
Just because your telephone modem says 56k doesn't mean your speed really goes up to that level. With telco's, your distance from their last repeater is a factor. Had 56K modem here and could only get 24.4 speed.
Get cable or satellite and you will love it!
Cheers
Mac
1500$ for the set up. + 100$ a month....
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....