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JJ64 Boo Level: 45 Posts: 768/919 EXP: 640956 For next: 19208 Since: 05-22-04 From: Green Bay, WI Since last post: 441 days Last activity: 269 days |
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| At least I have an unlimited plan. I've been stuck in dial-up land for 7 years, but by the end of the year, we'll have broadband. |
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Reno Level: 13 Posts: 6/48 EXP: 8122 For next: 2145 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ireland Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 9 days |
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| Dial-up is where I am, and where I'm staying, I'm afraid. Broadband is still too expensive. I use a flat rate package, though, so it's pretty cheap and not too expensive. However, I did use a 28.8 modem for four years, so when I got this new PC with 56kb/s, I was rather happy. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 2902/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Besides, all it means is you can't download as much. Pages on average load a fraction of a second quicker on broadband, so what's the big deal with dialup, anyway? ...You can download a lot more.  And upload too. Can't forget uploading these days.  |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1046/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Yup, with broadband, you can download more and upload. This is what I do at work, I take advantage of the university class connection and download tons of stuff off of bittorent... I can't really do that with dialup |
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drjayphd Beamos What's that spell? pimp! Level: 56  Posts: 476/1477 EXP: 1387410 For next: 10766 Since: 03-15-04 From: CT Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by neotransotaku Pfft. We couldn't even do that at school. But we also had IT people who knew their shit and blocked most P2P-related ports. The best we could use was Audiogalaxy, until that went down, because I think it went through the same port as regular web browsing or something. |
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KawaiiImoto-e Hammer Brother Level: 49 Posts: 355/1068 EXP: 852917 For next: 30966 Since: 03-15-04 From: In my own little complicated dreamworld Since last post: 16 days Last activity: 4 days |
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| Audiogalaxy was good. And I was in Dialupland in since 1998, but left it in late 2000. |
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 556/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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My point was what's the use in totally disconnecting yourself just because you can't get to your Broadband connection?  Dialup still lets you do 90% of most of the things you can do with broadband anyway. The 10% being downloading and uploading |
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DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 464/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| I'm not on dialup anymore, but I've been for almost 4 years. | |||
Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 2059/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Originally posted by Kasumi-Astra Oh my...  I don |
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DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 470/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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Originally posted by Millennium NekoOriginally posted by Kasumi-Astra |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82  Posts: 222/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| I had dialup for four years, then just got cable now, and now my mom wants to switch out of cable. This presents a problem for me, as pretty much the only thing I do all day is download and watch anime. However, rather than get 56K again, I've managed to convince her to switch to DSL instead. I really don't want to go back to 56K, I can't stand it, especially AOL. And what's worse, there's all of those low cost ISPs nowadays like Juno.com or Earthlink, they suck, and they're raping so many people of their money by saying it's just 10 dollars a month, but it's not even worth 10 dollars a month! Yep, I gotta get DSL. |
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Surlent サーレント Level: 49  Posts: 457/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| If people cannot convince their parents to get DSL (assuming the majority of the people live at home): What about trying to get a job and work for the montly fee ? Today's prices for flatrates aren't too high, so for a these few 20 or 30 US-$ a lower amount of working might convince the parents ("Mom, I wanna have broadband; and I'll work for that alone!" ), so never forget any option - it's another thing if broadband still is not available or really way too expensive offers exist, like broadband via satellite only; you need a normal telephone "back"-data channel for sending data packages and very often there's no flatrate at all |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 223/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| You don't think I tried that already? My mother's a very hard headded person, and she doesn't think I can pay it, despite the fact that even with the spare money I make (IE pocket change and stuff) I could pay for broadband myself. I've just barely convinced her to let me go half and half on DSL; broadband at this point would be impossible. And as for signing up or my own account, I'm not 18 yet, and if she found out that I was going behind her back to subscribe of my own accord, I'd never hear the end of it. I'm fine with DSL though, so long as she lets me pay for a little of it. | |||
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1057/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| isn't broadband DSL? I thought broadband is anything that isn't dialup... I want high speed internet in any form, problem is, I'm having a hard time asking my aunt (since I'm living with her while I go to school) to allow me to install it...i dunno, i guess I'll leech off of my work connection until I get my own place... |
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62 Posts: 562/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Broadband is any fast connection internet. In this country we have both DSL and cable. They're roughly the same quality, but cable offers a slight edge due to the lower contention ratios. My cable line to the server is approximately shared with half as many people to that on the DSL lines. Also, the main broadband provider, and the main telecoms giant in the UK, has just slapped a 1gb/month download cap on all it's services. That's just absurd |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 3493/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| I where forced to use pay-per-minute dial up for one month. It almost costed 1000 SEK (125 US dollars...) Yep, dial-up is expensive... |
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Polp Goomba Level: 8 Posts: 17/20 EXP: 1940 For next: 247 Since: 07-20-04 From: Dublin Since last post: 467 days Last activity: 290 days |
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Originally posted by Colleen Not when you have an upload cap of 1 gb  Download cap of 4gb as well.EVIL ISP! |
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Bella Ludwig Von Koopa You're Gonna Love Me Level: 76  Posts: 732/2962 EXP: 3891483 For next: 114577 Since: 03-29-04 From: Groovy Way Since last post: 8 min. Last activity: 6 min. |
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Bleh I miss my DSL. All those times downloading and watching things like music videos I couldn't watch on TV since I didn't have satelite. Now when I try to watch them it takes forever and it doesn't have very nice quality  I wish it would come back to me. Now something takes forever and a day to download for me. Damnit.. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 2918/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Sympatico used to have upload/download caps of 5 GB each way. Needless to say, they had to axe that less than a year after it was instituted. (Then again, since they just partnered with MSN... *cries*) |
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Snika Boo Level: 44  Posts: 3/916 EXP: 600678 For next: 10607 Since: 07-21-04 From: Freezing Cold Alaska! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I forgot how utterly painfull dialup was (I've been on DSL for awhile now), until I had a chance to use it again on my borrowed laptop... I feel for you. --Snika |
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