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View Poll Results: What kind of internet connection do you have?
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Dial-Up (AOL, etc...)
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ISDN
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Cable Modem
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T1/LAN
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12-13-2001, 11:40 PM
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Wiseass
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Fairfield, CT
Posts: 2,281
Current Game: Skyrim
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What kind of connection do you have?
I was just curious...
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12-14-2001, 12:22 AM
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argh
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Somewhere in Canada
Posts: 4,838
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I have cable. 
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12-14-2001, 12:39 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Just north of Hell
Posts: 1,512
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Cable here
No working sig now, just lazy ones...
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12-14-2001, 07:44 AM
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Bioshock is my RELIGION!!
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Indoors
Posts: 3,225
Current Game: Black Ops/Biosock
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Dial-up with AOL.
Please feel sorry for me. 
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12-14-2001, 12:39 PM
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Wiseass
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Fairfield, CT
Posts: 2,281
Current Game: Skyrim
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oops I forgot, I have cable too...
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12-14-2001, 01:39 PM
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Reborn
Join Date: Sep 1998
Location: Chile
Posts: 2,326
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cable too
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12-14-2001, 05:13 PM
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Fallen Jedi
Join Date: May 2001
Location: In a green and pleasant land
Posts: 5,436
Current Game: Legend Of Grimrock
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You have my sympathies, Hannibal. I too have a dial-up connection, via a 56k modem. 
It's not that I don't want something better...I'd like DSL or Cable...but it's not even available where I live. Nor is it likely to be for at least a couple of years.
My only chance of getting the right connection is to move close to a big city that is connected.
ISDN is apparently available, but just too expensive for what you get...I mean, the minimum package costs £149 to convert your existing line, then £90 per quarter (£30 per month), exclusive of call charges, which are charged at the normal rate. I'd be racking up telephone bills of £200+ per quarter on top of the rental charges, so it works out a lot more expensive than DSL. No wonder BT is dragging their heels introducing DSL across the country. 
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12-14-2001, 06:53 PM
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Fudgy Cakes of Doom
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
Posts: 1,243
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I got ADSL about 1 month ago, and I'm loving it. Previously I had ISDN, but this is just incredible in comparison. Lovin' it.
I hear the UK is extremely slow when it comes to broadband. I feel sorry for all of you UK'ers, hopefully BT will get moving soon... |
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12-14-2001, 07:58 PM
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argh
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Somewhere in Canada
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Originally posted by Darth Simpson
I got ADSL about 1 month ago, and I'm loving it. Previously I had ISDN, but this is just incredible in comparison. Lovin' it.
I hear the UK is extremely slow when it comes to broadband. I feel sorry for all of you UK'ers, hopefully BT will get moving soon...
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Canadian cable seems kinda slow in comparison to the service the American's get.
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12-14-2001, 08:03 PM
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Sith Warrior
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 17,743
Current Game: The Old Republic
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cable. AT&T. not as reliable as i'd like, they dis me every hour, i found out how to change my ip address to get back online faster than wait for them to do it. :|
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12-14-2001, 08:42 PM
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Wiseass
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Fairfield, CT
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I have Road Runner from Time-Warner Cable and its great, I've had it over a year and I think its gone out maybe twice, plus its pretty cheap in comparison, its only 40 bucks a month, where AOL is like 20.
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12-15-2001, 11:12 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Just north of Hell
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Quote:
Originally posted by Hannibal:
Dial-up with AOL.
Please feel sorry for me.
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AOL with dialup, I feel very sorry for you. Worst combination you can get.
No working sig now, just lazy ones...
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12-15-2001, 08:32 PM
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Dragon in Residence
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,275
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Dial-up on a 56k modem, on a machine that was obsolete two years ago.
I desperately want something better (a better ISP, a better connection, a better processor, etc), but money is an issue. Apparently, most of you guys are still living at home and can con your folks into paying for upgrades. I'm a Student, living in an apartment, and my mother can't understand why I need anything more advanced than Wordperfect.
(Yes, her home PC is even worse; it hasn't had a real upgrade since 96.)
"The Beasts know much that we do not." -Ancient Jedi proverb
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12-15-2001, 09:28 PM
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Fallen Jedi
Join Date: May 2001
Location: In a green and pleasant land
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Originally posted by BeastMaster
(Yes, her home PC is even worse; it hasn't had a real upgrade since 96.)
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Ouch.
As for WordPerfect...I know someone who swore by the DOS version of Wordstar until a couple of years ago. 
Anyway, it's good to know that some people are in the same boat as me. But in a bad way...
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12-16-2001, 11:47 AM
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Jedi Rave
Join Date: May 2001
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I have a T3 on one computer and a 56K on the other. I also pay freeserve extra each month so I got full use of their servers for my 56K so I actually GET 56K.
The force will betray you to me. 
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12-16-2001, 09:48 PM
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Wiseass
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Fairfield, CT
Posts: 2,281
Current Game: Skyrim
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Originally posted by BeastMaster
I desperately want something better (a better ISP, a better connection, a better processor, etc), but money is an issue. Apparently, most of you guys are still living at home and can con your folks into paying for upgrades. I'm a Student, living in an apartment, and my mother can't understand why I need anything more advanced than Wordperfect.
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I am in the same boat as you, I'm a student, living in an apartment, I don't know where you are from, but here, cable is not really that much more expensive than dial-up, what is expensive is the cable modem and the ethernet card.
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12-17-2001, 02:07 PM
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Dragon in Residence
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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The service isn't all that expensive here either (or at least, it's not more expensive than dial-up), and the last person who had this apartment had cable, so I know it's accessible.
The trouble is (A) the new modem that I'd need, and (B) the >1 month of downtime I end up with whenever I take my computer in to get upgraded/repaired (competent/efficient computer techs apparently don't exist in reality).
As an English major, I need my computer; I can't afford to lose it for months at a time.
"The Beasts know much that we do not." -Ancient Jedi proverb
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12-17-2001, 02:14 PM
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Jedi Rave
Join Date: May 2001
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And the problem that you wouldnt be able to visit these forums
The force will betray you to me.
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12-17-2001, 10:28 PM
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Wiseass
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Fairfield, CT
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Yeah, I haear ya Beastmaster, I am a history major, and I would hate to sit in the library's computer lab typing paper after paper, I like the comfort of my own place...
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12-17-2001, 11:12 PM
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Forums Juggernaut
Join Date: Dec 1998
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Cable, works like a charm.
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12-18-2001, 03:06 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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12-19-2001, 01:28 AM
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Wiseass
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Sounds like one hell of a connection...
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12-19-2001, 08:32 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Cloud City, Bespin
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56k. Man, AOL sux. *wishes they would get cable out here*
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