What is your internet connection?

jman01pa · July 1st, 2002, 09:37 AM

Currently at home I have dialup and only connect at 19k. I had dsl at my previous house (I miss it)

At work I have a T-1 which is incredible. I do most of my internet traveling at work for obvious reasons...

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Detritus · July 1st, 2002, 09:48 AM

Wow... if my dial-up were that issue free I would have never left it. It use to drive me nuts, busy signals constantly if you tried to connect any time after 5pm. I use to get dumped at the drop of a hat. My wife who stays at home with out 8 month old daughter does Ebay for a living and it use to take her hours to upload her Seller's Assistant for her auctions if she didn't get dropped in the middle of an upload. I have to say that I love my charter cable internet access and it really isn't much more then we use to pay for our satalite tv and dial-up. My only fear is that cable is new to my area and the nodes may fill quickly. Right now I get amazing speed (2.2kbit/second) but if the nodes fill I hear that will drop like a rock.

dunbar · July 1st, 2002, 10:36 AM

Frustrations of dialup, for me are as follows.

My dialup history with the only available paid for ISP was always my fault......
I reinstalled W95 3 times for my ISP to have a clean PC to blame as the 'cause of the errors'; yet, only the one 'paid for ISP' failed, other free ISPs were just fine (those were the days: BlueLight, WorldSpy and FreeAltaVista as well as paid access!!).

Updated from an original Pentium/120 MHz with a modem under W95, to Celeron 633 with a different modem under WinME, my paid for ISP declares that I'm still the problem, yet other ISPs were still fine.

Busy signals from 4 PM to 9 PM were very common for me and for others using a different access # to same paid for ISP. ISP blamed telco.

Disconnects also very common at first but paid ISP stopped that.

Connections were random speeds for some dialups, consistant speeds for another number at same site: random between 28k and 39k, once saw 43.3K at that number. Redial, get a new connect speed in that range. Choose a different dialup number at same access code, get 49.333k every time. Paid ISP said 'user config fault', 'line noise', modem init string, modem 'driver out of date', etc.

My new ISP:
Same hardware at NetZero? Never less than 46k, never busy, only errors were after upgrading NZ then losing a dialup number which actually still works... etc.

Now as for why leave dialup.... at work, I get faster downloads (670 megs in 6 hours maximum -even when starting the download at the peak of the mid day slowdown-).

I get real tired of waiting for all of my home dialups when their fastest is 2 to 6 kbits per second, and then dialup is stalling and stalling.... too chunky even though a fast connect speed is indicated.

That is why I will leave dialup: because the ISP in rural NH is a schlock outfit which is incompetent in my homes area of their coverage area.

Then, consider dialups speed simply does not compare to DSL, Cable... even ADSL bandwidths blow this dialup bandwidth away... I use Linux and those 670 meg distros are waaaaayyy too frustrating on dialup.... taking days at a time, and only if you can tolerate the errors, restarts, etc.

You are rather fortunate that you only need low bandwidth connections.

HfdWolfPack · July 1st, 2002, 10:53 AM

I switched from Dailup to BB and even if BB went up to $60, I still would not go back to Dial-up.

I would cut out digital cable/caller ID/food before I went back to dialup

tobu · July 1st, 2002, 10:57 AM

Me on ADSL. 512 down 256 up

[Neo770]: telstra sucks huh? did you here them say that 98% of austalian populated areas could get broadband!

Detritus · July 1st, 2002, 11:15 AM

Quote:

I would cut out digital cable/caller ID/food before I went back to dialup

I know exactly what you mean....

I think even giving up beer first would be an option... after all I could drink *shudders* Natural Light.

Theophylact · July 1st, 2002, 11:20 AM

At one time, I had both CompuServe (my own) and AOL (my wife's) on my machine. I swiched to Earthlink DSL and got rid of both. But Earthlink gives me a dialup connection as well, which I need when the DSL isn't working, which happens more than I like.

kendo · July 1st, 2002, 11:36 AM

my experience with dialup is similar to cody

i utilize a local isp

after thinking about it i realize i am a little over 8 years with this company

the cost $ 18.00 a month, they bill me and do not require a cc

i have made three phone calls the entire time and none of them concerned the service in any way

the jester · July 1st, 2002, 11:58 AM

we've got a fibre optic service in town now for $100 a month (maybe less - seems to be dropping) and that will top out at 100Mbps - if it were half the price, I'd be there...dreams...

zgf2022 · July 1st, 2002, 12:09 PM

unfortunately i live in a place where i have 2 options
1) dialup
2) pay an large chunk of money to get a sattelite setup

id like to go for #2. I can afford the monthly bill ($50-$60) but the sattelite itself is $400+

so im stuck as is. ARGGG! and we have a crappy phone company that wont consider putting in dsl.