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View Poll Results: dialup or broadband?
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dialup
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broadband (cable *DSL etc.)
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16th February 2004, 04:59 AM
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dialup or broadband?
As ug_the_caveman has expressed his major discontent with his lack of "fat pipe", I'll start a poll to see what percentage of users are lucky enough to have broadband and those poor souls still stuck on screechy old dialup lines.
Post your comments on speeds and access technologies if you want (i.e. cable *DSL, satellite, TI  etc.)
In my neck of the woods, I use cable broadband which is much faster and cheaper than the alternatives offered here.
I usually average speeds in the range of 1600 - 4000 kbps (150 - 600kBps). depending on the location and load.
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16th February 2004, 10:40 AM
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*cringes*
The ironic thing is, I was one of the first people in the country to have a 2mbps line! Those were the days, but now I'm on a 56K modem...
My Dad works for British Telecom, the telecommunications company and we managed to get a trial of a 2mbps ADSL line for two years. The great thing about it was that BT paid us to have it, that was really sweet. But since then, we've moved from that house and so have got stuck on 56K.
Currently my connection is so poor, that that XFree86 upgrade via apt is a dream. 
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16th February 2004, 01:05 PM
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Currently my connection is so poor, that that XFree86 upgrade via apt is a dream.
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Well, it even took me a while for all those updates. Phew, I feel sorry for Mike A. Harris, RedHat's XFree86 developer!
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16th February 2004, 01:21 PM
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70 odd mb's worth of stuff afterall!
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19th February 2004, 12:47 AM
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i know what u mean, i connected to the internet with 1.4k in east timor when i was there in 1999 
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19th February 2004, 05:00 AM
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I get a nice 150-400kB/sec. on my cable although I can't wait till my house gets its own Individual fiber line That will be bliss...
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19th February 2004, 08:27 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Bana
I get a nice 150-400kB/sec. on my cable although I can't wait till my house gets its own Individual fiber line That will be bliss...
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Fibre! drools* How in the world can you afford that.
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19th February 2004, 01:28 PM
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Stop! Stop! This is torture....
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20th February 2004, 10:08 PM
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Ah dialup how I do loath thee! I'm in the same boat ug. My local telco's equipment can't be more than one generation removed from manual switch boards, and twisted pair analog
lines.
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20th February 2004, 11:13 PM
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Thank god someone else like me, but your in America?
I thought all of America had broadband?
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20th February 2004, 11:25 PM
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>I thought all of America had broadband?
Only if the "broad" is your SO and the "band" is her wedding ring. In the case of my ex, yea, everybody had her.
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20th February 2004, 11:41 PM
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Woah!
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20th February 2004, 11:52 PM
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I'm on a 600k cable modem with NTL.
99% of the time it's great; downloading the KDE3.2 stuff this afternoon took about half an hour 
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20th February 2004, 11:54 PM
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$£!@!&#
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21st February 2004, 09:40 AM
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Since everybody is having a good time tormenting the poor guy and making him jealous of their internet connection I will also join in the bandwagon. 
I have a 4 Mbps leased line at the office. And in this office there are only 15 people. So downloading ISO's take me something like oh 30 min tops and this is on a bad day . I don't even bother with any download manager no wget nothing just right click and save in Mozilla. Never had a broken download. Ahhh Bliss.
And at home I have an ADSL connection but I do have to admit this is slower than the usual ADSL's I only get a 512 Kbps download and 128 Kbps upload. But on the other hand never need to use it since my addiction and all download needs are fulfilled at the office albeit I am stuck on it now since holidays till Tuesday 
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