Bah! Dial Up Sucks!

Drakon · Aug 16, 2005, 02:09 PM

Well as some of you may have noticed I haven't been online since last week. My cable internet got cut because we fell behind on the bill, so I'm stuck with my mom's crappy aol dial up until I get the cable back. Good grief, this thing is slower than a snail. Takes forever to load a page, especially if it's got flash and such. And the constant disconnects and reconnects is driving me crazy. So as a result I won't be online very much. I dunno, since it's been gone my rig doesn't seem the same as before. It seems pretty useless now.... lol jk

I'll probably take the time to do some 3d stuff and mess around with ps and catch up on some reading. So I'll see you guys around. And remember, be nice to the elderly especially Zardon... LMAO

CDsDontBurn · Aug 16, 2005, 02:11 PM

sux to hear that you're on dial-up now man. hope you get back up on your broadband connection again sometime soon

Lowfat · Aug 16, 2005, 10:20 PM

I can't imagine how slow that must be... I haven't used dial up in about.... probably pretty close to 6 years now...

nitrousoxide52 · Aug 16, 2005, 10:23 PM

I had dial up for a little while, before my cable provider started giving internet. At the time it didn't bother me because it's all there was. But then once I got cable internet, I realized how slow it was really going. My friend was using a College internet connection... 2KB/s!!!! I could never handle anything as slow as that....

DH and ATI rock

**dj_stick** · Aug 16, 2005, 11:03 PM

i've been on dial up since february or march

i've gotten used to it but i miss cable

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 16, 2005, 11:45 PM

i can never ever use dial ever again in my life

FearTheTerp · Aug 17, 2005, 02:08 AM

Comcast is a bit expensive, I would switch to SBC Yahoo, which is cheaper than aol and frees a phone line, after a year, just cancel SBC and sign up with comcast again and get that deal. Poor man's way to go.

DH and ATI rock

niceguyrichy · Aug 17, 2005, 06:47 AM

I had to use dial-up for about a month when we moved recently.

It was a bit of a pain in the ass to say the least.

On 2Mbps broadband now.

It's awesome!

bug77 · Aug 17, 2005, 07:09 AM

Nobody has to cut me from broadband to put me on dial-up! I rule!

CDsDontBurn · Aug 17, 2005, 11:33 AM

once you get on broadband, the only thing that there could be is faster broadband

**MIG-31** · Aug 17, 2005, 11:41 AM

After uprgrading to 3mb BB from 2mb BB with my isp after the press release from them last week.....(3mb will be upped to 10mb before the end of the year).

I would simply hate to see what dial-up access is like.....It must be a killer.

**Vikingod** · Aug 17, 2005, 11:43 AM

oh come one people, its not that bad, I went from DSL to dial up, and i haven't completely lost my mind yet... well... maybe.

niceguyrichy · Aug 17, 2005, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MIG-31

After uprgrading to 3mb BB from 2mb BB with my isp after the press release from them last week.....(3mb will be upped to 10mb before the end of the year).

I would simply hate to see what dial-up access is like.....It must be a killer.

Damn!

10Mb !!!

2Mb is the very fastest that's available in my part of the country!

AttroPheed · Aug 17, 2005, 12:02 PM

I got 20Mb for 29 a month. It's gonna suck when i move back to america to have to pay more for a slower speed.

And I'd rather go without than go with dialup lol

CDsDontBurn · Aug 17, 2005, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AttroPheed

I got 20Mb for 29 a month. It's gonna suck when i move back to america to have to pay more for a slower speed.

And I'd rather go without than go with dialup lol

some people do feel like this, you're not alone

**MIG-31** · Aug 17, 2005, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niceguyrichy

Damn!

10Mb !!!

2Mb is the very fastest that's available in my part of the country!

Feel sory for you m8..

Parts of the us as i know of has some pretty quick lines over there......but these sort of speeds i will receive is relatively new to us here in the uk...

Im waiting with impatience..

niceguyrichy · Aug 17, 2005, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MIG-31

Feel sory for you m8..

Parts of the us as i know of has some pretty quick lines over there......but these sort of speeds i will receive is relatively new to us here in the uk...

Im waiting with impatience..

Yeah, the difference between 512 dsl and 2mb was quite major.

Nowadays my porn's on the desktop before I've shut the browser window.

Zelig · Aug 22, 2005, 11:13 PM

I've got 12 more months to go before I move from my parent's place to somewhere where real internet access is available.

At least I don't get many disconnects, usually my server will hold a dial-up connection for a couple days at a time.

Robert McClelland · Aug 23, 2005, 12:14 AM

heh I just love my dial up crusing a speed at 45,200kbps all the time