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Kazer0
Mercenary Dishwasher
Joined: 17 Sep 2002
Posts: 2720
Location: In an igloo with my pet penguin, eh?
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| jmmijo wrote: | | Kazer0 wrote: | | Kazer0 wrote: | | There is always Satellite internet avalible in any area, but it is very costly to set up. A reciever is $1000 US, but monthly you pay about the same as DSL. |
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The problem that occurs with Satellite broadband is it's extreme latency. Not good at all for gaming, d/l yes but not gaming unless you want to lag all the time that is  |
Thats because Sattelite uses a 56k modem for upload, satellite for download. |
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Eugene Esterly III
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Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 58
Location: Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:58 pm
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Well, I saw a write-up in my local newsletter for the area which I live in & I am happy. There is a sign-up sheet to get broadband cable Internet in my area & I signed the sheet several hours ago. If 25% of my area signs up, Service Electric Cable TV will hook up my area for broadband. I hope that it works out since dial-up is inaddiquate for downloading.
I download a lot of freeware games, apps, et al & it takes so long to download the files. Even a 1 MB file takes almost 10 minutes, on broadband, it takes less than a minute to download 1 MB. |
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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 705
Location: North Texas, USA
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:13 pm
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My "new" modem is 56k, but its giving me like 28.1k.
Who's pissed off at dial-up like me? |
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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2783
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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| Well like I said in the other thread. For years I suffered like you with dial up, and hey you should be pleased yours is giving you 28.1, my download speed was 3-6k. It seriously sucked. Now my downloads start at 600k but they quickly slow down to about 30k. |
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Eugene Esterly III
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Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 58
Location: Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:54 am
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| GameMaster.EXE wrote: | My "new" modem is 56k, but its giving me like 28.1k.
Who's pissed off at dial-up like me? |
I'm in the same boat as you. My modem is a 56K but I can only get 28.8K in my area because of the phone lines.
I'm not pissed off at dial-up, I'm pissed off at the broadband companies who seem to what to forget about my area. At least Service Electric Cable TV is interest in bringing broadband to my area. |
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Eugene Esterly III
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Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 58
Location: Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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| The_Sinister_Mastermind wrote: | | Well like I said in the other thread. For years I suffered like you with dial up, and hey you should be pleased yours is giving you 28.1, my download speed was 3-6k. It seriously sucked. Now my downloads start at 600k but they quickly slow down to about 30k. |
I don't think that GameMaster.EXE meant that 28.1 was his download speed, I think he meant that 28.1 was his connection speed.
My connection is 28.8K but I have a 56K modem. My download speed on average is between 1-3.5 K. |
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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2783
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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| Yeah good point. Well with any luck the broadband companies will remember you soon. This is mybroadband story. 2 years ago I rang up my phone company Telstra (Who happen to own all the lines everywhere down here). And asked if I could be connected to braodband, they told me sorry it's currently not avalible in my area. Now this was somewhat confusing to me, as my friend who lives in the next street was already connected to Telstra braodband. It took 2 years of abusive phone calls from me for them to finally admit they can give me braodband and finally connect me. |
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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 705
Location: North Texas, USA
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| 28.1k was the slowest speed I got out of my modem. Right now its giving me 50.6k connection speed. The most I ever got out of it was 52k. |
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Eugene Esterly III
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Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 58
Location: Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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I now that this thread is old but I was going thru my old posts & I wanted to bring this up.
I am getting broadband next week from Service Electric Cable TV. They are coming out next Thursday between 12:30 PM EST & 4:30 PM EST.
Now this is great but this broadband is one-way only (this is all we can get in Upper Macungie). Basically put, this means that I will connect to the NET using my telephone line but download thru the cable (the cable will give me broadband). |
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wadeo999
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Joined: 10 Sep 2006
Posts: 104
Location: Australia
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australias main broadband company is Telstra's Bigpond, telstra is the australia wide telephone service . It is the most un-reliable and expenisve broadband and cable services but they are most trusted for some reason. studies have prven that aussie has the slowest broadband internet in the world.
i used 48.8 dial up seince 1997-2006, but ive had broadband for about 6 months now.
256k, unlimited dwnloads, $30 aus a month half price. |
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