I remember when my Dad got the family and America Online dial-up account . . .

SolidSqual

All we had was a 14k modem . . . . and now this:

WilliamM2

I remember the old 14.4 as well. High speed is great, welcome to 2001.

SolidSqual

Now you will all die in Call of Duty . . .

leroyjr1

SolidSqual wrote: »

Now you will all die in Call of Duty . . .

So is that why I'm always shooting first and end up getting killed?

PerfectCreature

I once had dial up. I have not gone very far.
I pay $14.95 a month for:
Ping: 83 Download: .73mbps Upload: .12mbps

So lame. I hate living in the middle of nowhere.

pitdogg2

we still lag far behind other countries that have gigabit speeds... even the slowest DSL is smokin compared to dial-up

EndersShadow

I still have my free Juno email account from like 12 years ago when we were in dial up and running windows 98 as our OS

PerfectCreature

I checked my ranking. I am faster then 3% of the world.
I am so sad right now.

mrbiron

I checked my ranking. I am faster then 3% of the world.
I am so sad right now.

Ethiopia is jealous of your speed but Kenyans can run faster!
Maine.......

nspindel

My first modem was a Hayes Smartmodem 2400. I must be a lot older than you 14400 people!

themuskr

one reason i love college

Face

I remember owning a 14.4 modem and being excited to upgrade to 28.8.

Now:

steveinaz

I remember our first color TV......nevermind.

Tbone289

My first modem was 300bps for my Apple II+. It was a whole different world when I got my Hayes 2400, downloading from Compuserve and local BBSs with Zmodem protocol!

I live in the country now and am suffering again... I'm not suffering from neighbors, though. ;-)

sucks2beme

I go all the way back to acoustic couplers.
Now it's fiber to the house. So where's my rocket pack at?

cnh

steveinaz wrote: »

I remember our first color TV......nevermind.

A Magnavox 19" with a "comb" filter for 330 lines of resolution!

We have a cable modem but not fiber optics so speeds are limited and access speeds "dip" when surfers overload the cable. But, yeah, it's not 14.4K. I remember that, you dial, go make some tea, visit the restroom, read a newspaper and maybe, just maybe you were logged on to a server by then? lol The Good Old Days!

cnh

PerfectCreature

Well, to make matters worse.
My iPhone with the $20 unlimited internet plan (I am grandfathered in)
Ping: 112 Download: 2.3 mbps Upload: .94mbps

This is on 3G, with 2 bars worth of service.
Sucks they charge another $20 for tethering, and limit you to 2GB worth of data.

SolidSqual

themuskr wrote: »

one reason i love college

Yeah, I loved my T1 at Ohio State.

BlueFox

When I moved to CA in 76 my first job was with Vadic (later Racal-Vadic). They invented the 1200bps full-duplex modem, and they sold like crazy. Later, ATT basically reversed the frequencies used, and made their own 1200bps modem. A few years later Hayes cloned it with their Smartmodem, and the modem wars started.

inspiredsports

SolidSqual wrote: »

All we had was a 14k modem . . . . and now this:

Yeah, but don't forget that for "this" you are paying about a grand a year

scottyboy76

nspindel wrote: »

My first modem was a Hayes Smartmodem 2400. I must be a lot older than you 14400 people!

I used to be Dennis Hayes estate grounds manager, Up until his first business bankruptcy.

For a few years he was as big a big shot in the tech industry as bill gates or steve jobs, and the hayes smartmodem was something to put out so your buds could see, like a nice tube amp.

SolidSqual

inspiredsports wrote: »

Yeah, but don't forget that for "this" you are paying about a grand a year

My bill is $49/mo. with Time Warner Cable $600 a year? Oh yeah it's worth it!

SolidSqual

Lasareath wrote: »

A T1 is only 1.5mb/s

Well whatever it was, it flew . . . and those were in the heydays of Napster.

BeefJerky

mrbiron wrote: »

but Kenyans can run faster!

Unless you drink Powerthirst Energy Drink...

mrbigbluelight

One of the great things about dialup was d/ling an XX meg file from Napster, Limewire, etc and just when you're within shouting distance of a complete d/l, somebody in the house picks up an extension phone and ..... :mad:

pitdogg2

Lasareath wrote: »

A T1 is only 1.5mb/s

So Sal please explain why my work T1 is 20X faster than my 3.0mbs DSL at home? My machine at home 3.2ghz and has 4gig of ram.


you may of just explained adove.......

SolidSqual

I got a buddy who has two separate 50 MB Download and 5 MB Upload lines in his home. He connects both lines to a special router that combines the signals to achieve a stunning total download of 100MB Down and 10 Up! What do you call that Sal?

sucks2beme

SolidSqual wrote: »

I got a buddy who has two separate 50 MB Download and 5 MB Upload lines in his home. He connects both lines to a special router that combines the signals to achieve a stunning total download of 100MB Down and 10 Up! What do you call that Sal?

Fast?

Jstas

pitdogg2 wrote: »

So Sal please explain why my work T1 is 20X faster than my 3.0mbs DSL at home? My machine at home 3.2ghz and has 4gig of ram.


you may of just explained adove.......

T1 lines can be bonded, duplexed and spanned so you can see increased speeds on multiple feeds spanned together. But you can't see greater than 1.5444 Mbit/s because of constraints on how the DS1 bit pattern is used over the T1 lines. It's complicated and makes most people's heads swim so if you really want to know, Google it. That flexibility though, was the major benefit to them over ISDN lines. Rarely do you see T1 level lines anymore though. They are outdated. Especially since basic DSL service can outpace a T1 even on a bad day and for less than a quarter the cost of a T1 line. If you are at a school or another place with a large number of employees, they probably have their own digital trunk drop at the facility and their network services run from there. Smaller joints can get commercial level feeds with gig copper or fiber to the door now but it costs a fortune.

Me, my first modem was a 1200 baud V.23. I think it was a Tandy. I can't remember for sure. Before that, the only digital transfer option we had was a fax machine with an acoustic coupler. Radio Shack deal. Had an acoustic coupler attached to the output of a drum copier. You could use it as a phone too. It was pretty large and never worked right. My dad had gotten it from his job and brought it home to mess around with. But nobody we knew had a fax machine to receive anything so we couldn't really test it if we wanted to.

I ran a 56K modem from U.S. Robotics that was v.90/v.92 capable I got in like 1998 up until 2004 because broadband options were far too expensive. It was cheaper to just run a separate phone line and leave the modem on it. In 2004, I moved out and the phone company wasn't offering dial-up anymore. Had to go through a 3rd party. Didn't want to deal with it 'cause the 3rd party dial up was only 6 dollars less than the Verizon DSL. So I got a DSL line. A whopping 1.4 megs to the apartment. $30 a month.

My first internet access was on a TeleGuide system that my dad showed me how to use in like 1983 when he worked at RCA on a bring your brat to work day.

I'm still running DSL at home. But I'm closer to the switching station so I have 3 meg DSL for about $49 a month. I don't get throttled, I don't share bandwidth with anyone and the speed is just fine with me.

The only way I am changing is when Verizon runs FiOS in my neighbor hood. Then I'm getting a gigabit router and running the feed straight through from the modem without their converter.

inspiredsports

SolidSqual wrote: »

My bill is $49/mo. with Time Warner Cable $600 a year? Oh yeah it's worth it!

I had my numbers mixed up because of the way Time Warner jumbles up my bundled services bill, so I just called them for clarification.

We pay on average $152 per month = $1,800 per year for Phone, TV and Internet.

Phone = $25/mo = $300/yr
TV = $92/mo (2DVR's) = $1,104
Internet = $35/mo = $420/yr (that gets us just 10 MB/s down and 1 Mb/s up)

The 30 Mb/s down sounds inviting, but would cost me another $15/mo = $180/yr

nadams

Jstas wrote: »

T1 lines can be bonded, duplexed and spanned so you can see increased speeds on multiple feeds spanned together. But you can't see greater than 1.5444 Mbit/s because of constraints on how the DS1 bit pattern is used over the T1 lines. It's complicated and makes most people's heads swim so if you really want to know, Google it. That flexibility though, was the major benefit to them over ISDN lines. Rarely do you see T1 level lines anymore though. They are outdated. Especially since basic DSL service can outpace a T1 even on a bad day and for less than a quarter the cost of a T1 line. If you are at a school or another place with a large number of employees, they probably have their own digital trunk drop at the facility and their network services run from there. Smaller joints can get commercial level feeds with gig copper or fiber to the door now but it costs a fortune.

Me, my first modem was a 1200 baud V.23. I think it was a Tandy. I can't remember for sure. Before that, the only digital transfer option we had was a fax machine with an acoustic coupler. Radio Shack deal. Had an acoustic coupler attached to the output of a drum copier. You could use it as a phone too. It was pretty large and never worked right. My dad had gotten it from his job and brought it home to mess around with. But nobody we knew had a fax machine to receive anything so we couldn't really test it if we wanted to.

I ran a 56K modem from U.S. Robotics that was v.90/v.92 capable I got in like 1998 up until 2004 because broadband options were far too expensive. It was cheaper to just run a separate phone line and leave the modem on it. In 2004, I moved out and the phone company wasn't offering dial-up anymore. Had to go through a 3rd party. Didn't want to deal with it 'cause the 3rd party dial up was only 6 dollars less than the Verizon DSL. So I got a DSL line. A whopping 1.4 megs to the apartment. $30 a month.

My first internet access was on a TeleGuide system that my dad showed me how to use in like 1983 when he worked at RCA on a bring your brat to work day.

I'm still running DSL at home. But I'm closer to the switching station so I have 3 meg DSL for about $49 a month. I don't get throttled, I don't share bandwidth with anyone and the speed is just fine with me.

The only way I am changing is when Verizon runs FiOS in my neighbor hood. Then I'm getting a gigabit router and running the feed straight through from the modem without their converter.

We just upgraded from 2 to 4 bonded T's at work . Pay a crapload of money for them, too. Digital service just isn't available here... My connection at home is faster for downloading than here at work. However, another thing to remember is that T's are symmetrical, so we also get 6mbit/s upload, which I don't get at home.

Anyway, I'm looking to take my 7mbit DSL and team it up with a cable line. Looking at building a PFSense box to tie them together and get something like 15mbit download (which isn't available as a single package anywhere around here). Gonna cost me over $100/mo, though.