Are you using broadband or dial-up?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2002-12-31 08:59pm

56k dial-up, through a local ISP (Hevanet).

We subscribe on a semi-annual basis, and I worked it out to ~$13/month for 300 hours a month. Since I can't really use that many hours in a month, it's effectively unlimited.

I average about 5 to 5.5KB/sec downloads from good servers. If I'm lucky I can get as low as 200 ping to Firearms servers.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2002-12-31 09:06pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Dial-up at home, usually broadband at UI.

I'm on dial-up right now until the 18th, which is really pissing me off because I think the software might be slowly killing Sarah.

Way back when I moved into the dorm, and simply deleated the old Earthlink folder: which I shouldn't have done.

Getting back to CR, Sarah had to have Earthlink re-istalled. The software wouldn't recognize my version of Windows, and wouldn't install. We downloaded the lastest version of EL, and installed it, which is when the problems started happening right away.

Sarah has massive problems shutting down, forcing a hard shut down, which means she goes through Scan Disk when she starts up. The contents for C drive and the Control Panel are invisible when viewed, and the layout for My Pictures is totally fucked up. My Java functions no longer work, Winamp occasionally skips when it didn't before, and when I start up after an improper shut down, the Restore Active Desktop function doesn't really work, and I have to play around in Properties to get my background back up.

In short, I'm not very happy right now...

I think the only solution is back up everything you want to keep, wipe the drive, and install from scratch. It really sounds like the OS is entirely fucked, and the easiest solution involves reinstallation.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-12-31 09:08pm

Verizon DSL. $40 a month. 10GBs/Sec

I think

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-12-31 09:09pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Verizon DSL. $40 a month. 10GBs/Sec

I think

Wowee.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-12-31 09:11pm

But, what's really bizarre, is that every so often I'll click a link and it'll not load for two or three minutes, and then go back to working perfectly.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-12-31 09:13pm

HemlockGrey wrote:But, what's really bizarre, is that every so often I'll click a link and it'll not load for two or three minutes, and then go back to working perfectly.

Is it just that one link, or a general slowness among all links you try to follow? That (the latter) has been happening to me lately. It says it's connected but it acts like it isn't.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-12-31 09:15pm

Weird, mine does the same thing, but it's for about a minute...

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-12-31 09:17pm

Is it just that one link, or a general slowness among all links you try to follow? That (the latter) has been happening to me lately. It says it's connected but it acts like it isn't.

Any links, and it only goes for a few minutes before loading the page.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-12-31 09:27pm

Cable modem connection, the bastards bumped it up a few bucks recently to $45/month Cdn, which is $30 in real (US) money as one of my profs likes to put it.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-12-31 09:31pm

Who provides that?

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2002-12-31 10:09pm

Dial up through a local provider I've had since 1996. $10 bucks a month, virtually unlimited web page space (as long as I don't u/l 10MB videos)

The awful, changeoff: surfing at 28.8. AGGH.

I have a 56k modem, but the ISP can't provide service that fast. (This is a REAL mom&pop operation.)

I've been SO tempted to get DSL. But I'm usually shamed out of it when my fiancee reminds me we should be saving for an apartment together...

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2002-12-31 10:10pm

BB...ah finally Cable modem.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2002-12-31 10:11pm

Me and DarkSyde666 share my Cox Cable internet connection. Right now his computer got b0rked when we tried installing Win2K (Fucking WinME chewing up boot sectors!), so we're Hot-Seating it until we het his comp working. Then, we're installing Mr. Router we got a day ago...

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-12-31 10:38pm

DSL with a static IP. $50 USD a month. I signed up for 384 down / 128 up.
Beause Im close to the CO I getter usually do much better than 384 for downloads. The 128 up is capped by the provider.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2002-12-31 10:39pm

weemadando wrote:Dial up, 56k, through iPrimus. $89.95 for 3 months of TRULY unlimited hours and unlimited downloads.

Though Optus is coming to Tassie soon so I might get DSL then...

I am also using iprimus dial up on the unlimited downloads and hours plan, but it only costs me $75 (Aus) every three months.

Here in Adelaid I am told that the best broadband (most cost effective) is cable, but until recently we have been screwed there because telstra was the only provider here, but I am told now that you can get optus cable here now. I was going to get cable, but for a decent download cap it was out of my price range. Damn telstra and thier caps! Of course Optus is capped too, but it was telstra that started it.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2002-12-31 10:39pm

£15 a month nearly for one of the most infuriatingly annoying services it's ever been my misfortune to use.

Keevan.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2002-12-31 10:45pm

Keevan_Colton wrote:£15 a month nearly for one of the most infuriatingly annoying services it's ever been my misfortune to use.

Keevan.

WTF?! That's $30 for something WORSE than AOL!
http://www.cablemodemhelp.com/cable.htm
http://ispfinder.com/
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/network/isp.html
Tell me if any of these help you find a nice Cable ISP. Lata and HAPPY N000 Y34R!!!

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2002-12-31 11:06pm

cable. $40/month.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-12-31 11:09pm

I'm dialing. We appear to have DSL available in my area, even with AOL.
I haven't checked into cable yet. It is available through the local cable coumpanies but I'm not sure if it's in my location.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-01-01 03:35am

Cable.

Local cable company, and we already subscribe to the TV part so for me it's $40.

I got broadband roughly end of April of 2001. I was fucking tired of getting owned in games with my damn 56k. I have moved on to rule the arena eternal on servers across the globe.

Sienthal · Post by **Sienthal** » 2003-01-01 04:47am

Cable: $35 a month

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-01-01 07:36am

Dial-up.
We don't even have the DSL broadband cable where I live so although I wish I can't change.
But the worst thing is that they only offer flatrates for broadband none for dial-up, so I throw out a fucking lot of money every month for a fucking slow connection!

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-01 07:51am

Broadband. Too much fucking money and draconian fucking download limits.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-01-01 08:06am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Me and DarkSyde666 share my Cox Cable internet connection. Right now his computer got b0rked when we tried installing Win2K (Fucking WinME chewing up boot sectors!), so we're Hot-Seating it until we het his comp working. Then, we're installing Mr. Router we got a day ago...

Oh, forgot to mention, ~$60 for COX Cable Net and Cable TV (Package deals ugh LOL) and they don't give a flying fuck what you do with your end of the cable connection after the modem. Share 30+ gigs of ISOs, MP3s, and porn all day every day for a month? No problem. Run a Home Business? No Problem! Daisy-Chain a hundred computers together and run a nice fat Quake 3 LAN Party? NO PROBLEM!!! LOL

*thinks COX should discount my bill a dollar for the free advertising... LOL*

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-01-01 08:41am

At Home, Good old, T1 Line, though it costs me $120 a month its worth it
Currently offline cause I'm not there

At Temporary Home(Where I am till March drat...)
Cox Cable, Shitty Uploads and downloads

At work?
T-3 Line Baby! And I share it with ten people, six of which can't tell the monitor from the mouse

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

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