High-Speed >> Dial-up

[ncjimn]

Hey guys:

I'm going home tomorrow and won't be back on campus for a few months.

That means two things:

#1 I won't have to worry about classes.
#2 I won't have access to the school's nice network.

So, since back home I can get nothing faster than dial up, I wanted to ask what kind of stuff you guys think I will need. I am asking basically stuff that I need to download (usually huge files) I guess stuff that is indispensable, I have enough music and a few "videos" (no longer will I be able to view streaming videos and such).

Any suggestions?

 

[talldude123]

All MS/antivirus/antispyware updates, and that should be fine. Surfing TF should be OK on a modem, as long as its 56K, nothing under that.

MS updates are usually huge, so download them while you can.

 

[ncjimn]

Dude, I hadn't thought of that.

Doing baisc updates right now!!

 

[talldude123]

be sure to save TF cookies, files, etc. so it will load up faster in the future. It really saves time on dial-up.

 

[Static_11]

im on 24kbps dial up... but tf seems fine for me.. its just other sites that suck lol...

 

[ncjimn]

i know, I jut fell in love with my internet here.

I could download movie trailers in HD (~70MB) from apple in less than a minute.

I will miss my internet connection.

 

[talldude123]

i'd miss that...it would take me about 2.5 minutes to download 70MB.

On modem, doesnt it take 1 minute to download 1MB?

 

[BioT3ch]

When I was on dialup, it took me about 5-7 minutes to download 1MB. a 10MB file, which was the largest I would download, would take a bit over an hour.

 

[aliasaid]

i have 5Mbps connection (2Mbps up) and its Grrrrrreat!

 

[Nitestick]

56k dialup's theoretical speed is approximately 7kB per second meaning in theory it would take ~2:30 to download 1MB