High-Speed >> Dial-up

[Curry Viking]

ha! 15mb download 256k upload, it's never gotten to 15mb/s, depending on the server i can get 10mb/s otherwise i get about 800kb/s on average, pretty sweet, dl 200mb in about 4-5mins

 

[BioT3ch]

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

I've never seen anybody get 7KB/sec on dial-up. Usually its 2-3KB/sec, 4 KB/sec at the most.

 

[ncjimn]

I've never seen anybody get 7KB/sec on dial-up. Usually its 2-3KB/sec, 4 KB/sec at the most.

yeah, that sounds right. I always average ~2 kbps on dialup. I actually get excited when I get speeds of 4 kbps!

by the way i'm going home tonight. and I think I have downloaded all the stuff i think i'll need.

 

[BioT3ch]

Its such a common story for kids to go off to college and experience high speed, then have to go home and use their parents' dial-up. When will the older generation ever learn the importance of highspeed.

 

[Fwiffo]

man, i feel sorry, when i had dial up, it took like 15 mins to get a good porn clip, but now, i can get all the porn i want in under a second. so get lots of porn movies, if you got that i don't see why else you'd want the internet

 

[PP Mguire]

Dial up isnt to bad if you just wanna browse the interweb. But if you wanna do anything else your screwed. Get used to those 30 second clips

 

[ncjimn]

Its such a common story for kids to go off to college and experience high speed, then have to go home and use their parents' dial-up. When will the older generation ever learn the importance of highspeed.

I agree, it's happened to so many. Too bad I live in the "rural" area of the state. Back in 2004 sprint made DSL available to the residents of the biggest town in the county. Fortunately I lived in the "biggest" town (~350 ppl) and convinced my parents to get DSL so we had slowish DSL for a few months. But then in 2005 we moved to an even less-populated area where dialup rules. So living here (college) for a year has been cool. (there are more ppl in my dorm than probably in the whole community where I live).

 

[talldude123]

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

Which ISP are you using?

 

[Fwiffo]

You know, i have never seen the point in joining a porn website, i mean, there are thousands of free clips

 

[talldude123]

i still cant believe people are using dial-up. It ends up being so expensive, because you have to buy minutes like a cellphone. Also its painfully slow and outdated....But i guess it saves some people money...