And I have reached post no. 500...yippiiiiiiiii!!! :D
This should be post no. 501... :D :D :D :D :D

LOL :)
I would post but I'm busy enjoying my new cable modem.
I'm hittting 300k-500k (about half a meg) on a 28/month cable not too shabby :)

Daniel, is that bi-directional cable modem service? In my area, at least up until a year ago, only downstream cable was available which required a phone line for 56k uploads. Plus, it cost $70/month. For the same price I got 768k DSL. Go figure.

Excuses..Excuses.. :D I am on a cable myself..

DSL ,yself. Once he fills up his HD with illegal MP3's and sex videos he'll be back. :)

lol... I guess. :)

Wow... ya think? But do they come with subtitles?

No highspeed for me. :(

Here at home, I have cable and it stinks it will often go down for 12-24 hours at a time. Ive had much better luck with dsl.

With your DSL Charles, do you have those 20 seconds of ummmm... hello??? too? Some days it seesm to be worse than others. Note: PacHell DSL.

heheh yes its bi-directional.

Its FASSSSSST

*Zooms in and out*

Your line speed:

927.3 Kbps


113.6 K bytes/sec


ZOOOM ZOOM ZOOM! :)

*Hands DanielP a Speeding Ticket.* Better keep the speed in control, son. The CDS are watching.

Awwww but but i was only going 1mbps........

I can complain, I'm tired of 56k.

Well, 1mbps is over the limit allowed, way over the limit. The limit is 56k. If you break the speed limit 3 times, you loose 20posts. And 5 posts after every time after the 3rd time. So keep an eye on the speedometer.

Trust me.... I know how you feel, for 10 years on the net I was on dialup. Each time they went up a bit.... 2400 to 9600 then 14.4 (boy was that 14.4 fast) then 28.8 and 33.6 (wow smoking) and then *gasp* 56k, wow we were flying.... for about a year. heh.

Whinge whinge whinge, moan moan moan :)

My cable doesn't really fly, but it's still good enough for me (anything's better than 56K dialup..)

I remember having a 2400bps connection and using Lynx via a terminal.

Yeah, and that was an eternity ago (internet time...)

humm, cable over here is blazing fast about 1.4 MB (about the speed of a T1) ... but mine is special .. I get it for free ;) (I love having AT&T as a customer)

PS - yes, I am rubing it in

And .. do you guys remeber the 300 bps modems ? :) ..

LOL @ Carlos!

Actually I still have a 300bps modem hanging around in my workshop..... I need to send it off to a museum :D

Which time are you guys talking about?? was I born then???

I've still got an ancient Archer 120bps TeleCommunicator modem -- the height of high-speed technology in its day... lol.

The thing is the size of a large shoebox. And -- it still works.

Yawn!! Ok.. time to end the histroy lesson. :D

Kunal .. no you where not born then .. hehe .. Gosh .. I'm old enought to be your father :(

CRego3D, these young whipper-snappers don't know the thrill of being able to actually count the bits as they come in...

etLux .. yeah .. just think, it will get even worst, in 5 - 10 years, kids will hear the sound of a modem (maybe in an old ISP commercial) and go .. What the heck was that ???

Haaa .. I remeber porno in ASCII ;)

True. And only we ancients who date back to the days of ARPA will remember telephone-cradle hook-ups and the glorious sound of "modem breath" ...

Do I need to crank up the old 60s songs in here?! :eek:

Sure! Real modem men don't like none a that modern trash... we're strictly lo-fi.

HA!

Yep, I remember BBS'in (or was that BSin? :-) ) my way around with a 300 baud modem and my Apple II+.... Anyone remember Zork??

Funny how far we've come... I'm on DSL now, usually at 950 kbs... hard to believe!

You might as well crank up the 78's while you're at it...

n.

Originally posted by CRego3D
Haaa .. I remeber porno in ASCII ;)


HAHAHAHAHAHA.. Can I have look at some? ;)

Gee. I guess we have come a long way.