Broadband is freaking awesome

[michael9824]

I am at a coffe shop with my new 802.11b and damn!! I get about 300kbps.

[Breaker]

which is roughly 37.5kBps... Wow, that's something alright.

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[bigjoe]

Last edited by Breaker : 1 Minute Ago at 06:01 pm.

What did his post say and why was it edited?

I think its pretty cool when a new person gets broadband. When more people get broadband, less people have 56k. And when less people have dial up, we're moving closer to a day when dial up will not exist. So in essence, I give a fuck. :D

[Breaker]

Accident when I went to edit my own post... nothing was changed. "Nobody gives a fuck" is referring to the annoying signature.

Btw, 30kBps is pathetic for broadband.

[bigjoe]

If you'd been on dial up for a few months you'd kill for it.

Thank God I'm getting DSL by the end of the week. It might not be as good as the cable in this area but its better than this crap.

[theplustwo]

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Yes, broadband does rock.

[Raichu86]

Be glad you're not stuck where nothing better than 24K dialup is offered. :shrug:

[theplustwo]

Be glad you're not stuck where nothing better than 24K dialup is offered. :shrug:

You mean where your parents won't spring for anything better. After all, DirecWay (and other sat. connections) are available almost everywhere. ;)

[Raichu86]

You mean where your parents won't spring for anything better. After all, DirecWay (and other sat. connections) are available almost everywhere. ;)
They won't go for satellite due to the cost ($60/mo, $80/mo, and more). I saw an ad for StarBand, only $40/mo, but there was a $300 hardware fee, so that's no good. If my father could use it to work from home, he'd probably go for it, but the latency causes some high security thing he needs for work to not work.

When you live in the country, everything costs more.

[Ich]

300? Ha! I get 1.5 Mbit.

[TedHead]

After living with 56k speeds, getting Broadband even at that rate is indeed something to celebrate :D

I have a slower, cheaper cable ISP plan, but it's still way better than 56k speeds, plus the annoyance of taking up the phone line.

[inori]

They won't go for satellite due to the cost ($60/mo, $80/mo, and more). I saw an ad for StarBand, only $40/mo, but there was a $300 hardware fee, so that's no good. If my father could use it to work from home, he'd probably go for it, but the latency causes some high security thing he needs for work to not work.

When you live in the country, everything costs more.
Uh, I'm from Kansas... and my impression was that everything costs less there. Especially land. ;)

[bigjoe]

Well, I couldnt get DSL. However, Cox gave me a pardon and a free month of cable! Muahahaha!

[Verbatim]

802.11g is real wireless broadband...which is what my laptop has...cruising the web at 50+ megabits per second from anywhere on campus is really nice, and it didn't cost much more than most 802.11b computers.

[Rijuhn]

I got Cox Cable internet and I download 270-350 kilobytes per second. So in like a minute I've downloaded 15 megabytes. It's really awesome!

[Jakq]

Broadband is the best thing ive ever gotten for my pc. for 45 dollars a month, i get speeds of up to 500 kBps, give or take

[zables]

thats not too shabby, im on a wireless service called canopy canada, its not too bad, it runs on the 5.8 ghz range, and if im not mistaken it runs about 50mpbs, so i cant complain,

my average download speeds are about 500-750kbps so im a happy camper :D

[Slider Zero]

Heh. I had broadband once...and now I am stuck with a crappy NetZero connection that drops me whenever I try to update windows, or do anything of any real importance. Not to mention that the fastest I've ever seen on this connection was 2.5 k/sec. I think It's aparrent why I like the university connection better (they have T3)