The ironic thing is, is how all the broadband services heavily promoted how you could now get things like video by switching to broadband.
Then as soon as the subscribers do just that, they all start bleating! I can't say I have any sympathy for them. They made the bed that they now lie in.
The ironic thing is, is how all the broadband services heavily promoted how you could now get things like video by switching to broadband.
Then as soon as the subscribers do just that, they all start bleating! I can't say I have any sympathy for them. They made the bed that they now lie in.
Good. ISP's have been offering a service that they can't actually give you for far too long. When was the last time you actually had a 4mb, 8mb or 2mb connection?
Good. ISP's have been offering a service that they can't actually give you for far too long. When was the last time you actually had a 4mb, 8mb or 2mb connection?
Good point, sick and tired of hearing how i can get 8mb speed when i just cant because of the area i live in.
I must admit though i'm still happy as anything with 5 mb as i'm so used to the old days of 512k or before that a 56k modem ;)
Good point, sick and tired of hearing how i can get 8mb speed when i just cant because of the area i live in.
I must admit though i'm still happy as anything with 5 mb as i'm so used to the old days of 512k or before that a 56k modem ;)
Ah yes, I remember the days. I had a free connection for up to an hour at a time and the only time I could tie up the telephone line for an hour was between 11pm and 12am so I was on the internet for just a hour a day. Dunno what I did for the other 23 hours...
Yeah i lived at home in those days, my folks hated me going online blocking the phoneline the second it turned 6pm.
Still remember the first time i went online, was cool, used to be 'normal' to sit there waiting patiently for a website or photo to slowlyyyy build its way down. Of course my mates came round my house to get me to type rude words into search engines !
The first time i layed Quake II online, ahhhh good times !
I only got wireless a few years ago, that was again amazing having two computers on the net at the same time ! Plus of course the phoneline isnt blocked. Recently bought one of those wireless extenders so the rooms in my house where the signal was dodgy i can get a perfect signal now. Technology is so good !
People, people! There is absolutely nothing wrong with using a 56k connection ... aside from tying up the phoneline ... and the slow sites ... and not using Flash ... or Java heavy sites (Runescape :-( ) ... but at least I ... err ... I mean 56k users keep their Inet usage to a bare minimum, such as rarely checking e-mail and occasionally visiting WoS.
People, people! There is absolutely nothing wrong with using a 56k connection ... aside from tying up the phoneline ... and the slow sites ... and not using Flash ... or Java heavy sites (Runescape :-( ) ... but at least I ... err ... I mean 56k users keep their Inet usage to a bare minimum, such as rarely checking e-mail and occasionally visiting WoS.
True, we shouldnt take the piss out of the scottish who are still on 56k
phoo, I couldn't go back to dialup, sure you can get away with it as in just scrape by with kind of an internet connection, but for actually experiencing the web it's terrible. Now that just about every website has Flash ads enbedded rather than the old gifs I can imagine how slow it would be just to log into Yahoo Mail even.
I remember when Chaosmongers put a Youtube vid up of GameX, and I was still on dialup, took over an hour to stream in a 2 - 3 minute clip, horrible horrible horrible.
Flashblock for Firefox is great. It makes the web a much less blinky obnoxious place. (It puts a 'play' icon over the flash it blocked, so if it's flash you want to use like YouTube you just press play)
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now they're fucked, finally the general public comprising the vast majority of their customers have found a heavy net usage application, I'd like to see them push this one under the carpet, while they were alienating the odd power user they got away with it
maybe they should invest in a new infrastructure rather than just selling a few hundred megs of bandwidth to thousands of customers
The first time I got online, I had to get up 3 hours before I went to bed.
Then I dialed a number, a specific number for a a bulletin board, which was only operational at certain times. Then wait for a carrier tone. Then hang up. Then dial the number again, then put the reciever into the modem.
The great thing about Tiscali's bleatings is that BT said, "it's not really a big deal at all, it'll be taken in the stride of our normal backhaul upgrades". Very unusual for the dominant, mostly monopoly provider to shrug it off and the 'competitive' carrier bleating!
True, we shouldnt take the piss out of the scottish who are still on 56k
Oi! I'll have you know our 56k was brilliant. End of argument :-P
Until we moved and had to get BT's 24/7 shite. Yeah we could go on anytime we wanted but we were limited to 5 hours a day. Going from unlimited 56k Telewest with no outages to BT's 24/7 pisstake was annoying.
We manage to get 8mb on Virgin broadband regularly here. But between 4pm and 9pm we limit it because of that stupid bloody traffic mismanagement crap.
Still, the rest of the time it's fabulous!
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
The first time I got online, I had to get up 3 hours before I went to bed.
Then I dialed a number, a specific number for a a bulletin board, which was only operational at certain times. Then wait for a carrier tone. Then hang up. Then dial the number again, then put the reciever into the modem.
:)
Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
The first month I got dialup I was putting up with 24K/s due to a noisy line (call BT to get them to increase the gain, remember that?) and my first monthly bill was over £250 :)
Now have 8M/s for £14.99/m from an ISP that has never had capacity problems, got wireless and had 1 PC, 1 laptop, 1 Wii and 2 DSs attached to it at the same time with no lag.
Technology is great. Crappy service providers who sell more than their infrastructure can handle can suck my balls.
Oh and fair usage rules (with no explicitly stated maximum limit) can fuck right off.
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The ironic thing is, is how all the broadband services heavily promoted how you could now get things like video by switching to broadband.
Then as soon as the subscribers do just that, they all start bleating! I can't say I have any sympathy for them. They made the bed that they now lie in.
I agree completely. Shame on Tiscali.
Not only that but they micturated in it too.
Good. ISP's have been offering a service that they can't actually give you for far too long. When was the last time you actually had a 4mb, 8mb or 2mb connection?
Good point, sick and tired of hearing how i can get 8mb speed when i just cant because of the area i live in.
I must admit though i'm still happy as anything with 5 mb as i'm so used to the old days of 512k or before that a 56k modem ;)
Still remember the first time i went online, was cool, used to be 'normal' to sit there waiting patiently for a website or photo to slowlyyyy build its way down. Of course my mates came round my house to get me to type rude words into search engines !
The first time i layed Quake II online, ahhhh good times !
I only got wireless a few years ago, that was again amazing having two computers on the net at the same time ! Plus of course the phoneline isnt blocked. Recently bought one of those wireless extenders so the rooms in my house where the signal was dodgy i can get a perfect signal now. Technology is so good !
Was it a good lay? :grin: :-P
the first one is always the best. ;)
True, we shouldnt take the piss out of the scottish who are still on 56k
I remember when Chaosmongers put a Youtube vid up of GameX, and I was still on dialup, took over an hour to stream in a 2 - 3 minute clip, horrible horrible horrible.
oh god, what have they done this time?
/me waits for internet to explode again
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
now they're fucked, finally the general public comprising the vast majority of their customers have found a heavy net usage application, I'd like to see them push this one under the carpet, while they were alienating the odd power user they got away with it
maybe they should invest in a new infrastructure rather than just selling a few hundred megs of bandwidth to thousands of customers
Then I dialed a number, a specific number for a a bulletin board, which was only operational at certain times. Then wait for a carrier tone. Then hang up. Then dial the number again, then put the reciever into the modem.
:)
BTW look at all the (un)happy pipex customers these days.
Oi! I'll have you know our 56k was brilliant. End of argument :-P
Until we moved and had to get BT's 24/7 shite. Yeah we could go on anytime we wanted but we were limited to 5 hours a day. Going from unlimited 56k Telewest with no outages to BT's 24/7 pisstake was annoying.
We manage to get 8mb on Virgin broadband regularly here. But between 4pm and 9pm we limit it because of that stupid bloody traffic mismanagement crap.
Still, the rest of the time it's fabulous!
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
The first month I got dialup I was putting up with 24K/s due to a noisy line (call BT to get them to increase the gain, remember that?) and my first monthly bill was over £250 :)
Now have 8M/s for £14.99/m from an ISP that has never had capacity problems, got wireless and had 1 PC, 1 laptop, 1 Wii and 2 DSs attached to it at the same time with no lag.
Technology is great. Crappy service providers who sell more than their infrastructure can handle can suck my balls.
Oh and fair usage rules (with no explicitly stated maximum limit) can fuck right off.