Foo - Dial Up or Broadband?

What 'you all running on?

I'm still on dial up but should be moving up to 1.5MB ADSL soon...

5 Mbps cable... woo-hoo!

Cable 1.5mbps, but it feels like a lot faster.....

We are too far from our exchange for broadband. We'll have to wait until they upgrade our exchange. :(

I don't have the net at home, I just surf at work. Being the government it's a fast line. 100meg downloads in minutes.:D

CHEERS.

Mark

I found this on the net. http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimetro/pt/?idioma=uk&newlang=uk

Is there any other sites that can record your connection speed/ download speed/ upload speed?

Unfortunately, all that is available where I live (out in the country) is dial-up. I have a T-1 line at school, so I get a taste of what I am missing.

We are too far from our exchange for broadband. We'll have to wait until they upgrade our exchange. :(

Yes, a wonderful little trick that Telstra plays... and it's not a radial distance, but the distance that the cables twist and turn under footpaths and streets. Your location could well be within the specified distance as drawn by a circle, but *way* out by the other measure.

As it is with my subscriber, I am finding the dial-up at home is much more reliable than the broadband at work (non-government). Go figure.

We've had Verizon DSL for about 3 years now, always on, always fast enough.

There's only been once when we were without service... for about 6 hours. A major trunk line got cut somewhere and affectetd the whole region. Not Verizon's fault

T1 line at home.
T3 line at work.

Unfortunately, all that is available where I live (out in the country) is dial-up. I have a T-1 line at school, so I get a taste of what I am missing.

Don't worry, T-1 is giving you a taste of nothing. Most residential cable will own a t-1. 8mb down/900kb up.

I just got Verizon dsl as they expanded to my area. God what I had to put up with for years on a 56k modem. I like the dedicated dsl line and run a server for fun. Very fast very smooth.

I had dialup way back in the day. haven't used it since. I likely wouldn't come on the inet with it, everything I do uses broadband :)

Actually I never surfed with modem. I ran and want to text run bbs's. I don't know how people can do the web with 56k.

I could never go back to dialup. Here at the college, there's a T3 line, and at home I have DSL.

DSL line at home.

T1 at school, and T3 at the office.

Very fast ADSL and Cable. :)

Very fast ADSL and Cable. :)

Lies. The only city in Ontario with internet access is.... Toronto.

No option for SDSL? T1/T3? Fiber? University connection?
I'm on 56k ;)


Those who have T1.. how much does it cost you per month?
If qwest wasn't dumb, I'd be able to get 1500/896 DSL for $45... but they are.

Im on comcast cable. They upgraded to like 4mbps or something, and like 386 U/L. Its really annoying that they go down a couple times a month though.

I gots teh internets. It lets me type stuf and shiz.

DSL...fast enough.

Hated AT&T cable, they were always choking off the upload speed.... I mean, um, er, that's what I heard.... :p :rolleyes:

DSL now, no problemo

I gots teh internets. It lets me type stuf and shiz.
... werd.

You get things done quicker when you have a fast connection and download speed. When i had dial up, i had to wait so long for it to load on any site, apart from Google and it took an hour to download a song.

Takes me 15min ;)

Well you know what i mean. Takes less then a minute if you have Cable 512K or higher.

Cable but moving to ADSL soon.

Mostly because the only Cable ISP I can get only is 1Mb and I can get 5Mb/768 with the local ADSL providers.

ADSL seem a better option money wise then Cable. I can get 1.5mb ADSL cheaper then 1.5mb cable and without the installaion fee. I guess cable is good for Pay TV and internet at the same time, but ADSL is fine for me.

I've got a T1 mainly because I'm a bit far from the CO so I'd be limited to 144kbps SDSL.

After 5 years on cable, I moved to a neighborhood that has neither cable nor DSL. Well, there's cable TV, but it's a little podunk company finishing out a multi-year contract and they haven't put in cable internet. Morons. And their channel selection is horrible!! So, just about every unit here has a satellite dish.

Verizon - joke of a phone company - says they plan to install DSL "soon". Yeah, I'm not holding my breath on that one.

Dialup sucks.

Dialup, for me, works out more expensive then 1.5mb ADSL!
D U-20c a call, $30 phone rental, $16.95/month , 56kbps
B B- 0c call, $0 phone rentail, $49.95/mth , 1500kbps


Bad aspects of Dial up?:
- Phone call costs (add up!)
- Disconnections
-4 hour session limit
- SLllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow speed

Good aspects of Dial Up?
- less chance of Hackers?
- .......................?


Bad aspects of Broadband?
- Need a fire wall..............?
......................................

Good aspects of Broadband?
- Speed
-No disconnections
- Friggen cheaper then dial up
- Less phone lines
- No connection costs
- Always on
the list goes on and on....................

Correction! Life without broadband i say.

ADSL, 8 Mb/s down, 800 kb/s up, no "traffic" limit.
Costs the equivalent of US$55 a month.

I did fine for many moons with dial up. Untill moron webmasters started putting more flash than substance into their sites. SRAM is a prime example, jack for real info and slow even on highspeed hookups, but ooo shiny...look at me I'm a webpage designer.

A fancy white fur coat or a durable old school denim jacket? I'll take the jean jacket webpage thankyou.

I now use 3mb/s cable. I still use several windows at once for referencing, but with dial up I would also read in one while the another loaded. I hit about the same amount of good info per hour either way. I just don't have to wait for connections and getting booted off.

But the problem with dial up, at least here, is that local calls aren't free, and in my household, the monthly cost, for relatively little data transferred, added up to (the equivalent of) US$120-130. It was also prone to random disconnects, and of course blocked the phone while online.

The ADSL costs less than half, and has none of the disadvantages of dial up.

I did fine for many moons with dial up. Untill moron webmasters started putting more flash than substance into their sites. SRAM is a prime example, jack for real info and slow even on highspeed hookups, but ooo shiny...look at me I'm a webpage designer.

A fancy white fur coat or a durable old school denim jacket? I'll take the jean jacket webpage thankyou.

I now use 3mb/s cable. I still use several windows at once for referencing, but with dial up I would also read in one while the another loaded. I hit about the same amount of good info per hour either way. I just don't have to wait for connections and getting booted off.

Correct. This trend of flashy websites needs to stop. Not just for page size wise either.

Yeh i'm a bit P**sed at some of the websites that have a full page of FLASH! ARh! Cant they just be normal setout pages ect. Some sites I've been to, their WHOLE site is friggen flash (not just intro page). I dont bother waiting around...