Internet connection

[KYS]

posted by apcrs5122:
we may have to change it back to the phone line (dial up) to lower the cost of things. >>>>>>

That's why I still have 56k dial-up.
When the prices go down enough, than I will change over
to the modern world of speed.

[ScantyNebula]

right now, to use high speed internet, we have to deal with a 80 dollar phone bill every month ... I'm a big geek tho, so I need highspeed lol

[Tonya]

Generally DSL. But once a month, my doggies eat up my phone lines and it is NADA.

[RubyMutt]

cable

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Cable over here too!

[Gone Doggin']

cable for me too

[kingrattus]

cable... it doesn't cost me a penny... its included in my rent, along with digital cable, phone, food, ect

[Felicia's Mom]

Mine is a dial up.

[ScantyNebula]

Originally posted by kingrattus
cable... it doesn't cost me a penny... its included in my rent, along with digital cable, phone, food, ect

whoa...thats a pretty sweet deal you have there..

[kingrattus]

the catch is, is that i live with a skiteso (sp), by-polar nut bag!!!

my rent use to be 225.00 can/month & now its 500.00 can/month... I don't make 500.00/month... i can't feed myself anymore...

but it was a sweet deal

[smokey the elder]

4.5 meg (Broadband!!)

[Randi]

We're on ADSL.

[lynnestankard]

Ntl Broadband.

Lynne

[IttyBittyKitty]

[ comms geek ]
[ rant ]

Australian broadband technology is a contradiction in terms. We are currently ranked behind Estonia and Malaysia in relation to broadband penetration into the mass market. We have Senator Alston, a.k.a. Senator Luddite to thank for that. He is our Communications and I.T. minister. He didn't have his own e-mail address for years and just spent AU$ 4 million his boring and ugly department website.

We are on crappy dialup! We cannot get ADSL as we are too far from the exchange and lose too much data to trans loss (attenuation, cross-talk, etc) because the morons who installed the main cable in our area decided to take it in a wild tour rather than just following the direct pattern of the roads.

The ONLY option is cable. We don't even get the choice of companies hence it is really expensive. And we'd have hideous download limits - pay $90 a month and what do you get? A lousy 3 gig cap, that's what! They try to soften it by saying that it equates to 600 mp3 files, but the scumbags also meter you for uploads and clearly have NO idea how much data transfer simple browsing can accrue!

What's even funnier is they count 1 GB as 1,000 MB not 1,024 MB. Likewise, they consider 1 MB to be 1,000 KB not 1,024 KB and so on down the chain to the byte units. The 3 gig is an illusion worthy of Copperfield. Which moron decided that one? Obviously the same guy who designed my laptop HDD a month after he bought his I.T. degree on eBay!

To make matters worse, we are on 56k dialup, but the line quality is so poor that we achieve 33k at best. The general quality of the Australian PSTN copper network is so shocking, that whenever it rains, we have twice the number of faults coming in at work (I work for a telco). Our line, in particular, is so noisy when it rains that we get disconnected constantly.

It's a joke.

[ /rant ]
[ /comms geek ]

[Cataholic]

IBK- I suspect that, instead of a brain in your head, you have an entire computer in there!! WOW you know lots and lots about this stuff. And, funny that you know the term "luddite"...as in Sen. Luddite. I use that all the time, and people never know what I mean.

But, this is where I get confused. I understand dial up. I understand cable....but, are there different types of high speed? Some of you have called things different names.. and I am just wondering. I have high speed, but, I thought it was called DSL...so, will you take it down about six levels and tell me the difference? Thanks.