Sweet, sweet broadband, the elixir of life.

[Dasquian Belargic]

FINALLY BritishTelecom have turned on my broadband line!

High-speed internet is mine!

;; does victorty dance ;;

:crack

[Kelt Simoson]

:thumbup Good, Good

[Morgan Evanar]

Mmmm broadband.

[Oriadin]

**Has been on blueyonder for over a year now.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I was, but they don't install cable in my area so had to switch over to the monopoly-men :)

[Wei Wu Wei]

IR having broadband! IR having broadband!

(chimpanzees make noises in the back ground)

[Oriadin]

So how fast is your connection?

[Dasquian Belargic]

It says its dialled up at 576kbs

[Oriadin]

Bout the same as mine then. Upload is 256kbs.

[Dasquian Belargic]

;; watches huge list of tracks download on Kazaa ;;

aaaaah... :)

[Ket Van Derveld]

this is odd....i have dial up and i connect at 115 kps....heh, dial up aint so bad!

[Dasquian Belargic]

You're lucky if you get that speed :)

[TheHolo.Net]

Nah, windows is notorious for not telling the truth in dial up networking and the speed it connects at. 56 K is the maximum for a dial up connection.

[Morgan Evanar]

Yup. But if it says its at that speed, you've got great phone lines. The lowest speed I ever got in my home was 49k with AOL (about 5 or 6 years ago) and a solid 115 (really 56) every time I dialed into Mindspring. Steady 5.6k/sec DLs. Wasn't bad, but I pined hard for DSL.

[Ket Van Derveld]

I like dial-up. Keeps me from DLing too much crap I don;t really need or really want. LOL. So, i'll keep it for now.

[ReaperFett]

Oh, it's YOU!



BT wont install it here. We had as many Broadband requests as Newcastle. You need 400, we both were around 20. HOW DID YOU GET IT?????



Rant over :)

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Hey, I've been waiting since November! I deserve it! :rollin

[ReaperFett]

Ive been waiting since summer :(

[Vega Van-Derveld]

... On freeserve?

[ReaperFett]

On anyone. Noone does my area, while at the same time making my service worse to tempt people onto broadband. And does the Government do anything about this? The fact that consumers are basically being forced into paying the same for a poorer service so they can make more in the cities? Are they hell.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

BT are going to be forced to sell-out some of their rights to the countries phone lines soon. Maybe then someone will actually provide a decent services.

What really annoyed me was the fact that they advertise BT Broadband CONSTANTLY, saying how easy it is to get, etc, yet they seem to do everything in their power from stopping you from using it. You'd think they didn't want customers.

[Morgan Evanar]

There seems to be a pretty big difference here with local service and what you folk get.

Bellsouth in Miami is excellent, in terms of phone service. It was generally acknowledged by many of an older generation that AT&T did a good job too, and didn't charge unreasonable rates. It was a reasonable monopoly. AT&T was considered to be an extremely safe investment 25 years ago.

Its not really anymore. The telecom industry, even in America, is far more volitile than it used to be. At least thats what everyone 40 and over tells me.

[ReaperFett]

The worst one Vega is the AOL LYING ONE.


"With AOL, you can download movie trailers"

NO WAY! NOT THE TRAILERS A 14.4k CAN DOWNLOAD?????

Jeez.



And BT are still suffering because of the Monopolies comission. They wanted to give free internet years ago. They were stopped, as it is "unfair". TO WHO? I Wanted free Internet!

[Vega Van-Derveld]

With AOL, you can download movie trailers

LOL

My friend has AOL and it took him about a week to download just one song.

I heard about that free internet thing. They wanted to get the whole country online by a certain time or something... but I bet the connection speed would be terrible on free net. :x

[Marcus Telcontar]

I've got excellent DSl... except for the totally screwed up download allowances Aust ISP's foster on us long suffering uses x_x

[Sean Piett]

Since I got DSL a week ago, I've discovered that iMesh is vastly superior to kazaa.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Since I got DSL...no wait I haven't yet.

:cry

[ReaperFett]

Since I got DSL a week ago, I've discovered that iMesh is vastly superior to kazaa.

That's what I use

[Morgan Evanar]

except that its just as laden with spyware etc.

www.ad-aware.com

[ReaperFett]

And? So is everything. And some things that will come up as SPyware are actually essential to run the program.

[Ket Van Derveld]

Ok,so now I have THREE pins.

1. "I'm a man who plays one at SWFans.net"
2. "One Man = One Charrie"

and now

3. "Dial-Up and Proud!"

LMAO!

:lol

[Morgan Evanar]

And? So is everything.

Right. Look Fett, I know you're ignorant, but there is a variant of Kazaa called Kazaa Lite without spyware.

Kazaa is "inferior" except that iMesh crashed my machine a long time ago. :rolleyes

[ReaperFett]

Really? Heh, that happened to someone else. It mustnt like you ;)

[Marcus Telcontar]

iMesh is spyware laden and hence isnt worth spit. Kazaalite may not be as "good" but at least it's clean. I'll take that anyday

[ReaperFett]

My spyware program found more on Kazaa than iMesh :)

And course its worth spit. Couldnt get the Rollerball cut scene on Kazaa :)

[Marcus Telcontar]

Then use Kazaalite.

[ReaperFett]

Why? iMesh had it :)

[Jamel Croko'yn]

Broadband is nice, I have it myself

[Morgan Evanar]

http://www.casalecustomsbroker.com/macros/waesa_dantemacro.jpg

Thank you for your useful and informative discusson, Fett.

[ReaperFett]

Well, I can sit back in my rocking chair, safe in the knowledge that I wasnt the one who had to resort to insulting or finding pictures off the internet to insult some more ;)

[Morgan Evanar]

I happen across these at different forums. Its not like it takes effort to right click and save.

I'll stop flaming you if you stop endangering other's computers with terrible advice.

[ReaperFett]

But I dont endorse it. I say I use it, and then defend it.

[Morgan Evanar]

And course its worth spit.

Implying its good, implying promotion. Really Fett, I'm not in the mood for a ongoing debate. You live for these things for some reason. Just stop giving opionions/information about computer stuff beyond games.

[Pilot Akito]

In the tennis match between Reaper and Morgan it's 15-15 when the judge decides to shoot the ball to end the fighting.


1)iMesh and Kazaa have more spyware then I like so I don't use them.

2)I'm on a 56k so it would take forever to DL off of them.

3)I really don't care. :p

[Morgan Evanar]

Hay dude, you can get Kazaa Lite, which has no spyware.

[ReaperFett]

You live for these things for some reason.
I dont live for them. I just seem to always end up in them :)


Just stop giving opionions/information about computer stuff beyond games.
Yeah, because like anyone would ever agree with my opinions there either :rolleyes