What's Your Connection?

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:36 am

[AlmightyPyro] wrote:Doesn't cable cost an arm and a leg?

pyro you could always get ADHDSL. Internet for those with a short attention span.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:47 am

ADSL. 256Kb/s, I think. I have no pressing need to go faster.

- Joel Fagin

Paul Escobar · Post by **Paul Escobar** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:13 am

[AlmightyPyro] wrote:Is there a difference between ADSL and just plain DSL? I'm not very big on DSL so I dunno.

ADSL = Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, i.e. download is faster than upload, as opposed to Symmetric DSL, where both speeds are equal. You would usually only need really high upload speed if you run a server. (Also, high upload usually costs an arm and a leg.)

Kilre · Post by **Kilre** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:33 am

I use my university's T1 network.
I don't know what the old folks have at home. I think it's cable...

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:15 am

What's my connection? Oh, you know, I know people who know people. If you know what I mean.

ADSL. To answer your real question.

Doll · Post by **Doll** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:16 am

University network all the way! Then dial-up when I go home *hiss*

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:21 am

legostargalactica wrote:
[AlmightyPyro] wrote:Doesn't cable cost an arm and a leg?
pyro you could always get ADHDSL. Internet for those with a short attention span.

Or you could get-- Oooh, bunnies!

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:48 am

DarkMagician wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
[AlmightyPyro] wrote:Doesn't cable cost an arm and a leg?
pyro you could always get ADHDSL. Internet for those with a short attention span.
Or you could get-- Oooh, bunnies!

::gives DM some internet ritalin::

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:02 am

ritalin, even internet ritalin, only lasts for four hours ... you need something that's long lasting, like concerta or adderall

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:00 am

Dial-up. It is my only available option. I live in a 200 acre cornfield.

I tried getting wireless, but I'm so far away from the tower that the reception was extremely poor -- worse than my dialup connection.

If it were available, I'd buy a cable/DSL/T1 connection in a flash. I use the internet fairly heavily, and I'd like to use it even more.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:05 am

RemusShepherd wrote:Dial-up. It is my only available option. I live in a 200 acre cornfield.

I tried getting wireless, but I'm so far away from the tower that the reception was extremely poor -- worse than my dialup connection.

If it were available, I'd buy a cable/DSL/T1 connection in a flash. I use the internet fairly heavily, and I'd like to use it even more.

where do you live?

that's a problem with some parts of the US. people in some remote parts of this country who want to subscribe to cable TELEVISION need to pay to have the wires laid. some of these places aren't even really "remote", like some unsettled parts of NY, it's just no one has gotten around to laying the lines out there.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:51 pm

I use Rogers Cable - their "Extreme" package. They cap your bandwidth at 106 GB every month; every month, I come *this* close to going over. I'd switch, but it's the only service better than dialup that's available in my area.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:01 pm

grabmygoblin wrote:where do you live?

that's a problem with some parts of the US. people in some remote parts of this country who want to subscribe to cable TELEVISION need to pay to have the wires laid.

I live in one of the remote parts of this country.

I also cannot get cable television. But a satellite dish solves that. I'd get satellite internet, but with a 1-2 second latency you can't play games over it.

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