Is this how the better half lives?

[Mogobs30th]

Ever since I got a computer 9 years ago, I have had dial up access to the web. Slow, pointless, dialup. I ordered DSL last Thursday, got the hardware Tuesday, hooked it all up Wednesday, and today, finally had my DSL service activated. This **** is FAST. How did I go this long without some sort of high speed service? I can't believe how fast this stuff is. This will take time to get used to, I can actually start looking at half the stuff you people post now.

[4thGenRS]

Good for you!

On the opposite end of the spectrum...i can't even remember what using dial-up is like!

[V8 Killer]

Im always had broadband cable..Since it came out..Eventully,it too will feel slow

[Mogobs30th]

Thats why I got DSL and not cable, more users on cable, the slower it gets. DSL depends on how far away you are from the station, which I am only 50 ft.

[wilkcamaro98]

Yeah give it a month and you will forget what it was like to have dial up. I was going to get DSL but we have fiber in our lines and you can't get ADSL to go through fiber optic so we have Cable. I can't wait in till verzion gets there butts in gears and gets the fiber optic network set up that ish will be really fast like Gigs a second instead of Megs.

[3.4 slow to go]

maybe if you hooked it up to all your vans, they would've worked [img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img] j/k

welcome to DSL, the other modem. [img]graemlins/rock.gif[/img]

[vanbibber]

im still on the old unreliable dial up. hmm... i wonder if someone is calling me right now. maybe ill log off and check. :mad: then get back on in like 10 mins. yeah.

broadband for me is when i only have to wait 15 seconds for a page to load. [img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img]

[00firebird]

ive had it for a bit, sometimes i get frustrated if a page takes any longer than 5 seconds. lol

[chas]

way back (when we had phones made out of tincans and string) i used to use 9600 baud dialup (on bad days it would negotiate 4800 baud -- that really suced). at one point i upgraded to a 19200 modem. wow, that was fast!

[nikon]

your using a 9 year old computer?....Im sorry to hear that. does win 3.1 support dsl?

[Mogobs30th]

Oh no, I have had three computers since that time. My first two computers were old network computers my parents would bring home that were redone for home use.

[nikon]

lol, it was a joke ;)

[dorkins]

i had dialup for 3 years maybe... when i was 13 got cable... 16 got dsl (hated it) now, i got cable back!
cable>dsl with dsl, i could get MAYBE 140kb/s down...
cable, i can see up to 2 mb/s

[Nicklz]

I think it depends who the provider is and where your located. I heard once that cable is supposed to be faster but the cable companies will often over load their servers or something instead of upgrading over time. Too make room for new subscribers.

[andrew.brandon]

Originally posted by Mogobs30th:
Ever since I got a computer 9 years ago, I have had dial up access to the web. Slow, pointless, dialup. I ordered DSL last Thursday, got the hardware Tuesday, hooked it all up Wednesday, and today, finally had my DSL service activated. This **** is FAST. How did I go this long without some sort of high speed service? I can't believe how fast this stuff is. This will take time to get used to, I can actually start looking at half the stuff you people post now.

I know what you mean, I finally got brodband a few weeks ago. I do not know how I got by without it.

try this link http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest