Just an FYI
 

I am getting a new cable modem installed today. The cable company told me it would take up to 3 hours for this new fancy really fast modem so I will be offline for awhile this afternoon. :)

Reading between the lines, Jim needs to take a 3 hour nap :D

Welcome to the broadband world...
 

Jim,

You'll be in love with your new modem and fucking high speeds.
I could not live another day without DSL... 800Kb-1.5MB/s Rules.


I'm turbo surfing the web, move out of my way or else...:escape:
:evil::bfg:

Oral out...

Oral69
I have that now...this one is just a little faster than that :)

God - that's faaaast! Way out here in the sticks, cable company has yet to reach us. I'm still plodding along on 56k!!! LOL

Moving in August, thank god. :horse:

I'm with kristian. The best I can connect at is 28.8 in this neck of the woods:(

I am waiting on a wireless solution that is supposed to be in the works out my way.

I don't know how people can do business on the web using a dialup. :(

I've been on a 1.5k/256k ADSL line for many years. I was one of the first to get ADSL in my area. I was very lucky because the squirrels ate all the cables in my neighborhood so they had to install all new cables which meant I had nice modern wire when they started offering ADSL service and that is why I was able to get it so many years ago.

Shit even satellite is better then a dialup.

On average I do about 100 reviews a day and there is just noway I could do that on a dialup.

Thanks - I feel much better now, Cleo LOL

Your right being stuck on a slow dialup is very discouraging:banghead:

If they don't get this wireless thing together then I will problably go with the satellite.

My only other option would be to move.:leaving:

I live way out in the woods. The phone company told me that I would not live long enough to see DSL out here. Got Direcway two say system about 6 months ago. Best $70 I spend a month.

My major hurdle with satellite is that my credit is crap and I don't have a cc (another thing I really should have:music: ).

56k here too :banghead:

amadman,

Have you looked into getting a visa with epassporte? There's no credit check involved and for $35 they'll send you a visa electron. But you may not even have to spend the $35. If your satellite company accepts online payments, the epassporte visa will likely be acceptable (it's a virtual visa, good pretty much anywhere you see the visa logo). Check 'em out if it sounds useful: http://www.epassporte.com

I've been on Cable Modem about a year now.. I STILL don't think anyone else in my neighborhood knows it's actually available !!!!

Still screaming fast and always on!!!

Thanks kristian! I will look into that now.:)

Boy Jim, 3 hours??? I just had 3meg/256k cable installed just this last Tuesday. Total time from start to surfing: 10 minutes :taunt:

Oh boy, I guess it helps running the coax before the tech showed up....

me too, can't get cable or DSL where I live

Hmmm, I have DirecTV for my television service and they advertise that if you have a clear view of the southwest sky you can get satellite internet service. While it is not as good as DSL or cable it beats the hell out of dialup.

Here is the link if you want to check it out,
http://www.dtv.direcway.com

Wireless Internet is awesome! I owned a Wireless ISP until recently, depending on the equipment they use and how knowledgeable they are in the wireless technology field, it should be well worth the wait!

..and I should add, hella better than satellite and in *a lot* of cases, DSL and cable, but again it depends on the ISP.

I'm setup with a satellite, pretty fast on downloads, forget about uploads though!

Ohhh and when the weather is bad, it doesn't work.

The price you pay for living in the middle of nowhere

Well
4 hours later and I am now setup :)

Well now you can do some surfing for porn, lol. :D

Yeah Cleo
Nothing quite like a 6 megabit connection to get you surfing :)

I've used the satelite thing for nearly 2 years now. Reviewing goes fairly quick, though the in laws dsl works better.

Sure the hell beats 28.8 which is what the dial up connects at. However for uploads I either schedule them to upload overnight, or if it's a big upload I go to the in laws and upload from there.
And when it gets real stormy and the satelite goes down I just take a break.

Thats cool Fuseblown!

Do you happen to know any good sources of information about it online?

I would like to learn more about it but all I seem to be able to find is comercial stuff.