is this person serious about the internet biz

[Greenguy]

The guy that used to host Jim & me lives in Iowa & he had nothing other than dial-up at the time. He managed the servers thru his dial up connection & makes a very comfortable living doing so.

We only left him because we got sick of the people he was co-locating with & having to wake his family up at 5 AM if there was a problem

[Tommy]

ya know I have a funny story about dialup and cable

when we first moved in here cable wasnt available and the phone lines are so dirty I could only connect at like 14k or whatever on a dial up

so I had to do something and started making phone calls
I arranged for a full t1 to be brought in to the house
the installation was like 5k and the monthly charge was like 800.00

and I had to wait like 4 months for instalation
I was despreate so I signed a 2 year contract

a couple weeks later I was talking to my neighbor and mentioned that it was very hard for me to work because of the dialup

well it turns out he's the vice presidnt of the cable company
(which I didnt know)
and had cable installed in my house the next week

3 months later the t1 got installed

[plateman]

Ouch tommy I've done other stuff when was desperate and later found out if I would have waited a little longer I could have saved money in your case a whole lot

[Dagwolf]

I could manage with 56k, and I certainly would if it meant having a nice house in the country.

90% of my work can be done offline (in fact, I'd get a lot more work done if I couldn't surf or post on message boards...)

[HoneLynn]

I worked for years on an ISDN line which is just a like two phone lines put together. I still had to dial in. It was all I could get at the time and I made it work. What's that saying about lemons and lemonade?

[Joe]

Originally Posted by HoneLynn

I worked for years on an ISDN line which is just a like two phone lines put together. I still had to dial in. It was all I could get at the time and I made it work. What's that saying about lemons and lemonade?

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?

[HoneLynn]

Originally Posted by Joe

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?

Exactly

[th3g4me]

I had to buy DirecWay to get a "faster than phone line at least internet". (I dont like to call it high speed)

[SinSational]

Originally Posted by buttster

just wanted to hear opinions
if someone is still on 56k modem after 5 years, do u really think they are serious about the adult internet biz.

of course not. i have people emailing me saying that they can't get vids to load over their dial-up. although there are vids that are supposed to be optimized for dial up, it's not the same

[chilihost]

I can set someone up with a solution for 56K that works better than most people's broadband connections - providing a full 100mbps pipe to the internet

cheers,
Luke

[tickler]

Well, I live out in cottage country, so the options for anything better than dialup are pretty limited.

Been looking at satelite($1000/hardware + $100/month), but, there is a rumor from some of the local techs that I may be able to finally get DSL this summer. So for now, I wait and see.

[chilihost]

Tickler, where do you live? I am in Australia and use Telstra's one-way satellite service @ 512K down and a painful 33.6K up. I had to do this because at the time this was all I could get. I would HIGHLY recommend staying off satellite unless you have no other choice, especially if you live in a cloudy / rainy area! Fortunately for me, it only seems to be rainy once every 3-4 months here in drought-stricken Brisbane.

cheers,
Luke

[plateman]

funny story about dial up is when I first got on line and discovered filesharing I remember having a movie download for 4 or 5 days straight and at the time no one I knew had high speed and I got it and the first thing I did was hit porn and had no pop - up blocker then and thats when consoles were popular and I had so many new windows open it was like a phone book on my monitor - dam I was scared and couldnt close them fast enough so I pulled the switch - LOL - I wish I fuck I would have started the webmaster thing then - I think we bought our first pc in fall of 99 and a year later got cable and started working on them and learning.. dam life is full of what if's and should have done that.. oh well

[tickler]

Dagwolf:
I love living out on the lake, take the laptop and sit down on the dock with a cold beer and check out the bikinis. Most folks that have cottages, only come on weekends and vacations. I live here year round.

chilihost
Actually I live in central Ontario, Canada.

Yeah, I am aware of some of the problems with satellites after having a dish for years. We don't get cable TV here either.

[Linkster]

tickler - just dont believe Direcways claims about upload speeds with the larger dish - I made that $1100 mistake and got slower uploads than using a modem - and if you want one of the large dishs and the router I have them for sale - I got conned by them back in June when they told me in order to get "256k" uploads you need the large dish.
They have revised their numbers to "up to 100k" - and refused to give me my money back so I stopped using them.

[tickler]

Linkster:
Actually the one that I was checking out was StarChoice. The hardware was about $1500 when they first came out and then dropped to about $1000 a month or so later later.

Also considering parking a PC a an office building a relative manages. They have a bunch of optical cable from a former tenant there that no one is using anymore. Then I can run a remote desktop, and have all the downloads/uploads run through that PC.

Another problem is with the time delay with the signal bounce. If you are doing online gaming, your duck command gets there a second after you already got shot.

[th3g4me]

I can't play many games online with sat... the only ones I have found that will work are DII, and AoM. Every other game I wait 5 min to connect to a server, but it never happens.

[Syke]

If you choose dialup over dsl..cable.. isdn.. sat.. whatever because it's cheaper.. and not because they're not available.. then maybe your business isn't doing so well... BUT bandwidth does not = success.. i'm sure there are lots of dumbasses out there with 8mbit dslam lines that are making fuck all and conversely others on dial-up that are making a killing..

[iggysick]

I finnaly got adsl last month and thats abd thing lol. Now I can get all those beautiful things that it was pain in ass to get them on dial up so my work sufer
Seriously, working on dial up is ok but with faster connection you can much much more!

[GenXer]

I totally agree with useless warrior.

I had dial up from 98-2002 and didn't know any different. As soon as I got the high speed connection, that was IT and I was hooked. Have had it happily ever since.

[Cleo]

I started paying an extra $10 per month this month to go from 4Mbps/384Kbps to 6Mpbs/768Kbps. LOL