DSL! Woohoo!

[MidgetsBro]

Finally! After two years of whining and complaining to my parents that we need DSL, we are finally getting it! I'm so happy!

OK to add a point to this thread...

What type of internet connection do you use *mostly* Like at home, or wherever you connect to the internet the most.

[crptcblade]

2400 baud dial-up. Its the only way to go.

[JungleMan]

Cable..owns DSL

[mlewis]

Originally posted by MidgetsBro
OK to add a point to this thread...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!

MidgetsBro has shattered the ultimate taboo! THREAD'S ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A POINT!!!

[Gimlin]

I got DSL, only wish they could take the upload cap off

[MidgetsBro]

I'd get cable... but you need cable lines for that When we first moved into this house, there was a cable line coming into the house, but it was in the way of our basketball court, so my dad cut it. We have satellite, and I'll take DSL over 56k ANYDAY.

[numtel]

i'm using the dialup service of goudabuddha's dsl! free no banners internet

[Tygur]

I have DSL. Cable's not available here last time I checked.

[MidgetsBro]

Originally posted by numtel
i'm using the dialup service of goudabuddha's dsl! free no banners internet

Is he using the Dial-Up server that comes with Windows? I was thinking about using that, and selling dial-up to my neighbors for like $5 a month, and then using the money towards paying the DSL bill.

[nabeels786]

my DSL should be actived by next monday

[MidgetsBro]

Originally posted by nabeels786
my DSL should be actived by next monday

Two mondays from now for me... I can't wait. The only other broadband connection I have used is a T1 line at school, and D/Ls are usually about 11k because there are over 100 computers splitting the bandwidth.

[nabeels786]

w00t!

i called up and asked them whether i can pick up the equipment early, they put me on hold, and came back saying they got verizon to switch my DSL on... YAY!!!!!!!!!!! so im going in about an hour to pick my stuff up.

woooohooooo

[chrisjk]

ah, Verizon. 45% owned by Vodafone. Large.

[SteveCRM]

I heard verizon is going to come out with cable internet soon...my friends dad works for verizon mobile so he gets DSL for free and he said he'll get the cable when it comes out soon

[nabeels786]

verizon has cable internet in my area, but there's too many people that use it here, a friend has it and he says waaay too slow, and too much downtime

[eiSecure]

*points out that the 1 vote for T1/T3 is Smash*

[Sastraxi]

*points out eiSecure's probably right*

I have Cable, but it's not shared... everyone else within 2-3 blocks doesn't even have a computer..

[eiSecure]

yeah, but yours is probably capped at 1.5MB Download and 256K Upload.

[mlewis]

Mine only has 1 cap: 128KB upload

I got 2MB/sec once, but never again...boohoo

Only 1 other person splitting the line, but they really jack up the bandwidth some days..

[SteveCRM]

I wouldn't be too upset with a 1.5 meg/s download cap

[eiSecure]

http://www.wbbhacks.com/thread.php?t...eid=&page=2#16

Vote for my board!

[Gandalf_Grey_]

notice my location. I have dial up. And all because tbay tel is to ****ing lazy to get off of thier asses and hook up DSL in the exchange about 1 k from my house!. If i had DSL for one day *goes weak in the knees*

[eiSecure]

Yeah, our area still doesn't have DSL, but the people across the stree do.

[sail3005]

i have cable, it 0wnz0rz dsl

[eiSecure]

I know.

[chrisjk]

DSL is at my local exchange but it's waaaaay to much money

Maybe one day when BT stop being so ridiculous...

[CyberSurfer]

The max speed I've ever got on the Uni Internet Connection I pay £60 a year for is 13mbps And that's quite fast, methinks

[chrisjk]

13?! get outta here!

[zmerlinz]

Originally posted by eiSecure
*points out that the 1 vote for T1/T3 is Smash*

points out that eisecure was wrong, actually it was me

sorry

[MidgetsBro]

Actually, STQ doesn't have a T1 line. He has dual Cable modems. I asked him a couple of months ago how he got a T1 line in his house, and he told me it's not a genuine T1, but two cable lines.

[Sastraxi]

*drools* T1...

Actually its somit like 2/1 mbps download/upload, I've gotten over 1.6mbps once (once!)... It was a good time to download the Max Payne demo

[nishantp]

Originally posted by Sastraxi
*drools* T1...

Actually its somit like 2/1 mbps download/upload, I've gotten over 1.6mbps once (once!)... It was a good time to download the Max Payne demo

No point...Max Payne sucks...Its too much of the same thing.

[MidgetsBro]

Originally posted by eiSecure
That liar...brags to everyone (including me) that it's a T1....

How on earth can 2 cable lines be a T1??

I think a T1 line is only 1.544MB/s.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=T1

So technically, a highspeed cable modem would equal a T1, but without the fluctuations when more or less people are sharing the bandwidth.

Now if he said somthing about him having a T3 line then, you would know he was an outright liar... 44.736MB/s

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=T3

[nabeels786]

Originally posted by MidgetsBro


How much do you pay for it? The one I am getting is 768kb/128kb and it's $50 a month. They charge way too much, and if it wasn't for my complaining every day to my parents, I wouldn't be gettng it.

100$ a month

the only reason my parents are getting it is because itss come out cheaper than what we pay now.

50$/month phone
40$/month 2 extra phone line
20$/month internet

we'll be paying the same or about the same with DSL and really basic phone, we dont call too much so it doesnt matter

we had 3 phone lines, one for me/modem, one for my sister/her modem, and one for just phone calls.

im hooking up our DSL to one of the cable/dsl routers by linksys, so its all good

[nabeels786]

YES ITS ACTIVE!!!!!!!!!!

101mb in a full 8 minutes...w000t!

[eiSecure]

Welcome to the fast lane!

[nabeels786]

w000h000!

[MidgetsBro]

You bastard!!! One more week for me.