been seein "56k" a lot lately!! it's killing me! what does it mean?????
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Originally Posted by Mistacamawo
i hate 56k warnings. if you have 56k you know damned well that everything is going to take forever to load.
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Originally Posted by z34_nut
56k was used to build the pyramids. Slow moving, yet effective.
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man i just barely switched over like 4 months ago. My parents are farmers and we live down a private road. No cable. No dsl. Dish is too slow. Then i found out they offered something called a metro cell service. I got put on a waiting list cause they were at full capacity. Finally i got it and its awesome. I have this little box on top of my house and i guess the antennas on these mountains like 10 miles away emits microwave signals. Pretty cool and uber fast
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Originally Posted by Mistacamawo
i hate 56k warnings. if you have 56k you know damned well that everything is going to take forever to load.
And, as this post proves, dial-up modems are so outdated that some people are barely familiar with the technology at all. 56K warnings were needed seven years ago, started to become unnecessary three or four years ago, and now are frivolous and annoying.
I have to get on dial-up (laptop) at my parents in the country, and LS1Tech.com is almost out of the question. If it weren't for the ads, I think it would load much quicker. Too bad there's not a text only version with no smilies or ads. But, I doubt that wouldn't go over well with the sponsors!
Originally Posted by NightWindDriftr
Effective is key. I remember when the kings of the internet were the dudes with multiple merged dial-up connections. Dual modems were awesome.
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Originally Posted by Sharpe
I was a shotgun modem user back in the day. Diamond made it. Wanted a quad modem, but it cost just a little too much. It was like $500+ I think.
was pretty interesting to listen to all four modems dial in and connect in succession.
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Originally Posted by Sharpe
I have to get on dial-up (laptop) at my parents in the country, and LS1Tech.com is almost out of the question. If it weren't for the ads, I think it would load much quicker. Too bad there's not a text only version with no smilies or ads. But, I doubt that wouldn't go over well with the sponsors!
Also, like whoever else said it, my dsl is too slow!!! I'm getting 1.5mb/s and it's not cutting it! I saw verison fios I think advertising 20mb/s, it doesn't come to my house