ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area What type of Internet Connection?

Virgil, do you have to put the handset from your phone on your modem?

I think it's more like the telco needs to rewax the string between the cans!





[This message has been edited by sparky66wv (edited 04-10-2003).]

dial up here Pone co does not have DSL availble and cable co want way too much $$$

Virgil, I am gussing you do not down load many MP3s on that connection.

Maybe a compoter guy can help out here, but on one of my puters the port speed was set to low limiting the connection speed.

Bob

My first internbet connection was 14.4k dial-up, and I actually downloaded MP3s via Napster! When I got 56k connection speed went up to 40000 and something, but the actual download speed was still around 5 kb/sec.
In my old PowerBook I've got a built-in 9600k modem, never got it working though, since I upgraded to System 7.6 the TelePort software denies my machine being a PowerBook.
Cable is shared by 3 Macs, via a software router. Think about buying a hardware router though, then we don't need to have one machine running all the time.
Maybe I even get an acoustic coupler for my museum. 300bps max connection speed, not kbps!

Oh dear.... I remember the days when 1200 bps was considered very respectable and 2400 was fast!

I'm on dial-up at the moment, about 5 miles from the CO, and can usually connect at about 44k.

Cable, with a solid 2MBPS

We have DSL.

Equally important is how fast your processor is.

On our new computers ADM 2200+ all sites display fast.

On my notebook Pentium 150 all sites download fast but some take a while to display.

This site displays fast on the slower computer.

Sparky66
You must be living in a metropolis to get on at 28000, the best I ever get is 26400 and sometimes less. Rural life is great, ain't it? You post alot of pictures, do you go fix dinner or something why you wait for them to download

56K at the mo,connect @ 40ish but i recently heard that my area will be ADSL enabled in June , at last ill be able to enjoy online gaming without lagging out all the time.