Stranded

Spee · 2004-03-03, 09:08 PM

Theyre unplugging my DSL tonight. Tomorrow, and friday I have to go without intarweb. Then, Friday, I have cable internet. Figures that my last night of intarwebby goodness is exhausted on me studying for a chem test. Fucking chemistry.

dscytherulez · 2004-03-03, 09:16 PM

Sucks, but cable>DSL

TheN00b · 2004-03-03, 10:31 PM

Yep, cable is so much better than DSL it isn't even funny. When I got cable, I almost cried with joy at the lack of lag in the MW4

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Squick · 2004-03-03, 10:46 PM

It depends what DSL package you have and what cable package you have... My old Comcast account used to be capped at 120kbp/s upstream and 1.6mbp/s, not bad... But then I moved to WideOpenWest cable, that is capped at 750kbp/s upstream and a whopping 4mbp/s downstream.

But I was over at a coworker's house who lives less then 200 feet from his phone C/O, and I was downloading at 780K/sec, or 6.2mbp/s.

Still pidely compared to the Korean speeds, but downloading full length smut at 6.2 mbp/s is a hell of a lot nicer then when I used to pay to be part of a BBS that was several states away, but had great pr0n... Downloading crappy, low quality GIF porn at 14.4kbp/s while having to pay for long distance AND paying for the service REALLY sucks... Or when I downloaded an "evaluation" version of Tribes I from an IRC channel over a 36.6 modem... 90 megs took over nine hours to download with wait times in IRC and such.

Now I get pissed when I don't get more then 350K/sec on downloading anything.

dscytherulez · 2004-03-03, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by Squick

Still pidely compared to the Korean speeds, but downloading full length smut at 6.2 mbp/s is a hell of a lot nicer then when I used to pay to be part of a BBS that was several states away, but had great pr0n... Downloading crappy, low quality GIF porn at 14.4kbp/s while having to pay for long distance AND paying for the service REALLY sucks... Or when I downloaded an "evaluation" version of Tribes I from an IRC channel over a 36.6 modem... 90 megs took over nine hours to download with wait times in IRC and such.

Too much info man...seriously...

Jaged · 2004-03-04, 01:58 AM

Originally Posted by dscytherulez

Too much info man...seriously...

Who dosen'd download pr0n? Its not something we really have to hide. We are mature people here. Well most of us anyway. There are a few resident 6 year olds.

321 · 2004-03-04, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by Jaged

Who dosen'd download pr0n?

Me.

Derfud · 2004-03-04, 02:14 AM

Yeah, you upload it.

Everay · 2004-03-04, 04:42 AM

Originally Posted by Derfud

Yeah, you upload it.

not to mention stream it over a webcam

Jaged · 2004-03-04, 03:05 AM

Originally Posted by 321

Me.

ViperGTS · 2004-03-04, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by Jaged

Everay · 2004-03-04, 12:06 AM

What death here said, but i loath your speeds.

Phaelon · 2004-03-04, 09:05 AM

You can pay an equal amount for DSL with speeds the same as Cable.

In an uncapped state, my cable modem gets somewhere around 8 mbp/s, which is around 1 MB/s for download and somewhere close to 350 KB/s upload.

in Regular state I get about 500 KB/s down and 150 KB/s up.

Also depends where you live. I have a friend that works for SBC, he lives within half a mile of thier main offices, and has a 100Mbp/s link to the internet =p.

He downloads from Microsoft around 6.5 MBp/s

Jennyboo · 2004-03-04, 10:03 AM

ouch that gotta suck