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Dial Up eh?
Some of you may remember a thread a few days back asking you all to post your Pingtest.net results. If you don't then here it is

http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...?tid=19953

In it I said that I'd test a dial up connection. My laptop has a dial-up modem built in (Why? No one uses them anymore) which for the first time ever, and probably also the last time ever, has been useful.

Here are my results:

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It wasn't actually as bad as I thought it would be. Yeah it was slow but I could live with it for a few days if I had to. Obviously having multipe tabs loading pages at the same time was a no go as was YouTube but Google, Wikipedia, Facebook lite and my webmail worked surprisingly well.

There wee are. I just thought you all should know...
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20/11/2009 10:03 AM
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RE: Dial Up eh?
0.04Mb/s >_>

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20/11/2009 10:09 AM
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lol, i remember my dial up connection. wee had it for 8 years. in fact, my family only upgraded from dial up in the past 6 months.
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20/11/2009 10:17 AM
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The first time I tried to connect it failed because I'd put the phone number wrong. The second time though it connected fine. When I heard that sound it brought back a flood of memories. Taking 20 minutes to load a YouTube video, spending days and days downloading software (legally of course), actually buying CDs and DVDs... (j/k)
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heres what our internet looks like at the fraternity
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heres what our internet looks like at the fraternity

goddamn that's fast

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Nice upload. In fact, on the subject of upload speed: Why is my upload speed on dial up so much quicker than the download? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
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trademark91 Wrote:[Image: 628581100.png]

heres what our internet looks like at the fraternity

goddamn that's fast

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that's using wifi.
ill try to post later using an ethernet cable.


edit: hey pb, i just noticed, your upload speed is only .06 different from dial-up upload speed lol.
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RE: Dial Up eh?
PSPkiller Wrote:It wasn't actually as bad as I thought it would be. Yeah it was slow but I could live with it for a few days if I had to. Obviously having multipe tabs loading pages at the same time was a no go as was YouTube but Google, Wikipedia, Facebook lite and my webmail worked surprisingly well.

There wee are. I just thought you all should know...

My speed's even worse than dialup for 2/3 of every month...  It's pretty much dialup, with 4 other people trying to 'borrow' internet off me.  So I usually browse with images disabled.

It's like that right now.  Took like 3 minutes to load speedtest.net, and it just froze with the meter on "Preparing to Download" for like 5 minutes now.  Give up.
EDIT: tried it 2 more times, can't get past the "Preparing to Download", I'll try again at like 2am when everyone's asleep and there's noone fighting for internet with me.


Download all my stuff at the uni.  http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7140&pid=212499#pid212499
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