General => Lounge => Topic started by: Thunder Chicken on March 18, 2008, 12:56:54 PM
Title: Look out internet...
Post by: Thunder Chicken on March 18, 2008, 12:56:54 PM
...here I come :D I've just been connected to high speed internet. It's wireless.
I tried another company a bit over a year ago but there is a big hill between me and the tower so I can't get a reliable signal from it. Another company moved into the area and put a tower up in a perfect place for me - I can see it out my bathroom window. They hooked me up today. It's 2MB service, which might not seem like much to you FIOS subscribers, but it's leaps and bounds better than dialup!!!
To celebrate I think I'll post a hi-res photo of my dog, something that would have been a pipe dream on dialup: (http://www.foxthundercats.com/pets/baminkitchen.jpg)
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Post by: cougarcragar on March 18, 2008, 12:59:35 PM
The front half of your dog must be cold.
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Post by: P71 on March 18, 2008, 01:40:55 PM
Oh noes! Now Carm is going to be a Lounge rat! :hick:
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Post by: oldraven on March 18, 2008, 01:58:14 PM
What, no 56K warning? What an arsehole!
;)
Your dog has terrible aim, by the way.
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Post by: SSX on March 18, 2008, 02:37:19 PM
I swear every dog my family has owned has done the same thing. Half on half off.
On another note, I'm off to Florida to visit my brother. See you all Saturday.
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Post by: V8Demon on March 18, 2008, 03:13:39 PM
Quote from: oldraven;209689
What, no 56K warning? What an arsehole! ;)
:hick:
[Lawrence Fishburn]Welcome to the REAL world[/Lawrence Fishburn]
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Post by: oldraven on March 18, 2008, 03:55:20 PM
Quote from: V8Demon;209693
:hick:
[Lawrence Fishburn]Welcome to the REAL world[/Lawrence Fishburn]
Don't get the wrong idea here. I wouldn't be caught dead without DSL. :D
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Post by: DVP on March 18, 2008, 04:43:36 PM
Quote from: SSX;209690
I swear every dog my family has owned has done the same thing. Half on half off.
My Germen Short- Haired Pointer would walk halfway out the sliding door and stand there... just looking around and if you didnt nudge him or something he would stay there. He only did that in his last year or two of 17.
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Post by: nirvanagod on March 18, 2008, 04:49:53 PM
At least you can move on from watching Ascii porn to the real thing now!
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Post by: 20th anny 5.o on March 18, 2008, 05:33:34 PM
Quote from: nirvanagod;209711
At least you can move on from watching Ascii porn to the real thing now!
LOL
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Post by: Beau on March 18, 2008, 05:44:22 PM
Congrats man..must be like a whole new intarweb, ain't it!? :hick:
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Post by: V8Demon on March 18, 2008, 05:58:19 PM
Quote from: oldraven;209701
Don't get the wrong idea here. I wouldn't be caught dead without DSL. :D
The Matrix reference was actually for Carm.;) I meant no disrespect.:D
I actually switched recently from My cable company to FIOS this past October. The speed is about the same as I can't see any difference except upon initial startup of IE. My Optimum Online service was faster in that regard, but for $20 less a month on the package deal for phone/internet/cable I'll deal with a 5 second delay on IE startup.
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Post by: daminc on March 18, 2008, 06:49:57 PM
congrats. Lets see some picture postin
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Post by: *MAYHEM* on March 18, 2008, 08:12:14 PM
What a pugly dog. ;)
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Post by: Carl on March 18, 2008, 10:04:43 PM
I have had Cable Wireless Satellite and DSL (Which I have had the longest and still have)
Satellite was a decent speed but pure shiznit overall and games were unplayable with a full second of lag due to the time reaching the satellite. Thats 999ms Ping.
I was pleased with the wireless when I had it and it was only 1.5 megs. You don't really notice the speed difference between Wireless and DSL or Cable unless you are gaming or downloading a huge file.
2 Megs is a nice sound speed, I think you will be very happy!
By the way I have had DSL for about 4 years now and like it the best by far. 7 Megs right now and it has been a far more constant speed than cable ever was. My ping in games is also constant.
I usually download files at around 750KBps
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Post by: Blown306Cougar on March 18, 2008, 10:38:10 PM
enjoy;) i ditched the wired cable modem about 7 months ago:D
i'm useing cellular wireless now.. and it only cost me about 10 bucks more a month for unlimited use..
sometimes it great having internet anywhere i go..
i'll have full access to the internet on the laptop this year at cat jam.. :D
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Post by: daboss351 on March 18, 2008, 10:46:01 PM
I love my pen 15s cable high speed internet. Running a shiznit modem but a top of the line router, and wireless card in my desktop. I used to play some online games, i had highest FPS at all times. my hardware just sucked, upgraded it all, now i quit gaming.
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Post by: crystal on March 19, 2008, 09:46:37 AM
Love the dog carmen, and don't worry, he'll only get stranger as he gets older ;)
Congrats on the high speed!
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Post by: EricCoolCats on March 19, 2008, 10:06:42 AM
Yo, I'm still rockin' teh dialup!!!1! Who else is with me!?
Anyone?
*crickets chirp*
sigh
My whole neighborhood is currently getting re-strung with fiber optic cable and we'll have digital cable and Internet kicking in sometime this year. For now, diaup--for less than $10/month with a really useful accelerator--is a bargain, and honestly, for basic surfing and whatnot, it's not really bad considering it's dialup. Yes, I'm way too patient LOL. The only time it's a drag is if someone e-mails a large file or if someone posts an insanely huge photo on the message board. ;)
DSL at work is fairly reliable, but painful on upload speeds. And I work on teh Intarwebs all day.
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Post by: oldraven on March 19, 2008, 10:22:58 AM
Apparently all of Canada is supposed to have high speed internet within the next year, and the work has already begun. So that's five kept of the six million promises made by Stevie and his Torries.
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Post by: thunderjet302 on March 19, 2008, 12:40:02 PM
You guys gonna get high speed up by the north pole too? ;)
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Post by: oldraven on March 19, 2008, 01:11:54 PM
Santa's got Sat., so I don't think there's any need. ;)
What's really amazing is that we're getting high speed internet in all rural areas, but they're taking away our rural postal services. (That's right. If you live in the sticks and want to get your mail, screw you. That's what trips to town were made for.) :nkhk:
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Post by: CougarSE on March 19, 2008, 01:56:47 PM
Wow! I guess we take fro granted the USPS :p
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Post by: oldraven on March 19, 2008, 02:18:29 PM
Well, we felt that way about Canada Post, up until a year ago when they announced this. It's messed up as it is, though. I live in a village (crossroads community, more like it), and I have to go to the store for my PO box, but my neighbour has a mailbox. :punchballs:
Their main reasoning for this change is for the safety of their mail carriers, saying it's unsafe for them to be driving our treacherous rural roads.:disappoin Our rural roads are Ifargindentical to the secondary highways as far as condition goes. What the hell is wrong with people doing their job these days? Lazy shiznits! I don't refuse to fold drawings because of the risk of paper cuts (drafter). Besides, if the roads are an issue, why not listen to the constituents and fix the things?
......... ok, this is a massive derail. I'd better stop before I get an infraction and my life is over. :hick:
Title: Look out internet...
Post by: Thunder Chicken on March 19, 2008, 04:03:19 PM
Quote from: *MAYHEM*;209751
What a pugly dog. ;)
Them's fightin' words :shakeass:
Quote from: Carl;209761
I have had Cable Wireless Satellite and DSL (Which I have had the longest and still have)
Satellite was a decent speed but pure shiznit overall and games were unplayable with a full second of lag due to the time reaching the satellite. Thats 999ms Ping.
I was pleased with the wireless when I had it and it was only 1.5 megs. You don't really notice the speed difference between Wireless and DSL or Cable unless you are gaming or downloading a huge file.
2 Megs is a nice sound speed, I think you will be very happy!
By the way I have had DSL for about 4 years now and like it the best by far. 7 Megs right now and it has been a far more constant speed than cable ever was. My ping in games is also constant.
I usually download files at around 750KBps
I tried satellite internet and was completely unimpressed. Extremely expensive ($800 out of the gate, plus an $80/month service fee for 712kb/s speeds!!!) and extremely slow. Ping times were treacherous - even though I'm not a gamer I'd notice the slow ping times, usually because I'd get "connection reset" errors when going to websites. Pages were very sporadic in loading, too - a thread with lots of images would only show half the images, for example. A "refresh" might show the other half, or it might not.
DSL and cable are not options here in the boonies of Nova Scotia. It's wireless, satellite, or dialup.
Quote from: Blown306Cougar;209765
enjoy;) i ditched the wired cable modem about 7 months ago:D
i'm useing cellular wireless now.. and it only cost me about 10 bucks more a month for unlimited use..
sometimes it great having internet anywhere i go..
i'll have full access to the internet on the laptop this year at cat jam.. :D
Again, not options here in the boonies. I have to hold my cell phone out the window to get a signal just to talk. Data transfer would be out of the question.
Quote from: EricCoolCats;209806
Yo, I'm still rockin' teh dialup!!!1! Who else is with me!?
Anyone?
*crickets chirp*
sigh
My whole neighborhood is currently getting re-strung with fiber optic cable and we'll have digital cable and Internet kicking in sometime this year. For now, diaup--for less than $10/month with a really useful accelerator--is a bargain, and honestly, for basic surfing and whatnot, it's not really bad considering it's dialup. Yes, I'm way too patient LOL. The only time it's a drag is if someone e-mails a large file or if someone posts an insanely huge photo on the message board. ;)
DSL at work is fairly reliable, but painful on upload speeds. And I work on teh Intarwebs all day.
The wonders of a competitive market. Our largest ISP, Aliant, charges $35/month for 15MBPS (yes, that's 15, not 1.5) DSL. The same ISP charges $35/month for dialup. Imagine - super high speed the same price as dialup. Since they are the only ones who have local dialup numbers throughout the province they get away with it. The rural areas are so rural that nobody else offers local numbers, which would mean calling long distance, which would result in huge phone bills and slower transfer speeds. Of course this is also a province that had party lines into the 90's in the area I live...
Quote from: oldraven;209811
Apparently all of Canada is supposed to have high speed internet within the next year, and the work has already begun. So that's five kept of the six million promises made by Stevie and his Torries.
Strangely enough, Nova Scotia is leading the charge with rural high speed now, after years of lagging behind. One promise kept out of ten million from our Tory premier, Rodney MacMilqetoast. I mean MacDonald. He made an edict that everyone would have high speed available by the end of '09. The funny thing is that ever since he made that edict companies have figured out that rural areas are worth competing for. Two years ago there were no rural providers in my area. Last year there was one (of whom I couldn't hit the tower from here). Now there's two. Next year there will be three, since Eastlink has won the contract with the government to provide high speed throughout the central and northern part of the province.
Quote from: oldraven;209833
Santa's got Sat., so I don't think there's any need. ;)
What's really amazing is that we're getting high speed internet in all rural areas, but they're taking away our rural postal services. (That's right. If you live in the sticks and want to get your mail, screw you. That's what trips to town were made for.) :nkhk: ...until a year ago when they announced this. It's messed up as it is, though. I live in a village (crossroads community, more like it), and I have to go to the store for my PO box, but my neighbour has a mailbox. :punchballs:
Their main reasoning for this change is for the safety of their mail carriers, saying it's unsafe for them to be driving our treacherous rural roads.:disappoin Our rural roads are Ifargindentical to the secondary highways as far as condition goes. What the hell is wrong with people doing their job these days? Lazy shiznits! I don't refuse to fold drawings because of the risk of paper cuts (drafter). Besides, if the roads are an issue, why not listen to the constituents and fix the things?
......... ok, this is a massive derail. I'd better stop before I get an infraction and my life is over. :hick:
I'm lucky - I'm one of those lucky ones with a mailbox, while my neighbours must go to the post office box :D. My mailbox passed the "safety test", mainly because I've got 500 feet of clear, straight, level road frontage with plenty of room for the carrier to pull off. It also helps that my brother's mother in law is the regional inspector ;)
This recent policy, BTW, was brought about by the carriers themselves. They complained that it was unsafe (even though no accidents had happened), and Canada Post replied to those complaints by telling them if it's too unsafe they won't have to do it - in other words, they complained themselves out of jobs.
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Post by: V8Demon on March 19, 2008, 04:03:23 PM
Quote from: CougarSE;209839
Wow! I guess we take fro granted the USPS :p
There's still plenty of areas in the US that require a PO box and won't deliver directly to your house.;)
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Post by: CougarSE on March 19, 2008, 04:32:37 PM
those must be some remote regions!
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Post by: V8Demon on March 19, 2008, 05:25:38 PM
Not really....the eastern end of Long Island still has towns like that!
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Post by: oldraven on March 19, 2008, 10:18:32 PM
Quote from: CougarSE;209861
those must be some remote regions!
35 minutes from town? :dunno: My family was on a party line until I was about twelve, and that was '92. I was pretty surprised that we had high speed here in Goshen.
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I'm lucky - I'm one of those lucky ones with a mailbox, while my neighbours must go to the post office box . My mailbox passed the "safety test", mainly because I've got 500 feet of clear, straight, level road frontage with plenty of room for the carrier to pull off. It also helps that my brother's mother in law is the regional inspector
The crazy thing is, my house is the first one off the main highway, about 150m down a well kept dirt road. My neighbour lives farther down. It's baffling.
I have Aliant DSL, and it's the best I've seen on the new laptop. And a nice added bonus, the router is wireless capable standard. I had never noticed until we got our first laptop and had a signal. I checked and found an antenna on the back. You can game your heart out on the wireless. I've heard good things about Eastlink too.
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Post by: CougarSE on March 19, 2008, 10:31:25 PM
I ment here in the states.. Probably have to be pretty far out for the USPS to say come and get it.
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Post by: yellow86coogr on March 20, 2008, 01:13:21 PM
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those must be some remote regions!
No, just small towns that don't wanna change. You know, like Nova Scotia, but Youngstown, OH is considering it.......:D ....j/k.
There are a few towns around here that still require boxes.
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Post by: oldraven on March 20, 2008, 01:40:46 PM
Nova Scotia is a reeeally big small town. The reason we had party lines for so long is because no one lived here in the 80-90's. No people = no votes. No votes = we don't give a rats ass.
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Post by: oldraven on March 27, 2008, 10:00:28 AM
Just a side note. I noticed my connection speed for the first time last night, after TC mentioned we get 14Mbps here. Well, I get a lot better than that at home. On wireless, I got a signal pushing 54Mbps. That's not a typo. I only have one wireless signal at home (so it's not combining with a neighbours wireless router).
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Post by: Thunder Chicken on March 27, 2008, 04:41:54 PM
That's likely your LAN speed, not your internet connection speed. Mine shows 54MBPS when I hover the mouse over the network icon, too. My desktop, with a wired connection to the LAN, shows 100 MBPS.
Oh, and I found this the other day - kinda seems appropriate: