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Reply #15 – 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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Reply #16 – 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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Reply #17 – 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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Reply #18 – 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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Reply #19 – 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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Reply #20 – March 19, 2008, 12:40:02 PM

You guys gonna get high speed up by the north pole too?

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Reply #21 – 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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Reply #22 – March 19, 2008, 01:56:47 PM

Wow! I guess we take fro granted the USPS :p

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Reply #23 – 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.

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:

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Reply #24 – March 19, 2008, 04:03:19 PM

Quote from: *MAYHEM*;209751

What a pugly dog.

Them's fightin' words

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.

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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.

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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Reply #25 – 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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Reply #26 – March 19, 2008, 04:32:37 PM

those must be some remote regions!

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Reply #27 – March 19, 2008, 05:25:38 PM

Not really....the eastern end of Long Island still has towns like that!

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Reply #28 – March 19, 2008, 10:18:32 PM

Quote from: CougarSE;209861

those must be some remote regions!

35 minutes from town?

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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Reply #29 – 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.