types of connection

bobins · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:29 am Post subject: types of connection

ok -- i got a crapy 56k dial up modem -- and i live in the UK so my ping is never great -- just wondering what the majority of villuns use

im with ntlworld -- i get 24 hour free internet access -- supposidly unlimited -- but the gits auto disconnect me every 2 hours -- its so anoying cos im in the middle of a good game -- the server is full -- then boom -- i get disconected -- by the time i re-connect sombody else has tacken my place in the server -- dam -- if u were wondering why i occationaly quit without saying bye

PondScum007 · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:44 am Post subject:

i have halfway decnt cable, WHEN IT WORKS!!!

it seems if i actually use it and have both computers doing stuff on the internet it jsut diconnects randomly then works fine 2 seconds later...bleh...other than that its pretty speedy
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OSU Snipe Shocker · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 12:04 pm Post subject:

Well, at school I am on one of the fastest and largest university networks in the country, and when I am at home, I am one of like 6 people in my neighborhood with cable. Very fast at both locales

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Brujah · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 1:04 pm Post subject:

you forgot 256K DSL .. cause we can't get anything better round here >

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BitterBeerFace · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 1:28 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm on a 1024Kb DSL, it's great now that I'm the only one using it. (I get a whole flippin' month of FAST, after 8 months of SLOW... when it was SLOW, I actually went *back* to 56K, it was better)

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Lin Sivvi Defiant Hero · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 1:33 pm Post subject:

I have a 1500/128 connection, that has been tweaked to hell. I get 1300+/112 (I believe, either that or 108) on all speed tests. I pretty much max out the thing, if you include pppoe, atm, ethernet, tcp, and the ip headers. My connection owns

bobins · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 5:03 pm Post subject:

Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 5:12 pm Post subject:

I have a cable connection. Not sure of what # mine is as far as speed but just look at my pings

. I know I'm paying thru the nose for my connection but I wouldn't give it up. Once you go cable you will never go back to anything else. I've been ruined, heheh

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Trigger Happy · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 5:12 pm Post subject:

I had dsl but my Mom changed her phone number that leads me stuck playing 56k for a week or two. The pain, the anguish, the withdrawls, it hurts! It's cool, with 56k it just reminds me to have fun out there. GL HF? Heard of that before? It's cool I guess and when I get my DSL things will be more interesting. Unlike Pig! He can stand the 56K spikes and I give him props for that man

Oh and my sister got some awards

Sheesh. She's getting better awfully fast

Oh well, off to playing 56k cya fellas #Crazy

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`RaphX · Registered User Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Posts: 1556

NTL broadband reaches Glasgow, and I use the 512 service (512down/128up). Now, if only they would start digging up the streets of some poor little area not far from Stirling...

bobins · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 5:44 pm Post subject:

they got the 512K were i live -- just can't afford the connection fee (£75 connection then £35 per month) -- doh -- they even bringing out the 1M broud band near me soon

`RaphX · Registered User Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Posts: 1556

Wow, that's expensive

Here it's £25 connection then £25 per month. I thought it was like that in all places. The 1M service is £50 per month, i believe, but I belive the service I'm on is actually capped closer to 600k

, so I'm staying put. Too bad I have to go to University in September, where my TV1 ping will go from 120-150 to over 200

Clay Pigeon · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 9:11 pm Post subject:

You forgot <56K. I have a V.90 modem and the best I get is 33.6k with my crappy isp.

AFI · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 9:44 pm Post subject:

I have DSL through Earthlink/Mindspring. It has its good moments and its bad moments. I would get Cable, but everyone around here has problems with it. But hey, anything is better than 56k.

bobins · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 7:56 am Post subject: