Simviation Forum - What type of Internet connection do you have?

Feb 8^th, 2012 at 9:29pm

andy190 Offline
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Hi I was just curious about what type of Internet connection people have. If you tick other, post what it was & I'll see if I can add it to the poll.

P.S. Admin if this isn't allowed just delete it.

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Reply #1 - Feb 8^th, 2012 at 11:00pm

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11mbps broadband, according to Speedtest.net

Not bad!

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Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 3:25am

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Hereford. England. EGBS.

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Talk-Talk. 8 Mbps Broadband.

Actual speed:
6.4 Mbps download.
0.7 Mbps upload.

ADSL Wired Modem. (No Router).

Paul.

I well remember using Dial-up in the 1990's, and early 2000's!
My first Service Provider was "Freeserve", and I still get my e-mail via them!

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Reply #3 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 3:27am

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What's dial-up Grin

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Reply #4 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 9:28am

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Something from the early Cretaceous Period Matt Wink

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Reply #5 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 10:16am

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ozzy72 wrote on Feb 9^th, 2012 at 9:28am:

Something from the early Cretaceous Period Matt Wink

Formation flying with CFS 2 on Internet Dial-up was a wonderful experience not to be forgotten...
...providing that you only stayed on-line for no more than two hours...

Otherwise you got automatically disconnected, and had to re-dial and re-connect to CFS 2 again...

...Happy days!... Smiley

...!

Paul...Freeserve addict... Cool

...!

P.S...even with my (high-speed?) Broadband connection, I still have to dial up to get connected to my Service Provider, every time I fire up my Computer. (ADSL Wired Modem, no Router).

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Reply #6 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 5:25pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Feb 9^th, 2012 at 9:28am:

Something from the early Cretaceous Period Matt Wink

I'm slightly better off -- the tar isn't in liquid form and, except for weather, covers most of the miles to the library.

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Reply #7 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 5:55pm

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I have the $68 dollars per month one. Roll Eyes

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Reply #8 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 11:12pm

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Dial up?� Seriously?

I don't even have a dial up modem anymore.

I'd like to see a breakdown between DSL, cable and pure wireless.

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Reply #9 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 11:28pm

andy190 Offline
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The reason I put dial-up in & not the others was because I wanted to see how many people had Dial-up compared to broadband so I could see if the image size limit was worth it.

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Reply #10 - Feb 11^th, 2012 at 12:01am

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There is no broadband service where I live. Two blocks away, it's no problem, but here? No that would cost $1500 to put up new fiber optic lines. So we switched to satellite. If I had to go back to dial-up right now I would just unplug the computer and move the woods. Wink

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Reply #11 - Feb 11^th, 2012 at 3:37am

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I'm in NZ too. My ISP is Telstraclear and I get 10-15 mbps down and 1 mbps up.

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Reply #12 - Feb 12^th, 2012 at 6:58pm

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A regular 8Mb/512Kbit ADSL. which performances are lately a little tarnished by the unusually harsh, and quasi polar weather Italy is going through (be this in itself or the many people who, in the impossibility of physically going out, browse around so much more, ending up straining the provider max bandwidth).

Modern day Internet is practically unusable by dial-up. Some pages are so unwieldy and heavy, they put strain on a broad band connection... I would not try and use them on a dial up for fear of fossilizing in the waiting time needed. Tongue

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Reply #13 - Feb 12^th, 2012 at 10:36pm

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I have 1.2 mbps broadband. SLOW!!!!! Cool

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Reply #14 - Feb 12^th, 2012 at 10:37pm

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3mb/s on what ever I have. Cool

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Reply #15 - Feb 13^th, 2012 at 3:51am

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If I am lucky/really lucky, at certain times of the day, I get 7.8 MB/s on my ADSL 8 Mb/s Broadband...which is nice... Kiss

...!

But I still have to dial up my Service Provider every time I switch my computer on (with an external wired ADSL USB Modem) every morning, and at various times during the day when I re-start my computer.

Apparently, according to a Telephone Service Engineer, it is because I do not use a Router, (only a wired, USB ADSL Modem), and I do not leave my computer permanently switched on!...(Fire hazard at night, shopping, visiting, etc!).

He says that this "dial-up" procedure I use every day, actually slows down my Internet speed, because the Exchange gets confused, and thinks that there is a fault on the line each time I connect, and automatically slows� me down for a couple of days trying to trace the imaginary "fault"!
...so my "dial-up procedure" which I use each time, permanently slows me down!
As I am the only user of my computer, and all my ancillaries are "wired", a "Router" is an added complication, and causes Port problems during "Multiplayer" activities, so I just use a simple, wired, ADSL USB Modem for connection, which manually/automatically dials my Service Provider each time the Computer is switched on.
(For fire safety reasons I never leave any electrical appliances switched, on when I am not in the rooms!).

The Telephone Engineer's recommendation is to always leave a Router, (if you use one), switched on permanently!

...and there endeth the first lesson!.. Grin

...!

Paul.... Wink

...!

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Reply #16 - Feb 16^th, 2012 at 6:23am

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Not sure what speed mine is, fluctuates all the time all I know is it's called JANET

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