Dial-Up Sucks!

[R. Richard]

I have had a DSL line for some time now. I didn't really remember the enormous difference between dial-up and DSL.

I moved. The local telephone company now tells me it will be a week or so before I can get DSL at my new house. In the meantime, I am stuck with dial-up and it crashes at least once an hour and it is SSSSSLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!

Is it just me, or is the difference all that great?

 

[cantdog]

You are completely correct, man.

It wasn't so bad before you knew what DSL felt like, but now you will suffer. Get Solitaire going in a window or something to pass the time.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Yes, dialup really sux.

I have DSL at work and a cable connection at home which is even faster, even while running wireless to my laptop.

Friday I was at a different jobsite helping a coworker with a computer problem, he was on dialup. It was so f-ing slow it was painful! I should have brought a book to read while I was waiting.

I feel for ya. Good luck.

 

[R. Richard]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I thought maybe it was just me.

The lack of response is driving me MAD, MAD, MAD!

 

[matriarch]

Only ever had dial up.
And yes it is i n c r e d i b l y slow, but most times I cope with it.

Lately, though, even getting on line has become painful, having to dial sometimes up to 15 times before the damn thing gets in......*sigh*

Time to splash out on the broadband I've been promising myself.

Mat

 

[snooper]

... Lately, though, even getting on line has become painful, having to dial sometimes up to 15 times before the damn thing gets in......

If you are getting line engaged (busy, occupé), then change ISPs. If you get through but just don't connect, have you tried adjusting the volume on the modem?

 

[impressive]

I'm still on dial-up.

It's not the speed that annoys me most, it's the FUCKING DISCONNECTS ... in the middle of a card game, an IM conversation ... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

They tell us it'll just be a couple more months before broadband will be available in our rural area.

 

[R. Richard]

Perhaps the one thing anyone who switches to broadband should be aware of is that there is really no going back.

As has been pointed out, the very slow speed can be coped with. However, the disconnects are hell!

Even if you deal almost exclusively with text, the ads are in graphic form and you have to wait for them to download.

aaaaauuuUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[snooper]

... the ads are in graphic form and you have to wait for them to download.

Why? My firewall filters out most of the ad sites, and I tend to run "no images". IF I want to see a picture it is only one click, and most of them I don't bother.

Since I live 20 miles from the capital of God's own country, I can never have broadband; I am too far from the nearest exchange, so although it is fitted with broadband, I can't have it.

 

[Guest]

All may be well soon, because trials are currently being rolled out to provide broadband through your electricity supply. Pilot projects are being set up in rural areas. The same technology is already being used in Germany. Sub-stations would need to be adapted in a similar programme to telephone exchanges. (Hubby works for a Government agency that oversees the energy industry).

Lou

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... provide broadband through your electricity supply...

How does that work with a battery pack

 

[Guest]

How does that work with a battery pack

Telekinesis?

(You plug the modem into the socket, the power supply is irrelevant. Before you ask about portability, wireless would still work. )

This only matters to those of us in the UK, but I've been told that Southern and Scottish are now live with broadband via electricity supply.

Lou

 

[neonlyte]

Telekinesis?

(You plug the modem into the socket, the power supply is irrelevant. Before you ask about portability, wireless would still work. )

This only matters to those of us in the UK, but I've been told that Southern and Scottish are now live with broadband via electricity supply.

Lou

How times change. I remember sitting in a room 35 years ago with a goverment agency anxious to fund a device I'd designed that used the house electrical circuit to send heating control information. I had a man from Motorola - early chip pioneers - supporting me and we listened while an arogant Professor from London University told one and all it was impossible to achieve.

 

[Guest]

How times change. I remember sitting in a room 35 years ago with a goverment agency anxious to fund a device I'd designed that used the house electrical circuit to send heating control information. I had a man from Motorola - early chip pioneers - supporting me and we listened while an arogant Professor from London University told one and all it was impossible to achieve.

You were way before the times.

(I hope that same Professor isn't now the pioneer of this "new" technology! )

Lou

 

[neonlyte]

You were way before the times.

(I hope that same Professor isn't now the pioneer of this "new" technology! )

Lou

Timing has always been my problem

Ya'd thought it got better with practice.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... (I hope that same Professor isn't now the pioneer of this "new" technology! ) ...

Hmmm...

Has anyone else read Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis?

 

[Lovepotion69]

I'm on dial-up. It sucks. Big time. I sooo miss my Uni network connection! The day I get my own place I'm getting broadband, both for the sake of speed and having a fixed price.

 

[R. Richard]

I'm on dial-up. It sucks. Big time. I sooo miss my Uni network connection! The day I get my own place I'm getting broadband, both for the sake of speed and having a fixed price.

Probably not the day you get your place. The telephone company switched my telephone line the day I moved. However, the DSL line had to wait for several days (eons???). However, call early and call often to get things set up with your DSL provider. Do not wait until the day before move day like silly me and get caught up in the waiting game!

 

[EmeraldKitten]

I have dial-up. Normally, it doesnt bother me.. it's all I've ever had.
Usally, it wasnt too slow, and didn't irratate me. Yeah, I'd rather have something faster, but no big deal.
Now, try having dial-up with viruses and spyware on your computer.
That sucks big ones!