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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 5, Funny) by ese002 on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:06PM (6 children)
I'm on Comcast so I'm not sure if the correct answer is "50-100Mbps" or "I don't have Internet"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @10:53PM (5 children)
Yeah, I have Facebook. Internet is going costs extra.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @11:00AM (3 children)
I have AT&T, so if I need to use facebook, I need to go use Del Taco's internet... its beyond AT&T capacity to do much more than pop email.
Their landline got so bad neither my ZYXEL 33.6K modem nor my GTE/Lenkurt 300 baud modem would not work on it anymore.
That is one thing I really like about Soylent... I can actually use this site on an AT&T line without having my TCP/IP stack timeout on me.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday June 28 2018, @08:52PM (2 children)
I've been there. So sorry for you. You must be in a place where the broadband cannot service you for whatever reason. Hughes satellite (or Dish) sucks worst than a 33.6k modem. You're limited to those analog lines. I was over 20k ft from the CO, which meant there were multiple analog/digital transitions to get to me. At least according to the AT&T guy. What it meant in practice was that the compression wouldn't work properly on the line, which drops you down even further. They couldn't offer me ISDN either, and no cablemodem coming for at least a few more years.
In the end what I did was to get 4 analog lines in both my home and the data center where I worked. Bonded 4 modems together (surprisingly easy under Windows Advanced Server 2000), and got just enough bandwidth to reliably control my computer at the office.
These were the days before webpages were bloated fucking crap with 9 tons of javascript to load images. Your connection must be unusable :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday June 30 2018, @02:35PM
Internet got so bad at the house I just shut the whole mess down, and go to DelTaco to use theirs.
I only wish my friends were amateur radio operators... at least that was a reliable form of communication compared to a modern AT&T network.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday July 12 2018, @04:17AM
What did they charge you for 4 land lines? Here in BC, it's close to $50cdn for one land line, which seems to be rusty barbed wire. With a good modem (USR Robotics Sportster), I usually could get 26.4 down and much shittier up, tried a few other modems that would train down to zero pretty quick. The there were the copper thieves.
ISP dropped dial up a couple of years back but it kept working (it's an essential service in Canada) and the charge for unlimited went from $45 to zero. End of last year they finally put up a cell tower and rather then run fibre out here, they have a rural LTE internet plan, 250 GB limit, usually about 10 Mbs down and 2 up, though I've seen 25 down, for close to a $100 a month including payments on the crap internet hub ($300/2 years).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @09:08AM
Internet without net neutrality sucks. Pay pet service.