How many of you are still on dial up?
ie, not using ADSL

Cable here, Cookie is still on dial-up

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Cable

Yep I just use white shoe polish.......... O wait thats dial in - cable here

I was on dial up till last fall, but now I've got a 10 meg down, 1.5 up cable connection.

Cable since late '99 when it became available to me. I can't even remember what dial-up was like other that the downloads were sloooooooow...

Jan
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My lifelong goal has been to tear down a mall and build a race track!

It was actually cheaper than dial-up.

Joe

Dial up at home. Cable at school.

Back in my hometown, it'd still be cheaper to have a land line & dial up than a cable connection. In most areas of town DSL still isn't available, and quite frankly if it was available everywhere Southwestern Bell sucks and I wouldn't have used it any ways.

The local cable place back home, Suddenlink, makes you buy a cable TV package to get their internet. However, they do offer an internet only connection with no TV, but it actually costs more because they add a "line fee" I know a lot of people using the cable there and it's slow most of the time. That whole area is bottlenecked, and there are several times during the day when at least one part of town will have ultra slow if not totally dead internet.

One for Dial up here. "patiently waiting"

Jerry
1966 Fairlane 390 8V
1940 Ford Street Rod
1949 Ford F-1
1970 Mustang Mach 1 428SCJ "Twister Special" (Sold November 25,2006)

Cable here

I had cable for a couple of years and then switched to DSL about a year ago when they offered a discount if I converted everything to them, including getting a dish.  I honestly don't notice any difference between the cable and the DSL, (or digital cable tv and the dish)

Cable for me. Never seen anything so fast...

Love it

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- 70 Fastback Mustang, 489 cid FE, TKO-600 5 speed, 3.70 9 inch
- 71 F100 Ranger XLT shortbed 4x4, 397 cid FE, headers, Street Dominator, 280H, 5 lug Dana 60 rear, 4.56's, 4 speed

Yep, got 4 T1's here... Oh wait, you were asking my home service not at the office. I have cable. It's through Comcast, which ever since they took over for Garden State cable it has been downhill. Used to have 10Mb down and 3-4 up depending on the day. Ever since Comcast... 4Mb down and 384Kb up. Sucks.

Shall I tell you about the time Comcast had routers failing left and right and I narrowed the packet loss down to a specific router [that was usually the problem on a day to day basis] and after spendign 3 hours on the phone beating various levels of tech support I finally got to talk to a real IT person who knew what I was talking about and recognized the problem was with their router after I send him my information about the problem. His response, "Oh, 60% packet loss is within our acceptable limit." Canceled the service the next day and went to Verizon DSL, but their service was only good for a while and then went to hell. I never cared for PPPoE either, waste of resources and an unnecessary hassle. In any event, I'm back with Comcast who seems to ahve fixed their act but still doesn't offer anywhere near the upload that Garden State did when they first started cable internet. Waiting for fiber...

My mayor must be taking it up the ass from Comcast because he won't let Verizon into town. Every town around us has fiber from Verizon. Firsthand I know they typically get 20Mb down and 4Mb up. Obviously that's verizon throttling it, but hell, I wouldn't complain about those speeds, especially at prices cheaper than this poor excuse for an internet connection my cable is.

Cable here....

Kermit, Are you gonna offer us a group discount now?

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Mark Landen

Nah, I got me a tin can with a string on each end...(cable)

I'm on ADSL 8MBs

I was just thinking of those having dial up when we post images, also in our signatures.
You know....

dialup.and a slow one at that. I dont look a hardly any of the links,videos,or anything like that that is posted.If the post has more than one pic in it I wait till I can get to a quicker connection to look at that stuff.And just forget ebay that site is to slow to look at anything.

1.5MB up 786k Down DSL

RatStang Automotive Rotisserie Restorations.
http://www.RatStangRestoration.com

DSL, 5MB down....sometimes. Cheaper than the Time Warner rapists. Not so bad.

cable here

Man, of course I got that ass backwards. Not sure what I was thinking...

Usually only get 1.2 MB Down 600 Up with my connection though...

RatStang Automotive Rotisserie Restorations.
http://www.RatStangRestoration.com

How do you know what kind of speed you're getting?  Whenever I click the little wireless icon in the tray it says 54Mbps - is that up, down, or just potential? 

I used to have dial-up. It came in at around 40k.

Cable then became available, and I upgraded to their 3MB connection... That's 3000k!

Downloads came in at around 3-4k/second max with the dial-up, and close to 400k/sec with cable. Absolute insane speed compared to dial-up. I would probably cancel internet if I had to go back to dial-up.

On a different note... Cable prices started to climb and DSL had a good offer, so I switched.

Even though cable was 3000k and DSL was 1500k, I couldn't really tell much of a difference when surfing the internet. Downloads went from 400 to 200 k/sec, but once you're on any kind of broadband, you're pretty much set.

Good Luck!

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Mike Burch
66 mustang real street
302 4-speed 289 heads
10.63 @ 129.3
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