56k?? Does it still exist??

[barrett]

See the odd thread in photo section of the forum with the old school 56k beware thread title warning.

Does it even exist anymore?

Anyone still on dial up.

Remember the days of the 28kbs connection. Freeserve. House phone was always engaged as I was working away on napster!

Used to take days for people to upload photos from meets / events.

:afro:

[Mieran]

Its an ASWing thing to say my thread is full of pics lol

[Viper]

Oh god, I remember the days of having to ask to use the internet :D

I'm used to 20meg at uni. just moved home. only got 3mbps here :(

[J222JRA]

Surely not....however i do like being warned in titles before i click on a thread that its full of pics when im on my Blackberry lol

[bald24]

MOT testing machines use dialup still, government hasn't put any money into upgrading any of the systems.

[Carlvtr88]

Im on ten meg Virgin media... ahhh :D... never let me down to be fair, I used to be on AOL dial up.... 20 mins for an mp3 to download yo ! ..... and i was satisfied with that !:wall::panic:

[barrett]

Oh god, I remember the days of having to ask to use the internet :D

I'm used to 20meg at uni. just moved home. only got 3mbps here :(

Christ I had forgotten about that side of things.

Porn was on image that loaded in about 30secs starting from the top and gradually loading down the page!

Surely not....however i do like being warned in titles before i click on a thread that its full of pics when im on my Blackberry lol

Guess for mobile browsing it does still have a role, especially with O2 introducing the new bandwidth limitation.

[L20VTS]

i always used to get bollocked as no one could ever ring the house phone, and it used to cost something insane like 1p a minute in the daytime but free on evenings and weekends.

[Viper]

Barrett, can you post in correct sections please ;)

LOL at not having porn videos as well! and the internet cutting out leaving only one nipple on show

[Dom]

Ahhh Summer 2002, run up a £500+ phone bill using Dial Up, that was in a month! Back in the days of Kazaa for downloading porno and tunes ;)

[SneakyVTR]

56K is the connection of champions!!

[johnr32]

56k is sooo much better than your fancy broadband and optical fibre!


........NOT!

[Rogue_Shadow]

Hurray a Thread That I can answer :P

BT Openreach Engineer - Mr Shadow

Yes Dial Up broadband still exists - The Openreach workforce use it on a daily basis, when broadband or 3G isn't a option to get work/ job and network information

Dial up is also the only option for people living in rural area's where the cable capacity is alot lower than that of town /city centres.
After approx 6KM broadband will not be possible or will be below the legal requirement for broadband with is 512kbps (half a meg)

So for those living so far out, dial up is the only option.
Bare in mind that old, lead and aluminium cables also reduce broadband speeds.
Its not unheard of for the Customer at 3km to have a slower speed than that of a customer at 4km.

Distance from exchange + Network health + ISP exchange equipment = Broadband Speed

:D
Thread Closed

[Viper]

fucking hell, you are actually good for something :D

[Rogue_Shadow]

fucking hell, you are actually good for something :D

Shocking isn't it :wacko:

[Sam]

we still have Dial up in a workshop at the power station, because the contractors use it because the network has aLOT of restrictions,

but bloody slow though :(

[Viper]

just seen youve got a sea grey.. i thought you got black!? you bastard, i want sea grey :(

[Jordysport]

i could only get broadband a year ago, as our region of devon couldn't get it. i remember having to ask to go on the internet, seems very odd now.

[Gary-VTR]

A mate of mine was visiting his Nan the other week and she still has a 56k connection. So people are still on it!

[Rogue_Shadow]

just seen youve got a sea grey.. i thought you got black!? you bastard, i want sea grey :(

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu324/Rogue-_-Shadow/Wesley/Photo483.jpg?t=1277410180

That's the magic of Sea Grey...
Depends how the light catches it :y:

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu324/Rogue-_-Shadow/Wesley/Photo485.jpg?t=1277410180

Cornwall NGA (Next generation access) within 3 years, No idea what's going on with Devon Jordy lol. Not sure if Openreach won the bid to do the work

[Silver2000saxo]

PS3 update with 56k= fail :homme: lol

[Peter_D]

Porn was on image that loaded in about 30secs starting from the top and gradually loading down the page!


Nothing worse than clicking on a porn pic back in the day, whipping out your jimmy piper and having a fiddle as her face loads, then you get more and more excited when it loads further and you see the nipples...frantically stumping away in your room until it loads a bit more and you find out it's a shemale! But you still battle on since you've got so far!

JOKE.. :zainy:

My internet used to connect at about 24kbps on a decent day, sometimes as low as 11kbps.. My downloads sat at about a steady 2kbps

Thank god we now have a satellite dish on the side of our house to beam broadband from a space station thing!

[Paul]

Space station, satellite, tomarttoe, tomayto.