Hi speed connections on the rise??
Tuesday, June 25, 2002 by joetheblow | Discussion: WinCustomize News
I have been thinking hard on this subject being that I am a fan of 3D online worlds and avatars. But having a slow dail up makes things just a little if not allot, annoying. What I do usually is go to a high speed connection at school or work and download all the areas I want to go to as fast as I can so when I get home, I have all the images.I always thought the future of websurfing would be avatars and 3D on line webpages and stores. As you walk through the site you meet other people who can look like anything. You would go to malls, concerts, even the movies. But that would be really hard on a dail up.
Hey, and what happened to AOL TimeWarner? Weren't they suppossed to make this easier? Combine the 3D worlds and entertainment with it's power house of movies and music?
Well here is the link for what happened to AOL TimeWarner
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/technology/25AOL.html
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Click the link below for the story on Broadband
blackcat77
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:03 AM
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:03 AM
You'd get a lot more traffic. When I had a dial-up, I didn't have the patience to d/l anything. I've had broadband now for going on two years and it's changed my attitude about the net completely. And it's not just about "stealing" music, which is what the uninformed seem to think -- but rather it's about gaming and streaming vids and, yes, places like this one where you don't give a second thought to downloading a one meg file to get a new skin. That simply wasn't practical at 28.8 or 56k...
horai
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:40 AM
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:40 AM
I have broadband at work and a 56K modem at home because I live in the sticks. I am now at the stage where I will not bother to access Wincustomize and a lot of other sites at home as it takes about ten minutes to look at three pages.
I download most files at work and save them to a packet written CDRW to take home but I'm now getting to the stage where I'm heartily sick of the telecoms companies who are ignoring people who live in rural areas.
Just because we live in the country doesn't mean we don't like technology.
I want my broadband connection and I want it now. >
I download most files at work and save them to a packet written CDRW to take home but I'm now getting to the stage where I'm heartily sick of the telecoms companies who are ignoring people who live in rural areas.
Just because we live in the country doesn't mean we don't like technology.
I want my broadband connection and I want it now. >
CacheMonet
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:08 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:08 AM
Yes, I also have had broadband for over 2 years now and I can't imagine being online without it.. I mean, have you seen how large some of those MS patches are? 
CacheMonet
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:13 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:13 AM
For Citizen horai, your only hope is to look into satellite broadband.. for the most part, telco won't go in the rural areas for one simple reason..... no $$$
blackcat77
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:03 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:03 PM
>> I mean, have you seen how large some of those MS patches are?
Last week, I downloaded a 300 meg file to upgrade my audio drivers... It took about 20 minutes or so. I can remember leaving my dialup running all night to get a 20 meg file from MS to upgrade IE...
Last week, I downloaded a 300 meg file to upgrade my audio drivers... It took about 20 minutes or so. I can remember leaving my dialup running all night to get a 20 meg file from MS to upgrade IE...
Chef Garry
Reply #7 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:52 PM
Reply #7 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:52 PM
I can't even imagine running dial-up anymore. My kids are on-line constantly - using instant messenger with 5 friends and talking on the phone with another. The 60's warn't like this.
dgerghehdf
Reply #8 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:07 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:07 PM
Totally agree witheveryone here....Ive only had my BB connection for 3 months and man my whole Internet experience gone up tenfold. As for your question, I agree with Paul Hamilton, your traffic would go through the roof and your servers would probably explode under the pressure! 
Entilza
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:28 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:28 PM
I was doing all the said things (my own web sites, used discussion forums, and used files transfers)on dial up.
Broadband does not matter really if you really want to do something you will find a way.. even if it takes you longer.
Saying that i am on broadband myself now !... oh life is good
Broadband does not matter really if you really want to do something you will find a way.. even if it takes you longer.
Saying that i am on broadband myself now !... oh life is good
Griffinme
Reply #10 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:39 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:39 PM
Instead of downloading 30megs here it would be more like 300megs.
I really really want BB.
I really really want BB.
paxx
Reply #11 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:43 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:43 PM
Don't forget that broadband providers are going to limit the transfer allowed.
Having said that, I've been on braodband for over 2 years now, and although at first I kept downloading MP3s and videos and all sorts of real heavy stuff, I found that now I don't really download anymore than I used to. When I do, sure it's faster, but I used to download what I needed, and I still do, no more. There is just a euphiric phase at first when you get high speed, but it calms down after a while.
Having said that, I've been on braodband for over 2 years now, and although at first I kept downloading MP3s and videos and all sorts of real heavy stuff, I found that now I don't really download anymore than I used to. When I do, sure it's faster, but I used to download what I needed, and I still do, no more. There is just a euphiric phase at first when you get high speed, but it calms down after a while.
[]V[]orph
Reply #12 Saturday, June 29, 2002 6:34 PM
Reply #12 Saturday, June 29, 2002 6:34 PM
I use broadband, can't ever imaging going back to dial-up, act du liba... 
SkinneRyan
Reply #13 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 4:24 AM
Reply #13 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 4:24 AM
if everyone in the world used broadband, sites would be in excess of a few hundered megs each page, and it would get to a point where you could fill up your hard drive (and i mean a mid to low range hard drive, like 10-20 gigs) from a week of surfing.
dialup users are needed to control how big sites can be. much like apple and linux and all the other non MS OS's out there. they are there to make MS put some sort of control on the price of their products. even though they may be crap, useless and ugly (macOSX, macOSX and macOSX), they have to be there so that MS don't charge thousands of dollars for their products.
that said, i'm still on dialup, but hopefully my recent (last week) move to a capital city will change that, due to better pricing.
PS. that reminds me... *goes off and looks at broadband pricing in my local area*
dialup users are needed to control how big sites can be. much like apple and linux and all the other non MS OS's out there. they are there to make MS put some sort of control on the price of their products. even though they may be crap, useless and ugly (macOSX, macOSX and macOSX), they have to be there so that MS don't charge thousands of dollars for their products.
that said, i'm still on dialup, but hopefully my recent (last week) move to a capital city will change that, due to better pricing.
PS. that reminds me... *goes off and looks at broadband pricing in my local area*
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Reply #1 Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:54 PM
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