Internet connection type

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:12 am

There are several ways to connect to the Internet. The four most practical for home usage are 56K modems, satellite, DSL and cable. Cast your vote for the most popular internet connection type.Home residence only.

Post by **NSimkins** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:27 am

Cable (Armstrong) for me at home. I've managed to get most of my family members onto the broadband wagon as well. Our Cable provider is extremely reliable (less than 10 hrs downtime per year). My plan is at 500kbps down/256kbps up.OC3 SONET at work.... *drool* ... I'm still trying to get them to string a link over to my house.

Sputnik · Post by **Sputnik** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:31 am

Cable here as well with Rogers.

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:36 am

I have DSL with SBC (Ameritech) for about two years now. My transfer rate is a steady 164 KB/sec down and 246 kbps upload.

millster · Post by **millster** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:44 am

DSL with Cincinnati Bell (Zoomtown). Average about 384K down, 128K up.

xLR8_Sd · Post by **xLR8_Sd** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:55 am

NSimkins!!!!!!!!!Can i add my computer to your OC3? 270gb of hard drive space. hmmmm what could be on all my drives.GO CABLE! 56k is like driving your vibe and only being able to go 5mph all the time............

shenandoah24 · Post by **shenandoah24** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:58 pm

I, unfortunately, have dial-up. Cable and DSL are not available in my area...which is strange, I live right outside Nashville.

Triton · Post by **Triton** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:12 pm

I too am one of the unfortunate ones that still have dial up. I don't do too much here at home that requires a high bandwidth so I live with it. I spend most of my day at work on the internet and they have a most righteous T1 line there. Makes surfing the internet at home almost obsolete (unless you have your own cable modem with no restrictions like work has. Blasted firewall!).

redtrdmatrix · Post by **redtrdmatrix** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:31 pm

Charter pipeline at my house

Sub-Vibe-R · Post by **Sub-Vibe-R** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:36 pm

56k at home, LAN access at work. I don't know the speed at work but it about the same speeed as calbe connect and, by far much better then home.

DABEAR95 · Post by **DABEAR95** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 2:33 am

quote:I have DSL with SBC (Ameritech) for about two years now. My transfer rate is a steady 164 KB/sec down and 246 kbps upload. The other way around right?

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 4:54 am

quote:The other way around right?1312 kbps down / 246 kbps up.

ShotInTheDark · Post by **ShotInTheDark** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:24 am

well it depends on of you are talking KILObytes per sec or k per second...

PBFlash · Post by **PBFlash** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 1:02 am

Cable. 10 Mbps up/1 Mbps down which I believe equates to 1280 kbps up/128 kbps down.

slbpsi63 · Post by **slbpsi63** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 2:49 am

T-1 Line at work. 56K at home. Waiting for Digital in my neighborhood to be available . My Subdivision is too knew.

msmyer · Post by **msmyer** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 1:50 am

I love the "cable connection"....

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:44 am

Optimum Online here...amazing reliability and speed...only time it went down for more than a few minutes (which in itself rarely happens) is when the stupid landscaper dug up the cable line to our house when retilling the lawn...4392 kbps download823 kbps upload

scherry2 · Post by **scherry2** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:20 am

quote:Comcast cable modem here.comcast here in Indiana too! can't remember the last time I was down.

Toasted7 · Post by **Toasted7** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 1:01 pm

Did my post go through yet? Oh yeah... I have dial-up!

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:59 pm

quote:Did my post go through yet? Oh yeah... I have dial-up! Ha Ha !

meathead333 · Post by **meathead333** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:57 am

i use dial up, but sometimes when i am mobile i use my cell phone for a connection(wich is like 3 times as slow as dial up). cable is nice, i want that.

canadavibegt · Post by **canadavibegt** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:39 am

Cable with Shaw..... Not sure of exact numbers but game downloads will go as hi as 400 kb/sec + on a good day. Usually around 150 to 180......Love my cable...

1 Cool Vibe · Post by **1 Cool Vibe** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:46 am

I'm blazing on the net at a blistering 9363 Kbps right now (kilobits pre second). WOO HOO!!!!! There is no substitute for cubic inches or cable modems!!!

AKLGT · Post by **AKLGT** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 3:28 pm

i had dial up but recently went to cable modem w/ a wireless router/lan in house. much faster, but still sometimes gets slow with large downloads.... that's alaska for you.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:26 am

I have slooow dial-up. There's 11 miles of copper before you get to the fibre-optic line. On a good day I get 31.2 Kbps and on a bad day 21.4Kbps. Now that's sloooow.

ArcsVibe · Post by **ArcsVibe** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:19 pm

Cable service with Videotron in Montreal, never had a problem with them.Right now I have hi speed connection at the Hilton in San Fran Gotta love that stuff

Fformula88 · Post by **Fformula88** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:42 pm

Just dial up from home. Some sites are faster than others. Genvibe isn't too bad. If I am on at work I can bask in the luxury of whatever super fast connection they have. I assume it is a T3, but I really have no idea. All I know is pages that take 30-45 seconds at home to load are up in an instant at work!!

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Fri May 25, 2007 5:24 am

Who'd have though that I move to a neighboring town with a lot more people, commerce, and everything else - and end up residing 1000 ft closer to the CO for dsl than my old address - and I can't get DSL here! I'll have cable in a few months (Kari already has the cable stuff so it's pointless to spend the $$$ that I don't have to get a new cable modem/etc now) but for now, good ol' dial-up. I called the same local ISP I had for many years, they still had all my account stuff in place so they just turned it back on for me. Dial-up is great when I tell Opera to not load any images on the page. I'm gonna miss those podcasts though. *sobbing*

drunkenmaxx · Post by **drunkenmaxx** » Fri May 25, 2007 5:27 am

i have 5mb cable at home, i have no idea what work has, it's about the same as my home though.

scherry2 · Post by **scherry2** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:10 am

only in Indiana, my friend, only in Indiana. LOLWho'd have though that ColonelPanic would dig up a thread 3 years old for something to talk about. j/k

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:09 am

I had qwest dsl at my house in Duluth7mbps download1mbps uploadI loved that internet...so fastInternet at my parents house is comcrap...i mean comcast.5mbps down30kbps upFor some reason my download has been crazy fast but my upload is still just super slow. I hate slow uploads uhhhh the pain. Cable companies only think that upgrading download speeds increase internet speeds for surfing...this is not fully true and they need to realise that they need faster uploads too. When I move to my new apartment im getting qwest again, they dont treat me stupid on the phone and the connection is way faster than cable.

kostby · Post by **kostby** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:01 am

I'm now on BPL - Broadband over Power Lines via my local electric utility. I'm one of about 35 customers right now. BPL provides at least 384kbps down and 384kbps up for the lowest cost connection. It's plenty fast enough for surfing GenVibe! WHAT??? You mean there's more on the Internet than just GVC??? Best of all, the local power company is the provider, so AT&T isn't getting a dime!!! My related post on BPL --> http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=28239

mspalmer · Post by **mspalmer** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:37 am

this last spring I was hoping to get on this new service provided through google called TiSP. I was all set to sign up and found out my house was all set for it because I didn't have a septic system. Then they burst my bubble and declared it an April Fool's Joke http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263 ... e's_hoaxes[/URL]I guess I'll just be content with my cable modem Mike

injun_josh · Post by **injun_josh** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:39 pm

all i can get out here in bfe is sattelite or 56k...... i took sattelite of course

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