Internet connection speeds. . .

[Chillindave]

Hey everyone! I'm thinking about streaming some videos for everyone and I'm just wondering what everybody's connection speed is to see if it's worth the trouble.

Choose your connection speed on my poll so I can get an idea.

[White Rabbit]

Time to repeat my tale of woe about my dialup internet speed. I live out in the frickin' boondocks. Because of the old copper phone lines out here, I can't connect at any speed higher than 26.4k. Because of line interference and line noise (that the phone company refuses to fix), it's actually MUCH less than that. Constant drops, too. And forget DSL and Cable. You can't even get that here. I had satellite internet for a while, but it was so flakey that I figured if I was going to pay for a crappy service, it might as well be the cheap crappy service. Makes updating this site a real bitch-a-rooney.

Anyway, if you do do that, I can see it from someone else's house, so don't consider my vote

[S1L3N7B0B]

Sounds cool to me. I've been considering video taping more often as well. I have both the equipment and software; I just have never considered putting the time into it and whether it would be worth the effort.

[Mindscape]

I know how you feel, WR. I have DSL now, and broadband's nice, but I used to be out north of Springfield. Considering the length of extension I had to use to get to the phone jack from where I was living (in the basement), and the crimping that happened occasionally due to the basement door, plus the wires being crap out there and my computer being a piece of fossilized dung...

Yeah. For the last few months, I was down to about 1400-1600 bps as a good connection speed for me.

That's right. I said 1400 to 1600.

Not 14000 or 16000.

Not even near 28,800.

[ropingk]

I live out in the woods as well and my dial up is about the same as W/R but at work i do have DSL
I tryed the satilite thing it was expensive and while it was faster it was not always there and for some reason
I kept locking up I did get a new Dell system and that seemed to help the lock-ups but the concetion speeds still suck

[crowe]

i've got ye olde dial-up. *sadfats*

[bluecookies]

I'm on a network here on campus so its lightning fast for me, I'm not sure what category that fits under though

[gothstone]

bluecookies - your on at least a T1, probably T3 or OCT12. Choose other high speed.

[David Keetz]

for me dial up = chinese water torture



i could never ever go back

[bluecookies]

so long as we are on the topic of the internet and such, does anyone know of a pop-up blocker that actually works? I've had various free ones that work, but over time (especially lately) its just getting worse and worse.

[Mindscape]

If you insist on using Internet Explorer, get Google's toolbar and enable popup blocking. It seems to work well enough. Also, get Ad-Aware and regularly (daily or every other day) for spyware. That will help remedy the problem.

Otherwise, download Mozilla's Firefox browser. It has many useful browser extensions, more than one of which eliminates unwanted stuff while browsing (one, for example, allows you to jump a redirect link to go straight to what you wanted to view). In the Options menu, require it to ask permission to set cookies, and then ONLY allow cookies from sites that you absolutely trust (for me, here, Hotmail, and Photobucket are the main ones allowed). Most sites do not require cookies to be allowed, and if they do and you've turned them off, you can reset that particular site by going through and deleting its rule.

Happy browsing. If you want more info, just lemme know.

[Chillindave]

I'm running on XP and microsofts' updates have added something to IE that blocks pop-ups VERY effectively. It even asks about running Active X apps and can be set to do the same with JavaScript. I have been extremely impressed with the free popup blocker with IE. If microsoft could make all their stuff work that good. Haha.

[Mindscape]

What you don't know is that your computer's now probably plotting to destroy every other appliance in your house in a sort of an electronic Jihad.

[atron]

Anyone else here running SBC's 6Mbsp High Grade DSL? I was wondering what types of upload speeds your getting?