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Offline MattNW

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07 April 2007, 03:03:41
Finally got high speed internet. Living out in the boonies is nice when you want a quite place to sit and listen to the birds
but it sucks if you want to do anything on the internet. Until lately the only choices have been dial up and sattelite.
Sattelite is way out of my budget so I've been making do with a 56k dialup that I'm lucky to get 45k out of.

Newest gadget from my cell phone company has remedied that. I got a USB wireless modem that not only with my notebook it also
works with my desktop. In essence I got two 800k connections at one price.

Look out Orbithangar! Time to see if I can fill up that 100 Gigs left on my hard drive. :gift:

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Offline DanSteph

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Reply #1 - 07 April 2007, 03:08:41
Congrat ! :)

When we took a house in a small village 5 years ago I never thought that ADSL
would come anytime soon,  finally 6 month later they installed it, 2048, enough sufficient...

We'll miss the "tuuutuuutuuu trililililili zzzzzzzzzzzzz" of 56k :lol:

(I started with 1200 baud modem, size of 40k download was a matter of days ;)

Dan



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Reply #2 - 07 April 2007, 03:52:11
Our phone company has ADSL available but we live more than 5 miles from the office so that would be worse than dialup from
attenuation. Wireless was the only way to go. they estimate that it will be another 5-7 years before they install the
equipment out here for everyone to get ADSL.

My first modem was the kind where you dial the number, wait for the remote computer to answer and then flip a switch. It had
an ultra fast (at the time) speed of 300 baud. Of course there wasn't an internet at the time. People would set up a bulletin
board and hand out their phone number to their friends and everyone would call in and leave messages one at a time.

I was talking to a computer technician today who wasn't even around back then. He almost didn't believe me when I told him
about the first hard drives with a whopping megabyte on a platter about the size of a serving dish. Makes me feel
old. :sage:

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Offline DanSteph

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Reply #3 - 07 April 2007, 04:03:50
Sorry, was  a 300 baud also, I recall at this time I saw 1200b at store that were brand new and out of my price,
to high technology probably :lol:

And yes BB I connected there also... local phone number, prog in basic to download etc etc

Being old is when you don't have any projects anymore, hopeffuly with orbiter
that may not happen soon ;)

Dan

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