How Do You Connect to the Internet?

[s25843]

How Do You Connect to the Internet?
Just Curious

 

[Tom Morrow]

Cable modem for me! AT&T Broadband Internet is my ISP.

 

[NowInc]

Dialup...the DSL man will be here ANY day now...hopefully...

 

[s25843]

Wow Im Suprised Now...
I thought you would at least have somthing faster than dialup with all those posts

For me its
OmniSky/Earthlink Wireless on my Palm Pilot
and at Home
DirecPC satellite

 

[TURKEY]

T1 here at school. Back to a slow 56K at home that usually only connects at about 33.6 (I know its a 56K, there just aren't that many lines and transfer is real slow.).

If only I could pack up my T1 and take it home or pack up the DirectTV and bring it up here to school. Then I would have the best of both worlds.

 

[s25843]

Originally posted by turkey leg boy
T1 here at school. Back to a slow 56K at home that usually only connects at about 33.6 (I know its a 56K, there just aren't that many lines and transfer is real slow.).

If only I could pack up my T1 and take it home or pack up the DirectTV and bring it up here to school. Then I would have the best of both worlds.

Wellll The DirecTV can be arranged, I have a Nice KVH TracVision dish that I use on my boat, Im sure I can sell it ta ya, and we can retrofit it in your backpack, Problem Solved!

:sohappy:

 

[disney2b]

i'm not as lucky, i have a 56k though it not even that fast, more like 48

 

[WDW-Imagineer]

Cable for me.... I love my Optimum Online.... too bad its owned by CableVision (shudders).

 

[Camelot]

DSL, with BellSouth

 

[s25843]

Originally posted by WDW-Imagineer
Cable for me.... I love my Optimum Online.... too bad its owned by CableVision (shudders).

CableVision is the ONE reason I switched to DirecTV
I feel You Pain

LOL

 

[ToTBellHop]

cable...it's RoadRunner through Time Warner Communications, a company I loathe...it's caused so many problems for my computer....but I suppose it's fast...except on the weekend ~shivers~ ...or whenever it feels like irritating me.

 

[MrPromey]

Originally posted by disney2b
i'm not as lucky, i have a 56k though it not even that fast, more like 48

If you are getting 48k, you are getting as fast of a connection on standard dial-up as you're going to get. The 56k thing is sort of misleading because even though your modem may be capable of receiving downloads at speeds of up to 56k, by federal law, the fastest your ISP can send it to you down a phone line is 48k... If I remember correctly (back in my tech support days ) it's because of line interference which can be caused by sending it at the higher speeds.

 

[no2apprentice]

Cable, for sure. I'm completely spoiled now. We have a 128 at work, and now I find that slow since I got my cable modem. Now if something takes more that 10 seconds to download, I get a little impatient...but just a little...

 

[OldKeyWest24]

i gots Dialup compuserve..i iwsh i still had AOL sometimes..waaaa


Susan

 

[The_CEO]

Just a damn modem oh well..

~! Justin..

 

[WDW-Imagineer]

Originally posted by s25843


CableVision is the ONE reason I switched to DirecTV
I feel You Pain

LOL

Well, fortunately the online service is fantastic and gets excellent speeds.. one of, if not the fastest cable service around. My speeds average 5,000 kbps down & 1,000 kbps up.

I just don't like CableVision. I recently upgraded my TVs to DirecTV and haven't looked back. My only ties to CableVision now is the OOL Internet Service... which as I said above, fortunately does not have the same traits its parent company does.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Its surprising how increasiingly popular cable modems are becoming. Within a few years, it will be the standard, and Dialup modems will probably be history.

 

[tenchu]

a slow modem

 

[s25843]

Its snowing here in MA (the first day of spring too) and my satellite dish is Filled up with snow, so now im stuck on a 28.8 kbps Dialup LOL

 

[Maria]

I use dial up 56 kbps, but it is always connecting at 50.6 most of of the times.
For the past three weeks I have been getting disconnections every 5 minutes, so I am switching to CABLE hopefully next month!