Excellent news, everyone.

[Dr. Casey]

I will be getting DSL within the next week. Rejoice, for happy times are soon to start.

[krissy]

once you leave dial up you never go back

speaking of which

SHARE YOU DIAL UP STORIES IN THIS THREad

ff6 rom took half an hour to get back then

[eestlinc]

man, I haven't had to use dialup since 1996, except for that period in 2001 when I was poor. Man that sucked.

[Karl]

i went back to dial up while my dsl was out for a few weeks, wasnt too bad

[Hawkeye]

Threads like these should be close before I start crying about 56k, again

[Yamaneko]

I'm still surfing on my 600 baud.

[Slade]

Dial Up = (SPOILER)Yeah Right, dont think so

[DMKA]

I barely got something better than dialup (well, in terms of speed anyway) last month, which is the college LAN. It's actually inferior in the sense that there's alot of stuff I can't do or am limited on because of the stupid firewall. It's way better though, and I seriously don't think I'll even bother with using the internet if the only thing is dialup (and I'll probably see myself in that position not too far from now).

[Mitch]

41k modem. yay.

[DMKA]

41k modem? How is that possible? It's not possible, seeing as it's an odd number, and the fact that I don't recall anything in between 28.8k and 56k being made.

[Samuraid]

Dialup was ok, as long as pages were GZip compressed.

[Big D]

High-speed university connection. Where you can go, "man this is slow!" if it's taken more than five seconds for a page to appear.

*click*

I just opened the forum homepage, and it took about 2.5 seconds:strut:

[Yamaneko]

Well my 5MBit connection seems slow now. I have become spoiled.

[Samuraid]

Ultimately, with pages being GZip compressed, page loading time matters less regarding connection speed (i.e. 1 MBit vs. 10MBit) and more with respect to server speed, latency, and net traffic.

[Psychotic]

I once downloaded a 15 MB file on a 56k, and I am very proud of this accomplishment!

(bear in mind that my 56k used to disconnect every 2 hours)