What's your internet connection?

[Satelk]

I have DSL!

 

[WorldWarGeneral]

I wish I had DSL (or broadband of any kind) but I'm still poking along at 56k

 

[Bruce]

Yeah it would be nice to have broadband. I still have 56k though too, although at times I wonder if my connection actually is that fast.

 

[WorldWarGeneral]

I really doubt whether my connection is actually where it should be either. (around 48k I think, but I could be wrong) We have Earthlink for Internet, (we wanted out of AOL and Earthlink was rathed #1 by C|net twice so we went with them) but Earthlink sucks where I live. The connection can be painfully slow - and not just at peak times. It drops constantly too. We're considering switching, but we're not sure what to switch too. I'm hesitant to try MSN, and I never want to go back to AOL. We had Verizon (back when it was GTE Internet), but that was worse than AOL. I'm thinking maybe a local provider would be a better choice than one of the big national ones.

 

[Giancarlo]

I use 256K ADSL..

 

[Bruce]

Well my connection speed right now is actually only 37k. I use AOL becuase its the only (affordable) option around here.

 

[Baggio]

I've got a 128KB modem line... not the best but it can actually go faster than cable lines in my area.

 

[jw]

I have cable and love it, 4000kbps normally, 3000kbps is the minimum ive seen.

 

[Fox]

DirecPC 1-way.. 250KPS down.. 48K up

when direcpc 2-way gets instqalled next thursday..

128K up.. 500K down

 

[niv]

i have multiple T1s at school (i get to do whatever i want as long as it's not illegal, i'm a trainee network admin). at home, i only have a need for 56000 bps transfer because I work out of an SSH terminal

 

[jw]

our school blocks every single port except the net, even outgoing ports, so we cant access ftp, ssh, telnet, etc.

 

[niv]

Originally posted by jw
our school blocks every single port except the net, even outgoing ports, so we cant access ftp, ssh, telnet, etc.

doesn't your school have a user server? ssh to that then ssh elsewhere.

 

[jw]

all our school's servers run NT

 

[niv]

Originally posted by jw
all our school's servers run NT

dear god no...

you could create a perl script that allows you to run commands at let it display the results.

 

[zazoo]

I dunno what we have at school but crappy crappy

when its not down its slower than you could ever amagin

 

[jw]

hehe, I wonder if they even have perl installed. You have no idea - the technology department at my school is completely idiotic.

 

[Satelk]

At my school they have windows 2000 with cable(for the whole school!), it's really slow. I think it's only one cable line connected to all the computers(approximately 145).

 

[Gayowulf]

I have a 56k modem, but i can only connect at 28.8. Cable will never be availabl in my area, nor wil DSL or ADSL. if i am lucky i will get sattelite.

 

[LeX]

Mine's IDSL (yes, that's an "I" - don't ask) 128K. Well, it's supposed to be, but I haven't felt the speed yet.

 

[el crapo]

Originally posted by LeX
Mine's IDSL (yes, that's an "L" - don't ask) 128K. Well, it's supposed to be, but I haven't felt the speed yet.

Don't you mean, (yes that's an "I"-don't ask)? Or did you mean ISDN, but mispelled it?