Well I do! It’s like digital crack. I downloaded a file last night at 110 kbs per sec! It’s like being connected to hard drive. Everything is just THERE instantly. I was on a dialup connection since 1995 until 3 weeks ago. This is the way browsing was meant to be.
God Bless the Internet! … sniff.
[sub]Now if only my Cisco stock would stop tanking[/sub]
Braggart!
Ya damn right! Just talking about DSL.
Now your just spoiled. 
Welcome to the club.
The new reality will really set in that you can download that 120MB game demo in minutes… instead of hours
They real reality of DSL is when you go to a family members house or friends and use their dialup internet provider.
Like when I went to my parents after having cable modem for like 4 months, I blurted out “this F’in sucks”
by the way my parents are both really religous people
I just got this a couple of weeks ago, myself.
Forget downloads, try internet radio! I’ve been listening to stations on shoutcast.com and live365.com. Both offer music that I just don’t get on regular radio.
You guys just suck.
:::Persephone feeds Skippy the Hamster another pellet, in a desperate attempt to keep him running at 56k…:::
Persephone, you have 56K!!! Lucky…I’m over here suffering with 28.8.
I swear, sometimes my modem works like two cans and some string.
Rose
I can’t get DSL. 
However, I’m considering the satellite thingy…If IT is available in my area…
Threaten Skippy with a tour of Richard Gere’s ass via paper towel tube! You’ll have him way past 56k in no time!
I’ve had cable modems for the past 3 or 4 years, and I could never go back to dial-up. When I moved here to NY, lurker and I were talking about my budget. I mentioned the cost of cable/cable modem. He told me I may have to do with dial-up for awhile, until raises came in and the like. I refused. I told him I would do without anything else, but I would not give up my faster-than-ever, always-on internet connection.
Yeah, I’m spoiled, and I like it! 
Well, I use the term “56k” kinda loosely here. It says it’s 56k, but I think it’s a fake. Skippy’s conscience trying to make me feel like I’m not some lame-o who is WAY behind everyone else. He’s a good little hamster, really.
And Bluepony, you are one sick, twisted MF. I knew I liked you for a reason.
I JUST this moment got it back! My machine had serious issues, just got it sprung from da joint Wednesday. Wiped the HD clean. Reinstalled, no synch. Got synch, password problems. BUT NOW I’M BACK!
Yes, DSL is very nice. You know what’s nicer than DSL? OD3 Lines! (I think that’s what they’re called.) It’s like a T3 connection, but even faster! Sadly, though, I only have that when I’m on campus, off campus where I live I only have a cable modem.
(so do you want to kill me now, or later?)
Skippy says up yours. He’s doing the best he can.
We all hate you (lucky bastard).
sigh
My cable modem is currently on the blink since a very bad storm hit earlier in the week. They are rolling a truck to my place, but not until Monday. So I am using AOHell temporarily, and it keeps messing with my TCP/IP stack and I keep having to reboot. Plus AOHell just plain sucks, and not in a good way. But it’s better than being incommunicado.
No DSL in my area yet. Too far from the CO, I suppose.
Uhhh…hey wait a minute! I have been planning to go to DSL myself, but…are you telling my it’s only twice as fast as my 56kbps dial up connection?! For the money I am going to have to shell out, I will be wanting a much bigger performance boost than that.
Please tell me you mistyped that, or that I am misinterpreting something. Perhaps you meant 110 mbs?
Al…my boy fear not! Here is the history of connection speeds. I should have typed 100 KBs not kbs. IIRC it’s all about the difference between bits and bytes (see table). Your dialup modem spec throughput is expressed in bits. Connection speeds on the net are often expressed in bytes. That’s why if you ever used Napster or a similar service in the past the connection speed was listed as 4-5KBps even with a 48-50kbps dialup v.90 connection.
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2216077,00.html
Table A: Bits and bytes
Name: Symbol: Bits:
bit b one bit of data
Byte B 6-8 bits
kilobit Kb 1000 bits
Kilobyte KB 1024 bytes
Megabit Mb 1000 kilobits
Mebabyte MB 1024 kilobytes
Table C: Modem Download Speeds
Modem: 60KB Page: 1MB file:
2400 bps 3 min 42 sec 66 min
9600 bps 54 sec 16 min
14400 bps 37 sec 10 min 40 sec
28.8 bps 18 sec 5 min 20 sec
33.6 bps 15 sec 4 min 29 sec
56k bps 8 sec (`you are here) 2 min 22 sec
64K (ISDN) 7 sec 2 min 5 secc
128K (ISDN) 5 sec 1 min 2 sec
T1 <1 sec <1 min to 5 sec
Cable Modem <1 sec (will be here) 0.8 to 1.5 sec