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Topic: Big Companies ... Little Customers
started by: eng_man

Posted by eng_man on May 19 2000,19:27

I love my dialup! Why is that you ask? Because it works, for the most part.

But eng, you say, dialup is slow as cr0's updates to SW (ohhhhh ... low blow). Yes it is, but after being told for over two (2!!!) years that the town I live in would be getting cable. I've given up all hope on getting broadband.

You see _every_ town around mine has cable already, just a quick 5-10 minute drive to my aunt's house and I'm getting knocked up on that drug called speed. Last I was told I could get cable in the beginning of 2001. This is from the < same company > that said it would be DONE in Q1 '99.

This is really starting to get annoying. Looks like I might have to spend an arm and a leg just to get DSL ... if it ever gets here. *sigh*

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Posted by marc c on May 19 2000,20:25

I know how you feel... two companies in my town promised dsl/cable in "around two months." That was around november or so.

The only options I have is a 26.4 connection, or spending over 100$/month on a 64k isdn.

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Posted by eng_man on May 19 2000,22:14

Heh, thank god I always get 49k or better ... hurray for non winmodems.

Otherwise I'd be forced to sell my first born and get ISDN.

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Posted by Hellraiser on May 20 2000,07:51

52,000 or better for me in the days of dialup, now its 500KB/s with my cable modem.

Posted by DuSTman on May 21 2000,09:32

DSL/Cable modems arn't generally available in britain..

On a 56k dialup

Here at university the line quality is so bad i only ever get 14.4kbps

Torture.

DuSTman

Posted by Silver Torch on May 21 2000,11:14

i skipped getting cable and got DSL, its cool, since i live prettry far away and still get 784 down, and 512 up

Posted by incubus on May 22 2000,00:26

Yeah. Try that in the UK. The only real option we're getting is ADSL, which is being s-l-o-w-l-y implemented by our telecoms monopoly, BT. Thing is, the estimated price (and I bet that it's higher) on launch is Ł40/month (about ๑ i think). Which is typical of our monopolistic telco, because in france I read it was less than half that.

Sigh, no streaming pr0n for me in the near future then.

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