Bongo surfing the Web with a Rocketship!

[bongo]

It's like moving from a bicycle to a motorcycle...it's like drinking water from a dripping tap and then drinking water from a fire hydrant...it's ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!

Yes friends, lend me your ears...for magic occurred with technology for me yesterday...my local TelCO (after waiting for FIVE months!) installed a ADSL line into my house!

I am stunned at how fast these things are. I am getting over 80mbps per sec, as opposed to 4mbps per sec with my trusty old USR 56k. With DSL, it's like have the internet cached in my harddrive.

THAT IS A 2000% INCREASE IN SPEED!!

I just had to share this happy event with you all.

Charlie don't surf, he warps....ENGAGE.

bye all, AND YOU MUST GET ONE OF THESE!!!

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"The path of excess leads to the temple of knowledge"

ABit BE6 II UDMA 66 w/ PentiumIII 500mhz
Matrox G400 DH 32 meg MAX
Maxtor 13gig UDMA66 7200 Seagate 9gig UDMA33 7200
SBlaster Live Mp3+ (with gold connectors and robot voice
Aureal Vortex SuperQuad2500
19" PF790 Viewsonic (superb flat screen)
19" Samsung 950p (amazing quality for the price)
ACK 580 crdless k/b and mouse
Panasonic 7585 CD RW 32x8x4
Pioneer DVD 114 10x40x
USR V90 ISA everything modem
one big case fan and standard retail CPU/HS cooling from Intel
A 3COM HOME CONNECT ADSL WARPMODEM


[This message has been edited by bongo (edited 04 May 2000).]

[cjolley]

You go boy!
Welcome to the club!
make your way to www.dslreports.com for tweeking & testing
chuck



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ABit BF6, Celery 333@500, 128mb gh@cas2, 10gb IBM@7200, SB Live Value@3.0, Pioneer 104s DVD, Mitsumi CDRW@2x2x8, Acatel 1000 ADSL@1.5mb/sec, Linksys EtherFast NIC, LG 995e, USB mouse,Matrox G400 MAX!!!!

[bongo]

Thank you! I will check it out.

You know I wouldn't half this excited if I had real life...LOL...at least I'm not alone!

cheers

[merchant2112]

beep beep, dsl rules

[rjcarr]

Well, you think you have it great now, but wait until it is all taken away from you.

I went from a T1 line when I lived in a dorm (super fast, everyone was 'my bitch' for about a year in quake2 ctf), to an adsl line at another place (it was no T1 line, but I wasn't complaining), and now I am sitting on a 33k connection. I don't even use the internet at my house anymore, it is a sad thing.

Once you go high speed fat bandwidth, you can never go back.

-joe

[dZeus]

That's what I am very worried about right now... I have a 100Mbps internet connection right now, which gives pings of 14 in quake 3 on servers over 500 kilometers away, and download speeds of 700KBps on ftp servers over 2000 km away, and 2MBps on some servers in my own country (The Netherlands).

I am very worried what will happen when I have finished studying (my current connection is a university campus connection) and have moved to outside the campus. I will probably use the internet a LOT less, because I will get very frustrated of the speed, even on cable modems (I already am when I have to use them).

[rjcarr]

DZues-

Yes, you are right even on cable modem (or dsl in my case) you WILL stop playing online games as much. For me, this was a good thing, but if you are a serious gamer, it is going to suck. Then, going to a modem, I barely even bother anymore, mostly just email and buying shit.

Yes, the life of a 33k connection sucks, especially when you have tasted the wine of T1.

-joe