Who REALLY is still on 56k?

[Anto]

With the price of cable & DSL internet going way down, who here is still on 56k?
I see thread titles with "56k go away", etc. but does anyone still rock dial up?!

Let's see..

[LongGrain]

not everyone can get high speed internet, a lot of my friends live in places where they have no choice, its dial-up or no internet at all

i have charter high speed though at home (too bad my computer is so sick its still slower than dialup)

[boogerlovers]

not everyone can get high speed internet, a lot of my friends live in places where they have no choice, its dial-up or no internet at all

i have charter high speed though at home (too bad my computer is so sick its still slower than dialup)

i also have charter, and that shit is pretty fast...and it better be cuz i pay $60 a month for it :sadwavey:

[muddafakka]

I suffered with dialup until 2004-05.

NEVER AGAIN. :madfawk:

[mr.lonelys12]

i hate to say it but honestly i cant afford it. sucks that i cant watch youtube stuff, high rate websites, borrow *ahem ahem* music, yea all that stuff. its a shame, damn shame. oh well i do all my high speed stuff on school campus computers.

BUT! it comes at a compromise. HONESTLY I LIKE 56K, if i have access to braodband that would take up my whole days, i would slave over computers and the vast world of the internet. I'd probably be a cyber geek. im glad that 56k limits my usage. A+ :)

ive NEVER owned broadband. 56k since 99'

oh shit that just blew me away! AhAHaHaHAAHAAH i just voted and found out that im the only person who voted 56k.

but thank you to all of those who do label their threads with 56k warning, my heart goes out to you.

[StaticX27]

I'm a tech at worst buy... And I actually get a good number of customers trying to get me to install AOL dial up on their windows vista machine. It blows my mind every time that I have to look for a phone line (everything is VOIP in the store) just to test out their damn computer and get it to work.

[KwKouki]

FYI everone still on 56k is getting neg repped by me.

[ryguy]

ive NEVER owned broadband. 56k since 99'

haha you own an S12 and still use 56k. Somebody is a little behind the times! :D

[punxva]

ive got neighbors in my aparment complex that have either dsl or cable on a wireless network, so thats what i'm using for the moment, but i havent had 56gay since cable modems came out

[soreballz]

FYI everone still on 56k is getting neg repped by me.
I'm lubed up and ready... :keke:

56k user #2, checking in.


(only for another week... then I'll be without internet until I can find a way to get some sort of broadband where I'm gonna be living. lol)

[projekt_s13]

I checked the wrong one, lol

I have high speed.

[sikkk240]

Honestly, you have to be super patient to be using 56k, anyone that can sit there, and wait for a single page to load will got +1 repped. lol

God damn i hated 56k...

[mr.lonelys12]

haha you own an S12 and still use 56k. Somebody is a little behind the times! :D

:rofl::Owned::Ownedd: damn man harsh... AHAHAHAHHA

[Ace Callaway]

I was just saying that to myself. It's so stupid when people say "56k Die" or "Beware 56k, 56k Fail miserably, 56k Take a hike, 56k Burn". Gets me heated when people say that shit. Who the hell has 56k? DSL in California is $15 a month and if you can't afford that, then you're lame. http://www.zilvia.net/f/images/smilies/gives.gif :gives:

[Ace Callaway]

Yeah, of course there are exceptions as well.

[CrazyTrance]

haha you own an S12 and still use 56k. Somebody is a little behind the times! :D

Hahaha. But yes, a little harsh. Still funny though.

[dirtdiggler666]

ya 56k and porn is no good

you would cum before the page loads

so i went to cable

[muddafakka]

haha you own an S12 and still use 56k. Somebody is a little behind the times! :D

Hahahahaha damn

[punxva]

Honestly, you have to be super patient to be using 56k, anyone that can sit there, and wait for a single page to load will got +1 repped. lol

God damn i hated 56k...

in all actuality 56k isn't as slow as it was when we all had it, because not many have it now so it isn't as slow.

[used240sxparts]

56k at the shop..But with a new computer its not that horrible :)

[unlegendary]

well i had to alternate between 56k and cable for a year, then i noticed that i was on the computer too much when i switched to cable. now in my new house i decided that cable is a lil bit too much for my budget and decided to get DSL. DSL in my location is sluggish and it felt like 56k sometimes therefore i voted 56k hahaha.

[soreballz]

ya 56k and porn is no good

you would cum before the page loads

so i went to cable
True... Very true.

in all actuality 56k isn't as slow as it was when we all had it, because not many have it now so it isn't as slow.
Also true. My shit starts up at full speed every time, compared to two years ago, when it'd start at like half-speed. lol
It still sucks regardless.

[Moncef]

I had "56k" (actually 28.8k due to the shitty phone line in our area) until 5 years ago. Now I have DSL.

I wanna go faster.

Moncef

[KwKouki]

:rofl: duffman1278 thought I was serious and neg repped me :rofl:

[VROOOM]

Fiber Optic here

[ryguy]

Fiber Optic here

They're installing fiber optic lines behind my house at this very moment. :boink:

:rofl::Owned::Ownedd: damn man harsh... AHAHAHAHHA

lol I meant no disrespect, I like S12s.

[0100]

If you guys are on 56k because of money get rid of your cable TV bill, and use the extra cash. I would rather have high speed internet then useless cable TV. Plus you can watch anything you want on your computer. Think of your computer as both a TV and a computer. That is what it is, most haven't realized it, but that is what we are going to, and a lot of computer users are already there.

FiOS for me. I can't wait for the threads with full HD video saying "DSL/Cable Die".

[S14DB]

Now days it's more the "I don't want to wait 5mins for all the photos to load on the page and to scroll through them. I'm going to look at a different thread."

[charlie321]

I'm actually running verizon FIOS as well, its performance is amazing and the prices aren't that expensive at all. Its only in certain areas of the US right now though.

I remember back then when we used 56k, but it was split between 3 computers...19k anyone? LOL

[S13Boosts]

^

i`m running off my sidekick keke...

yeah i had dsl but shit gone now we have cable i guess its fast? hhaa i just can`t get it running to my comp LOL.. yessir i want FIOS

[axiomatik]

man, i'm feeling old again. half the people in this thread don't seem to remember anything before 56k. when I first got onto the internet, 28.8k had just come out. we had one, but had a crappy connection, so it only ever connected at like 12k. most of my friends still had 14.4k, I even knew someone with a 9600baud modem.

I wish the price of braodband was coming down around here. I'm paying $45/mo for cable, and that's only because it's bundled with tv, otherwise it'd be $60. :down:


haha you own an S12 and still use 56k. Somebody is a little behind the times! :D

says the guy who's barely older than his car.

[S14DB]

I have 1200 and 2400 laying around here somewhere.

[VROOOM]

I'm actually running verizon FIOS as well, its performance is amazing and the prices aren't that expensive at all. Its only in certain areas of the US right now though.

I remember back then when we used 56k, but it was split between 3 computers...19k anyone? LOL

the Fios was 5 dollars more than the shitty connection i used to have. and its FAST!!!!!!

[RedStage]

when out at sea I have sub 56k....being on the oldest ship in the Navy has this and many more negative issues....

The base Cable isn't that great either....

[flclsteve]

does the iphone edge network count as 56k?

[ROUGE180]

I remember when 28.8 was the shit!! lol.. Now I connect at 54mbps over wireless. Wow.. I think I would throw my computer out the window at 56k

[ruudbwoy]

i think i been off dial up since 01'

[Dorifto12]

no DSL or cable or any type of fast internet on the area i live, so it has been 56 for me for about 2 years..not bad using firefox.

+1 to ppl for putting 56k warnings on thread names..

[flip3d]

If fiber broadband isnt available in your area, you have Satellite DSL as an option. So really, you have no excuse for using 56k.


7 people fail.

[justaKAiswear]

My parents... they live in the middle on NOWHERE KY, Ill send em a lot of pics in emails sometimes just to piss my Dad off lol

[boozels]

56K = hair pullin hell

[heiyuu]

I work at a wholesale computer store and we get lots of folk from the country still on 56k. That's fine by me becauseI get $3 commission fro each modem I sell ^_^

[s14_legend]

yeah alot of people still use 56k... i didnt switch over til' last year...

[hardpark]

i rob my shit from the neighbor

[adictd2b00st]

you'd be suprised, but alot of places can't get anything BUT dialup still.........

[EDacIouSX]

i hate to say it but honestly i cant afford it. sucks that i cant watch youtube stuff, high rate websites, borrow *ahem ahem* music, yea all that stuff. its a shame, damn shame. oh well i do all my high speed stuff on school campus computers.

BUT! it comes at a compromise. HONESTLY I LIKE 56K, if i have access to braodband that would take up my whole days, i would slave over computers and the vast world of the internet. I'd probably be a cyber geek. im glad that 56k limits my usage. A+ :)

ive NEVER owned broadband. 56k since 99'

oh shit that just blew me away! AhAHaHaHAAHAAH i just voted and found out that im the only person who voted 56k.

but thank you to all of those who do label their threads with 56k warning, my heart goes out to you.


you know you can get dsl for like 29.95

[Fonix36]

i jack move a wireless connection from my neighboor

[sked707]

Just recently switched from dial up to dsl a few months ago and it's so much better. Yea trying to see the pic thread here or you tube was frustrating. Couldn't afford it before so i had no choice but to use what i had.

[berwyn-sr20det]

I remember when 28.8 was the shit!! lol.. Now I connect at 54mbps over wireless. Wow.. I think I would throw my computer out the window at 56k


Whats your setup to get 54mbps? Im in Chicago and the best we can hope for is 6mbps

[IIIXziuR]

Oh man, I remember I used to have an old Machintosh Performa w/ the modem built in. I don't even think it was 56K, it was soooo slow.
If people called the house it would loose connection.

I used to run America Online version 3 I think, man the memories!

[axiomatik]

Whats your setup to get 54mbps? Im in Chicago and the best we can hope for is 6mbps

I think he's confusing his WAN network speed and his internet connection speed.

[MELLO*SOS]

Back in the day I first got on the internets with a 2400 baud modem dialing into the local BBS (who else here can relate to that shit?! LOL) It took years to download a fucking shareware game demo! Then one day we ugpraded to a 14.4 fax modem and got Prodigy, shit was dope!! Then a 28.8 and eventually a 56k x2 (but rural phone lines suck so you end up at 36k)... Then a bunch of years passed by and finally the day came when I have 8Mbps to the house, yet, the fucking filesizes have grown so much it still takes forever to download shit! My servers at the colo live on a 100Mbps pipe, shit is blazingly fast... I go there to DL large stuff and dump it onto a USB drive hehe..

I voted broadband, even though the half-T1 at the office feels like a fucking 56k line!! 20+ computers & 7 employees sharing the same line = slow...

[Grendel]

I have charters fastest package they offer here... its pretty nice. When I go home on leave, my parents live in the boondocks so I get stuck with 56k. I wanted to show my brother a ton of funny youtube clips, but we would have to start one loading, then go play a song or two on rockband to kill time until it was done :p

[coww-cho!!!!!]

i have AT&T DSL i remember having AOL dial-up.......if i wanted to watch a video on youtube id have to let it completely load for about 15-20 mins and looking at pictures was worse becuase you let the page load so long and come back to it and it turns out 6 of out 10 pictures were unloaded
or when a friend were to send me a link through AIM i told him to go make some food or something becuase it gonna take awhile before were on the same page

[besTint]

verizon FIOS baby!

[legacy927]

hahaha...my gf still uses 56k..METCONNECT...lolz

my block sucks...DSL only...

[Andrew Bohan]

i have 14.4


but my friend says i can borrow his 28.8 modem

external modem ftw!

[1ZlowZ]

Verizon Fios, I have never had anything slow that I can remember. Connected to 2 computers does get the occasional lag when either one of us downloads a big file. 3 computers ATM my friend has his computer at my house since his internet isn't on. Verizon is charging them 400$ for supposedly early cancellation... He's here from like 12 PM to like 8 PM, too much of a nice guy to kick someone out. =[

[krayzbigmac]

I'm sadly on 56k still. Although I can still load all the (56k warning) threads. No dsl in my area and satelite ain't cheap. So I gotta deal with this 56k. After a while you get used to it, ohh well, it works for now...i guess :mepoke: :wtc:

[infinitexsound]

56k, had broadband.... didnt need it anymore....... waste of skrill... all i do is email, check the forum and IM..... 56k is free for me anyway...

[krazydriver]

Had 56k till ~2004, "upgraded" to the locally monopolized dsl (which sucked as well) within the last year finally got a real cable connection. Now the internet rocks!