NationStates Jolt Archive

I find it hard to believe there are still a significant amount of people that still use 56K, so I think the whole "warning: 56k" is pointless now. But I need to see how many people actually have that kind of connection...

My supervisor and the people in the outlying towns around here use 56k. Although the phonelines can't even support that in some of the smaller towns. So yes, people do still use it.

Netscape, Netzero and many AOL people still use 56k. Sad but true.

I'm running this through my collage network (which stays active even during the night, for some odd reason) which gives acceptable speed but whenever I visit my parents I'm forced to use 56k to communicate.

Netscape, Netzero and many AOL people still use 56k. Sad but true.

Libel! AOL broadband buddy! :P

Interesting...

I can use the blessed ethernet (200K+) while I am at college, but at home, I am stuck with the evil 28k dialup...

I've been trying to get wireless broadband but unfortunately there are a few trees in the way between the water tower and my house. Damnit!

You should build a tower (http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/8007/sstesttower9vg.jpg). That'd fix them trees.

Roadrunner 5.0mbps provided by Earthlink, here.

My supervisor and the people in the outlying towns around here use 56k. Although the phonelines can't even support that in some of the smaller towns. So yes, people do still use it.
Before we got wireless out here bout a year ago our top dialup speed was 19.4

I can use the blessed ethernet (200K+) while I am at college, but at home, I am stuck with the evil 28k dialup...

I've been trying to get wireless broadband but unfortunately there are a few trees in the way between the water tower and my house. Damnit!
If you have some money there are some directional or high DBi solutions to fix that ... but they are not ... cheep

I'm running this through my collage network (which stays active even during the night, for some odd reason) which gives acceptable speed but whenever I visit my parents I'm forced to use 56k to communicate.
Thats because some idiots leave file sharing on 24/7

One day when our packetshaper dropped out our dorms not only ate up all the internet for the entire school but also boiled over and took out the whole upper minnesota area (anything "upstream" of us) just because kazaa (at the time the biggie) is always left on on about 1/3 of our studends computers

If you have some money there are some directional or high DBi solutions to fix that ... but they are not ... cheepWell, if I had the money I would go for satellite, but I am not willing to pay the $99 a month and $300 setup fee for that so expensive things are not really an option.

I would be the one who mostly foots the bill for it since my family is happy with dialup (except for the whole missed calls thing). And if I could have a tower set up in the backyard, I'd do it but unfortunately my parents have a say in that...

Thats because some idiots leave file sharing on 24/7

One day when our packetshaper dropped out our dorms not only ate up all the internet for the entire school but also boiled over and took out the whole upper minnesota area (anything "upstream" of us) just because kazaa (at the time the biggie) is always left on on about 1/3 of our studends computersMy university is not too bad with that. We have pretty much unlimited download capabilities and it runs extremely well considering there are 20,000+ students on campus, but the communications dept. has limited uploading to 800Mb per day per two students.

Well, if I had the money I would go for satellite, but I am not willing to pay the $99 a month and $300 setup fee for that so expensive things are not really an option.

I would be the one who mostly foots the bill for it since my family is happy with dialup (except for the whole missed calls thing). And if I could have a tower set up in the backyard, I'd do it but unfortunately my parents have a say in that...
DONT DO IT

Sorry we spent a year and a half on satalite ... I hated it (Direcway)
Trust me except for downloading files the speed was worse then 56 k (high latency but high bandwidth)

As for Direcway we only payed 59 a month no setup cost

My university is not too bad with that. We have pretty much unlimited download capabilities and it runs extremely well considering there are 20,000+ students on campus, but the communications dept. has limited uploading to 800Mb per day per two students.
Ahh by room

What we do is called packet shaping ... we have a device that looks in each packet ... determines where it is from where it is going and what type of traffic it is ... then ranks them by priority

So we just slow down the bad things like p2p and allow web and ftp and other more normal traffic to eat up way more of our pipe

I mean pulling a linux distro (fedora) last week I was geting 1 mbps actual download speed the whole time.

DONT DO IT

Sorry we spent a year and a half on satalite ... I hated it (Direcway)
Trust me except for downloading files the speed was worse then 56 k (high latency but high bandwidth)

As for Direcway we only payed 59 a month no setup costOk, thanks for the input. As a matter of fact, Direcway was the service I was looking at since we have DirecTV and its fairly decent.

Perhaps I read something different. I just remember there being the usual $300 setup fee and $99 a month.

Ok, thanks for the input. As a matter of fact, Direcway was the service I was looking at since we have DirecTV and its fairly decent.

Perhaps I read something different. I just remember there being the usual $300 setup fee and $99 a month.
Yeah we use dish network

I love the TV dont get me wrong I love satalte tv but internet had an average latency of 1200 ms! There was not a game on the planet you could play online with performance like that

We lucked out and ClearWire entered the area ... they have awsome wireless service

Yeah we use dish network

I love the TV dont get me wrong I love satalte tv but internet had an average latency of 1200 ms! There was not a game on the planet you could play online with performance like that

We lucked out and ClearWire entered the area ... they have awsome wireless serviceAs of now, there are only 3 ISPs in the area and only 1 has the capability to reach our house, which is 11 miles out of town. We are pretty far out into the rural area but our house sits on top of a hill and there are few trees on our property so we have a nice clear view of the northern sky.

Now I had a technician from the ISP out at our house setting up equipment to test the signal strength. He had told me that we are in an excellent location for the service but there is a small ridge with trees between us and the tower. That is all thats in our way...

Libel! AOL broadband buddy! :P
So let me get this straight. You have broadband, but still you choose to use AOL? :headbang:

Ahh by room

What we do is called packet shaping ... we have a device that looks in each packet ... determines where it is from where it is going and what type of traffic it is ... then ranks them by priority How is that working with the newer versions of many filesharing apps using encryption?

How is that working with the newer versions of many filesharing apps using encryption?
Intresting ... for the most part

It takes too much processing to un encrypt it and re encrypt it

But then we fail over from data reading to type priority (they cant encrypt the packet headers and such otherwise it would not arive where nessisary) so we just prioritize by information we can find there

There is all kinds of things we can do

There is also the old failover "If ya cant read it throw it in a bucket with a lower priority"

The other encrypted traffic is so low it would not really effect them (well unless they were doing tunneling or something ... then maybe)

As of now, there are only 3 ISPs in the area and only 1 has the capability to reach our house, which is 11 miles out of town. We are pretty far out into the rural area but our house sits on top of a hill and there are few trees on our property so we have a nice clear view of the northern sky.

Now I had a technician from the ISP out at our house setting up equipment to test the signal strength. He had told me that we are in an excellent location for the service but there is a small ridge with trees between us and the tower. That is all thats in our way...

See we are a simmilar situation ... we are not high up but we are about 5 miles from the tower. I went with a larger Cisco Directional antenai and I was able to push it solidly

I remember when 56k was the good stuff and my dad had it.

Then we got cable, he got DSL, and I got spoiled.

Now he uses cell phone minutes. He tells me it's about 150kbps and I think it's slow.

I remember when 56k was the good stuff and my dad had it.

Then we got cable, he got DSL, and I got spoiled.

Now he uses cell phone minutes. He tells me it's about 150kbps and I think it's slow.
Intresting ... some sort of special pcmcia card? I mean I use my cell to dial up when I work security but I have never seen a cell phone that will break 24 k and only seen the cards to 56