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I ask this question as I just got broadband last week and I have only spent a short time here with dialup.

You see, I have never seen a forum like this before that has so many fantastic siggies. These siggy-piccies are beautiful and all that, but they must make the forum server run much slower by their bandwidth-sapping size I would think.

OK...the smartypants's here will say that the servers can handle that stuff effortlessly, but I bet that the pages here are very slow to download if you only have dialup at 56kbs.

Anybody ?

I've tried it on dialup, and its not that bad.

The server instructs the browser to cache all the images locally, so they are just downloaded the once, not on every view.

I had dialup for ages, and it's not too bad...a lot better than a lot of other sites

ask tex

or me.....

If you delete your cookies it's a pain in the butt.
But if you keep everythign cached, its not that bad, its just when they change sigs and stuff,
some attachmets are a pain too.

lol would be a ***** for me
I delete my cookies like every 10 days

Do we have something to hide? naughty

no raz for those things I have a different program, which I hardly ever use since I don't care, YES I GOT PORN ON MY COMP Can't handle that TOO BAD for you

i dunno why, that was just funny

I can, swing it over

hey Yerss,
there's a thread in the OTF you'd enjoy,
ya haveta scroll down though....

lol which one is it TpT?

yes, I just reported it

let me state for the record here that I HATE threads being made with me in any way being or being related to the subject

I delete my cookies everytime I close IE droolio

i have dial up back home..it's awful

I don't find dial up to be too slow. I've got broadband at work and can't see that much of a difference on this site.

Dude:

If the pages download very slow when you're on dial-up, then it's not the web server, it's your slow-ass connection via dial-up.

You're on broadband, right? The real way to know when the server is overloaded (or just slow all by itself) is to notice the download speed when you are on broadband. If it's fast, then the servers do indeed handle the load effortlessly. If it's slow, then the servers are bogged down, or just slow.

I have a 3 megabit download speed via DSL. I never have a problem bringing up pages on this forum. Their servers are very fast and powerful.

Now if I was on dial-up, I'd probably think "Damn those pesky siggies and avatars! Their bogging down the effing servers!" But it wouldn't be the servers at all, it would be my connection.

See?

cornponious

Ask Fiery Eyes, shes on dial up.........altho she tells me KMC loads pretty fast as compared to my boards. and I neva delete my cookies just my temp files.

That should have been "They're" instead of "their".



corn

Yeah....I had already sussed that, I just wanted to know if the large siggies made all that much difference !

Anyway... with 576,000 bps rather than 44kbs ( which was my usual connection speed with dialup ), this forum just flies. I am really happy with more than 10X dialup.

BUT.....3 MEGABITS

That's just showin off !

Oh yes...and... for those that like to clear out their TIF cache there is a programme called Widow Washer that will do it automatically, overwrite any nasty stuff AND leave selected cookies alone if you wish.

3 megabits?....why...i'd love to have one. And not for surfing the pages...you already get the maximum speed through those with regular cable connections.
3 mbs is for hardcore downloaders

It's very useful when you've got to upload 15 MB of crap on a regular basis for websites and actually, I've got no idea what my broadband speed is...

S.S.....

To find out your actual connection speed just double click on the two wee TVs in your system tray and a box will open that will tell you on the first line what your connection speed is !

mine says 100.0 Mbps

12 Mbps...nice and fast

Damn JP!

that cant be right is it? On 2wire it gives me the following 1325.5 Kbps
all I know is that when I download stuff around 12MB it takes less than a minute

I dunno...but that's really flippin' fast if it is...

yeah well it costs me 60 bucks a month too LOL

Ours is something like $50 a month...and I'm so glad we finally got it, you have NO idea how hard it is to maintain a website on dialup (yes, I want to be a professional webdesigner )

ok different site says 1.2 megabits per second I have no idea what that means

actually follow this link and you get tons of tests and for some reason they dont all come out the same


http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm

im on DSL papa

I've got broadband cable

If you are on DSL JP then you must have the 1 meg service that I am unable to get. I think that is just about as fast as you can go with copper wire.....( Oh unless you get one of those accelerator progs that compress the data-stream ).

I know one thing...even at half a meg I only took about four or five minutes to download the large part of the Windows 98 SE service pack that I needed.

I cannot image how long it would have taken with dialup....at 44bps

Lucky you SS....

I got that too. That's the maximum connection speed. It'll never go that fast. I'm not sure how it works

JP, it's saying 100 Mb/s because you've probably got your DSL "modem" plugged into your ethernet port, which is 10/100.

(I use the term "modem" loosely because, technically, cable and DSL do not use modems. The word "modem" is an acronym for "MOdulator - DEModulator. That means it changes the digital data into an analog signal (modulates it), transmists it over analog lines, then the modem on the other end changes the data back to digital (demodulates it). Since cable and DSL signals remain digital the entire time, the data is not modulated nor demodulated. Hence your device is not truly a modem. It's more like a router.)

The other speed you mentioned is your actual speed. It sounds like you've got a 1.5 up/256 down DSL connection.

Copper wire can definitely transmit faster than 1 Mb/s. I've got DSL, and I pay $59.95 / month for my 3Mb/s up/384 Kb/s down connection. And my DSL device is capable of transmitting at speeds up to 8 Mb/s. The good thing about DSL is that your bandwidth is ALL YOURS. It's not shared like cable. I always have 3 Mb/s, regardless of who else around me is online when I am.

And yes, I am a download fiend. I enjoy being able to download 1 megabyte every 3.5 seconds.

cornponious

Ok, i'm bragging again.


my speed test.

cornponious

Took me months of pestering my mother to get it...now I just need to get it on MY computer...

That's why phone jacks are called "modular" phone jacks.

cornponious

drug addict

well apparently my connection aint too hot compared to Corns. Acutally I used to have wireless where I had an antenna on my house.....now DAMN that was fast!!! AND it was 90 bucks a month

this is my test result

that is the speed to your router

you always know how to suck the fun out of a discovery dexx


can you teach me that

I myself have noticed that trait about dexxter

the romanian kind or Jetster?

yeah yeah...how poetic of you yerss. I was just trying to prevent poor jp from telling someone that she has a 100mbps internet speed, if asked.
and now that i look on the previous page...someone had already explained the modulating demodulating issue

I love it when you talk technical

I'm wondering ol'chap... unis and stuff like that, in romania, do they have a decent connection to the net?

well...i'm not at any uni. i'm still in highschool. but i guess some do. depending on the profile. why...you planing on experiencing the east-european education system?

just planning on failing as many unis as possible

and curiosity, cause ours suck beasants

Dude, I already covered that a several posts back.




cornponious

yeah i know...i said it
well yerss....what use could you possibly find for internet in an uni, except study related ofcourse
study study study..that's all i do....yup!

of course somehow I don't believe you ...
but it's good I hope?

i wouldn't know. i would assume it's acceptable in the better ones.

why don't you find out

well...mainly..because i can't think of a way to do it

go to a uni and study there

Good point, but here A) cable's cheaper, B)I'm about the only person in my zone who uses it so I usualy have it all for myself

but when I move out on my own I'm so getting DSL

I'd like a T-3 connection; but I doubt I'll ever get that, my dad has it at work, should go and install Kazaa on a comp in a tiny little office there somewhere.

Let's not forget about Internet 2. Didn't they test it by transferring a 40 Gig file in a matter of a few seconds?

That would be sweeeeet.

corn

B!tch!



Yeah, its quite fast actually, no complaints here.
And it's way better now that Raz has removed those cheesy SW quotes!

sorry, you're the only one I know on dialup

Dont ever speak to me again, you're dead to me! schmoll

only you ? that's a first time

Heh, I upgraded...........weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

JP in August

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/spadesmamma61/clipboard01.gif

Look at me now! I'm the one in red

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/spadesmamma61/untitled.jpg



check yours at any of these

http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm

cry

i want to have normal speed of the connection crycrying

WHat do you mean?

so, JP finally joined the 21st century

Kiss my arse Yerssie!

Originally posted by yerssot
sorry, you're the only one I know on dialup
look again...

ooooooooooooo TOH!! AWESOME SIG!

I couldn't imagine browsing KMC with anything less than DSL. Too many pictures now.

Wow, my connection is really fast...

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
Kiss my arse Yerssie!
this forum is still PG-13 huh?

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
WHat do you mean? what i said.
i've a cable connection, but it is very slow (mainly coz of the number of computers connected to it )
and i'd love to have a T1 just for myself droolio

Now that I've got DSL yers cant make fun of me anymore! tongue10

Originally posted by Papaumau
I ask this question as I just got broadband last week and I have only spent a short time here with dialup.

What happened to this guy, Papaumau? He used to post like 30 times a day in the GD forum. I guess he....oh, well, won't go there.

Originally posted by Tex
Now that I've got DSL yers cant make fun of me anymore! tongue10
oh don't worry, I still have an entire list of things left

schmoll

Originally posted by botankus
What happened to this guy, Papaumau? He used to post like 30 times a day in the GD forum. I guess he....oh, well, won't go there.

Ya know, I had the same thought.

Originally posted by botankus
What happened to this guy, Papaumau? He used to post like 30 times a day in the GD forum. I guess he....oh, well, won't go there. he got offened when someone told him not to make some kind of comments and i haven't seen him later...

Well, for starters, he had his own message board and was constantly trying to get people to go to his.

He seemed like a guy who tested a lot of waters (message boards) to try to interact (which he did well) and then get them over to his board.

Oh so he was just chumming the KMC waters for bodies?

I believe so. I was even tricked once and was lured to his lair.

LMAO Lair!