How do you connect to the internet

[DainBramaged]

Poll question: How do you connect to the internet

Since we're supposed to be on the cutting edge of the cutting edge, lets see where we stand.

[Placebo]

1. DSL

[Wcross]

2. I WOULD vote satellite if I had that option.

Seeing as it was omitted I have to vote dingbat.

[DainBramaged]

12. Satellite, hmm, must be on an island or mountaintop???

Expensive?

[Wcross]

25. In the country, miles from any cable company.

The highest speed I ever saw on dial-up was 24.4kbps. I went with wildblue satellite and I am getting 1.5mb down and 256k up. It is too expensive for what it is (80 bucks a month) but its my only option here. I am waiting for Internet over power lines which is supposed to deliver 10mbps up and down. (I have a feeling it will be a reality in my next life)

[NMDemDist2]

35. me too, and me too!

Robb is a dingbat!


:rofl:

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Through a bunch of tubes

The old truck method does not work.

Hopefully I get my Internets my staff sends me by Monday if they send it on Friday.

;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear DainBramaged......

We just got the fiber optic stuff.........

So much faster than even DSL!

I'm completely spoiled, I can tell you........:bounce: :bounce:

[mvd]

6. Fiber optic just went into my neighborhood, Peggy

I have cable now, but I bet I'd see the same results from fiber optic - thanks for the recommendation.

Night! :hi:

[greendog]

5. I've got courier pigeons relaying punch cards...

...to the mainframe facility over by Great Falls. It's not the latest and greatest but it works well enough.

[Floogeldy]

7. Did you want my username and password too?

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[Redstone]

8. Well, there are these tubes, you see...

Redstone

[reyd reid reed]

17. Uh huh...

And then....?

[Monk06]

18. Dude it's tubes all the way down. Like turtles, everyone knows that.

[Monk06]

19. Self Delete

[Kali]

9. Are you ready? I think the cans and string would be faster - dial up -

running at a speedy 21.6 Kbps tonight. sometimes I cand fly at 24!!!

[DainBramaged]

13. Back in the day

I had a Diamond double modem, used two phone lines (I had one for fax) and got me around 90K. I thought I was hot shit until AT&T said you can't have simultaneous dial in service or else I'd have to pay for 2 accounts

[Kali]

15. I DREAM of another phone line. Hell, I dream of replacing this one.

It has to be at least 60 years old - and it quits working when it rains.

[DainBramaged]

23. Twisted pairs with cloth insulation

and the Bell's CHARGE you to repair THEIR wiring.

[DainBramaged]

10. Cable is king so far

[terrya]

11. DSL

[deucemagnet]

14. Wow. I didn't realize how quickly dialup was falling by the wayside.

DSL for me, by the way. I'm damn glad to have it way out here in the boonies, too.

[Monk06]

22. Dial up.....God's way of telling you your opinion and time is worthless.

[reyd reid reed]

16. They tell me it's dial up

But I swear, most of the time it seems like Dixie cups and a string....

[swag]

20. I don't.

Can't speak for my computer.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

21. Fios. It kicks ass.

Cheaper and much faster than cable, and since I've had it installed (a year ago) it has NEVER gone offline once.

[LostInAnomie]

24. I believe the proper term is "internets".

It's plural, you know?

[DainBramaged]

26. Ok, I should have said "connect to the tubular internets".

[femmocrat]

27. We still have dial-up out here in the sticks. n/t

[NV Whino]

28. DSL, which is totally amazing out here in my sticks

Most people on the valley floor are still on dial up, but up here on the mountain I found myself within range of the sbc (or is it at&t now?) switching station. :bounce:

[NJ Democrats]

29. Dial Up, unfortunately

I may get cable soon, and I hope I do.

[DainBramaged]

30. I forgot shouting to your neighbor who has 30MB cable

[bigwillq]

31. DSL (nt)

[arcos]

32. Telepathy.. nt

[LongTomH]

33. Anybody here who has used both DSL and Cable?

Not at the same time, of course; but, you've gone from one to the other and had a chance to compare.

[NMDemDist2]

36. we have. we liked Cable better n/t

[NMDemDist2]

34. wireless. we have a antenna thingie on our roof n/t

[DainBramaged]

37. THAT is the future