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SnakeBite
October 21st, 2005, 19:51
I haven't posted a thread for a long time here, but since I'm getting a 2mbit cable connection next week, I couldn't resist :) After nearly 7 years on dialup (56k, at our old house, 44k here, and 14k under linux. yes, I was using 14k at some times) and borrowing my neighbour's mbit connection, brining my HD to friends to get the latest anime fansubs, I can finally leech with my own connection. I have to pay most of it myself, but it's worth it. the biggest hindrance was to get permission from my parents, but now it's done. omg I am happy. :D
ShadowDancer
October 21st, 2005, 20:34
Congrats dude! Once you go cable, you never go back lol... well unless you fall back on your payments :p
Cid Highwind
October 21st, 2005, 22:08
I don't think you will ever go back from broadband at all since most of the times it's cheaper than 56k to begin with. Congratulations and welcome to the club ;)
FLaRe85
October 21st, 2005, 23:55
Anime sucks. You could at least download something useful with that new connection.
hushypushy
October 22nd, 2005, 00:00
Anime sucks. You could at least download something useful with that new connection.

yeah duh, be like flare and use that high speed internet for online halo and stocks, and be sure to upload plenty of naked black chick pictures too! throw in a healthy dose of random internet videos and you're set.
zen_master
October 22nd, 2005, 00:11
I sugest checking out CGtalk's animation section (http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=154) . They have some cool stuff on that forum, its as if it was made for a cable connection.
FLaRe85
October 22nd, 2005, 00:16
yeah duh, be like flare and use that high speed internet for online halo and stocks, and be sure to upload plenty of naked black chick pictures too! throw in a healthy dose of random internet videos and you're set.
...or be like hushy and upload some child pornography.
hushypushy
October 22nd, 2005, 00:41
...or be like hushy and upload some child pornography.

or you could do that :cool:
zen_master
October 22nd, 2005, 01:26
or you could do that :cool:

LoL nice comback..
dpence
October 22nd, 2005, 01:50
LoL nice comback..

It was a comeback??!??! oO




:lol:
JohnLai
October 22nd, 2005, 13:20
Cable? Well, now that a fast connection in contrast. But I thought the cable = sharing speed with nearest resident that use the same cable? Is it cable or DSL? =_="" Cause I heard downloading is not go well with cable connection >__<.
Snake785
October 22nd, 2005, 17:12
As long as you don't have a monthly bandwidth cap, Cable is awesome. Bandwidth caps suck ;)

Congrats SnakeBite!
SnakeBite
October 22nd, 2005, 18:23
As long as you don't have a monthly bandwidth cap, Cable is awesome. Bandwidth caps suck ;)

Congrats SnakeBite!
no bandwidth caps :) I can leech as much anime as I want.
Nevermore
October 22nd, 2005, 18:39
no bandwidth caps :) I can leech as much <kirby> hentai </kirby> as I want.

Ahhh the 14k, man that was great memories back in the days where the interwebs was popups free.No bandwitch cap sure is awesome :D

'grats bite :)
RF
October 22nd, 2005, 20:47
...or be like hushy and upload some child pornography.

Yeah cause your gay pr0ns is so much better. Congrats SnakeBite ;)
Yeloazndevil
October 22nd, 2005, 23:18
about time you ditched that dial up :p
dukenukem
October 23rd, 2005, 06:08
Lucky sob,i am still one of those with dialup.
cooliscool
October 23rd, 2005, 06:14
You'll never get off dialup Bansai, or get a CPU over 600MHz. :p
The General
November 4th, 2005, 18:43
Comcast?
SnakeBite
November 4th, 2005, 19:10
No, Chello, from UPC.
Modem1
November 4th, 2005, 19:10
Congrats on the upgrade, I know I felt it when I upgraded in October 2003. :)

As long as you don't have a monthly bandwidth cap, Cable is awesome. Bandwidth caps suck ;)


Not much of that happens anymore. At about 5:30PM(pst) recently, I downloaded at about a mb/sec (had to download XP from Microsoft), with a 600+mb file. Cooled down a bit near the end, but it was still at around 950kb/sec from there. I'd say the bandwidth sharing problem is behind us. :p
D.D.
November 4th, 2005, 19:25
err... bandwidth cap != bandwidth sharing @____@
Keith
November 4th, 2005, 19:49
been on Cable for about 7 years .. can't even remember what 56k was like. :P

Congrats on the new connection.
Cid Highwind
November 4th, 2005, 21:23
been on Cable for about 7 years .. can't even remember what 56k was like. :P

Congrats on the new connection.
I helped out some neighbours yesterday, who are still on 56k. That's when I really noticed how slow it was back then.

Funny fact: They had internet problems, but the problem actually was that dad wanted to visit a ,nl instead of .nl site. I guess some parents also need supervision :p
hellmasterx
November 5th, 2005, 08:35
Now you are a man! :p
Modem1
November 5th, 2005, 19:54
Reminds me of when I was fixing my parent's computer. My mother didn't know it was off, haha. She's since learned (this was several years ago), and we've upgraded to such problems as "Why is the printer printing rubbish?" and goodies like the speakers obeing off. :)