Posted by Linkinpark17UK
I haven't and the fact that i have to dial up every single time is slowly beginning to kill me, i need broadband and i need it now.
Posted by Yaesu
I haven't my local telephone exchange needs to be updated by the phone company and every time I ask when they are gonna get round to doing it they just say its under consideration sux oh well
Posted by Bianca
I have dial-up internet too,but i want broadband or adsl soon :-)
Posted by vinnieza
our exchange gets enabled on the 17th: www.broadband4cricklade.tk and it's only the 3rd only a few more weeks/days to go
Posted by obsixx
I don't have it either, just aol dial up. Boy do i hate dial up. :-(
Posted by Universal Exports
I mostly don't have broadband, in my apartment in a big city I've got it. But I'm not there that often...
Posted by BlackBauer24
I only want broadband for x-box live, but i aint paying 30 quid a month for 12 months just to play a few online games, i dont own a pc or laptop at the moment so i would'nt be able to configure the modem anyway unless i borrow my mates dell laptop, but until then its just me and my P900.
Posted by ndf100
i don't have broadband at home, but the computers at college have it. i hate logging on at home coz once u get used to broadband, dial-up is just a pain. it's like i have to look for info in an encyclopaedia!
Posted by Ivan Kusturin
I use my t68i and gprs to surf the web...
speed: 30Kbps...
that's pathetic...
Posted by Linkinpark17UK
Its nice to know that i'm not the only person who has to dial up.
[ This Message was edited by: Linkinpark17UK on 2003-12-04 16:32 ]
Posted by Ludwig
poor souls..
dialup is ok except the price..i was without dsl for about 6months...damn my mobile bill went up through the roof;)
(had to use my mobile as modem +i visited several game cafés during that time:p)
Posted by fijbert
when I go on vacation, I usually hv dial-up
so I feel ur pain guys
but at home, I hv extreme high speed cable.. (welll.. that's what they call it)
top speed: 5mb/sec
my top speed: 1.6mb/sec
Posted by Ayush
I don't :-( 2 expensive
Posted by Universal Exports
Now I have!
Posted by vinnieza
@ue, u get it when playtimes over
Posted by Universal Exports
But still won the second prize...
Posted by Andy.
im finding broadband too slow. I only have a half mb connection and still get lag when playing multiplayer games.
Posted by vinnieza
6 days to go for me, hope we do get it
edit: 4 days to go
: www.broadband4cricklade.tk
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Posted by peeta
Can i get peoples opinions on who offers the best service/price for broadband? Uk info for me but also interested in how much cheaper other countries are. Thanxz
Posted by hogemeister
Buy an internet magazine, it tells you everything...;-)
Posted by peeta
Cheers.
Posted by Dj Boyi
The best deal in the UK has gotta be Ntl's 150k(so called)broadband,and its only £17.99 a month! Where most dial-up costs about that much anyway u get 3x faster than dial-up. Its perfect for me as im not really a heavy net user and dont dl big stuff like movies etc. 500k is £25.00 a month which is cheap too! I used to have BT dial-up and the difference is just so much better! :-D
Posted by pachy
Can you all believe this, i live just 66 miles away from Central London, wee have no cable here (so no NTL) & the exchange here can't provide broadband, but it is finaly coming just after Xmas, but it will be a little expensive. friends who can get & use the cheaper NTL cabe version arent always getting full speed either.
Dialup makes me do tiny bits of housework/make cups of tea while i'm waiting for stuff to "Happen" so it aint that bad.
Posted by Dj Boyi
@pachy,i remember those days,its painful,one page with pics of a new phone on Esato used to kill me,been thru a few kettles too! :-D
Posted by pachy
Yeea, its far worse now that most web pages are "Assuming" you have BB, taking longer & longer to get to the meat. mind you i've had relationships like that.
Posted by Dj Boyi
LoL
Posted by vinnieza
check out www.adslguide.org you can get real cheap ones for under £20 520KBPS but don't know how good they are.
e.g pulsenet
i've herd blueyounder and Tiscali BB are complete rubbish!:
Google search
Posted by Ludwig
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call your operator and tell them to fix your connection
OR
change to another operator
every game there is today can be played good on a 56k modem(first player shooters work well, but with broadband you can get so much lower ping), if you get alot of lag its not because its to slow. its because the operator sucks(or you just play on bad servers)
Posted by skin
I used to be on the 1Mb cable with NTL. I then moved house and I can't get NTL or ASDL. I went back to 56k modem til BT cut me off for not paying my bill!! I now connect up via laptop, Bluetooth and T610 at about 9.6kbps! So you guys running 56k modems are like rockets to me!!!
Posted by Linkinpark17UK
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Oohh, and I thought dial up was bad.
Posted by *Jojo*
I only use a 56K modem, dial-up, pre-paid inetrnet card. The transferring of datas when downloading is quite OK for me, I don't dream of having the dsl system on my PC, quite expensive too. the reason why I was able to transfer datas that fast is because I surf the net from 1-6 am local time . . .
Posted by Linkinpark17UK
What 3G operators such as Three, should do is have a data only service which will allow broadband access on the move for people with laptops and will hopefully give people in remote locations broadband.
Does anyone know how fast the connection speed of Three is?
Posted by *Jojo*
By the way folks, I heard that the 'fastest' way to connect/transfer/download etc. etc. datas from the net is when using the T1, T2, T3 connection - of course, I am not pertaining here to Governor Schwarzenegger's Terminator movies, can any individual expound more on this? They say that this system is 10x faster than the DSL ???
Posted by 50Cent
You can get 512k broadband from a company called Pipex for about £23, its probably cheaper by now....
Check it out
Twista
Posted by Psykotik
T connections tend to be used by business and education. My college is running a T3, shared between about 500 computers or more, and when at peak usage you still get download speeds of 200kbps!
Im currently using ISDN at 64k, and its utter arse. The trigger for my local exchange is 250, and weve only got 43
As soon as its enabled, its 2 meg time for me!
Posted by GodzRekordz
i need broadband n all, but i keep meaning to move out so there is no point in getting it yet
Posted by Bianca
i finally ordered broadband, it should be here in about 3 to 4 weeks
Yeah!!!
Posted by leew347
I had AOL broadband for 1 month and it was crappy n slow and sefinatly not worth £27.99
dont get it anyone
Posted by Merovingian
don't know if this is broaband or ADSL, but I have my speed at 768kbps or 76,8kb/s.. fast enough for me
a friend of mine have 3 broadband lines coming into his computer. one is running at 3mb/s ( yes, MEGABYTES and not BITS!!) second at 2mb/s and the third one at 1.5mb/s... if you cout them together he is running at 6.5mb/s... that's what I call broadband...
anti_christ666
Posted by snap-hiss
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What would be the point of that, unless he's hosting a server on it?
!snap
Posted by Merovingian
@snaphiss: well, I think it's pretty useful, when he can download a movie using less than 1 hour.. and download lot of music, games and stuff like that.. I use maybe 8 hours to download a movie, and I'm using FlashGet.. than my speed is up and running at max 98.9kb/s... wouldn't have any objection if someone offered me that Internet connection
anti_christ666
Posted by Electron
I don't have broadband and I hate not having it.
Posted by novice
No broadband here :-( kinda expensive .but my dialup is not that pathetic . . . . When it is functional i.e.
Posted by *Jojo*
Same here - dial -up (56kbps) tsk, tsk, tsk tsk ! Need to evaluate my senses and move to higher grounds. How about "T1", without considering trying a "DSL" ???
Posted by djpowelly
I have broadband.. ADSL to be exact and I connect at 512 kbps and download @ about 50 - 60 (if i'm lucky!)
Posted by p900 lover
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iv got aol broadband and i think its great
plus they hav just lower their prices so 512 cost £24.99 and 1mb is 29.99 so im get 1mb soon
Posted by kimcheeboi
i have 5.8k dial-up tweaked to dsl speeds
@jojo-have you ever considered OC-128? sapeeds up to 1GB per second!