NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

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barkel

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They need a \"smiley\" face to show utter disdain, complete submission to woe and gloom. Someone get on this presently.

I have just discovered that Bell South does not offer DSL in my area. What\'s more? No one does! In addition, no one offers Cable Internet service either! I will have to go back to...

Everyone: don\'t say it barkel!

barkel: DIAL UP!

Everyone: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!

You simply cannot play on line games with DSL anymore. It\'s impossible. Unless you happen to have a friend who has dial up who will suffer your slow ass because it\'s as slow as his! Oh, but my friend has cable. He\'ll never play with me anymore.

Woe is me.

Does anyone, by any chance, know if these full of crap businesses that offer \"high speed\" dial-up are worth a doo doo? I got a hunch they aren\'t.

Boo Hoo! Now it\'ll take forever to download CMON pics. Not to mention how long it will take to up load.

It\'s not like I live in podunk. I live in the suburbs of Atlanta. One of the largest cities in the southeast. How do the schools out here teach if not with computers? Who offers them service?

THIS IS A CONSPIRACY TO KEEP ME OFF THE NET.

~weep

barkel
 
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barkel

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I did dial up.

I used dial up for about 3 years. And I really found that it was fast enough. It was too slow to do CMON, except late at night, but it was still ok for most of my on line ventures. Then my wife got me DSL for my birthday. Oh, it was sweet. It was so much better. And now it is gone. I wonder if my wife will let me sell the house and move back into the old appartment. We got DSL there. Something tells me she won\'t.

barkel
 
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supervike

Super Moderator
and another thing...

I know that in my area, they are deploying DSL so fast the the Business Office (the number you call to hook up service) does not always have the up-to-date lists.

Maybe check with your neighbors, just to make sure....or even better, try to corner the Phone Tech they send out (if you needed one for your phone install)

He/she will likely know if it is scheduled to be upgraded....
 
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frenchkid

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Well unless I\'m mistaken there is a great invention for those poor people who live in DSL less areas: satellite connection. It\'s faster then DSL and you can get it anywhere. The bad news is that it\'s expensive, or at least was really expensive three years ago, I haven\'t checked or heard about it since then so I don\'t know the actual price but it might be worth looking into.
 
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darthfoley

Active member
I seem to remember hearing complaints about the satellite connections and their transfer speed only being high-speed \'one way\'...upload speed was great, download speed was about equivalent to dial up.

It\'s been several years since I heard that, however.
 
ipaintminis

ipaintminis

Active member
did you check knowalagy or something like that...its based outta atlanta, kinda like a knock off cable, works really good.
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
we have satalite dish service on our field office trailer out in the middle of nowhere. About 2x dial up. Not near DSL - when the weather is clear. If it gets cloudy (every afternoon) it goes down and you have to dial up anyway.

I will be ssooo glad when this project is over and I can hook a chain around the satalite dish pole and drag it back to the boss.

My advice - stay with dial up. Surely the cable or dsl will be in the neighborhood soon.
 
No Such Agency

No Such Agency

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Originally posted by darthfoley
I seem to remember hearing complaints about the satellite connections and their transfer speed only being high-speed \'one way\'...upload speed was great, download speed was about equivalent to dial up.

It\'s been several years since I heard that, however.
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It\'s the other way around. Upload is via the phone line, so it\'s modem-slow. Download is via the sat link so it\'s faster. Useful for web surfing, useless for gaming.

Speaking of gaming... I just saw on Slashdot that Half-Life 2 will likely be delayed AGAIN - due to legal wrangling over Steam, between Vivendi Universal and Valve. This game is never gonna be released :(
 
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supervike

Super Moderator
Originally posted by No Such Agency
Speaking of gaming... I just saw on Slashdot that Half-Life 2 will likely be delayed AGAIN - due to legal wrangling over Steam, between Vivendi Universal and Valve. This game is never gonna be released :(
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I guess the brighter side of this is that it gives me more time to upgrade my current clunker of a PC....lol
 
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sniffles

New member
I sympathize, barkel. We used to have DSL. Then we had problems - software, I think (my fiancee is the computer geek). He tried several times to get it worked out but no joy. So we went back to dialup. But Qwest kept charging us for DSL. Then they told him that they *don\'t provide DSL in our area!!!* After we\'d had it for 2 years through AT&T!!!

And they\'re still charging us for it, I think. Can\'t get it off the bill. Even though they say we *can\'t* have DSL!! :flame:
 
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barkel

New member
Hmmm.

I\'d better call Bell South and remind them that since they don\'t provide it at my new home, they can stop charging me for it.

barkel
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
Originally posted by No Such Agency
Originally posted by darthfoley
...only being high-speed \'one way\'...upload speed was great, download speed was about equivalent to dial up..

It\'s been several years since I heard that, however.
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It\'s the other way around. Upload is via the phone line, so it\'s modem-slow. Download is via the sat link so it\'s faster.
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That is the older system. Ours uses an 18\" or 24\" dish (I haven\'t measured it) in both directions. (similar to satilite cell phones). The only down side is it will go down during bad weather (heavy clouds) which we have nearly every afternoon in Florida on a regular basis. Make sure they have a local dial up option tha you can fall back on.
 
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