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Offline monte

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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #60 on: January 19, 2013, 12:30:55 am »



Can my upload speed be raised at all?  :popcornsoda:
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #61 on: January 19, 2013, 12:47:15 am »
I think you would need a different package.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #62 on: January 19, 2013, 11:02:05 am »
Quote from: ARV_90 on January 18, 2013, 11:45:50 am
No bother fella ... all in jest  :laugh:

I can remember my first dial up connection, An eye watering 42kbs from my 56k modem, I point this out to my 18 yo son when the speed drops off now and then. Don't know ya born  :signLOL:

I remember when 14.4kb modems were the norm, the only 2 ISP's were AOL or BT.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #63 on: January 19, 2013, 01:08:25 pm »
Quote from: Baz300 on January 19, 2013, 11:02:05 am
Quote from: ARV_90 on January 18, 2013, 11:45:50 am
No bother fella ... all in jest  :laugh:

I can remember my first dial up connection, An eye watering 42kbs from my 56k modem, I point this out to my 18 yo son when the speed drops off now and then. Don't know ya born  :signLOL:

I remember when 14.4kb modems were the norm, the only 2 ISP's were AOL or BT.

Remember freeserve ....  :grin: showing my age now...
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #64 on: January 19, 2013, 01:54:10 pm »
Haha we were with AOL when first starting off and then went to Freeserve. they were awesome at the time.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #65 on: January 19, 2013, 02:22:00 pm »
Anyone used to use compuserve? That's really old school free serve was the newer cooler service at th time haha. Didn't yahoo buy free serve?
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #66 on: January 19, 2013, 02:26:27 pm »
I think we had compuserve Internet in 1994! 56k was a bitch! Then we had broadband fitted by NTL in 1998 which was 512k. By today's standard it's dog slow but it was amazing at the time. I guess it's all relative though, file sizes were a lot smaller then.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #67 on: January 19, 2013, 02:43:32 pm »
^^^

Yes generally you are correct but it would still take 30-60 mins to dl a song. MP3's have always been around the same size.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #68 on: January 19, 2013, 02:51:13 pm »
Remember going into Dixons and seeing piles CD's of AOL and Freeserve   :laugh:
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #69 on: January 19, 2013, 07:58:04 pm »
My home broadband is shocking as seen below



Tethering through my mobile phone is superb however and upload is usually much better than this around the 8-10mb speed

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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #70 on: January 19, 2013, 08:42:38 pm »
Freeserve were taken over by wanadoo and then orange. We stuck with them the whole way through and only recently jumped ship. I remember compuserve. Didn't have internet accessthen so gave all my free cds to my mate.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #71 on: January 20, 2013, 10:10:46 am »
Can't complain.


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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #72 on: January 20, 2013, 01:56:31 pm »
Quote from: JPC on January 19, 2013, 02:22:00 pm
Anyone used to use compuserve? That's really old school free serve was the newer cooler service at th time haha. Didn't yahoo buy free serve?

Yes we did on a windows 3.1 machine and 9600kbps modem... email address was somethings like 106125.61@compuserve.com  :signLOL:



We are talking 1995 here.... freeserve came a few years later.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
« Reply #73 on: January 20, 2013, 02:58:09 pm »
^^^^
1995! I didn't buy my first Mac until 1998.
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Re: Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.
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