How fast is your internet connection? (focus on dial-up)

eepiccolo · 2003-05-06, 11:15

OK, usually when surveys ask for you internet connection speed, they give you options like dial-up, ISDN, DSL, T1, LAN, etc. I'm going to try a different focus. I only care about the speeds of different dial-ups. If you have a faster than dial-up connection, then the vast majority of webpages load up in a couple seconds no matter how much faster you go, so to this poll all faster than dial-up are the same. And I figured this poll would dovetail with another thread Xyzzy has going.

I get 24kbps or 26.4kbps where I'm living now, but I guess that's one of the tradeoffs of living on a rural road. :( No DSL of course, so I would need a satellite connection to get any better.

eepiccolo · 2003-05-06, 11:17

Perhaps a follow-up poll will be made if a lot of better than dial-up votes are cast.

Oh, and you should probably vote with your home connection speed, not work or school, unless you think that that would be appropriate.

wowbagger42 · 2003-05-06, 13:00

And no cable either? How dreadful.

Xyzzy · 2003-05-06, 14:30

Apparently some areas of the country are a bit behind the times... The server that hosts this forum is real old, but it seems to do okay I guess... Here is a picture of it I just took...

http://www.teamprimerib.com/jpg/screenie.jpg

eepiccolo · 2003-05-06, 14:38

Really? I could have sworn that was the switchboard for the entire Frederick County in Maryland

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nomadicus · 2003-05-06, 16:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Apparently some areas of the country are a bit behind the times... The server that hosts this forum is real old, but it seems to do okay I guess... Here is a picture of it I just took...

Oh great. Get rid of avatars :( and stick in a 64KB image that dialup users must wait for 10 - 20 seconds to download on the dialup survey post.

I love the irony. :)

Cool picture. Looks like it was built before I was born. What machine is it?

john

Xyzzy · 2003-05-06, 20:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by nomadicus

Oh great. Get rid of avatars :( and stick in a 64KB image that dialup users must wait for 10 - 20 seconds to download on the dialup survey post.

:)

I have no clue what that previous picture is, but I think the one below will be recognizable... (BTW, the guy in the chair is G. Woltman and the guy standing is S. Kurowski!)

http://www.teamprimerib.com/jpg/pdp11.jpg

nomadicus · 2003-05-06, 23:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

I have no clue what that previous picture is, but I think the one below will be recognizable... (BTW, the guy in the chair is G. Woltman and the guy standing is S. Kurowski!)

Looks like a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/20 complete with DECtapes, two disks, and an IO cab of somesort.

Ah! The good ol' days. What am I talking about? Today is a great day since I've gone from PDP-11's, PDP-10's (all three flavors, KA, KI (a dualie in a master/slave configuration), and KL including a tri SMP configuration -- Yes Dilbet, SMP before anyone knew how to implement it correctly), to today: VAX and Alpha VMS. :)

If you are into computer history check out http://simh.trailing-edge.com. It's the Computer History Simulation Project.

btw - VMS clusters *rule* (Yes I am an ex-DECie and a VMS bigot. Get over it.) :D

QuintLeo · 2003-05-11, 06:04

I knew it was a PDP-11 as soon as I saw the LINKtape drives - I learned programming on an 11/70.

I finally tossed my last tape for those drives a couple years back....

9-)

View Poll Results: How fast is your internet connection speed?
18.0-19.0 M	3	3.06%
19.0-20.0 M	7	7.14%
20.0-21.0 M	11	11.22%
21.0-22.0 M	10	10.20%
Elsewhere, missed in DC, below 18 M	10	10.20%
14.4kbps or less to 19.2kbps	2	2.04%
21.6kbps to 26.4kbps	1	1.02%
28.8kbps to 36.0kbps	3	3.06%
38.4kbps to 52.8kbps	14	14.29%
better than dialup	37	37.76%
Voters: 98. You may not vote on this poll

2003-05-06, 11:15	#1
eepiccolo Dec 2002 Frederick County, MD 2×5×37 Posts	How fast is your internet connection? (focus on dial-up) OK, usually when surveys ask for you internet connection speed, they give you options like dial-up, ISDN, DSL, T1, LAN, etc. I'm going to try a different focus. I only care about the speeds of different dial-ups. If you have a faster than dial-up connection, then the vast majority of webpages load up in a couple seconds no matter how much faster you go, so to this poll all faster than dial-up are the same. And I figured this poll would dovetail with another thread Xyzzy has going. I get 24kbps or 26.4kbps where I'm living now, but I guess that's one of the tradeoffs of living on a rural road. :( No DSL of course, so I would need a satellite connection to get any better.

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2003-05-06, 11:17	#2
eepiccolo Dec 2002 Frederick County, MD 2·5·37 Posts	Perhaps a follow-up poll will be made if a lot of better than dial-up votes are cast. Oh, and you should probably vote with your home connection speed, not work or school, unless you think that that would be appropriate.

2003-05-06, 13:00	#3
wowbagger42 Apr 2003 2₈ Posts	And no cable either? How dreadful.

2003-05-06, 14:30	#4
Xyzzy "Mike" Aug 2002 3·2,741 Posts	Apparently some areas of the country are a bit behind the times... The server that hosts this forum is real old, but it seems to do okay I guess... Here is a picture of it I just took... http://www.teamprimerib.com/jpg/screenie.jpg

2003-05-06, 14:38	#5
eepiccolo Dec 2002 Frederick County, MD 2·5·37 Posts	Really? I could have sworn that was the switchboard for the entire Frederick County in Maryland .

2003-05-11, 06:04	#9
QuintLeo Oct 2002 Lost in the hills of Iowa 2⁶×7 Posts	I knew it was a PDP-11 as soon as I saw the LINKtape drives - I learned programming on an 11/70. I finally tossed my last tape for those drives a couple years back.... 9-)