What's broadband like?!?

[Blitz_]

indeed, i was on 200mbf or 2 months!!!!!

[Matt]

I'm so glad I don't have any d/l or u/l limits. I wouldn't be able to survive with all these people siphoning vids off me.

[danno]

wow thats crap. i probably do more than that by just browsing/emails!!

[danno]

I'm so glad I don't have any d/l or u/l limits. I wouldn't be able to survive with all these people siphoning vids off me.

haha yeah thats right, you have a whole pile of top gear videos

i have a 12 gig limit now, and usually i use up around 8 gb, but if i find a site with heaps of good videos i usually get pretty close to the 12 gig limit

[xDRAN0x]

4.1 Mbps connection, 5.1 in november

download top at 600 kb sec, upload at 100kb/sec.

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

Broadband is fantastic. Much better than dial up, doesn't tie up the phone, faster...

[pimp_squeak]

broadband is dialup on steroids...I detest cable, in my area there's only one provider for cable internet and the service is down 2 or 3 times a month...

[henk4]

Well, to be honest, it doesn't surprise me that you step out of your age bracket on things like this. You're too hip for you age, Henk.

If it weren't for UCP I probably would still be on VHF. I just had to hike along

[Distress]

How do they install it?

broadband is dialup on steroids...I detest cable, in my area there's only one provider for cable internet and the service is down 2 or 3 times a month...

Yeah, I've read reviews online about cable being down. Comcast here in Indianapolis gets good/great reviews from what I have read; every now and then they are down, but overall no problems. Besides, my dial-up times out so many times some days I just about through they darn modem out the window...lol.

As for limits, it seams that there aren't any in the US and Korea; I could be wrong. I don't have any limits, but that’s a bummer Dial-up also doesn't drive up are phone bill, all us American people have to pay is the Internet Service Provider, and there are no-limits as well..at least in my part of town. It seams like you Australians get the grump, high taxes to?

[xDRAN0x]

what's cable like... hmm i think my pic pretty well sums it up...

i am uncapped for d/l's 512 up u/l's

it's a proven fact that Opera can't analyze the download speed right (see picture)

[pimp_squeak]

I live in southern Ontario (Canada) so things might be different where you guys are, sorry I didn't mention that in my first post. And with the timing out thing, it's not that big an issue, I think I work my modem too hard because for the last couple days it's been overheating...I need to mount another heat sink on it methinks.....

[cls12vg30]

I've been on cable from Time Warner for about 3 years now, can't imagine life without it. I've got two laptops (one mine, one work, soon to be 2 for work), so I have a wireless network in my apartment with a Netgear router so that all the computers can be online. Nothing like sitting on the couch surfing on one machine while the other downloads....ahem....large media files. Of course a setup like this would be impossible on dialup.
Having instant access to email, weather, etc., and having IM up all the time, it spoils you quick.

[crisis]

I was paying around $40 per month for dial up. My wife found a deal where you get your phone bill at a certain rate, which she said was chaeper than what we currently paid, and 500mb (which aint enough) at 128mbs for an additional $14 per month. Although I eat up the 500mb quickly it reverts back to dial up after that and it costs no more for the use.

[Entropyman]

I've had the cable modem for about 4 years. It costs me about $45 a month. My longest outage during our three hurricanes was about 3 hours. I have nothing but good things to say about my service.

[Supercarfreak123]

3 words: Couldn't Live Without!