I just testet the dialup connection here where I am.

At best the speed is 40/24 down/up. Usually some lower. The worst result I ever got was 20/2. I am talking kilobits, not megabits! Yep, it was 2 kb/s up...

But now today. I just tested at speedtest.net and got very very strange results:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/70558398.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/70558940.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

My upload speed on dialup is over 130 kb/s!
It's not even near the truth. :crazyeye: :D

Dial up should be illegal.

Dial up should be illegal.
What if you can only afford Dial up?

What if you can only afford Dial up?

Then the ISPs are charging too much.

I just testet the dialup connection here where I am.

At best the speed is 40/24 down/up. Usually some lower. The worst result I ever got was 20/2. I am talking kilobits, not megabits! Yep, it was 2 kb/s up...

But now today. I just tested at speedtest.net and got very very strange results:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/70558398.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/70558940.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

My upload speed on dialup is over 130 kb/s!
It's not even near the truth. :crazyeye: :D
In my experience, these tests are often inaccurate. I once tried running one of these tests on my internet connection in my dorm room. It returned results of about 1000 kb/s, while at the time the connection was never faster than 200 kb/s.


Dial up should be illegal.
Why?

Because it's useless for doing anything on the internet, painfully slow, etc. And I am so glad I will NEVER have to suffer it again.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20021107

Dial up should be illegal.
I could almost agree..
But many places dialup is the only choice. I am right now in a long and bended valley surrounded by mountains and the people here who wants internet have one choice and one choice only: Move to the civilization. A few places in the valley they have got wireless broadband, but I am at the wrong place. Maybe one day wireless broadband from satelite will be an opportunity.
I am not complaining because I don't normally live here. :p


In my experience, these tests are often inaccurate. I once tried running one of these tests on my internet connection in my dorm room. It returned results of about 1000 kb/s, while at the time the connection was never faster than 200 kb/s.
This test site give me accurate results when I test the broadband connection I got at my home. For some strange reason the upload speed is wacked. 24 kbs becomes 130.
Maybe it doesn't work well with so slow speed?

Because it's useless for doing anything on the internet, painfully slow, etc. And I am so glad I will NEVER have to suffer it again.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20021107

If you don't like it, don't use it. That's no reason for it to be illegal.

People do not understand a joke?

People do not understand a joke?

I realized it was supposed to be a joke. I just didn't think it was a particularly funny one.

your dialup might not be showing accurate results when you use it in normal everyday use, because it does depend on the conection load and the server your're downloading from. My connection is supposted to get ~400kb/s upload yet it barely gets 150 when i actually try.

Then the ISPs are charging too much.

I agree. Most ISP's have a "Basic" or "Lite" package, speeds a couple times faster than dial up, usually 128, or 256 kilobits, and is around the same price of dial up. The major cable provider her in Canada offers i believe 1 megabit for $30 or so a month, and an ultra lite package, 128 down, for $20/month. pretty good, if you ask me

I could almost agree..
Maybe one day wireless broadband from satelite will be an opportunity.


I've heard of that recently. Not cheap from what I've heard.

http://www.wildblue.com/

your dialup might not be showing accurate results when you use it in normal everyday use, because it does depend on the conection load and the server your're downloading from. My connection is supposted to get ~400kb/s upload yet it barely gets 150 when i actually try.
That's normal. I experienced the opposite. The absolute maximum speed for dialup is 53 kbs. 53 is pure theoretical and only possible for them who lives close to a central. (56 kbs modems only give 53 kbs due to the phone system here.)



The major cable provider her in Canada offers i believe 1 megabit for $30 or so a month, and an ultra lite package, 128 down, for $20/month. pretty good, if you ask me
I know Canadian dollars are some less valuable than USD, but I don't think that price is especially good.

With my dial-up I'm lucky if I can break 50. Thank god something is finally happening here DSL-wise. I've already ordered mine. 8Mb/s :dance:

In my experience, these tests are often inaccurate. I once tried running one of these tests on my internet connection in my dorm room. It returned results of about 1000 kb/s, while at the time the connection was never faster than 200 kb/s.
Actually, it was accurate. The measured speed is in kilobits per second (kb/s), while your browser shows download rates as kilobytes per second (kB/s). So if your benchmark is 1000 kb/s, your actual speed should be around is about 122 kB/s.

Note that 1,000 kb/s = one thousand kilobits per second = 1,000,000 bits per second = 250,000 bytes per second = 250,000 / 1024 = 122 kilobytes per second.

1 byte = 8 bits
1 kilobit = 1000 bits
1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes

(I know, it is confusing :crazyeye: )

Actually, it was accurate. The measured speed is in kilobits per second (kb/s), while your browser shows download rates as kilobytes per second (kB/s). So if your benchmark is 1000 kb/s, your actual speed should be around is about 122 kB/s.

Note that 1,000 kb/s = one thousand kilobits per second = 1,000,000 bits per second = 250,000 bytes per second = 250,000 / 1024 = 122 kilobytes per second.

1 byte = 8 bits
1 kilobit = 1000 bits
1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes

(I know, it is confusing :crazyeye: )

Both of my figures were in kilobits/second. My normal download speeds at the time were about 30 kilobytes/second, which is about 240 kilobits/sec. The speed test reported 1000 kilobits/second, equivalent to a bit more than 100 kilobytes/second.

What? people still use dial-up?:crazyeye:

I use dial-up at home.
You can't beat free, plus I literally have thousands of access numbers worldwide (not that that helps since I never go anywhere). :D

I surf the net all day at work, so any big downloads, I do from work. I typically don't surf the internet when at home. I'm usually sick of surfing the internet by the time I get home.

What? people still use dial-up?:crazyeye:
Quite many actually. There are many places where money can't buy you a broadband. ;)

I use dial-up at home.
You can't beat free, plus I literally have thousands of access numbers worldwide (not that that helps since I never go anywhere). :D


What do you mean by access numbers?

dial-up uses numbers that your modem dials to access the internet, he just has a large list

Oh.. I thought you'd only have one number to dial.. the one to the isp. That's what I had anyway.

What does it help with a long list of numbers? You still need to be a customer and use a password.


A fun thing that happened when I had a very poor connection, was that the ad page did not load, it aborted quickly and forwarded me to the forum site immediately. :D

What does it help with a long list of numbers? You still need to be a customer and use a password.
The idea of having many access numbers is that if you are away from home you can use a number that is local to where you are, rather than the number you normally use, which is probably a local number for where you live. Thus, by using a different number, you can avoid paying for a long distance telephone call.

A fun thing that happened when I had a very poor connection, was that the ad page did not load, it aborted quickly and forwarded me to the forum site immediately. :D
Ad page? :confused:

Yes, that black ad page you have to click past every 24 hour.

Yes, that black ad page you have to click past every 24 hour.

I've never seen it...

hmm, do you use some ad-blocking strategy?
I don't see much ads on the internet, but this ad page I have not completely beaten so far. But my anti-ad software makes it so the ad usually is not showing up, but the black page is there for a moment.

Hmm again... I now think I've not seen that page the last 2 days? Is it gone? I saw it about 2-3 days ago.

Let me guess, you also use IE, right? With firefox you will never see that Ad page again

What do you mean by access numbers?

The idea of having many access numbers is that if you are away from home you can use a number that is local to where you are, rather than the number you normally use, which is probably a local number for where you live. Thus, by using a different number, you can avoid paying for a long distance telephone call.




Chairman Meow answered the question well. I can use dial up to connect to the Internet, and the availability of thousands of access numbers worldwide allow me to use one that is local to my current location, hence avoiding long distance phone charges. I can be in Boston one day, and have a local number in Boston to call in order to connect to the Internet. The next day, I can be in Berlin, and pull up the local access numbers in Berlin. The following day London, and so on and so forth.

It's still dial up though, so it's slow. But it's free (via work), so I certainly won't complain. I haven't paid for Internet access since the mid 90's. :)

Let me guess, you also use IE, right? With firefox you will never see that Ad page again
Yes, IE6.

I have not seen the black ad page for several days, not sure if it's because I've done some adjustments of the anti-ad software, or if the ad page is gone.