Dial up :D

Started by killer-curry November 13th, 2015 12:06 AM
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killer-curry

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Today I just just found an old dial up modem and it reminds me about the most irritating sound i ever heard when i was kid. So the question of this thread is,

Do you have ever used before dial up modem? Do you still using it until now where internet speed can be go as fast as 100 mbps+?

Share your thoughts!

Sylphiel

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There's no way I could ever go back to using dialup. While I might have been able to stand its speeds back then (since there really wasn't much that was better and still affordable), after using faster internet for years and years I get annoyed at even a slight bit of slowness. Forget going back to dialup!

I'm so used to those by now that I forget stuff like dialup tying up the phone line was actually a thing. :X I haven't touched dialup since...2000 or so? ish? It's been a while.

Circuit

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Man I remember the first computer my grandad got and the dial-up connection that came with it, and man would I hate to go back to that. I'm super happy with the internet I have now, that a dial-up connection would be super depressing haha.

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I've used it at a young age and remember how I had to wait for pages to load. I believe waiting 5 minutes was the standard back then. Of course it didn't feel slow at the time and it'd be ridiculous now.

I don't think I've ever use dial-up ever again with today's advances in internet service. If I was away from home I'd simply use my phone's 4G connection.
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My family used to have dial-up, and it was a pain waiting for pages to load. We finally had to get rid of it when my mother tried to call home from work and couldn't get through because I was tying up the phone line.

I could never go back to using dial-up. The Internet is my main source of entertainment, and I like it to be fast. Going back to dial-up would annoy me so much.

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Tsutarja

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Good grief, I have about five different 56k modems in my closet! I've never used them myself because we've had broadband since the late 90s here (and I was a child lol) but they've all come from various computer towers I've owned over the years.

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I had dial up until 6 years ago. We had it late because high speed Internet didn't work in my area.
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inspirASIAN

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The only problem was no one could call us if we were on the internet...lol.
Really? I wish that's how our dial-up worked because back then anyone could call us regardless if dial-up is in use or not, and if the phone rings the connection gets interrupted.

There's no way I could ever go back to using dialup. While I might have been able to stand its speeds back then (since there really wasn't much that was better and still affordable), after using faster internet for years and years I get annoyed at even a slight bit of slowness. Forget going back to dialup!
It'd certainly suck to once again use internet with the speed of dial-up considering the colossal size of internet pages nowadays. Some websites take an entire minute to load under fibre optics because of full blown advertisements.

I can't imagine the amount of time it'll take to buffer a 4K video let alone 480p. {XD}

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Ah the 90's where I could use the phone to connect to the internet the noise brings nostalgic memories of window 98/95. Setup is a pain while using modem because it requires username and password also the tendency to fail all the time. The memories
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killer-curry

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Setup is a pain while using modem because it requires username and password also the tendency to fail all the time. The memories
I gotta admit I always forget my username and password so it annoys me every single time.

Tsutarja

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Did anybody live in a household with two phone lines so that there was one dedicated to a dial-up connection? I know back in the day, my old neighbors had two phone lines at their home that way they could still receive calls and still be connected to the internet, lol

killer-curry

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That sound makes me irritated and I always thought it was an alien communication device when i was a kid XD

Qibli

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The most of annoying thing is about dial-ups is that isn't continuously connected, you have to manually connect it each time you start up the computer or when your session is done. I wonder if present computers/laptop today still have modems?
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I had dial up at home until late 2004, and I still had to use it in certain locations (e.g., for doing homework at my grandmother's house) until late 2012-early 2013 (when I finally got a smartphone). I hated it, and though that dial up sound brings back memories, they're not the best ones. I recall trying to play flash games online, and having to wait forever for them to load. As I began to have more internet-heavy school assignments, dial up became more of a problem.

I had forgotten about a lot of my dial-up woes until recently, making sure to download everything I needed before going to family holidays with my grandmother and telling people that I would be incommunicado while I was away. A couple of years ago, though (fall 2011, I guess), I had to use dial-up to do some last-minute research and fact checking for a term paper I had due Monday morning after Thanksgiving. It was awful. Not to mention, I had to disconnect the phone in order to use it, and that didn't make my grandmother very happy.
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We never had internet in our house until broadband was a thing, that's how poor we were, only internet i got was in school. I remember my aunt letting me use her dial up as kid but her PG settings where so high I couldn't even use the disney channel website.. and thats really all I wanted to use haha
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inspirASIAN

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Yup. Let's see... going back a bit to remember my past...

Back then dial-up was considered a luxury most couldn't afford. Or well, it's more like my family didn't find internet a necessity at all (and therefore, a waste of money) so I never knew the convenience of the internet until late 2005 or so. I think we began with those scratch cards with limited time in them and eventually moved to subscription-based dial-up the following year. I think my family moved to broadband in 2008 during my second year of high school. My memory about it is a bit hazy...

In retrospect, I think of it as something I can look back fondly to; going to libraries and bookstores to get my homework and projects done not knowing they can be easily searched on Google. Oh and of course... knowing how to find Rayquaza makes you the coolest kid on the block because 'secrets' like that are mostly spread through word of mouth. I assume someone had internet, found out about it, and word quickly spread to the entire school.

Tsutarja

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Considering how much I was around my parents back before I was five years old, yeah that sound is a memory lol

Also, did anybody here not have AOL as their ISP in the glory days of dial-up?

Morkula

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We always had local ISPs when we had dialup, so no AOL. I live in the middle of nowhere, so it was a long time before DSL came through here, and even now we don't have any options other than DSL.

It's funny how "OMG FAST" the internet seemed when we got 768kbps DSL here, and then after a while we got 3Mbps and it seemed like the fastest thing in the world. Now I can't stand how slow it is. I think it's just a combination of perception (especially since we have FiOS where I work), and the fact that download sizes have just ballooned nowadays - I can't even think about downloading a game on Steam on my home connection without it taking like two days, and even patches take hours now.

Tsutarja

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Until now my internet speed still in 2mbps and downloading games takes days or weeks depends on size
That's still "broadband" in some sense though. At least it's not 256k, which is typically the lowest level speed for DSL :)
At home, I've had dial-up far longer than most people here... from March 2002 all the way to May 2013-just over 11 years! By about 2008-09, downloads began ballooning in size so much, that waiting for things to finish took forever and was frustrating. By the time we finally got off of dial-up, it took many of the pages that I frequent several minutes to finish loading.
One reason why it took so long for our household to abandon dial-up was the cost of broadband service. Although cable is available in my area, I chose DSL through my ILEC (Frontier) instead, thinking I'd get a better deal. Needless to say, the cable provider in my area (Charter) is bottom-of-the-barrel just like Frontier. There are a couple of WISPs serving my area, but I can't get a signal where I'm am, and those providers are bottom-of-the-barrel too. That's what you get for not living in a major city (and by "major city", I mean New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, not has-beens like Detroit and Flint.) Of course, DSL doesn't qualify as broadband anymore according to Obama's FCC, which is beholden to the cable companies.
I know, I should have Charter like everybody else around me (60Mbps vs. 6 for Frontier), but I've heard many complaints about them, and I've had trouble with their service going down at my work, where I've had to unplug and plug back in the cable modem.