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Comments on: Living In The 1980’s https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/15/living-in-the-1980s/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:36:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/15/living-in-the-1980s/comment-page-1/#comment-28617 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:36:25 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/15/living-in-the-1980s/#comment-28617 I should have said a 56K modem, because it never got above 33K of actual throughput. I’m chugging along at about 28.8K right now. It’s really annoying because some sites never finish loading at this speed and my virus software can stop everything trying to do an update in the background.

The monthly fees on the satellites aren’t bad, but it’s a hell of an up front hit for the equipment.

I have to use my cell phone to deal with most problem because the local landline system is so bad, and they complain about that until you point out that if your phone was working you wouldn’t be calling.

The worst is that the cats don’t care. They having gotten used to me screaming, and ignore it.

]]> By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/15/living-in-the-1980s/comment-page-1/#comment-28612 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:17:01 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/15/living-in-the-1980s/#comment-28612 People who are stuck on dial-up today are connected at 56,000 baud…

…ahem…

Actually, there are places in the world – such as within my hole in the Central Orygun DSL donut – where your dial-up connection rate is between 24.0 and 28.8 Kbps. Even with ‘accelerator’ software (such as Earthlink), there are vast assemblages of Intertubes where one just simply doesn’t go at those speeds (I could spend a gazillion dollars for a dish system, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it)…

Forgive me for the chuckle, but the “web site for internet problems” got me. All of the information services support at work has been contracted out, and everything needs to be done either over the phone or on our network. This can be something of a problem when a significant portion of the problems are related to either the phone system or the network. I have become amazed at the ability of my telephone to withstand the physical abuse to which it is occasionally subjected…

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