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28th October 2003, 10:35 AM
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Succubus
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I got broadband
WWWOOOOOO freakin HOooooooooo! Yeah baby! Thank you for your time!
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28th October 2003, 10:41 AM
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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Congratulations. The first item of business is to secure your machine, now that you have an always on internet connection. You will be happy that you did. What OS are you using?
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28th October 2003, 05:42 PM
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Ayay ashay ayay
Join Date: Apr 2003
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I'm still using AOL dialup... Completely un-freakin-fair...
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28th October 2003, 06:00 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
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But I've got...
cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable, cable !!! OH YEAH! |
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28th October 2003, 08:07 PM
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by Charles M. Schulz
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Re: I got broadband
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"James Randi is awesome!" —Ian Bernard, primary host of Free Talk Live "It really does take people like Penn & Teller or James Randi to be able to see through these deceptions, and so those are perhaps the people we should be paying the most attention to." —Harry Browne, 4/10/2004 I know there is a lesson to be learned here somewhere, but I don't know what it is. |
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30th October 2003, 05:45 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: May 2003
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DSL?? Cable??? Pshaw!!!
I've got a radio link into my ISP's network. 1.5Mbits of internet lovin!!!! Whomp! |
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Pssst...tim...over here. Smell that? I think there's a dead whore under the mattress - Fidelio absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Carl Sagan "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." - Albert Einstein |
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30th October 2003, 05:53 AM
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Catholic School Survivor
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: New York, NY
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I'VE got dsl at work, cable at home. can't tell the difference, both plenty fast enough for me.
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30th October 2003, 01:21 PM
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by Charles M. Schulz
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I'll see your Whomp and raise you a w00t! 
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"James Randi is awesome!" —Ian Bernard, primary host of Free Talk Live "It really does take people like Penn & Teller or James Randi to be able to see through these deceptions, and so those are perhaps the people we should be paying the most attention to." —Harry Browne, 4/10/2004 I know there is a lesson to be learned here somewhere, but I don't know what it is. |
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30th October 2003, 02:14 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
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So...
How do these "modem" thingies work anyway... Someone??? Hello??? |
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30th October 2003, 02:48 PM
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Scholar
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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Enjoy it while you can. Pretty soon, Jeff Corey will be along to tell you how much it sucks and/or how you'll get screwed-over by your provider.
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31st October 2003, 05:34 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: May 2003
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Originally posted by shanek
My DSL runs at over 3Mbps. I'll see your Whomp and raise you a w00t!
Surely you jest! (Or you live IN the switching station) Seems like getting T1+ speeds from DSL would be pretty unusual. Whomp! |
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Pssst...tim...over here. Smell that? I think there's a dead whore under the mattress - Fidelio absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Carl Sagan "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." - Albert Einstein |
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1st November 2003, 05:15 PM
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Straussian
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Los Angeles
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On cable I get about 2 Mbps (although for a few weeks I had insane downloads at 3 Mpbs).
I've heard of people on cable modems exceeded their providers capped download speed ("stealing bandwith"). |
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Arrested Development is coming back! Michael (to GOB): Get rid of the Seaward. Lucille: I’ll leave when I’m good and ready. |
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10th November 2003, 01:41 PM
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shaven wookie
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10th November 2003, 02:57 PM
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grumpy old skeptic
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Deep in the rain
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I can tell you more than you ever even wanted to think existed about modems, if you like. How's your information theory, fourier theory, and signal processing/linear algebra? Gotta know that so I can take the right approach. |
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10th November 2003, 03:25 PM
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by Charles M. Schulz
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"James Randi is awesome!" —Ian Bernard, primary host of Free Talk Live "It really does take people like Penn & Teller or James Randi to be able to see through these deceptions, and so those are perhaps the people we should be paying the most attention to." —Harry Browne, 4/10/2004 I know there is a lesson to be learned here somewhere, but I don't know what it is. |
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10th November 2003, 07:04 PM
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Muse
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Wait, do you get 10mbit or does the entire uni get 10mbit? If the latter tell us what your actual share of that is
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"You are a bunch of kook haters and a hate-group. " - the now gone Jedi Knight describing the board's attitude to dangerous and out of this world ideas. |
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15th November 2003, 08:29 PM
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shaven wookie
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: psychopathy checklist
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I have that whole bandwidth
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15th November 2003, 10:07 PM
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Muse
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Vancouver
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I'll see all of your w00ts and raise you an omg.
Shared gigabit for the residences at uni. The good part is that there's no cap, so at 2 or 3 in the morning the bottleneck is my 100Megabit cable. Gotta love the ability to download at 12 megs/sec, despite the annoying lack of servers able to give me that kind of bandwidth.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein "The common man marvels at the uncommon; the wise man marvels at the commonplace." --Confucious "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." --Bertrand Russell |
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16th November 2003, 03:18 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2002
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A normal sight for me:
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