I am now 27,962 times faster
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That kind of speed is not generally available where I live. Is that a burstable line? Our internet package at home (including the speed increase) costs us $90/month with 30 Mbps burstable, but I rarely see better than 6-7 Mbps.
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When I first connected to a computer other than my own it was on a 300 baud modem - a Commodore brand little semi-hayes compatible unit. Today, I sit on a 1 MBps line (yes, MB not Mb), which can pull down a full MB per second, a feat that would have first required a cool 4 hours and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, my car still goes the same speed. My toast doesn't cook any faster. And it still takes the city 3 freekin' days (and four supervisors) to repair a frozen water main. I have no idea how us computer folks aren't paid 28,000 times more than those from the 80's.
modified on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:27 PM
TheyCallMeMrJames wrote:
I have no idea how us computer folks aren't paid 28,000 times more than those from the 80's.
That's because us "computer folks" have nothing to do with it. :) It's the electrical engineers and physicists who are responsible for the magic behind the speed. Although I doubt they're paid 27,962 times what they earned in the 80s. /ravi
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When I first connected to a computer other than my own it was on a 300 baud modem - a Commodore brand little semi-hayes compatible unit. Today, I sit on a 1 MBps line (yes, MB not Mb), which can pull down a full MB per second, a feat that would have first required a cool 4 hours and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, my car still goes the same speed. My toast doesn't cook any faster. And it still takes the city 3 freekin' days (and four supervisors) to repair a frozen water main. I have no idea how us computer folks aren't paid 28,000 times more than those from the 80's.
modified on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:27 PM
1 MPs? How quaint... I remember when we had that in our country.... I am at 100MBps but it costs! I pay £44 per month for it!
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When I first connected to a computer other than my own it was on a 300 baud modem - a Commodore brand little semi-hayes compatible unit. Today, I sit on a 1 MBps line (yes, MB not Mb), which can pull down a full MB per second, a feat that would have first required a cool 4 hours and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, my car still goes the same speed. My toast doesn't cook any faster. And it still takes the city 3 freekin' days (and four supervisors) to repair a frozen water main. I have no idea how us computer folks aren't paid 28,000 times more than those from the 80's.
modified on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:27 PM
TheyCallMeMrJames wrote:
a Commodore brand little semi-hayes compatible unit.
Heh. You might even have used a terminal emulator program that I wrote that was packaged with the modem. Of course, there were a lot of those, so odds are pretty low. Marc
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1 MPs? How quaint... I remember when we had that in our country.... I am at 100MBps but it costs! I pay £44 per month for it!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I am at 100MBps but it costs! I pay £44 per month for it!
I pay $50/month for 2Mb/s. It takes over an hour to download a 45 minute show from iTunes. :sigh: I could have faster Internet, but I'm boycotting Charter for their crappy customer service (e.g., taking a week to get up and running) and their shady business practices (automatically "sidegrading" me to an alternate plan, then forcing me to pay an increased price according to that new plan rather than the plan I signed up for... all without notice). Now I use Clearwire. It's neat because it took no time to set up and I can take the modem with me when I move and it will take no time to set up. Actually, thanks to my power inverter, I could use Clearwire internet in my car on my laptop.
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When I first connected to a computer other than my own it was on a 300 baud modem - a Commodore brand little semi-hayes compatible unit. Today, I sit on a 1 MBps line (yes, MB not Mb), which can pull down a full MB per second, a feat that would have first required a cool 4 hours and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, my car still goes the same speed. My toast doesn't cook any faster. And it still takes the city 3 freekin' days (and four supervisors) to repair a frozen water main. I have no idea how us computer folks aren't paid 28,000 times more than those from the 80's.
modified on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:27 PM
Yeah I remember the old Hayes modems...the times they are a changin.
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TheyCallMeMrJames wrote:
a Commodore brand little semi-hayes compatible unit.
Heh. You might even have used a terminal emulator program that I wrote that was packaged with the modem. Of course, there were a lot of those, so odds are pretty low. Marc
Geez...that goes back...I seem to remember Kermit or TurboTerminal? if that sounds right? The Grade 5 teacher gave me a copy when I was in Grade 2, so it's reaching back there...one was with the modem, the other from good old Mr. Pugh (RIP).
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Geez...that goes back...I seem to remember Kermit or TurboTerminal? if that sounds right? The Grade 5 teacher gave me a copy when I was in Grade 2, so it's reaching back there...one was with the modem, the other from good old Mr. Pugh (RIP).
TheyCallMeMrJames wrote:
the other from good old Mr. Pugh (RIP).
Wasn't "pugh" one of those secret phrases in the old adventure game, xyzzy being another one of them? Can't quite remember! Marc
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When I first connected to a computer other than my own it was on a 300 baud modem - a Commodore brand little semi-hayes compatible unit. Today, I sit on a 1 MBps line (yes, MB not Mb), which can pull down a full MB per second, a feat that would have first required a cool 4 hours and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, my car still goes the same speed. My toast doesn't cook any faster. And it still takes the city 3 freekin' days (and four supervisors) to repair a frozen water main. I have no idea how us computer folks aren't paid 28,000 times more than those from the 80's.
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:-D I fully agree! My first 'connection' to a remote computer was via a suction cup box modem connected to a Teletype ASR33 terminal, operating (for sometimes as long as 10 minutes without getting disconnected) at 110 baud. That's 10 characters per second, for all you newbie tykes. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I got online banking with Bank of America using a Kyocera modem connected to my Epson QX-10 at 300 baud! Last time I visited a Kyocera booth at a trade show, no one there knew that the company ever made a modem. :laugh:
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That kind of speed is not generally available where I live. Is that a burstable line? Our internet package at home (including the speed increase) costs us $90/month with 30 Mbps burstable, but I rarely see better than 6-7 Mbps.
TheyCallMeMrJames wrote:
Is that a burstable line?
Nope, it's 100 up, and 100 down. I think they might start telling me off if I ran youtube2 from my home and saturated it all the time. Ah, the advantages of fibre to the house etc. Iain.
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