Dial up...

[pro-rabbit 5,000+ posts]

I remember when you were fast IF you had a 56.6k.

 

[matt_bennett05 10+ year member]

*You've got mail!*

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

ahh memories...What technical reason was behind that strange tune?

Dunno, I think they called it a handshake.
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the initial sound is the modem contacting your isp server and that horrible screeching sound from dial up is the data being sent or received unlike broadband the data is sent as sound

so it does make that sound for every page loaded of for every email sent but it's muted so you can't hear it unless you pick up the phone

and as for slow if you're on 1Mb broad band it's 20 times faster than dial up to give you an idea a 1meg file download would take between 3 to 4 mins to download with a 1Mb broadband it takes about 9 to 10 seconds that's a big difference but as you know most people are on faster connections that 1Mb

I know this sound strange but there are some people still on dial up even though it very often works out dearer than broadband these days

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Dunno, I think they called it a handshake.
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the initial sound is the modem contacting your isp server and that horrible screeching sound from dial up is the data being sent or received unlike broadband the data is sent as sound

so it does make that sound for every page loaded of for every email sent but it's muted so you can't hear it unless you pick up the phone

and as for slow if you're on 1Mb broad band it's 20 times faster than dial up to give you an idea a 1meg file download would take between 3 to 4 mins to download with a 1Mb broadband it takes about 9 to 10 seconds that's a big difference but as you know most people are on faster connections that 1Mb

I know this sound strange but there are some people still on dial up even though it very often works out dearer than broadband these days

Interesting...had no idea the information was passed as sound.

Also I was also reminiscing about dial up the other day because I was downloading a torrent at 600kb/s. In the dial up days I was happy to get 3kb/s, that's 200x faster. I've seen download speeds over 1mb/s, 333x faster, lol

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

I remember when you were fast IF you had a 56.6k.

Yea my first computer had a 14.4K modem...

That was a hewlett packard that rocked a 486 SX chip running at 25Mhz !!!! Hard drive was probably 128mb and it had 16mb of ram which was later upgraded to 64...

My parents probably paid like $2500 for it...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[06goat 10+ year member]

Looking back on it now all I can remember is looking for 56k download speeds for downloading songs lol like sorting through the list of songs on winMX and looking for 56k to get the fastest download speed. anything before that i was too young to remember

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

Interesting...had no idea the information was passed as sound.

Not as sound per say, but at frequencies in the audible range that a phone line could carry....

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Not as sound per say, but at frequencies in the audible range that a phone line could carry....

Well, the signals were changed into audible sounds right?

 

[pro-rabbit 5,000+ posts]

Looking back on it now all I can remember is looking for 56k download speeds for downloading songs lol like sorting through the list of songs on winMX and looking for 56k to get the fastest download speed. anything before that i was too young to remember

Thanks, now I feel old.

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

Well, the signals were changed into audible sounds right?

If you hooked a speaker up to the line... yes

 

[06goat 10+ year member]

Thanks, now I feel old.

dude im only 18 lol

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

If you hooked a speaker up to the line... yes

I guess you have a point, they're just electrical signals in the audible frequency range, they're only sound if you connect a speaker. Same reason why the 110V 60hz sine wave in my wall socket isn't sound...unless I connect a subwoofer to it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[LazyRider 10+ year member]

i still have dial up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

Me too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Bassin Buick]

i got 3mps down 512kbs up dsl. LOL. Slowest ish in town besides cell phone providers internet.

 

[pro-rabbit 5,000+ posts]

dude im only 18 lol

Please don't remind me. LOL I have a 9 year old daughter..bad enough i will be in prison soon...I'm sure I will feel the need to have a "talk" with her boyfriends in a few years...lol Oh, how life will **** then.