Does anyone else in ATOT have 56k?

[thescreensavers]

I played UT2k4 on 56k. I did pretty well with it all things considered. My ping was 200-230, but the connection was solid, so I didn't have much in the way of lost packets.

oh man 100mb took 24 hours , I never got to play with TSS during a lan party which is why I got the demo in the first place. But it turned out to be one of the best game I ever played. Oh wait still is the best I ever played.

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[Svnla]

Anyone here is old enough to remember the 2 phone lines = double the dial up speed?

Back then, Diamond had the special modem that supposed to give you extra speed.

Kids these days have it good.

 

[Zorkorist]

Fuck you guys that threw up huge pictures...

That's just wrong.

-John

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Wow.. you dont look 15..

Cradle robber

 

[esun]

Placebo effect. It never really was 56k, it maxed at 53.3k. Most lines couldn't get past 48k, and even that was initial burst, so it would quickly fall back to 33.6k which was about peak stability. The most benefit you got was less latency in the FIFO buffer so it just seemed faster. But with the switch to software based modem drivers, you could get improvement with nothing more than a driver update, which unfortunately almost never came. Ugh.

FYI - its k (kilobit), not K (kilobyte). So a 56k truly is 6.66K (53.3k). Dialup is the devil!

FYI, k refers to the kilo part of it, not the bit/byte part. b refers to bit, B refers to byte.

 

[IcePickFreak]

Have been on broadband since the late 90s. I started on a 2400 baud modem right around 1990, I remember it was $110 of my hard earned part-time job cash. I had a buddy that had a 300 baud modem and even in basic ANSI text chat you could type faster than that thing transmitted the text. I got really good at figuring out the whole sentence he typed before the thing could spit it out.

 

[OCGuy]

Thread is full of win now.

 

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LOL your browser/connection is fail it worked fine on firefox/broadband

 

[911paramedic]

Oh 56K. I remember when you seemed like an uber upgrade I was so overjoyed to have...

LMAO, me too! I was thinking "Man am I going to rock Prodigy with this beast!"

I also loved not having to place the receiver onto a cradle.

<computer voice> "Shall we play a game?"</computer voice>

 

[lxskllr]

oh man 100mb took 24 hours , I never got to play with TSS during a lan party which is why I got the demo in the first place. But it turned out to be one of the best game I ever played. Oh wait still is the best I ever played.

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I could download ~200mb before my connection would auto disconnect; roughly 12 hours. I never got a satisfactory answer on why they did that. When joining a UT server with a map I didn't have, I knew I wouldn't get to play that match, but my hope was the match would last long enough for me to get the download. There were a few times I'd get 95%+ completion, but the match would be over before I got the map :^( I'd sometimes go back at 3am, and download the map that way :^D

 

[CraigRT]

I actually never had a 56K modem.
I went from 33.6 to cable in around 1999 or so.

 

[Fritzo]

I work for an ISP- 1/2 of our customers are still 56K. You'd be suprised how many areas in the US have no access to broadband, and then even more areas that have minimal broadband for exteremly high prices (I'm talking about you Mr. $60/month for a spotty 400K connection Hughesnet).

 

[SlowSpyder]

Anyone here is old enough to remember the 2 phone lines = double the dial up speed?

Back then, Diamond had the special modem that supposed to give you extra speed.

Kids these days have it good.

I think they called it a 'shotgun' modem, as in double barrel or something. I remember those.

*edit - http://www.vonl.net/support/faq/shotgun/index.cfm

Big ol 9KB/sec downloads, here I come... and all for the cost of two phone lines.

 

[DivideBYZero]

In late 2001 I shut my 56k modem off for the last time.

 

[rcpratt]

FYI - its k (kilobit), not K (kilobyte). So a 56k truly is 6.66K (53.3k). Dialup is the devil!

I thought it was the capitalization of the B that determined bit/byte...kB/s vs mbps. Or I guess it's kind of both? The kilo prefix is usually lower case, while the mega prefix is usually uppercase.

 

[meltdown75]

yep, every year - $56k

 

[BurnItDwn]

My grandma connects to the internet at about 19K due to crappy old phone lines (with a 56K modem and 56K service from her ISP.)

I got used to the on campus T1 at the university back in 98, and have dealt with 56K a bit in 99 and 00, but, since then have not used dial up.

 

[nickbits]

not since '98

 

[acheron]

I actually never had a 56K modem.
I went from 33.6 to cable in around 1999 or so.

Same here. Never had 28.8 either, I went from 14.4 to 33.6. (And 2400 before that.)

 

[Saint Nick]

Had 56k up until about 2001. Then got DSL until around 2004 or so? I think we got cable at that point (Time Warner).

 

[PingSpike]

I could download ~200mb before my connection would auto disconnect; roughly 12 hours. I never got a satisfactory answer on why they did that. When joining a UT server with a map I didn't have, I knew I wouldn't get to play that match, but my hope was the match would last long enough for me to get the download. There were a few times I'd get 95%+ completion, but the match would be over before I got the map :^( I'd sometimes go back at 3am, and download the map that way :^D

LOL, I used to UT on my 28.8k. Rocket launcher + shock rifle and you have a chance. The sniper rifle may as well have been a banana launcher.

Anyway, I recall your painful scenario as well. I don't think UT had an http redirect map download feature or at least it was not commonly used. When you're on dialup your selection of viable servers (only a few had acceptable pings, and by acceptable I mean dog shit) is tiny so if they added giant maps I would get them. I would typically go find them on the web and download them since as you mentioned downloading them from the server was a fools errand.

Anyway, I'm still stuck on 56K while I'm continue to be lied to about DSL coming soon. Different companies and different decade but the lies stay the same!

 

[thegimp03]

I remember we had a 56k modem in a pc we bought in 1999 but the 2nd phone line could only do 28.8k. I remember hooking the computer up to the 1st phone line when my parents would go out of town to get up to 38-40k, while only a tiny bit better by today's standards, it made vast improvements in my download speed and ping until we got broadband in mid-2000ish and haven't looked back since.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

I make 56k a week. Baller .

 

[techs]

I had 56k until the recession.

 

[Vic Vega]

Not since 1998 when I got Road Runner.