Does anyone else in ATOT have 56k?

[Joseph F]

Does anyone else have 56k? I think I'm the only one.

 

[lxskllr]

I last had 56k in 2006, and I was late to the BB game.

 

[Jeeebus]

Does anyone else have 56k? I think I'm the only one.

pfffttt... gotta rock the 14.4 to keep it real.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Not since around 2001.

 

[Joseph F]

pfffttt... gotta rock the 14.4 to keep it real.

yeah, dat's where it's at.

 

[krylon]

your mom does

 

[Riceninja]

whats a 56k?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

No, but I remember going from 28.8 to 56K right after it became available. It was great at the time. Really, that's not sarcastic, back then it was a big leap and it felt fast.

 

[Joseph F]

whats a 56k?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access

 

[Pardus]

enjoy

 

[Joseph F]

your mom does

umm... of course she does. i'm 15.

 

[Joseph F]

enjoy

FUCK! I can't load the sound!

 

[MAKENITO]

Wow.. you dont look 15..

 

[AznAnarchy99]

enjoy

Oh shit brings back memories.

 

[Zorkorist]

56K ain't bad... if all your doing is chatting.

Hi Joseph, welcome to AnandTech.

-John

 

[punjabiplaya]

56k brings back memories of Napster...

 

[AznAnarchy99]

56k brings back memories of Napster...

5kb downloads YEA!

 

[eldorado99]

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

 

[TecHNooB]

I remember if you redialed enough, your 28.8K modem can achieve 33K. Went from 3y to 2g in starcraft.

 

[lxskllr]

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.

 

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[OCGuy]

It took that many posts for someone to throw up a (relatively) bandwidth intensive image?

Fail ATOT. Fail.

 

[Dankk]

It took that many posts for someone to throw up a (relatively) bandwidth intensive image?

Fail ATOT. Fail.

I was wondering why my browser appeared to hiccup for a second when I got to that image. GG.

 

[SagaLore]

No, but I remember going from 28.8 to 56K right after it became available. It was great at the time. Really, that's not sarcastic, back then it was a big leap and it felt fast.

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!

 

[Loop2kil]

Got my first cable modem in '99-'00 with MediaOne @ 1.5 mbps