Free High-Speed Internet @ Raddison =

[Aimster]

This is painful

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[Crusty]

You get what you pay for.

 

[Eli]

What is "14.4k wifi"?

Edit Frickin Christ. :frown:

 

[rudder]

Should have stayed at the holiday Inn.

 

[Adam8281]

How is that even possible? Two explanations: Radisson has the only 14.4 modem left in existence, and they've hooked it up to a router; or else they've throttled their router so each client only gets 14.4k of bandwidth. Either way, enjoy watching your e-mails fill the screen block by block.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I remember 14.4k. Took like 2 minutes for images to load. Which meant that it took roughly 2 hours to masturbate. Which, it turns out, really helped my stamina later on in life.

Thanks AOL!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I remember 14.4k. Took like 2 minutes for images to load. Which meant that it took roughly 2 hours to masturbate. Which, it turns out, really helped my stamina later on in life.

Thanks AOL!

:laugh:

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I remember 14.4k. Took like 2 minutes for images to load. Which meant that it took roughly 2 hours to masturbate. Which, it turns out, really helped my stamina later on in life.

Thanks AOL!

speaking of which, why exactly did old 28.8 modems (including mine) have to audibly dial that loud, most obnoxious tone? I feel like it could have easily been silent, and made my late night escapades exceedingly difficult with the rents sleeping across the hall.

 

[OCGuy]

R?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: apac
speaking of which, why exactly did old 28.8 modems (including mine) have to audibly dial that loud, most obnoxious tone? I feel like it could have easily been silent, and made my late night escapades exceedingly difficult with the rents sleeping across the hall.

You could turn that off.

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: apac
speaking of which, why exactly did old 28.8 modems (including mine) have to audibly dial that loud, most obnoxious tone? I feel like it could have easily been silent, and made my late night escapades exceedingly difficult with the rents sleeping across the hall.

You could turn that off.

It was an external modem. I don't recall there being any switches on the outside that would disable the noise. Didn't know much about computers then, though.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I remember 14.4k. Took like 2 minutes for images to load. Which meant that it took roughly 2 hours to masturbate. Which, it turns out, really helped my stamina later on in life.

Thanks AOL!

Originally posted by: apac
speaking of which, why exactly did old 28.8 modems (including mine) have to audibly dial that loud, most obnoxious tone? I feel like it could have easily been silent, and made my late night escapades exceedingly difficult with the rents sleeping across the hall.

:laugh:^:laugh:

I suppose it wouldn't be quite as funny if I hadn't experienced the same situation.

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: apac

It was an external modem. I don't recall there being any switches on the outside that would disable the noise. Didn't know much about computers then, though.

Some had switches, but, they all could have the speaker lowered and/or disabled via a software setting.

As for the shared wifi, it's still faster than dialup for me--when I can connect. I've heard that some are getting pretty strict on xfers. I had a coworker who told me he was dl'ing a movie via iTunes and they cut him off (throttled to a really slow rate). YMMV though, so many different providers, and random #'s of guests who may or may not be using the system, you simply won't know how well it'll work until you try it.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I remember 14.4k. Took like 2 minutes for images to load. Which meant that it took roughly 2 hours to masturbate. Which, it turns out, really helped my stamina later on in life. Thanks AOL!

This is the first Modem I had, it was an acoustic coupler that had 300 baud if I remember correctly. Screw downloading a picture, it took about 5-6 minutes to get a 100k picture. It was all about ASCII pr0n baby! Since at that time I was 10 or 11 I think, that was all I needed.

 

[LS21]

in south america most places arent sophisticated to lock their routers... i just login and MAC-filter everybody ftw

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I remember 14.4k. Took like 2 minutes for images to load. Which meant that it took roughly 2 hours to masturbate. Which, it turns out, really helped my stamina later on in life. Thanks AOL!

This is the first Modem I had, it was an acoustic coupler that had 300 baud if I remember correctly. Screw downloading a picture, it took about 5-6 minutes to get a 100k picture. It was all about ASCII pr0n baby! Since at that time I was 10 or 11 I think, that was all I needed.

Greetings Dr. Falken!

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: apac

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: apac
speaking of which, why exactly did old 28.8 modems (including mine) have to audibly dial that loud, most obnoxious tone? I feel like it could have easily been silent, and made my late night escapades exceedingly difficult with the rents sleeping across the hall.

You could turn that off.

It was an external modem. I don't recall there being any switches on the outside that would disable the noise. Didn't know much about computers then, though.

Init string FTW

http://www.modemhelp.org/inits/usrobotics.html

 

[KLin]

ATL0 = no external sound.