Hooking up

I downloaded Nirvana MTV unplugged, it took days at 1p a minute. Think the bill for that was £300 that month. Mother was not happy!
 
Yeah, the old old days when you paid BT for the call charge and your ISP per minute for being online.

I think AOL was our first provider, and then 'Cableinet' which later became Blueyonder.

Also BT Wireplay which cost money.
 
I remember seeing this (actual screenshot of my own connection):

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I was kind of lucky cost wise as after about 2 months I got onto a BT scheme (think it was through college but not 100% on that now) that gave you something like 500 hours a month for a flat fee and then onto their "unlimited" plan which sadly had a 2 hour cut off so you'd have to reconnect before starting a game online.

VincentHanna said:
I remember when the Wing Commander: Prophecy demo came in at 120MB or something, it took days to download.
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Having access to a couple of faster connections (not at home) I got very familiar with spanning large downloads over dozens of floppy disks lol.
 
Can you imagine how long it took me to download the internet to floppy disks when I was doing it via dialup?
 
remember just upgrading my pc to the then best at time loading ebay on dial up.thinking what a waste :D month later getting 256mb bb. like :cool:
 
lakitu said:
Could you not use a download manager program? That was my best friend when i was on the 2 hour plan with Freeserve! Cant remember the name now.

edit:- Getright was the name of the program!
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We too were on Freeserve! Back then, I didn't know of download managers... what a difference that could have made.
 
Download managers saved me from going crazy. It didnt stop AoE games being ruined by the 2hour limit tho! (massive maps and my and friends love to turtle)
 
enigma27 said:
OMG just remembered I am sure there was a deal going round for 56k that gave you unlimited usage online...

Cant remember the name but was something like 40-50 quid a month. (This was before ISDN)
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Probably Freeserve, my mum and step-dad had a second line installed so we could do that. It used to disconnect you every two hours or so but you could just reconnect again.

Then we moved to South Africa and had to go back to one line and paying by the minute. :(
 
VincentHanna said:
Yep, before anyone had the bright idea to put you in a lobby and make you wait.

Lots of games were literally - Map loads - Spawn first - Run around getting the good weapons before others spawn in. 7200RPM hard drives also helped.
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Tom_ed1987 said:
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I remember this most vividly in BF1942. I had a 10000rpm WD Raptor at the time & iirc a 9800pro, & would always spawn first on 64player games.
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I remember all those with the Raptors.

Those were the days in certain ways the internet was a different and better place in some ways back then. Now all the riff raff is on. Still, the internet is still fun but there is more trash to weed through. Still fun mind.
 
56k for me! :D

Well..42k could never get a solid 56k, ever! LOL

"Welcome to AOL, you have E-mail" haha always remember that :cool:

Miss how innocent everything felt back then tbh but don't miss the diabolical speeds that's for sure...
 
I remember 2/under 2 hours to download a 45MB file. Used to use Download Accelerator Plus.

Now its a few hours to download 75GB.
 
V F said:
I remember 2/under 2 hours to download a 45MB file. Used to use Download Accelerator Plus.

Now its a few hours to download 75GB.
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I have fond memories of the morning our 512Kbps ADSL was activated, it felt unbelievably fast after years of dial-up. Now here I am with an 80Mbps connection and it's no big deal.
 
TheVoice said:
I have fond memories of the morning our 512Kbps ADSL was activated, it felt unbelievably fast after years of dial-up. Now here I am with an 80Mbps connection and it's no big deal.
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You cannot deny you'd want your downloads in seconds no matter how big a file. Would be nice to download 80GB in 30 seconds.
 
These forums feel like that at the moment, Pages are taking over a minute to load, and even clicking back to the main parent forums is taking the same time too. It's like running through treacle.

Code: 
Tracing route to forums.overclockers.co.uk [185.103.4.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  TP-LINK.Home [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *       12 ms  137.hiper04.sheff.dial.plus.net.uk [195.166.143.137]
  4    28 ms    12 ms    13 ms  be3-3104.psb-ir01.plus.net [195.166.143.136]
  5    12 ms    12 ms    19 ms  195.99.125.134
  6    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  62.172.103.27
  7    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  t2c4-et-3-3-0-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.211.246]
  8    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  hu0-1-0-0.ccr22.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.14.229]
  9    26 ms    12 ms    12 ms  149.11.143.94
 10    15 ms    12 ms    12 ms  ve940.er11.ldx.as50056.net [31.28.67.58]
 11    12 ms    13 ms     *     ve933.er8.vta.as50056.net [31.28.68.46]
 12  forums.overclockers.co.uk [185.103.4.11]  reports: Destination protocol unreachable.

Trace complete.
 
Ahh good old memories of blueyonder; I can actually still remember the login details to this day.

Playing runescape only to get a kill/shiny r2h then for someone to pick up the phone cutting you off.
 
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