Soldato
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I will hazard at a guess, TikTok
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You’re so old!
TickTock
I feel it! (47) - but that would explain why I didn’t know what it was, I have never and never will use TT!
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it seems speeded upWoooh that is a blast from the past, not heard that for a long long timeAlso a long time user of IRC, initially chat.virgin.net back when they were a dial up ISP and then later EFnet. Not ventured on in a very long time though.
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ISDN?? cant hide money!
I couldn't convince my parents to pay for it
we had it when my dad's work was paying for it, fortunately wasn't more than a year or so later ADSL came along.
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I havn't touched IRC in 20 years or so used to be on it quite a bit but that was long ago.
I thought it meant TravelTime for journeys between physical meetings in Outlook…. Back before Microsoft Teams destroyed everything…….
You’re so old!
TickTock
Low ping *******!
Extremely rare these days; I occasionally jump on to ircnet (demon local channel) but that's about it. Back in '93, it was efnet, which was full of joggleheads. Then the bot fights, the server splits and endless drama. Such an emotional ride before the turn of the century.
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Yea I remember pings as low as 15 in counterstrike. Don't get that now.
ISDN was uncompressed and needed a dedicated digital line, so the tech kind of died off except for very specific uses. Apparently it's still used for real-time remote audio recordings, since being uncompressed there is no quality loss.
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When I was living in London saw like 4ms on ADSL pinging game servers in Telehouse - even when I was back in the South West around 11-12ms. Personally I never saw ISDN under around 40ms or so though I know some people have had lower.
What is pretty crazy - where I am now on 4G I get a pretty stable ~30ms ping on EE though at this time of day it is a little more varied:
Sadly not as good on other networks - Vodafone in the same spot has lots of spikes even up to a second
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When I was living in London saw like 4ms on ADSL pinging game servers in Telehouse - even when I was back in the South West around 11-12ms. Personally I never saw ISDN under around 40ms or so though I know some people have had lower.
What is pretty crazy - where I am now on 4G I get a pretty stable ~30ms ping on EE though at this time of day it is a little more varied:
Sadly not as good on other networks - Vodafone in the same spot has lots of spikes even up to a second
I get similar on Three 5g, but it varies wildly vs a physical link.
It's also sensitive to weather, number of nearby users (collisions), how fast the birds fly past the window, etc. 5g doesn't penetrate walls very well either, despite what was initially claimed. Has to go in a window or the signal is crap.
But it's £21 and I've seen 900mbit on it, so it's cheap. The router is also mobile anywhere in the UK.
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Surprisingly the EE 4G here is really solid about 90% of the time, do sometimes get busy periods or weather where it becomes a bit flaky but that isn't common. Even online gaming is possible competitively albeit there is a noticeable difference swapping to the FTTP connection. Can't say the same for the other networks and obviously in a lot of locations it isn't as good.
I accidentally left a game running online the other day for 3 days straight on it without a disconnection - be lucky to get an hour out of Vodafone 4G here without disconnecting at least once and most of the other networks you wouldn't get a full day without it dropping out at least once.
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Yep. Spent a long time using ICQ as well. The chat roulette was always fun.
I used to have a bot on the OcUK IRC chat that would kick and suspend people who swore.
I still use /me in texts and messages to people now, which is a hangover from the IRC days. Made a lot of friends through various chats and am still in touch with some of them today.
/me laughs.
I still use /me in texts and messages to people now, which is a hangover from the IRC days. Made a lot of friends through various chats and am still in touch with some of them today.
/me laughs.
My ICQ number was 1776683, that's imprinted in my brain!