The 56k Modem Days!

Hedge · 7 Apr 2009 at 18:58

Im currently stressing over how long a game is taking to update at 100kbs. And this made me realise how different things were before we all got broadband.

Downloading an mp3 at 5kbs, Waiting for a porno jpeg to load bit by bit and playing Counter Strike with Pings between 2-300ms

God knows how we put up with it for so long!

fergie128 · 7 Apr 2009 at 18:59

We will be saying the same about our current net connections at some point in the future as well

gumbald · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:00

Move house, Warrington's lovely this time of year.

loltim · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:00

My dial-up NEVER downloaded at 5kb/s. You were lucky.

SexyGreyFox · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:01

56k - you were lucky.
My first MODEM was 1440 (1.4k) and you coupled it up to a phone.

Skeeter · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:02

Playing CS on a 15" laptop thorugh an internet gateway on my PC with a 56k Modem in it.... those were the days.

Before that I had a Win 95 machine with a 28.8k modem. I remembered the search URL for Google as it meant one less page load. www.google.co.uk/?q=!"search-text-here"

cybergeek · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:02

I remember it used to take me 6 hours to download what I now download in less than 15 minutes

Hedge · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:02

Tim said:
My dial-up NEVER downloaded at 5kb/s. You were lucky.

Lol

I had a 20mb connection at my Ex girlfriends house, and even then I would twist my face at download speeds of around 250kbs. The difference is huge.

Like Fergie says, Its only gonna get faster. Will be rather impressive when you can download a full film in a matter of minutes.

Whats currently the fastest connections active ?

gumbald · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:04

Skeeter said:
I remembered the search URL for Google as it meant one less page load. www.google.co.uk/?q=!"search-text-here"

What about life before Google?

Hedge · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:05

I think Yahoo was the search engine I used when I first began using the internet.

Ive never been on yahoo for years now

sketch145 · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:05

our connection was 28k only 4 months ago (we live quite far from civilisation to be fair) songs would download at about 3-4kb/s and I didn't even attempt online gaming.

Mr-White · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:10

an mp3 used to take me about 20 mins god knows how i managed 30gb on it :confused:

MW

Kearney_1988 · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:10

i just remember having a habit of breaking my modems. think i went through 4 in six months.

Mr-White · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:10

whoops

MW

Hedge · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:11

I used to have a Diamond SupraExpress modem, Im pretty sure that was the model, I bought it especially for playing counter strike. Was pretty fast compared to some at the time

Sone · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:17

Hedge said:
I used to have a Diamond SupraExpress modem, Im pretty sure that was the model, I bought it especially for playing counter strike. Was pretty fast compared to some at the time

Yeah i had one to, use the AT string to set to 33k for best pings

Aod · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:18

Hedge said:
Like Fergie says, Its only gonna get faster. Will be rather impressive when you can download a full film in a matter of minutes.

Whats currently the fastest connections active ?

fastest connections are either ADSL2+ (24Mb/s) or Virgin "50meg"

i can download a full film (700MB) in about 10 minutes, should i want to do something so illegal and morally reprehensible...

eXor · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:19

Peak rate of 4 pence / min.

I ran up some huge bills.

gumbald · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:24

It'll just be the same looking back at 8Mbit when we've got FTTC.

Aod · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:37

gumbald said:
It'll just be the same looking back at 8Mbit when we've got FTTC.

i'm not getting excited untill we get FTTH