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!

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 ?

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

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

Hedge · 7 Apr 2009 at 22:53

Oh god yeah Barrysworld and Wireplay.

One time I connected my net to Wireplay and i was amazed at my 160ms ping. Everyone was jealous too.

Occasionally an Isdn (i think it was that) guy would join our CS servers and would get griefed for being an LPB (Low ping bstard), The community was fantastic back then