The be kind to whiny dialuppers image thread!
Russ
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So I guess we're now stuck with the LOWEST common denominator:
AB7XY
<< <i>I bet Russ laughs at kids with no shoes on their feet in the winter too. >>
Only if they have funny looking feet.
Russ, NCNE
Cameron Kiefer
<< <i>non professional web surfers >>
So Russ would be....................
you forgot to add
and the place where the most money is made.
T1 Frame Relay circuit installed...this thread and all the images loaded in
about 1/2 second!
Ken
Contacted high speed,and I had the highest point around,as in line of sight.
They installed 2 small grid antenna's (wa la, free high speed for life)
<< <i>and the place where the most money is made. >>
Jason,
There is more to life than money.
BTW, you ready to take my amazingly STUPID offer for those two worthless moderns?
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>There is more to life than money >>
So you are saying you can do without money?
Personally, money to me brings me happiness. Of course there are other things that are MORE important.
In about 2 weeks we will see just how worthless those moderns really are.
<< <i>So you are saying you can do without money? >>
I don't have any, so I guess the answer is yes!
<< <i>In about 2 weeks we will see just how worthless those moderns really are. >>
Okay, but don't come crying to me when you realize what a nice profit you could have made!
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>Nice little key collection Sequitur
AB7XY >>
I said the same thing in a PM
W2UP
<< <i>Okay, but don't come crying to me when you realize what a nice profit you could have made! >>
The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)
K S
Some of us are with few options.
Many of us can't afford $50 to $100 a month for the luxury of fast loads. It's just not in the budget. The web is still a luxury item for many folks in any form.
But some of us could, and would. But.... it's not doable.
I'm not far from a major Upstate NY city.
BUT where I am there is no cable (Long story). I'm too far from any exchange for DSL to work. Tried sighting a dish for TV a bit back, and thanks to the trees and hills about got nada but bluescreens and static (I enjoy 2 stations, NBC and CBS, I hear there are a few more these days). I doubt that I'd have much better luck with broadband that way.
So I HAVE to use a dial up. On a good day I manage 28K baud. On most I pull off 23K. So I can't even get up to that fabled 56K cap.
So for those two reasons, financial and technical, a good number of us can't join you folks in the 21st century. We are not unlike a cyclist peddling along a freeway these days. We get there, but we are constantly being buffited by the other vehicals whipping past.
We try not to whine about it. And most of us don't, but some days you bump into something on the web that just annoys the crud out of one. And you go off.
You go to a webpage that has content that you want to see, and get to wait 30 minutes because they have decided to embed a hude midi-file into it so it can annoy you by playing camptown races while you look at the page. Or you want to buy something, but there is that 2 Meg flash file that hangs you up for 20 minutes before you can do anything. Seeing that kitten batting the product about was SOOOOOO worth it!. And so on.
So sometimes even the most even tempered of us go off. I have to assume that there is a thread made by one of my low bandwidth brothers someplace here on the forum that prompted this thread.
Does it annoy me to get slog about so slowly? Yes. When I look at a thread here I sometimes have to wait an additional 1 to 2 minutes to get all the thread content as it's hung while an image in a post above loads. Sometimes that image is a sig file picture (And like many forums I know I could turn of viewing of sig files here I wager, but I often find very valuable links located in peoples sigs here, and I wouldn't want to miss those). But one deals. I have a book here by the computer and I read while pages load.
I know that this thread was meant in good spirits, and not in a negative or mean way. But it sort of leaves a taste in my mouth that I'm being pointed at as some technical cripple or cheepskate for the yuks of others who are fortunate enough to have other options. It reminds me of the annoyed feeling I got as a kid when peers would make fun of the glasses I had to wear. Like I wanted to.
Myriads
Content on the internet has moved way beyond what can be delivered via dial-up connection, at least beyond what can be delivered without waiting forever. That's just the way it is.
Fortunately this site offers an option for those on slower connections. I don't really see what else could be done without penalizing those with more modern technology, technology that is even rather commonplace at this point.
Frankly, I'm thankful for what I have, and I'm not gonna put anyone else down because they don't have what I do. Because you never know when your fortunes will reverse, and you might have to cut back on some luxuries. Walk a mile in a man's shoes before you decide to criticize his lifestyle.
I took the original post as tongue in cheek, but I did want to offer Myriads some support.
<< <i>you saying i should upgrade my 300 baud acoustic modem?
K S >>
On a related note, I remember when I upgraded my 300 baud modem to a 1200 baud modem (Commodore 64 days). The computer mags went on and on how unreliable they'd be, as the phone lines can't handle that fast a data rate