connection speed

[Rick Denney]

I had to try several modems before I could consistently get 49.2K. What you have is about as good as it gets on dialup.

But it sucks.

When I log into a secure service, I often have to wait two or three full minutes for each page to load. I usually have to save that stuff for the office.

My cable option is the same as yours, except replace the 1 with a 4. (Everything's more expensive here.)

We have a terrestrial microwave option here, but I don't have line of sight to their tower. I may have to put in a remote cabinet with their receiver, a switch, and a wireless access point, but then I have to get power to it.

I don't see enough satellites to get Hughes, and that's an expensive option anyway.

At some point, we are going to need a Rural Internet Administration like the Rural Electrification Administration of 80 or 90 years ago, and for basically the same reasons. It's getting harder and harder to transact business without a reasonable Internet connection, and rural folks are being left further and further behind because of it.

Rick "and, by the way, get back to work on my tuba" Denney

[Dan Schultz]

I just switched from a dial-up connection to cable a few months back. While I was on the dial-up, my ISP introduced a program called 'Revved' that basically degraded the graphics. It was quite a bit faster....

50 kb is about all you can expect over copper wires.

[Dan Schultz]

I just looked at it, Dan (thanks). It appears to be available only to your Evansville area service, requiring an account name and password to download...

I wonder...if I managed to download it, would it work with MY dial-up service?

I know 'Revved' came to me via my old dial-up account, but I can't imagine it being specific to just the Evansville On Line service. I just downloaded the current files in both Windows and Mac formats. I'll email them to you if you like. They are only one meg files.

[MartyNeilan]

56K is a theoritical limit that you will never see in this country due to phone line regulations. The best I have seen over the years is 46.6 or 48. If you got 49.2, thank your luck stars as I have never seen dialup connect that high. One tip is to use twisted pair for virtually everything and not the cheeepo extension wire where all the lines run parallel.

[windshieldbug]

One tip is to use twisted pair for virtually everything and not the cheeepo extension wire where all the lines run parallel.

A twisted pair?

[Dan Schultz]

Dan,

That is a very tiny file.

I'm thinkin' those 1 meg files are just files that allow you to download the bulk of the file with that tiny file...??

Dunno. It's really not much of a program. All it does is diminish the quality of graphics.

[ThomasDodd]

56K is a theoritical limit that you will never see in this country due to phone line regulations.

The FCC used to limit teh power on the lines, so that 53k was max usable.
Not sure if all modems have been upgraded since that rule was changed (in 1998)


Just be happy you get better than 33.6k out there. I've got too many switches on my line, and cannot get better than 33.6 because of it, an normally I connect at 28.8k.

[ThomasDodd]

And out of nowhere he reappears . . .

Howya doin? Whereya been hidin at?

You should check/answer your PMs
Other than that, just hanging. Surviving life with a 3 year old.

Kinda got side tracked with care stuff for a while. Even drove to Savannah, GA first of August for the Cadillac & La Salle Club Grand National show. Met some guys they I only knew from online.

[ThomasDodd]

You and Thomas have been involved in some corps endeavors together...correct?

That didn't work out so well this year...

Hi Thomas!
bloke "once again, on rural dial-up @ 50.6 Kbps"

Hey Joe...

Thomas, still on rural dial-up @ 28.8 K baud.

[ThomasDodd]

Whereya been hidin' at?

. . . You should check/answer your PMs . . .

Nah. I read that malarkey. You are lying; I know it. You and the son have been robbing banks again, haven't you? Shame, shame . . .

No there's a thought...