Today marks a new era of internet for me

[13579]

I have finally upgraded. I've had dialup all my life, and now, finally, it's time for change.

People of Zoklet. After a whole hour of screwing with network and router settings, I have upgraded....to WIRELESS DIALUP!

It's even slower than before!

At least I've found something to do with this router I've had laying around.

Before anyone suggests it, clearwire doesn't reach where I am, there is no cable, can't get DSL for some reason, and fuck satilite (I can have DSL speeds for over $50/month AND a download cap of under a GB? Fuck that).

I had the idea of converting an old C-band satilite dish into a superduper wifi antenna, but I'm still surrounded by forrest and trees, so I doubt I'd get anything.

Any ideas on how to get me fast internet other than smartphone/cellphone contract bullshit?

[DaSkipper]

I laughed harder than appropriate.

[whocares]

Dafuq? You still use 56k?

[Poop]

Dude, in some countries your human rights are being violated.

[NamelessNom4d]

WIRELESS DIALUP!

Damn dude it's 2012, I thought it was bad when I finally convinced my parents to get high speed cable in 2008 lol.

Do you have 4G or 3G in your area? You might just have to get one of those wireless contracts for high speed...

[Michael Scott]

My dad whooped my ass one day because he specifically told me not to use the internet because he was expecting a phone call from his boss. But I wanted to play games on disney.com.

That ass whooping was well worth it.

[roasted]

Originally Posted by NamelessNom4d

Do you have 4G or 3G in your area? You might just have to get one of those wireless contracts for high speed...

I wouldnt even consider 3G "high speed".

How can your new internet be slower than a 56k modem? Is that even possible?

[ThaTermeneter]

pur ur cock on the modem chip lol


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[Zombie Food]

I don't see the issue?

Get a 500mile ethernet cord

Plug into computer

Plug into the nearest internet ethernet station

And there you go!

[Vigilante]

Just don't sing any contracts man.. That two year bullshit will get you every time. Not only that, but to buyout of the contract is like equal to paying for 5 months or something.. And 3 gigs of data or less dont go far.. I gotta be moving on up myself.. I have done my research but there has to be some way to pirate 3-4g without a service provider, right? And I'm not talking about a wifi hotspot..

[xCon]

Originally Posted by Vigilante

Just don't sing any contracts man.. That two year bullshit will get you every time. Not only that, but to buyout of the contract is like equal to paying for 5 months or something.. And 3 gigs of data or less dont go far.. I gotta be moving on up myself.. I have done my research but there has to be some way to pirate 3-4g without a service provider, right? And I'm not talking about a wifi hotspot..

There's nothing wrong with a two-year contract if it's appropriate for your given situation. I'm on a 2-year contract that's 32 pounds a month and has 2000 minutes, and unlimited text and data. It came with a free iPhone too. Good luck getting a deal like that with prepaid/pay-as-you-go,

[Haiti's Space Agency]

Cheap as fuck at walmart bro. IF any of your friends have Cricket service Cell Phones use them to make sure you get good signal in your area.

[888]

The Jeffersons Original Theme Song - YouTube

The Jeffersons Original Theme Song - YouTube
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[Vigilante]

move'n on up... to the eastside..

[The Big LeBronowski]

>2012
>56k

[888]

Originally Posted by Vigilante

move'n on up... to the eastside..

Precisely accurate except he is not moving to the east .

[IIIII]

There was a time when people would shotgun modems to get an internet speed of 112k. It involved using two phone lines and two modems connecting to separate Internet providers running into one computer.

Smoking speed on Windows 98.

[Michael Scott]

This thread reminds me of that collection of AOL cds i used to have. I had like a hundred of them i found in random places

[ayingerbrau]

If you can get a 3G connection you could buy one of those mi-fi things, 15GB/month for £18, iirc, which is fine unless you download a lot of stuff.

[Zay]

Reminds me of the dumb african kids who walk 20 miles to a pond for drinking water. Why not just move closer to the water?

[sevenTwo]

Originally Posted by Zay

Reminds me of the dumb african kids who walk 20 miles to a pond for drinking water. Why not just move closer to the water?

because the rent is too damn high?

[Still The Best 1973]

This thread is pure gold. I never would imagine running into someone that still uses dial up.

I too remember getting my ass kicked for using the internet while my dad was using the phone.

[p6867]

If you wanted to go on youtube, how long would it take you to buffer a 2 minute video?

[Issue313]

Remeber 56k modems? - YouTube

Remeber 56k modems? - YouTube
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Everyone can watch this except for OP

[ThunderDownUnder]

Originally Posted by Still The Best 1973

This thread is pure gold. I never would imagine running into someone that still uses dial up.

I too remember getting my ass kicked for using the internet while my dad was using the phone.

I have a fair few friends that either used to survive, or still survive, off of free trial AOL disks for their internet.

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EDIT: Noticed you live in Washington...Shoulda looked before I responded.

I would have a hard time believing that you can't get a good internet plan with Verizon in Washington...My dad lives in a little asshole town in Idaho and even he gets high speed internet.

[Malcolm Equis]

we got a second phoneline just for 56k cause it was cheaper than buying cable internet..

[Jack]

Originally Posted by ayingerbrau

If you can get a 3G connection you could buy one of those mi-fi things, 15GB/month for £18, iirc, which is fine unless you download a lot of stuff.

This is a really shitty idea. 15GB/month is 120000Mb/month which, assuming 30 days in a month, comes out to less than 48Kb/s. OP is better off with dialup.

[xCon]

Originally Posted by Jack

This is a really shitty idea. 15GB/month is 120000Mb/month which, assuming 30 days in a month, comes out to less than 48Kb/s. OP is better off with dialup.

15GB/month is the total amount of bandwidth you can use in a month, not your connection speed.

[JC Denton]

Lol i didnt know dialup still existed

[Jack]

Originally Posted by xCon

15GB/month is the total amount of bandwidth you can use in a month, not your connection speed.

I was joking.

God I suck.

[ZokletNewbie]

Originally Posted by Zombie Food

I don't see the issue?

Get a 500mile ethernet cord

Plug into computer

Plug into the nearest internet ethernet station

And there you go!

LMAO

[-SpectraL]

It's possible to pair two identical 33.6 kbit/s analog modems in dual use in a single computer and create two separate 33.6kbit/s connections on the same machine. This method is called inverse multiplexing. It requires two phone lines and two identical analog modems. We used to call this kind of connection a "shotgun" connection 20 years ago. It is also possible to create up to FOUR separate 33.6/56k connections on the same machine with an old device similar to a router which is called WebRamps (pretty cheap to buy now) if your ISP supports more than two channels, but you can create at least two full 33.6/56k analog channels even without it.

[AMFYOYO]

Originally Posted by -SpectraL

It's possible to pair two identical 33.6 kbit/s analog modems in dual use in a single computer and create two separate 33.6kbit/s connections on the same machine. This method is called inverse multiplexing. It requires two phone lines and two identical analog modems. We used to call this kind of connection a "shotgun" connection 20 years ago. It is also possible to create up to FOUR separate 33.6/56k connections on the same machine with an old device similar to a router which is called WebRamps (pretty cheap to buy now) if your ISP supports more than two channels, but you can create at least two full 33.6/56k analog channels even without it.

Originally Posted by -SpectraL

Since she's probably the very last hope this place has, I've put in a final plea to kite-- to overrule the many traitors to free speech on this site and unban DaGuru's account. I'm waiting for a reply. If she won't do it then I'll be continuing my boycott with Enter. No sense contributing to a community which detests somebody else's opinion. Let it die in that case.

Does your post ITT mean that kite unbanned DaGuru?

[-SpectraL]

With the shotgun system set up, you don't actually get any more speed than you'd get from a standard 56k modem, but what it does do (for example) is allow you to max out one of the 56k connections on the one modem in downloading a file, while simultaneously able to max out a second download on the other 56k as well, basically giving you the download potential of a 112k connection.

[Trix Are For Kids]

Originally Posted by AMFYOYO

Does your post ITT mean that kite unbanned DaGuru?

The guy is posting useful info for the OP, in fact probably the first info that CAN be used. Fuck off, this shit isn't needed in a tech forum.

EDIT: And he's entirely right, if you don't want to pay the money for what you need that's the best idea.

[AMFYOYO]

Originally Posted by Trix Are For Kids

The guy is posting useful info for the OP, in fact probably the first info that CAN be used. Fuck off, this shit isn't needed in a tech forum.

EDIT: And he's entirely right, if you don't want to pay the money for what you need that's the best idea.

Suck dick much?

[-SpectraL]

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1990

[xCon]

Originally Posted by Jack

I was joking.

God I suck.

I didn't check the math to realize that it was a joke. My bad.