Is Dial up a problemo?

[larryfulkerson]

Hey you guys........so um, there I was posting pictures in my AARs and a thought occured to me. Some of you guys might be on dial-up. And so a thousand pictures might be a severe problemo for you. So lemme ask you guys:

Would you rather see a URL to click on to see the picture or would you guys rather just have the picture posted in the AAR?

[Telumar]

It took my "old-school" comp. quite a time to load your threads. I think a newer one might do it much much more quicker.
BUT: Don't make attachments, your files are quite huge. You wouldn't be allowed by SZO i think; and i love those pics, it's great.
I have a ethernet direct access to the web at currently 100Mbit/s.
So i can't speak for dial-up, but as it takes quite long for me to load your threads, it might be a problem for those using dial-up. My problem is RAM. I had half the RAM i have now about a week ago and it became faster.

Who is using dial-up these days??

[larryfulkerson]

BUT: Don't make attachments, your files are quite huge.

I wasn't going to make any attachments, the files are too large for that. I'm using http://imageshack.us/ to post the pictures. It's a picture posting service, you can post any number of pictures so long as they are equal to or smaller than 1024 KB. I posted one that was 1023 KB just tonight and they took it. Anyway, I post the picture there and then use the image tag [I]name of the picture[/ i m g ] and the picture appears in your web browser when you load the web page. That's how you see it when you look at my AAR thread.

Alternately I could use the [u r l ]name of the picture[/ u r l ] tag to just post the thing you click on to open another copy of the browser with the picture as the thing that you'll see. That way the page as a whole will load in your browser faster ( no pictures ) and any picture you wanna see you just click on the link and see it.

Those on dial-up ( if there are any anymore ) might like to have the second option instead of having to wait for 30 minutes for the page to load, since there are so many pictures.

That's why I asked.

Thanks for your input though.

[Telumar]

Okay, misunderstood..

[Okimaw]

Who is using dial-up these days??[/QUOTE]

Really, like does anyone still have a hand crank telephone? J/k I haven't seen anyone in this city with a dial up connection in about 4 yrs

[Aries]

Broadband service is pretty much available just about anywhere.

The trick is in the cost.

Canada and New Zealand for instance, they look so much alike (in many social ways).

But, here in south central ontario, I have all manner of services falling over themselves to be the one I pick.

Meanwhile, in NZ, you likely have one provider, that says. This is what it's going to cost you, this is how it works, and you're going to like it.

So, I have 540k download speed, on a virtually unlimited dsl service for 45 bucks a month.
My friend pays the same amount, and likely gets half the speed, and is allowed 3 gigs of bandwidth a month.

I would never pay 45 bucks for that willingly.

[Bob Cross]

I use dial-up. There are some threads I just don't visit. But I can't imagine an AAR without pictures.

[El Cid]

I used to have broadband when I was in the States. Now back in Spain I am on dial-up.

Not because broadband is not available in Spain, but because now the computer is in my kids playroom, and what is the sense of having broadband if I can't download porn movies.:devil:

Everybody knows that if you're on broadband you're a sexoholic. :paperbag:

[JAMiAM]

I used to have broadband when I was in the States. Now back in Spain I am on dial-up.

Not because broadband is not available in Spain, but because now the computer is in my kids playroom, and what is the sense of having broadband if I can't download porn movies.:devil:

Everybody knows that if you're on broadband you're a sexoholic. :paperbag:
I guess now you can say that you are "broad-banned"...:laugh:

[jlbetin]

I use broad band at home and I used dial up at my mother house.
Now Broad band is available there too, humm I ask myself if..........

Der WanderBipBipBip:eek:

[Aries]

They have said, that the porn industry will actually be the deciding vote in the battle between Blueray and HD format.

But, I use my broadband for just about everything other than sex.

Now if I was single, that might be different :)

[RhinoBones]

Hey you guys........so um, there I was posting pictures in my AARs and a thought occured to me. Some of you guys might be on dial-up. And so a thousand pictures might be a severe problemo for you.

Matrix originally intended just to sell TOAW3 as a download, and then they decided to add a CD by special order. What does that tell you about how many people use dial up?

Chemical engineers . . . geezzzzz!!

Regards, RhinoBones

[larryfulkerson]

Matrix originally intended just to sell TOAW3 as a download, and then they decided to add a CD by special order. What does that tell you about how many people use dial up?
Chemical engineers . . . geezzzzz!!
Regards, RhinoBones

Actually, scientifically speaking, it tells me nothing at all about how many. It DOES however tell me that Matrix expects at least one ( male / female ) person in at least one country to order it on the CD.

[Leftie]

Well I can tell you that on base here in Iwakuni, dial up is the only reliable source of internet connection. I pay 45 dollars a month for wireless internet that only stays connected if I am on my porch and even then it is slow as hell and unreliable. As a result of the poor wireless service, they also give you dial up.

It amazes me that in a country as technologically advanced as Japan, the US base here cannot get broadband access. It's mostly due to the contracts that the providers have signed. There is no room for competition at all and we are offered no alternative to what is provided.


Ben

[General Staff]

Well I can tell you that on base here in Iwakuni, dial up is the only reliable source of internet connection.
Here in the wilds of Dublin, I pay extra for ISDN.

Eircom- aka 'the tart with the cart'- has just been sold off again, and the whore of Babylon isn't it it- that's several times this trick has been turned over and now 3 billion USD in debt to some outfit down under (Babcott and Brown-some threesome that now) and we're all going to pay for it through the !"£$ here.

Not to mention we've gone here on the Broadband front in 10 years from leading edge to bleeding hedge... There's only so much abuse a working girl can take...