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| Thread ID: 55756 | 2005-03-19 00:27:00 | Telcos and Dialup (Give us a break) | Myth (110) | PC World Chat |
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| 335582 | 2005-03-19 06:05:00 | I've never experienced broadband so don't know what I'm missing :) Been on a paradise 150 hr/$15 plan for years with the crappy winmodem... always connect first time, never get discoed and d/l is steady at 3-4 Ks... online gameplay (GPL) is fine with aussie and useable further afield... happy chappy really Pete |
Organicpete (133) | ||
| 335583 | 2005-03-19 06:38:00 | anybody estimate how much a serial modem will cost? www.pricespy.co.nz |
godfather (25) | ||
| 335584 | 2005-03-19 06:42:00 | I'm with organicpete- I've never had any problems with my winmodem. At least under windows. I offically despise ever having tried getting Lycoris & Conexant to play ball | Edward (31) | ||
| 335585 | 2005-03-19 11:57:00 | $8 win modems give the rest a bad name. For that sort of money you don't get a hardware DSP. A decent win modem can be very good except when bad software takes 100% of the CPU (Adobe PDF Reader at times) then you can lose the connection. The rest of the time, a good win modem takes less CPU resource to run than a serial port and probably has more up to date software than some oldish external modem. Conexant excepted. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 335586 | 2005-03-19 22:16:00 | I also think that Telecom are giving dial up users the run around, and are neglecting dialup users and are trying to get everyone on broadband. I changed over to broadband about 6 weeks ago due to poor connection speeds and download speeds,which once apoun a time use to be good. I was useing a $450 US Robotics modem. Trevor:) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 335587 | 2005-03-19 22:31:00 | Their cunning plan isn't working. I'm on dialup and it works so well for general surfing that I can't justify the additional spend for ADSL 256 :-( | PaulD (232) | ||
| 335588 | 2005-03-24 09:23:00 | Hmm, looks like I might be eating my words.... Noticed a problem on phone line yesterday, rung Telecom, they ran their fault test, and yes, my phone line had a fault Am going to hook up a new jack (soon) as the Telecom guy said that my extension was bad, tho the rest of the line is NOW sweet :) Apologies to Quicksilver Ummm and thank you Telecom :blush: |
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