twfigurines | 13 Aug 2008 4:48 a.m. PST |
I've not found any poll on this subject for a while and thought it could make an interesting poll. What kind of internet connection do people use? Modem, broadband, how fast, from home or work? The result might give a good guideline for all the people who maintain hobby or commercial miniature websites on picture sizes and so on. |
Grizwald | 13 Aug 2008 4:55 a.m. PST |
You mean there are people who are still using dial-up? |
Grumpy Monkey | 13 Aug 2008 4:58 a.m. PST |
Cable for now, but hoping for FIOS in the near future! |
vojvoda | 13 Aug 2008 5:06 a.m. PST |
Digital Cable which I think most call broadband. T1 line at work. VR James Mattes |
Lord Billington Wadsworth | 13 Aug 2008 5:09 a.m. PST |
Psychic connection for me. I just beam it right into my brain. It don't have any ill effects I can think of
*twitch* |
Lord Billington Wadsworth | 13 Aug 2008 5:10 a.m. PST |
;) I've got a cable connection at home – thinking of switching to FIOS once Verizon can offer a decent television package. |
Ed Mohrmann | 13 Aug 2008 5:37 a.m. PST |
3 systems, all at home: Mom – digital cable Kid – broadband me – dial-up Probably go FIOS once they get it out this far
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rusty musket | 13 Aug 2008 5:37 a.m. PST |
I use AT&T broadband but I do not know what, if any, special name is for it. |
Mooseworks8 | 13 Aug 2008 5:43 a.m. PST |
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nycjadie | 13 Aug 2008 5:45 a.m. PST |
Cable. T1 at work. My cable line is faster, for some reason. |
Martin Rapier | 13 Aug 2008 5:55 a.m. PST |
"are still using dial-up" 80% of the time my cellular broadband device reverts to dial-up speeds. Depends on 3G signal coverage. At work, 100MBs switched network. Wired & wireless. At home, cable broadband via a wireless router. Dunno the speed, basic Virgin Media connection, 4MBs? Mobile – 3G device, can get up to 10MBs, but more often 56k;-) Plus any wireless I can get onto. |
Who asked this joker | 13 Aug 2008 5:57 a.m. PST |
DSL from Speakeasy. Will NEVER go FIOS so long as it is run by Verizon. |
Ditto Tango 2 1 | 13 Aug 2008 5:58 a.m. PST |
Great idea for a poll. Dial up at home. High speed, of course, from work. |
nazrat | 13 Aug 2008 6:08 a.m. PST |
Roadrunner from Timewarner Cable. I've never had a problem with it. |
Lowtardog | 13 Aug 2008 6:11 a.m. PST |
Broadband but have avoided going wireless prefer the sight of a cable rather than all the magic mumbo jumbo :0) |
Tom Reed | 13 Aug 2008 6:21 a.m. PST |
Dial up at home. T1 line at work. |
Kampfgruppe Cottrell | 13 Aug 2008 6:29 a.m. PST |
Since I live in the stix I can only get satellite service. It sucks big time, Brian |
HistoriFigs | 13 Aug 2008 6:31 a.m. PST |
At home we don't have too many choices. No cable, no DSL – so as bad as it is we have satellite. But, If I can ever find a good plan wireless actually works fairly well, so that might be an option soon. |
Grizwald | 13 Aug 2008 6:37 a.m. PST |
"3 systems, all at home:" Why not all share one of the high speed options? I have anything up to 8 machines on my single cable connection at home. " Mom – digital cable Kid – broadband" Um
what's the difference? FIOS? Oh (Googled it) – that's what we in the UK call cable. |
Phil Walling | 13 Aug 2008 6:51 a.m. PST |
10mb Broadband connection
stable as anything :) |
vtsaogames | 13 Aug 2008 7:10 a.m. PST |
Cable at home – at work some kind of broadband that comes in to my machine via Ethernet cable. |
Mike G | 13 Aug 2008 7:20 a.m. PST |
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pphalen | 13 Aug 2008 7:22 a.m. PST |
Cable at (both) Home(s). Shared fractional T1 at work (slower than home) |
Klebert L Hall | 13 Aug 2008 7:27 a.m. PST |
Cable broadband at work, dialup at home. Only options at home for high speed are satellite or cellphone. Waiting for Fios, but if cell gets cheap enough before it gets to us, we'll go that route. -Kle. |
TheMackster | 13 Aug 2008 7:38 a.m. PST |
15 MBs (cable) highspeed for the home LAN (network for 3 computers + 1 printer) 300K ("baby" highspeed) for the store, just upgraded from 56k dialup 3 weeks ago when the price was finally right. |
jgibbons | 13 Aug 2008 7:53 a.m. PST |
DSL
I've been very happy with it James |
Parzival | 13 Aug 2008 8:04 a.m. PST |
Just got DSL up and running. I'm very happy with the speed, but to get the set up to work the way I wanted, I had to work around some issues created by the big blue Death Star. (Advice: don't waste your time or money on their "wireless" gateway. They cripple its wireless networking capabilities unless you pay them a monthly fee. Instead, go with the DSL modem and buy your own wireless router, and network away to your heart's content.) |
EagleSixFive | 13 Aug 2008 8:12 a.m. PST |
We call broadband 'fraudband' in Australia. Pay dearly for anything decent. I'm on 15Mb broadband via ethernet. Have a Wii router but its not worth it, ethernet is hasslefree. |
Two Owl Bob | 13 Aug 2008 8:13 a.m. PST |
I live nearly six miles from a UK city so we have only been able to get dialup since 2002. Broadband is still many years away. Mind you we only got mains water and sewage in the 70s, electricity came in about 79 and telephone in 84. |
Gungnir | 13 Aug 2008 8:37 a.m. PST |
DSL. The last few hundred dial up subscribers in the Netherlands will have to switch to something else before the end of the year, the service being discontinued. |
recon35 | 13 Aug 2008 8:48 a.m. PST |
DSL, since there is no cable available, but I have no complaints about it, and was able to game the various Battlefield incarnations online quite well. |
DontFearDareaper | 13 Aug 2008 9:03 a.m. PST |
DSL from AT&T at home. At work we have a 20 MB connection to the internet. Dave |
Silurian | 13 Aug 2008 9:35 a.m. PST |
AT&T DSL. Quite happy with it. Tried wargamer1972's option once and, boy, did I get a nasty shock! |
Andrew Walters | 13 Aug 2008 9:40 a.m. PST |
I think we have some kind of tube. What's that kind of pasta that's hollow in the middle? <checks wikipedia> Penne. We have long penne. I think its called DSL. Its cheaper than cable, which I think is made of Red Vines. We used to have dial up but now DSL is no more expensive. Andrew |
NightskyWildfire | 13 Aug 2008 9:41 a.m. PST |
Running a three computer network off of cable at home. The oldest wants us to hook him into the network from his bedroom but we haven't yet. I can imagine the trouble a young man could get into online LOL. |
The Monstrous Jake | 13 Aug 2008 10:11 a.m. PST |
Just got DSL at home a few months ago, the first time broadband has been available in my area. No cable, no wireless coverage where I live. When I moved into the house five years ago I wired the whole place with Cat5e Ethernet, new TV cable, and new phone lines, so once I did get DSL to the house, every room has it. |
sma1941 | 13 Aug 2008 10:45 a.m. PST |
Cable with wireless to reach the laptop. |
CLDecker | 13 Aug 2008 11:29 a.m. PST |
currently DSL with wireless, tomorrow we switch to fiber optic. |
CeruLucifus | 13 Aug 2008 12:18 p.m. PST |
DSL at home, basic speed. They keep calling and telling me I'm close to the central office and could pay more for a higher data rate and I tell my wife it'd be great for online gaming and she asks if I really need it and I admit "well, uh,
no". At work we have T1 equivalent. The result might give a good guideline for all the people who maintain hobby or commercial miniature websites on picture sizes and so on. A better criteria for this is actually to ask what the most common display resolution people use is
but anyway, the only sensible guideline is to use small images with big images behind links, or possibly to run two parallel sites with a link at the front for broadband versus dialup
which can be saved in a cookie for future visits. Then everybody's covered. |
IttyBitty | 13 Aug 2008 1:30 p.m. PST |
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Sterling Moose | 13 Aug 2008 4:17 p.m. PST |
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Regrebnelle | 13 Aug 2008 5:49 p.m. PST |
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Grizwald | 14 Aug 2008 1:24 a.m. PST |
"I live nearly six miles from a UK city so we have only been able to get dialup since 2002. Broadband is still many years away." Really? My brother-in-law lives a lot further "out in the sticks" than that (in the UK) and he has broadband over ADSL. |
Two Owl Bob | 14 Aug 2008 7:22 a.m. PST |
Sorry, I was being sarcastic. My MP (new labour poodle) proudly told us all that the entire ward was able to get broadband so I tried to sign up with BT only to find that I am not on a proper telephone exchange. Apparently we get what amounts to a party line for the whole village feeding into the main exchange some miles away. A bit of electronics means that several of us can make a call at once but it won't extend to high-volume data transfers. A proper exchange is planned but they are waiting on new planning developments before they decide exactly what we will get and so broadband will be delayed for a few years. We have already been warned that we might have no access to the internet soon as the system is having to cope with too many houses. According to a letter from my MP none of this is true, a further letter from BT says my MP is talking bobbins. Aarrrghhh! |
Grizwald | 14 Aug 2008 8:52 a.m. PST |
Oh dear, Two Owl Bob, you have my sympathies – that sucks! |