Sixty times faster than a T1!

[daniel]

Originally Posted by jayman

I've had cable service in other areas, with rapid growth, and initially the speed was quite good. But they couldn't keep up with rapid growth and subscriber signups, and then the speed and connection quality really tanked

It's really just a matter of whether or not the company chooses to upgrade its capacity to the demand. They can increase profits by putting too many customers on too little hardware, or they can go for customer satisfaction by keeping their hardware ahead of the customer load.

I've been in Spokane for 3 1/2 years, and so far I am satisfied with Comcast. (But I don't use the email account they gave me.) In Fargo I was much less satisfied with CableOne, though their email server worked better.

Originally Posted by jayman

Motorola claims this cable modem supports 30 Mbps download speeds, and is DOCSIS 2 compliant

My new modem (which I bought myself) is DOCSIS 3. Maybe I'll put the old one on eBay just for giggles.

[qbee42]

I remember working on a 120 baud modem. Not 120k, but 120, or 12 characters per second. When we upgraded to 300 I really though we had something.

Tom

[daniel]

Originally Posted by qbee42

I remember working on a 120 baud modem. Not 120k, but 120, or 12 characters per second. When we upgraded to 300 I really though we had something.

Tom

I had a friend who insisted that nobody would ever have a use for a computer with more than 32 Kb of memory. He thought my 64K Kaypro 2X was just plain overkill.

[jayman]

Ah, the good ole days.

Of course, back then nobody could have foreseen 10 MB PowerPoint attachments of naughty girls, or HD Internet Porn.

Yes, we certainly have progressed ....

[Mark57]

Originally Posted by qbee42

I remember working on a 120 baud modem. Not 120k, but 120, or 12 characters per second. When we upgraded to 300 I really though we had something.

Tom

Been there. I still remember my Compuserve and Genie ID's. I probably still have a list of dial-up BBS's if I looked in my file cabinet. Pre-WWW was bleak but interesting and then came AOL . . . . I remember paying $700 for a USR Courier Dual Standard HST v-32 bis 14,400 and thinking it was a great price. I still have it.

[qbee42]

Bunch of fossils reminiscing about the good ole days.

Tom

[daniel]

Originally Posted by jayman

Of course, back then nobody could have foreseen [...] HD Internet Porn.

When you get right down to it, it's incredible that nobody foresaw internet porn. Porn has been big business since forever. I once read that hotels ("respectable" ones, no less!) make more money from in-house porn ("adult" movies) than from room charges. If the "futurists" could not foresee internet porn, they won't be able to predict that the sun will come up tomorrow!

[jayman]

Originally Posted by qbee42

Bunch of fossils reminiscing about the good ole days.

Who are you calling a fossil .... snooorrrrre

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Originally Posted by daniel

If the "futurists" could not foresee internet porn, they won't be able to predict that the sun will come up tomorrow!

Well, that's close enough to the truth. When have they ever been right about anything?

I remember back in 1990 or so, I was attending a lecture that was promising all sort of wonderful things from this new fangled Internet thing: we wouldn't have to work anymore, a lifestyle straight from the Jetson's ,etc

A friend of mine, who was also in the Army with me, leaned over and mentioned that he thought the only thing it would be used for was red hot porn.

I suppose he did have a naughty mind. Far worse than I am

[daniel]

Originally Posted by jayman

When have they ever been right about anything?

NEVER!!!

In the 60's they said that by the 80's we'd all be driving flying cars; we'd all have robots doing all our household work; and automation would mean that people would work 15 hours a week. Oddly, although they predicted intelligent robots, nobody back then even dreamed of the miniaturization of electronics and computers. This underlines how goddamned totally stupid "futurists" are, since an intelligent robot would require a very small computer, yet they predicted the former without ever even dreaming of the latter!

And of course they've been predicting "artificial intelligence" since the first computer was built, and nothing even vaguely resembling the first baby step towards AI has yet appeared on the horizon. They have extremely sophisticated knowledge base programs full of searchable information, but nothing that can make an intelligent decision and though there is fairly good spoken-word recognition, there's nothing that can even begin to assign meaning to natural language. Translation programs are so pathetic they are useless.

And yet the "futurist" morons keep predicting the same old idiotic pipe dreams.

[jayman]

Originally Posted by daniel

we'd all have robots doing all our household work

The flying cars I can do without. But I'm sorely disappointed we don't have robot woman slaves in our homes