Until some pieces-parts arrive, I am back to dial-up.
"So how slow can it be," you ask? Glaciers move faster than the modern Internet through dial-up.
Click on a bookmark, go read a magazine article. Read the web page, click on a link, go cook dinner. Read second web page, click on a third, go wash dishes. Click on a fourth web page, teach yourself calculus. And so on.
You have to do it that way, for if you actually sat in front of the computer and watched web pages load as fast as a slug moves, you'd open up your veins.
Smarter than
1 day ago
That's something we might have to get used to: The Google,Verizon take over
ReplyDeletemight have us all using rocks to scrawl.
Its' pretty amazing that it works at all and still exists..
ReplyDeleteOh ya, there are still large numbers of people that don't get cable, can't get DSL and thats all there is. The last mile has limited some 25% of the people for, oh hell, since I was doing it at 110baud. For those that never heard of that 3 decades plus.
Software tool and Die sill has business and modem banks.
Eck!
The business model for, apparently, every industry in the world is now; get a payment every month from every person, for the rest of their lives.
ReplyDeleteFind a way to charge money for things that are now free, but necessary.
So for you, the Internet apparently *is* a series of tubes... vacuum tubes, that is. Taking forever to warm up and do anything. Now you know why I jailbreak my iPhone so I can tether during the rare outages that happen in my area...
ReplyDelete- Badtux the Geeky Penguin
Depends on whether the tube at the end is a drink stirring tube or a wide pipe.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm taking advantage of the law in this state, which permits the use of unsecured wireless networks. :)
Hopefully, I'll be on my own network tonight. Depends on whether the ComBastards sends the modem. I asked them to do it that way, rather than have a four hour window of "maybe our cable guy will be by then."