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Bill Enos
Film God

Posts: 2081
From: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 10-16-2000 11:39 PM

Dial up with Juno Deluxe or whatever it's called

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Bob Minge
Film Handler

Posts: 43
From: Fergus Falls, MN, USA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 10-17-2000 08:00 AM

dial up, local ISP, 28k, IE 5.5, AMD 350Mz, wifes computer...woe is me

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Bob Minge
Manager/Projectionist
Westridge Cinema 5
Fergus Falls, MN

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Joseph Pandolfi
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 213
From: Milford, CT.
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 10-18-2000 05:27 PM

Optimum Online Cable Modem (from Cablevision) speed very very fast -- downloaded IE5 in 4-1/2 mins. (45MB). Price: $29.00 with regular cable + movie channels.

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German Marin
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 227
From: Verbania (VB), Italy
Registered: Jul 2001

posted 01-19-2002 11:05 PM

Home: dial up, 56K modem (but it connect at 36Kbps). Cantv.net (AT&T)
IE 6.0
Work: T1 ABA (it connect at 10,000Kbps!) Cantv.net IE 5.0. The PC is in the office, the office is into the booth between projector 1 and 2.

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 01-20-2002 12:57 AM

At home: Dial-up, 56K modem, A-Zero-L (AOL) We are still in the dark ages on Whidbey Rock!

At the radio station: DSL, (we just switched ISP's so I don't know.)

At the theaters: A Zero L, 56K modem Dial up.

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 01-20-2002 01:15 AM

At home I have an FttC line (Fiber to the Curb). Not cable and not DSL. I get 10 megebits per second up and down full duplex. Although the upload speed always seems a bit faster than the download speed for some reason. The company I am going through is called Wide Open West.

Right now I am leeching off of Film-Tech's dedicated T1 line since I am not at home. If the site seems slow, it is just because I am sucking up the bandwidth to download "stuff"

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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 01-20-2002 05:46 AM

Here in the UK we are about 100 years behind the rest of the world. As there is no real competition in the telecoms market (there are multiple telco's, but the network belongs to British Telecom, although I believe this is set to change), cable/DSL is only really available in larger towns and cities. BT have their own system, which is available where I live, but it's seriously expensive. If I could get one of the cable companies I'd pay about 25% of what BT want for broadband internet, and get telephone and television for that cash! So for the time being I am on V.90 USR Modem at home, and V.90 on board on both laptops. All using one BT Internet account. The USR modem is one of those message types, it stores faxes and voicemail whilt the PC is off.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-20-2002 09:11 AM

My setup has recently changed...

I'm still using Earthlink at home (dialup) but I have and Airport base now. Going wireless is the ONLY way! If the cable/phone comanies ever get off their fat arses and put in broadband service in my neighborhood I'd be all set!

I don't travel for a living anymore so I don't have to use crummy motel phone lines. It was a real pain, trying to connect sometimes.

At work, I'm using the college's network. (I think T-1). All I know is that there is an ethernet port in the wall of my office. I connect my iBook to it and make a couple of settings and it just works. I get about 120K of DL speed, (during low traffic times) so that's why I think it's a T-1.

I got tired of swapping the ethernet cable back and forth between my iBook and the PC in my office so I splurged and bought a Linksys ethernet router with a Wi-Fi port in it. I can get on the college's net with either computer now. In fact I can get a good signal all the way out to the stage in the auditorium. It's easy to get hooked on wireless!

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 01-20-2002 12:36 PM

I live fairly close to Joe (hi, Joe!) so I also have Optimum from Cablevision. I had @Home, but they have since died.

If you are on the outside edge of an area that has some kind of high speed access, there was an interesting solution described in an article I read recently. If you have a "line of sight" to someone who can get a high speed line, you may be able to use one of those wireless PCMCIA systems usually used for wireless connections to laptops around the home or office. In the article, a guy who wanted high speed went to his "neighbor" (who lived about seven miles away!) and asked him to have a cable modem installed normally. He hooked up a regular router/NAT to the incomming cable. He then bought one of those wireless systems, but used highly directional antennas, mounted outside. The neighbor provides the "base station" in exchange for free internet access.

The guy who wrote the article thought it might work up to about 10 miles. It cost about $1000 for everything, which is a bit steep, but I know I would probably go for it because I'm on a lot and dial-up is just too slow.

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Josh Jones
Redhat

Posts: 1207
From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 01-20-2002 01:07 PM

my service recently changed as welll.....for the better!

now runing Quest DSL ~$40 a month, on a pentium III 650Mhz
have 5 computers on it now and only goes down durring an outage or a cable cut(thanks to the cat). one slight drawback, can no longer voice chat or send files on messenger services. oh well, its great for downloads.

Josh

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David Stambaugh
Film God

Posts: 4021
From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 01-20-2002 01:15 PM

AT&T proudly says cable modem will be here "No later than the end of 2003!!". Qwest will not commit to providing DSL in this area, ever. I looked into 2-way satellite, but it supposedly can't do VPN, is very expensive, requires a 36" dish.

So I use dialup. ISP is Earthlink.

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- dave
Crab juice, or Mountain Dew?

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-20-2002 02:49 PM

I'm now on cablemodem. I use Comcast. I will give them credit when Excite went kablooie...we never lost service. They paid for a 3-month hold over so we wouldn't loose service...then started their own network...we got e-mail, phone and snail mail telling us about the change, when it would happen, what we should do if a problem occured and all that....

They did the switch over for us in the wee hours of the morning (and told us when it would happen).

The following day when I logged on and had forgotten about the switch over...the only thing that I noticed out of the whole affair was a tremendous speed INCREASE.

Steve

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"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"

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John T. Hendrickson, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 889
From: Freehold, NJ, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 01-20-2002 03:30 PM

Home:
Same as Joe Pandolfi and John Walsh- Optimum Online Cable Modem. Used to have AOL dialup- too damned slow and time consuming.

Theater:
Alas! AOL dialup. Hardly use it, except to post occasional Feature Info and Trailer Attachments.

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Jason Burroughs
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 654
From: Allen, TX
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-20-2002 06:15 PM

Connection update:

Now using ATT Broadband Cable modem, was @Home before they went belly up. Download speeds are throttled to 1.5Mb (approx T-1 speed) and 128K upstream. LAN connected through a Linksys broadband router, all computers get decent bandwith up and down. Have noticed some latency with AT&T's DNS servers, now running my own DNS server which is pointed to both AT&T's and SWBell's DNS servers, so DNS is no longer a problem.

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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 01-20-2002 08:16 PM

Thanks a lot guys, I am so computer illiterate that I have no idea what you are all talking about. So I asked my son and he told me that I have an ISP Connection at home (In NYC) and a dial up modem telephone connection in Newport RI. In my office I have ISP Connector also. And...this is no joke.

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