good bye - I can't take it any longer

[Tonya2426]

A homeschool family I know has "unlimited" internet service. They use the internet for school work. They were told they are using "too much". Don't know who their provider is.

I believe I would be getting a new internet provider.

 

[FireDancer]

A homeschool family I know has "unlimited" internet service. They use the internet for school work. They were told they are using "too much". Don't know who their provider is.

I know Comcast has a 250 gb cap on their unlimited plan but to be honest it would be pretty hard to go over 250 unless you were really trying. Not that it won't be an issue in the future as more and more content is streamed, but for now it is pretty liberal.

Time Warner was running a trial in parts of TX last winter with a 40GB cap, that could really be a problem.

Unfortunately most "unlimited" plans are not actually unlimited. Look at most cellular data plans and you will see a 5GB cap hidden in there.

There is a pretty large conflict of interest inherent with most ISPs. If that ISP is a cable company they want to limit the amount of data you can get to try and curtail the use of streaming TV and movies. They want you to watch the shows on their cable stations instead of over their Internet feed (legally of course). If they are a Telco they want to limit the use of free telephone services like Skype. I would say the FTC and FCC need to get involved but first they have to figure out the Internet. I'm holding my breath, how about you?

 

[Justin Jett]

Yup, Glad I never had to deal with that.

Just noticed that you are the Gibson from the cruise podcast. Cool! Nice to meet you.

 

[Justin Jett]

When I'm feeling nostalgic I set my ring tone to the modem sound. It usually lasts exactly one call.

Now that is a STATIC experience.

 

[dmwang9]

When I'm feeling nostalgic I set my ring tone to the modem sound. It usually lasts exactly one call.

Now you kids get off my lawn!

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to my calculus class (I teach high school) that the first time I ever went online, it was using a 300 baud modem. Their looks of utter incomprehension made me feel very old.

 

[Justin Jett]

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to my calculus class (I teach high school) that the first time I ever went online, it was using a 300 baud modem. Their looks of utter incomprehension made me feel very old.

You are not alone.

 

[Justin Jett]

This thread has "gone Retro."

 

[Tonya2426]

This thread has "gone Retro."

Retro cake????

 

[DisLUV]

As a long time member of the boards and not so frequent poster (usually a lurker Here is what I have to say about the starting pages of this post: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ok hopefully you read all that. Now about the more positive pages of this post:

Loved it!!! Ok later back to reading !!!!

 

[ms*mountaineer]

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to my calculus class (I teach high school) that the first time I ever went online, it was using a 300 baud modem. Their looks of utter incomprehension made me feel very old.

Ooooh - I remember when I was able to connect using the 2400 baud instead of the 300 baud! Now THAT was lightening speed!

I'm pretty sure I was also coding uphill in the snow, both ways...

 

[dpuck1998]

Anyone ever shotgun a couple of modems? Before 56K it lasted about a week I think I had ISDN installed for a while and man was that fast! I could actually watch a video in under and hour.

 

[chaoscent]

At work, one of the younger staff complained about the computer being too slow. As my first computer was a 386 and I had to use dial up, I remember what slow was. LOL Oh how far we have come. Penny

 

[dpuck1998]

At work, one of the younger staff complained about the computer being too slow. As my first computer was a 386 and I had to use dial up, I remember what slow was. LOL Oh how far we have come. Penny

Tandy 1000RLX! My first computer, bought it with my student loan money. It played a mean game of Kings Quest V

 

[mainegal]

I would say the FTC and FCC need to get involved but first they have to figure out the Internet. I'm holding my breath, how about you?

Indeed! The "information superhighway" is still kinda hard to pin down. Compared to advances in communication technology through history (think Spaceship Earth) this happened pretty quickly.

 

[chaoscent]

Wow, You have me beat. I was thrilled when we got windows at work & I didn't have to type in WP DOS any longer. I still have some stuff I wrote in Dos somewhere in this house. I just threw out my large floppies and starting to throw out my small floppies.

Another funny, when I did a research paper in the 70's we had this gihugent (that's giant & huge) computer at temple. We had to do something with cards, I forget what (x's & 0"s maybe), hand the cards in and they ran the program and you got your results.
When I did the resarch for my doctorate, I bought SPSS and ran my own data. We have come a long way baby. Penny

 

[safetymom]

My first computer was one without a hard drive. It had 2 slots for the DOS operating system and games. We thought we had died and gone to heaven when I got a 10 megabyte hard drive. I also had one of those Sinclair computers by Timex. By the time you typed in the commands the computer overheated and you could never run anything.

 

[rsimon]

Tandy 1000RLX! My first computer, bought it with my student loan money. It played a mean game of Kings Quest V

Hey at least you had a hard drive!

This was the first computer I owned (Franklin 1200). I used TRS-80 computers prior to owning this computer, but this was an Apple clone computer and was great for running Apple software.

 

[mainegal]

This thread sure has taken an interesting turn. Not even recognizable any more!

 

[dmwang9]

Another funny, when I did a research paper in the 70's we had this gihugent (that's giant & huge) computer at temple.

At first glance, I thought you were referring to an obscure brand of mainframe computer named Gihugent and that the computer was owned by your synagogue. Can you tell that I need coffee?

 

[ADP]

Anyone ever shotgun a couple of modems? Before 56K it lasted about a week I think I had ISDN installed for a while and man was that fast! I could actually watch a video in under and hour.

ISDN was a good concept at the time, but unfortunately the phone company beat it down to the point where it became an "out of favor" technology. Poor service and no reinvestment of money to improve the technology was ultimately it's demise. Now cable is the dominant medium.