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RIP, Dial-Up internet
- Thread starter desprateseagull
- Start date
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,152
R.I.P Good-looking Amstrad device 
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Did anyone actually buy anything from Amstrad after their PCW became a heap of cack.
TheJasperCo
Well-known member
Good bloody riddance.
Perfidious Albion
Well-known member
Ah, those were the days, when your net connection would cut out for no reason at all , when connections were painfully slow and we just bore it all with fortitude saying "Well, that's computers ..." Back in the day, you were charged by the minute as well..
No love lost there from me. Of course if you choose to live in the remote Highlands - I guess you accept it .?
No love lost there from me. Of course if you choose to live in the remote Highlands - I guess you accept it .?
Goldstone Rapper
Rediffusion PlayerofYear
I want to an audio sound of that dial-up connection sound. Might want to use it as my ring-tone...
Goldstone Rapper
Rediffusion PlayerofYear
This might make me (and a few others) feel old, but does anyone on NSC have no knowledge or experience of what 'dial-up internet' means?!
The Legend that IS Lawro
It's 'canard' Del
Aah, thems were the days
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,302
only its not dead, just BT arent offering the service any more.
Goldstone Rapper
Rediffusion PlayerofYear
It will never take off...
Lord Bracknell
On fire
It wasn't just the remote Highlands. We only managed to get our first broadband service out here in the Sussex countryside, when the BT engineer offered to climb up a pole a quarter of a mile away, remove the equipment that had been installed there, and relocate it to our pole. "It's the best we can do. You're two miles from the exchange, you know" was the story.
In those days, some Sussex exchanges were deemed to be incapable of ever delivering a broadband service to anyone. Isfield was one, if I remember rightly.
The legacy lives on and, out here in our bit of the Sussex countryside, we currently struggle with a Download Speed of 4.90Mb/s and an Upload Speed of 0.31Mb/s.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Lord Bracknell
On fire
I remember it taking about an hour to download about 3 minutes worth of music from Napster. And the horror of the music industry - that this was killing them.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
At work a few years back it was noted we were paying £250K for a facility for staff to dial in using the phone of which 1 person used it so canned very quickly.
Seagulltonian
C'mon the Albion!
It just seems like yesterday when the modem made those noises, and you knew you be connected in about 3 minutes 
KJP
Well-known member
I remember spending 3 evenings downloading a 20 mb ROM of Wwf No Mercy
Puppet Master
non sequitur
- Aug 14, 2012
- 4,055
That sound took me back SO much to being 13/14 and having to sneak downstairs when my dad had gone to bed to go online (during the week, it wasn't free!) praying that noise didn't wake him up. Then the ICQ message notifications would kick in
