The Dink Network

So what kind of internet do you have?

I have Cable at my moms and dial up at my dads

I hate dial-up, but its not bad for the dn
Yet I acually wouldn't mind it if it didn't tie up the phone lines

what really is the difference between all of these (this question is not rhetorical by the way i really want to know)

Dial Up (DSL): Internet that uses the local phoneline to acces the WWW. Note: You [u]cannot[/u] be connected to the net and be on the phone at the same time.

Cable: Uses coaxial cables (much like antanas and VCRs) to connect to the internet.

ADSL: A faster form of DSL, but has an advantage that with special filters you may access your emails and view TDN while on the phone. Makes use of Ethernet cables.

ADSL+2: The latest in DSL/ADSL connectivity. Faster speeds, although the connection area is very limited, due to its relative newness. More and more places are getting ADSL+2 connection ares though, so one day we will all be able to have this new speedy internet.

i hope that helped...

I love my Cable connection...i throw everything at it and it just asks for more.

I have cable. It's pretty good. I had a friend who used to live next to a cable routing station or something... it was so fast I think my mouth hung open in awe for about a minute after I saw it download 20mbs in a second.

Get your facts straight, man. DSL stands for "Digital Subscriber Line", and has absolutely nothing to do with dial-up. ADSL just adds an Asymmetric to the whole deal, meaning you have different upload/download speed. ADSL2+, which is what I have, is just a fancy term for "faster" ADSL.

BURNED!!

We use some awesome Internode thing. Apart from that, I know nothing. Nor do I want to know anything.

I have ADSL (I guess..can yak on phone and be on-line at the same time)

I have a modem which plugs into my laptop and connects to the Vodafone mobile network. I haven't got a phone line connected and naked DSL is not yet available here, so that was my best option. The bonus is that I can have Internet anywhere I can be bothered to lug my laptop (it's weighs a ton - portable my ass).

I get 3.6mbps in urban areas and dialup speeds in more backwoodsy areas.

T1/T2/T3

Yay! Internode! A kindred Spirit!

Oh... Um... Cool?

Okay, nm... my friend corrected me... it was actually 200+mbps.

Speaking of correcting... what exactly is a millibit?

You're interpreting that as a millibit? And you call yourself computer literate?

You're being Striker again, aren't you?

SI prefixes, do you know them?

m- means "milli", or *10^-3
M- means "mega", or *10^6

mb/s = millibit per second
Mb/s = megabit per second
mB/s = millibyte per second
MB/s = megabyte per second

And some binary prefixes, if you don't want confusion between 1000B or 1024B:
Mib/s = mibibit per second (Mi- means "mibi", or *2^20)
MiB/s = mibibyte per second

mib/s and miB/s don't make much sense.

We don't need your silly metriculated measurements, Euronerds. We use American here.

And down here *waves in general direction of USA*

I prefer things I can understand here up in Canada. How's .002 cents per kilobyte working out for all of you?

Not quite as well as the 30 rods to the hogshead that I get in my car.

Grr...
My ISP found some problem with our account and just cut it off, no warning, nothing. Called them up and just got it back today after about a month. So much for good customer service... it's hard enough anyway speaking to people in some Indian call centre who (usually) don't care about your problems.

But anyway, I have Broadband (ADSL) which is nice and fast, nothing special though.

"sniff" NOT our fault that the Americans are so... *backwards*

ADSL/384k down, dont-remember-how-much k up.

ADSL, 2Mb up, 1Mb down. This means ~250KB per second for downloads and ~125 KB per second for uploads. We could get a much faster internet connection for the price we're paying (20 euros a month) but we're bound to a contract that expires in June. <_<

Don't ever use Compuserve, people.

Be thankful... that's still about par with most broadband services in the US.