Your First Adsl Memories

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nad_isa

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So I did have dial up when I was a kid. I'm from Cpt, and I remember when the lines were slow I'd enter in a JHB number for dial in and get crapped out by the parents when the itemised bill came by post at month end lol

Anyway as per the the thread I'm looking for your first adsl memories..

Mine was a Nashua 384kbps line on contract with a 1gig cap o_O modem was network locked lol... cant remember but dont think it had wifi..
 
nad_isa said:
Mine was a Nashua 384kbps line on contract with a 1gig cap o_O modem was network locked lol... cant remember but dont think it had wifi.
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You had to pay extra for them to unlock the WiFi as a value-added luxury add-on service. :sneaky:

I remember the silence.
No more dial-up noises.
And the lightning-fast load speed of (pr0n) albums!
 
I worked at Internet Solutions, it was 2005 a 192kbs line for mid level support. Only when I moved a bit higher did I get a 512kbs line, when I left it was 4mbs and fully uncapped. That was after nine almost ten years.
Now I'm on 100/10Mbs fibre
 
Lupus said:
I worked at Internet Solutions, it was 2005 a 192kbs line for mid level support. Only when I moved a bit higher did I get a 512kbs line, when I left it was 4mbs and fully uncapped. That was after nine almost ten years.
Now I'm on 100/10Mbs fibre
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Yes. That was when one 'surfed' the net.qq
 
Took a whole weekend to download a movie via dial up and if someone used to landline your progress was lost. Some Telkom deal where it cost like R7 or something from Friday evening to Monday morning.
 
I fondly remember the UUNET FTP server in the 192/384 ADSL days. I recall that I had a script on my webhost overseas, that allowed me to download a file, and then upload it to the local UUNET FTP server. This allowed me to abuse my local only account(s) I had, or even to split it into 7mb emails and pull it in via the university's unmetered email servers.

Lupus said:
I worked at Internet Solutions, it was 2005 a 192kbs line for mid level support. Only when I moved a bit higher did I get a 512kbs line, when I left it was 4mbs and fully uncapped. That was after nine almost ten years.
Now I'm on 100/10Mbs fibre
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I ate through those Internet Solutions "Local Only" accounts. Upgraded to a 30GB one in 2007 - they were like R130 via WA? The first connection of the month would give you international access for some reason. Could you shine some light onto why that might've been? To extend that first connection as long as possible, I connected the modem to the UPS ... Felt like uncapped to me. On a good month I could surf internationally for the whole month with that R130. No proxy services needed or anything.

Should a hiccup occur, it was back to expensive R70 per gig international internet for me, combined with Route Sentry splitting the traffic between the 'local only' account on the router and the PPPOE'd international account on the PC.

Tman* said:
Took a whole weekend to download a movie via dial up and if someone used to landline your progress was lost. Some Telkom deal where it cost like R7 or something from Friday evening to Monday morning.
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That R7 was nice - spend weekends at friends in primary school downloading cracks and whatnot at a blazinglyfast speeds of 6KB/s. Managed to 'obtain' the Principal's mweb dailup details (no idea how that happened) and finally had 'internet' at home. Used the calling cards to hide the usage etc. But that was pre-adsl.
 
ld13 said:
I fondly remember the UUNET FTP server in the 192/384 ADSL days. I recall that I had a script on my webhost overseas, that allowed me to download a file, and then upload it to the local UUNET FTP server. This allowed me to abuse my local only account(s) I had, or even to split it into 7mb emails and pull it in via the university's unmetered email servers.



I ate through those Internet Solutions "Local Only" accounts. Upgraded to a 30GB one in 2007 - they were like R130 via WA? The first connection of the month would give you international access for some reason. Could you shine some light onto why that might've been? To extend that first connection as long as possible, I connected the modem to the UPS ... Felt like uncapped to me. On a good month I could surf internationally for the whole month with that R130. No proxy services needed or anything.

Should a hiccup occur, it was back to expensive R70 per gig international internet for me, combined with Route Sentry splitting the traffic between the 'local only' account on the router and the PPPOE'd international account on the PC.
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Didn't pay ;) but yeah only had 3GB for international, remember getting Xbox Live in 2006 for Gears and the 80mb updates felt like ages.
 
nad_isa said:
Lol who downloaded movies on dial up. Hahaha
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It was the pinnacle at that point. I dont think dvd writers was out as yet so one couldn't go to the video store and copy the lastest release.
 
Plenty of memories. On the test network, long before anyone private got ADSL services. Bleeding edge stuff - barely worked in the beginning.
 
Tman* said:
It was the pinnacle at that point. I dont think dvd writers was out as yet so one couldn't go to the video store and copy the lastest release.
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Yeh but CD writers did. Who can forget VCD movies lol
 
Geoff.D said:
Plenty of memories. On the test network, long before anyone private got ADSL services. Bleeding edge stuff - barely worked in the beginning.
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Damn must have been like working at NASA
 
I think ...... was a long time ago, we had this shdty dial modem, ISP was Tiscali - and then went ADSL.
That was when I went on the MWEB Winnie Mandela package - oh yes - the Big Black Box ADSL (they took over Tiscali).


What we did all night took us all night to do before ADSL
 
TEXTILE GUY said:
I think ...... was a long time ago, we had this shdty dial modem, ISP was Tiscali - and then went ADSL.
That was when I went on the MWEB Winnie Mandela package - oh yes - the Big Black Box ADSL (they took over Tiscali).


What we did all night took us all night to do before ADSL
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Vaguely remember the big black box..
 
I remember my girlfriend in 2002 moved to the US as an Au pair, over there they had 1mbs ADSL while I had 56k dial up. Web cam chatting was slow and annoying.
 
ld13 said:
I fondly remember the UUNET FTP server in the 192/384 ADSL days. I recall that I had a script on my webhost overseas, that allowed me to download a file, and then upload it to the local UUNET FTP server. This allowed me to abuse my local only account(s) I had, or even to split it into 7mb emails and pull it in via the university's unmetered email servers.



I ate through those Internet Solutions "Local Only" accounts. Upgraded to a 30GB one in 2007 - they were like R130 via WA? The first connection of the month would give you international access for some reason. Could you shine some light onto why that might've been? To extend that first connection as long as possible, I connected the modem to the UPS ... Felt like uncapped to me. On a good month I could surf internationally for the whole month with that R130. No proxy services needed or anything.

Should a hiccup occur, it was back to expensive R70 per gig international internet for me, combined with Route Sentry splitting the traffic between the 'local only' account on the router and the PPPOE'd international account on the PC.



That R7 was nice - spend weekends at friends in primary school downloading cracks and whatnot at a blazinglyfast speeds of 6KB/s. Managed to 'obtain' the Principal's mweb dailup details (no idea how that happened) and finally had 'internet' at home. Used the calling cards to hide the usage etc. But that was pre-adsl.
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I did the same with those 30GB local accounts.
Ditto on the R7 call more on dial up lol.
100mb took like 6 hours on dial up!!
 
Funny, back then we were worried about water and power supply going off.

Today, we expect it to go off, and live without it but internet ..... its hell
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I had the R7 infinite call package with Telkom that cost R49 per month apart from the Telkom line rental. ISP dial up costs was R79 per month and if I were lucky I got 40kbps that I used for downloading music, chatting, web surfing etc. I connected 8pm Friday and disconnected 6am om Monday morning and if I managed to use 2GB for weekend it was a lot. Later I got ISDN at 64kbps per channel and if you used the two channels you got 128kbps - that was insanely fast for that time. ISDN was dedicated 64 of 128kbps internet - it felt like heaven!! It all cost me R1000 plus p/m. The internet cost a pretty penny back in those days - with all the dial up stuff and caps and top ups - if you forgot the dial up on in peak hours - you could easily ran a bill of R250 for that one call.

Later I got 192kbps ADSL with a 3GB cap - that was more than enough, I even struggled to use it all up. Line speeds were upgraded to 384kbps to 512kbps to 1mbps to 2mbps to 4mbps - all with 20 to 100GB caps respectively. Later I had 4mbps uncapped - that was heaven for sure - but "uncapped" meant 400GB PUF.

Today we have a 20mbps VDSL Line that is uncapped - this is the fastest we can get - no Fiber as of yet available. Hopefully soon we will have Fiber internet - cannot wait!!
 
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