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View Poll Results: What speed modem do you have?
28k 1 4.76%
56k 2 9.52%
DSL 5 23.81%
Cable or higher 13 61.90%
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Old 08-05-2004, 06:53 PM   #1
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I would like to know what speed you guys operate at because I didn't check the stats for last month and they reset. This information will be used to help improve SSC, make it load faster or even be of a higher quality.
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Old 08-05-2004, 07:07 PM   #2
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I have a 3mbps (3 mega-bit per second) connection via cable modem.
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Old 08-05-2004, 07:20 PM   #3
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Optimum online baby! Fastest easiest! Cable rocks!
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Old 08-05-2004, 07:23 PM   #4
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High Speed Cable! w00t.
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Old 08-05-2004, 07:58 PM   #5
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100+kbps cable. At least it's faster than dial-up.
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Old 08-05-2004, 10:16 PM   #6
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High speed cable via Optimum Online.
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Old 08-06-2004, 03:40 AM   #7
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I've sent my connection speed at home in to the Guinness Book of World Records, they said it's pending under the "Slowest Internet Connection" category... but seriously, while both of my computers have 56K modems, considering the fact that I live in the middle of nowhere and the phone lines here are terrible, it drops to about 21.6K at best.

At least the college T3 servers make up for it...

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Old 08-06-2004, 03:41 AM   #8
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I'm stuck with a 56k modem. I yearn for broadband...
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Old 08-06-2004, 05:11 PM   #9
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My mom works at Comcast so we get free internet
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Old 08-07-2004, 07:23 PM   #10
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I have comcast cable. my mom's company sponsors it. =D
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Old 08-08-2004, 02:32 PM   #11
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It appears that a very large majority of SSC's members have cable. However, I will not be iSoaker and have pages that are over 100k big. I took yesterday off to optimize the current SSC code so it's faster. Also, I know you guys will like this, especially those on dial-up, I'm adding g-zip compression to the site. That will speed up download of every page, regardless of what speed they have already. It won't speed up images, but unlike iSoaker most of SSC is text and HTML, so the speed-up will be noticable.

I'll change the discussion (if you haven't, vote in the poll still). What would a good sized page be? Some of SSC's pages have up to 50k of images to download, some have none and are about 4k big. What is your limit on page size? I think that will be more helpful to me.
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Old 08-10-2004, 12:46 PM   #12
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It's gotta suck to be that one human stuck with 28K. Eugh...

I have DSL. Poor me... it sucks too. It shuts off every 40 minutes and we have to reset it. But the Cable we had was just as bad. The signal wasn't strong enough so the connection would fade in and out.
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Old 09-04-2004, 03:19 PM   #13
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I have 14K. Takes 5 minutes to load up google.
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Old 09-04-2004, 03:30 PM   #14
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Originally posted by superstormer@Sep 4 2004, 08:19 PM
I have 14K. Takes 5 minutes to load up google.
14k! I pity you. I've got 1 mbps broadband.
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Old 09-04-2004, 03:37 PM   #15
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Ive got cable, google loads in half a second.
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