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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% |
| Voters: 21. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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| | #1 |
| Founder Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: College Park, Maryland
Posts: 6,044
UserID: 1 | 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. ![]()
__________________ Note: I am busy so if I am slow to respond, be patient. email: ben at sscentral dot org / Forum rules / Read this page before emailing me. Do not send me a PM or email with a water gun question if someone else could answer the question. Post at the forums. You will get a response from me along with others' views or ideas. |
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| | #2 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 85
UserID: 180 | I have a 3mbps (3 mega-bit per second) connection via cable modem.
__________________ <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The "S" stands for SUPER Soaker! |
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| | #3 |
| Retired Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ridgewood, NJ
Posts: 682
UserID: 131 | Optimum online baby! Fastest easiest! Cable rocks!
__________________ ![]() <span style='color:EEF2F7'>Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! -Leonardo Da Vinci |
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| | #4 |
| Still selling stuff. Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: On my tricked out PC
Posts: 944
UserID: 83 | High Speed Cable! w00t.
__________________ WORKING Guns For Sale: CPS 3200, Max-D 5000, WW Glo-Blaster BROKEN Guns For Sale: CPS 1500 + 15 Balloon K-Mod, Flash Flood + 3-layer collossus & PRVD, XXP 175, WW Hornet, SS 50 More info here. Interested? PM me. |
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| | #5 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 208
UserID: 213 | 100+kbps cable. At least it's faster than dial-up.
__________________ Click here for WATER GUN NETWORK! |
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| | #6 |
| Wicked Super Admin Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Easton / New London, CT
Posts: 1,576
UserID: 75 | High speed cable via Optimum Online.
__________________ Mess With the Best, Get Soaked Like the Rest!! 2004 Red Sox - World Series Champions 2007 RED SOX - WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS! 2003 Patriots - Super Bowl Champions 2004 Patriots - Super Bowl Champions 2007 Patriots - God Damnit! |
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| | #7 |
| Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Nebraska
Posts: 38
UserID: 238 | 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... Aaron
__________________ <span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='color:red'>I bought a box of lady fingers at the local bakery this morning, but when I got home I noticed that one of 'em was missing. I decided to take the box back to the bakery and show the manager. He gave me the finger. (adapted from a joke by Jay London) |
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| | #8 |
| Administrator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK
Posts: 1,322
UserID: 77 | I'm stuck with a 56k modem. I yearn for broadband... ![]()
__________________ ISS: Soaker Sagas Submit your saga and see it up with other titans of water warfare. |
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| | #9 |
| Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: PA
Posts: 37
UserID: 82 | My mom works at Comcast so we get free internet |
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| | #10 |
| Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Surrounded by my personal harem. =)
Posts: 89
UserID: 115 | I have comcast cable. my mom's company sponsors it. =D
__________________ http://xs7.xs.to/pics/04512/sig2.jpg -whoamg, I can't put ANY anime girl in my sig without doom deleting it. =\ |
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| | #11 |
| Founder Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: College Park, Maryland
Posts: 6,044
UserID: 1 | 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.
__________________ Note: I am busy so if I am slow to respond, be patient. email: ben at sscentral dot org / Forum rules / Read this page before emailing me. Do not send me a PM or email with a water gun question if someone else could answer the question. Post at the forums. You will get a response from me along with others' views or ideas. |
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| | #12 |
| Some kinda Moderator Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Indpls.
Posts: 573
UserID: 17 | 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.
__________________ Whatever music you listen to probably sucks. |
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| | #13 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Maryland
Posts: 328
UserID: 11 | I have 14K. Takes 5 minutes to load up google. ![]()
__________________ <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Socrates)</div><div class='quotemain'>I drank what?!</div> |
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| | #14 | |
| Use the force... Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK
Posts: 336
UserID: 281 | Quote:
__________________ Hey, images in sigs work again! Woo! | |
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| | #15 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Alameda, Ca
Posts: 311
UserID: 272 | Ive got cable, google loads in half a second.
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