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do you have a reeeeeally fast connection? cos you always manage to post replies to me when i've hardly even posetd them let alone laoded the forum again...
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Home: 512kbps Cable Modem Connection
School/6th Form: It used to be a pathetic ISDN 64kbps connection, but now I think its either BT ADSL Broadband or Cable 1Mb

Sorry to brag to the 56k'ers out there, but I *was* asked

you were asked by one of them, ie me
oh well
have you ever seen that simpsons episode where homer starts an internet business? whatsisname comes ni and says "i'd like to upgrade my 14.4 k modem..." hehe
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The one where he uses a typewriter as a computer?

I'm pretty sure (although not 100%) he calls it the intermenet, too

Oh, and I make good use of the popupconversations box, by having it next to a separate window used for conversations, (save clicking other windows into focus, and also saves going back to my space to check replies )

i prefer just using the more postings page to the pop-up box...not sure why
it updates too often for me i think
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Well, wanna swap?

Mine updates when it likes.. I'm not very sure why - The first update is in about a minute, the second when it pleases, and unless the abscence until the next update is extremely prolonged, I think that's about it

Must check what settings I have on the tag...

Well, I've only got a 1Mb broadband cable at home used to have t1 at uni

"Well, I've only got a 1Mb broadband cable"

WHAT?! **ONLY**?!

I *YEARN* for a 1MB connection

I just wish I had the time to be on here all day using it: annoying thing is, that it doesn't speed up web page loading as much as you would think; though the download speeds are better It helps somewhat with streaming media; though that is useually not very helpful unless streaming video/music together, as the servers en-route to the source normally slow it down; the fastest one I've found recently was being slowed down by their server which only had 600 something MB, so a lot of my 1MB was "wasted", though It did stream without breaking up
"share and enjoy"

*strokes poor little 56k or whatever modem so it doesn't feel too bad at being ickle*
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Its true, Clelba - Perhaps page loads are improved by a minute millisecond value, but you only see the difference when downloading *BIG* files

Web pages don't count as big, although the smiley page loads instantaneously, with about 4 or 5 seconds to load all the s, yet on 56k it took a little longer, and on the Digibox, it wouldn't even load the goo banner, it'd just crash!

One of hte biggest differences I noticed for web page loading time was when I moved from Lowestoft back to Cambridge; both on same computer, same ISP, using 56 K modum, but it was just so much faster in cambridge: whereas in Lowestoft it would hardly ever (I never noticed it do it) connect above about 30 K speed, in cambridge it was often 45 or higher then of course I went for the broadband, and as I say, its not that much noticibly quicker on most things, only on download speeds I am a
"share and enjoy"

*agrees*

I am a hsif

*remembers the smiley brackets*

Rather, I am a

ooh good, normality has resumed
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Normality? insanity?! I am a
"share and enjoy"

yes indeedy
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I am a I am a a is what i is cause I is a I am a I si I am Is me I am I am a I is I am I I I I am a
"share and enjoy"

what if i don't want to share or enjoy?
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