dial-up

Just kidding. We still have our DSL modem. But for those who know me. I have a computer in my room. And after much creativety, I hooked myself onto internet using a 46.6Kbs dial modem.

I have no phone jack in my room so I used 2 long lines joined by a 1 to 2 spliter and a phone in my room. Anyways, thats not the problem.

The thing is, dial-up uses the phone line. So no one can call. I've heard that some people had dial up WITH the phone line available. How do I do that?

Wild Card said:
. How do I do that?

You buy two phones. :smile:

? posted by Wild Card

. How do I do that?
You buy two phones. :smile:

Two phone LINES. :razz:

Yea its phone lines Andrei, lol. But in my case, I cant get a second line.

Only use it between the hours of 1am and 6am. :biggrin:

Dunno about Canada tbh Wild Card, but in the UK you can split your phone line into two with DACS technology.. ring your phone provider and ask if they have any similar products, they will know more about it :smile:

Also, i wouldnt recommend it anyhow, it degrades the quality of both lines and is essentially a waste of money. Get a part time job washing cars and have a new phone line installed :razz:

Dialup is the best way and fastest way to get your tension up.

Andrei said:
Dialup is the best way and fastest way to get your tension up.

your phonebill too

Believe it or not, 56k packages arent really expensive for heavy users, and sometimes 56k is the only option :smile:

Like for me :sad:

I like my 56k, its very good tbh. 130ping on cod/hl & tenner a month.

buy what is called a "switchboard".. you can get one online at almost any computer site.

sorta like this

you do NOT NEED 2 phone lines with a switchboard

well. Mine internet is free :biggrin:

We have DSL downstairs with Sympatico, so I just used the same username and password to connect, went to their site got the access number and voil?! Internet in my room. Bah, my parents are having relatives for easter, and they usually dont like being harrased at dinner time by telemarkaters.

Away with 100$ Tele-zapers etc. Just connect your dial-up and you block them away :biggrin:

Also, I've heard that you can, when on the internet and someone calls, a little pop-up appears asking if you want to disconnect and answer or ignore the incomming call. Any truth to this?

Orpheus said:
buy what is called a "switchboard".. you can get one online at almost any computer site.

sorta like this

you do NOT NEED 2 phone lines with a switchboard

I guess I could go to Radio Shack, but... unno. lol

me reads the page

wouldn't it be cheaper (and easier) to buy a 100ft LAN cable and hook your self up to the DSL downstairs? They cost about $14 US.

Eventually. But my parents dont want to. When I turn 18 they said probably. Except that the wire would be run in the walls. And 100ft RJ45 cable is expensive here.

good idea crono :smile: and network cards are dirt cheap tbh nowadays.. if its just pc to pc you can get by with anything :razz:

Gwil said:
good idea crono :smile: and network cards are dirt cheap tbh nowadays.. if its just pc to pc you can get by with anything :razz:

:biggrin:

:biggrin:

looks at NF7-S mobo

:biggrin:

:biggrin:

Who the hell needs a network card when its integrated into the mobo

You can't have a network cable until you are 18?? What!

And 100ft ethernet cable is not expensive from the right place. Go into PC world and it's ?20 a meter, but online retailers are much much cheaper.

scary_jeff said:
You can't have a network cable until you are 18?? What!

jeff, as a parent, i have to say, don't make fun of nick.. if his parents say 18, its not his choice in the matter.

their reasons are above our question.

/ 2 cents

Who the hell needs a network card when its integrated into the motherboard

Most people when the integrated card stops working. Not to mention most built in LAN cards aren't the greatest models and such ... kind of like built in VGA, but not as bad, because they work from time to time.

WC, do your parents know you're hooked up with dial-up at the moment, because if they did, I don't see why they'd be opposed to you having a faster connection ... Unless they don't want a LAN cable going through their house and are waiting until you can pay to have integrated LAN put into your own room ...

They know I hooked myself up. And yea your more or less right Crono, they dont want to make the effort of getting a cable up to my room, like in the walls and such so it dosent show.

And for some reason my that thinks i'd go on nothing but porn sites :sad:

And for some reason my that thinks i'd go on nothing but porn sites

And this is a bad thing because...? :razz:

:biggrin:

Kage_Prototype said:

And for some reason my that thinks i'd go on nothing but porn sites

And this is a bad thing because...? :razz:

:biggrin:

because you can get much better quality porn on kazaa without the pop-ups ??

the idea, DSL=faster downloads of porn flicks.. dial-up=enuff time for him to become 18 before download completes :heee:

I downloaded MSN6.0 Its a 4.something megabyte file. It took me f**king 25 minutes to download. Did the same file down here, ... 3 minutes.

Orpheus said:
the idea, DSL=faster downloads of porn flicks.. dial-up=enuff time for him to become 18 before download completes :heee:

LOL

Wow... now I trully respect 56Kers. I'm running on a damn 46.6K and its... unique.

Wild Card said:
Wow... now I trully respect 56Kers. I'm running on a damn 46.6K and its... unique.

good, go find some of your old oversized screenshots and suffer for a while :biggrin:

Orpheus said:

Wild Card said:
Wow... now I trully respect 56Kers. I'm running on a damn 46.6K and its... unique.

good, go find some of your old oversized screenshots and suffer for a while :biggrin:

Thats mean... But trully deserved. I am the only bum to to that. And put .BMP's into my .ZIP files :biggrin:

after using tafes internet i just dont bother with me home 56k connection its simply to damn slow ADSL here i come. thankfully its getting to be as cheap as dailup over here so :biggrin: dunno how long the prices will last tho...

Only time will tell. Hell this is funny. Page loads on this modem are just a little slower than my DSL downstairs. The only real disadvanteage so far would be doing downloads. I guess playing games too.

page loading on me home connection is suprisingly fast...its just that the downloads are like around 4.5kb/s...which is well pathetic

Yup same here. I have a 56k modem downstairs, maybe I'll get unlazzy and install that one instead of this one.... Maybe.

That would be a mighty upgrade :razz:

I seriously doubt that lol

KoRnFlakes said:
I like my 56k, its very good tbh. 130ping on cod/hl & tenner a month.

?10? I'm with freeserve and thats ?15 a month, who are you with?

Im with Sympatico and I get it free using my DSL account name and password :razz: