[olug] Cox High Speed Internet

[Sean Edwards]

Um . . . in 1982 I would dial into a BBS with my Radio
Shack Color Computer II and a 300bps (that's .3kbps)
modem.  I remember when 2.4kbps came out, and that was
screaming! 9.6kbps was unheard of for
consumer/residential use, that kind of speed was for
data centers!

On a side note, I would then have to download to audio
tape, shut down, remove the modem cartridge, plug in
the floppy drive cartridge, start up, and transfer
from audio tape to floppy drive.

OS/9 was a POSIX OS for the Color Computer and it was
awesome!

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
--- Gregory Thomas <netsaint at cox.net> wrote:

> Who remembers when 9.6k was enough?
> 
> Now, we have a entire generation moaning "why cant i
> have it now"
> 
> Ben Dinger wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 05:18:17PM -0700, Eric Lusk
> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>My only problem with Cox is when I had them before
> >>they blocked port 80 :(  I run a web server, so
> ended
> >>up with Qwest's new 1500 down/1024 up package.
> >>I guess you CAN get the port 80 block taken off,
> but
> >>from what I heard it's somewhat spendy, have to
> call
> >>it a "business" account.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >That new Qwest package is by far THE SHIT.  I saved
> my company several hundred dolares a month by going
> to the 1.5/1 (or 896) package in our Fremont offsite
> instead of our old 768/768 circuit.  According to
> Qwest (when we signed up), to get the port blockage
> off all you need is a static IP block.  No biggie
> there. 
> >
> >Oh, and, it became a conveinent place for me to put
> my web/email server due to extermely low utilization
> of the connection there, and well - ALLTEL'S DSL
> TIERS SUCK THE BALLS AND ASS. Oh, did I say that? :)
> 
> >
> >Anyway, I really, really, wish that we could get
> the speed options in Lincoln that you omaha folk are
> blessed with.  The best economy-wise we can do is
> TWC's 3MB/384k Cable.  Alltel's "best" upload
> offering is the 512k/512k DSL "ultra".  They should
> be shot. 
> >
> >Ahem.. anyway, heh.. lucky bastards ;). 
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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