Do you use a 56k modem

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#1 Sat, 05/10/2014 - 12:21
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Do you use a 56k modem

Just answer if you do, I am asking this to answer a question posed by a game developer

Sat, 05/10/2014 - 14:37
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I'd hope no one is. That's just torture.

Sat, 05/10/2014 - 15:58
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Yeah that is my thoughts so not expecting anyone to say they are.

Sat, 05/10/2014 - 22:05
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For work purposes, yes.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:05
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Never.  Not at work, any friends house, the library, in an emergency of some sort, ever, and I'm in the middle of the mountains in CO.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 00:03
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no, it's been a loooong time since I heard one...

Wed, 05/14/2014 - 08:58
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The last time I used one was in 2001 to play Counter-Strike.

Wed, 05/14/2014 - 15:29
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2002 for me.  Good old days of chat rooms.

Thu, 05/15/2014 - 07:11
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2002 or 2003 for me. CS and TFC.

Sun, 05/18/2014 - 23:14
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forced my parents to get cable internet in 1998 I think.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 12:37
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I remember setting up remote dial-in for business use and having a rack full of modems all hooked into a multiplexer device.  Pretty insane, I think that was  1998/1999 ish.  Basically as soon as DSL was available, I got it.  I was so quick on it that I got a static ip address with my home service.  I think it was like 512k down and 128k up or something like that.  By todays standards it would feel like dial-up LoL..

 

Thu, 06/05/2014 - 14:16 (Reply to #12)
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TANK wrote:

I remember setting up remote dial-in for business use and having a rack full of modems all hooked into a multiplexer device.  Pretty insane, I think that was  1998/1999 ish.  Basically as soon as DSL was available, I got it.  I was so quick on it that I got a static ip address with my home service.  I think it was like 512k down and 128k up or something like that.  By todays standards it would feel like dial-up LoL..

 

512k down was awful in 1999, lol.

Fri, 06/06/2014 - 11:49
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no and I would use my 4g smartphone as a wifi hotspot before I would try to use a 56k modem.

Sat, 06/07/2014 - 16:38
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LOL well no more than I expected.

Sat, 06/07/2014 - 18:41
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But I like the screeetchy sounds....

Wed, 06/11/2014 - 17:32
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Ah, the 56k modem days, what a pain to have dealt with. I thankfully do not use a 54k modem and I will never go back to it. I'm happy with cable. 

Mon, 06/30/2014 - 08:54
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We still use them on a regular basis at work to program/run diagnostics on old systems. Some of these systems communicate at 300 baud #snore.

Mon, 06/30/2014 - 13:47
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I saw one on an old episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last night!, well I heard it first, then saw the system. The guy was bragging it was state of the art tech, haha!

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