oliphant
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Re: Great Plan
Cause I want the low latency and don't want to tie up my phone line. Broadband existed long before the popular P2P craze. |
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bereasonable
@cable.rogers | get high speed ultra lite then if you don't wanna tie up your phone line? do you know what you are talking about? dsl doesn't tie up your home phone line either...? you confuse me. |
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r81984
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p2p started way before broadband. I used to use napster on my dial up way before broadband was popular or even close to being widespread. |
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bereasonable
@cable.rogers | what point are you trying to make? p2p started before broadband -- so what? go try to download a 600mb demo on dial up and tell me how many days it takes. have you played on-line games using dial up? try it then come back and make a point. |
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Fluker
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West Lafayette, IN | Thank you.
Broadband does have legit uses.
Although my 300gb monthly indicates otherwise..... |
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G_Poobah
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| 300gb/month?
so, your traffic looks a lot like mine!
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oliphant
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said by r81984 :p2p started way before broadband. I used to use napster on my dial up way before broadband was popular or even close to being widespread. I had Cox@Home in late 1996...before Napster was a wet spot on the mattress. No, P2P didn't start way before broadband.
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oliphant
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said by bereasonable :
get high speed ultra lite then if you don't wanna tie up your phone line? do you know what you are talking about? dsl doesn't tie up your home phone line either...? you confuse me.
Ultralite...what the hell is that? Broadband is broadband whether it's 768kbps DSL or 7.1Mbps DSL. And no, DSL doesn't tie of my phone line...that's the whole point which is why the original poster is in error. There are plenty of reasons to have broadband and none of them include P2P.
Yes, you are easily confused.
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stickstickly
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And USENET and IRC were around long before Cox@Home, so what's your point? |
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Galford
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he is right i had napsters too and audiogalaxy and winmx long before Bellsouth rolled out its DSL |
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said by oliphant :said by r81984 :p2p started way before broadband. I used to use napster on my dial up way before broadband was popular or even close to being widespread. I had Cox@Home in late 1996...before Napster was a wet spot on the mattress. No, P2P didn't start way before broadband. Absolutely agreed. I started with Flashcom 416/416 SDSL from Northpoint back in late 1996. |
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Broadband internet use is so overated |
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said by oliphant :Yes, you are easily confused. I was thinking the same thing. |
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said by LittlePoohBah :
You need to get out more. There's actually other things to do then seeing how much you use the internet on a week to week basis. Try getting a girlfriend
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What P2P is is just a way for cheap companies to push the connectivity costs off to the users and ISP's. If you want to distribute a patch for your game buy a pipe or don't get in the business. I can probably count on my hand the legitimate users of P2P, let's be real about this. |
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said by oliphant :Yes, you are easily confused. Which probably explains the anonymous post: couldn't figure out how to register.
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said by bereasonable :
what point are you trying to make? p2p started before broadband -- so what? go try to download a 600mb demo on dial up and tell me how many days it takes. So what? Just because you can't wait for a download, doesn't mean that slower methods aren't viable.
said by bereasonable :
have you played on-line games using dial up? try it then come back and make a point.
In fact, yes, I have played on-line games over dial up. I've played them on dial-up (anyone remember the old acoustic-coupler modems?), ISDN, DSL and on OC links (I've played online games since the late 80s). What's your point? Depending on how well the game is coded for a given media will dictate how well the game plays on that media. What used to really suck was playing on a fast link versus people on slower links because of the way that games used to compensate for the slower clients.
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nixen
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said by stickstickly :
And USENET and IRC were around long before Cox@Home, so what's your point?
You're forgetting about FTP and FSP. Not exactly P2P, but they were popular for grabbing files.
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oliphant
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said by stickstickly :
And USENET and IRC were around long before Cox@Home, so what's your point?
That P2P isn't the reason people have broadband as asserted here »Great Plan
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