using a modem...
 

I am in Heaven!!!! Limewire running off of Windows 2000 and a new v.92 modem enabeled me to download 120 megabyte program!!! This just was not possible for me before using a 56k connection. I had do do it over night but hey who cares...it was there waiting for me when I woke up the next morning. YAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Lloyd

v.92?!? :eek: Why can't they just let dial-up RIP with the 486's? I can't see how still having the phone screwed while on the web is heaven.

Even just a few steps out of hell can seem like heaven! ;)
Let them enjoy the new for a while, hmmm?

I'm not sure how the rates compare around the country/world, but I pay $40 a month for DSL service. A 56k modem downloads at 7 KiloBytes per second. This DSL service downloads at 160 KiloBytes per second. That's 120 MegaBytes in 12.5 minutes. Of course you don't usually get those speeds on limewire, but 5, simultaneous, 30 KiloByte downloads isn't uncommon (56 minutes for that 120 MB).

"If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."

Here with 512/128 Kbps ADSL seldom do I reach 40 KB/s in one download... The maximum speed is 60 KB/s (512 Kbps / 8b = 64 KB/s), not 150 KBps (the speed is in bits per second, not Bytes!).
Also 128 Kbps for the uplink is very low, this is a maximum of 16 KB/s. It's better a cable with symmetric channels :) .

I clocked this connection ( http://www.dslreports.com/stest ) at 1.3 megabits. Upload is much slower (around 100kilobits = 12.5 KB/s).

12,5 KB/s is slow :confused: for a 1,3 Mbps ADSL . I have set LimeWire (AquaLime in fact) with an upload limit of 10 KB/s and ppl gets 10 KB/s, and I'm also running WinMX 3.1 with a limit of 5 KB/s for uploads. It runs fine, but if I want to use the Internet for something else it's better to shutdown WinMX or Aqua :) . This using 512/128 Kb/s ADSL :) .

my kingdom for high speed
 

I wish I could get high speed. Since I moved out to "hickville" I can only get a 56k connection. So be nice to us old 56k'ers as some of us it's our only choice (Yes I use to adsl when I lived in the big city and damm do i miss it.

With slow connections (56Kbps) you really need a peer that supports the Ultrapeer protocol, as LimeWire. Apart from slower download/upload speeds everything should be fine. I would recommend to throttle upload and downlaod speeds a bit lower (10% less) from the maximum to allow normal tcp/ip traffic apart from Lime.

just love my 56k modem
 

I pay a measly $27 a month for a 56k connection versus around $60 month for cable - which - I would pay in a heartbeat if it were not for the 5 gig per month data transfer limit after which I'd need a second job to keep up with the criminally punitive 'excess' fees - yes its sloooow but its still viable in fact it has the ok side effect of encouraging doing other stuff at the same time as waiting 40 minutes for that 5mg mp3 file to 90 percent download before the host disapears and you have to start searching all over again - on the other hand my first modem had a baud rate of 1.2 (green letters sliding one after the other across the screen left to right line by line) so 56 is as close to heaven as I'm going to get untill Bobo the Red starts an Australian cable company and Telstra crumbles under the weight of its own arrogance and indifference to customers

bad_vlad