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franual54a · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 1801 Location: Pittsburgh

Well I talked my mom into letting me get the fiber optics internet and you wanna see fast? I was waiting for some enhancements to download for my media player and they were done!!!! I was so used to waiting for half hour to hour as opposed to 37 seconds. I will pay the bill because being the the Senated committee I need this puter up and running. I can't trun it off so at night standby and I reboot windows in the morning when my coffee runs through my stomach. FIOS....FIBER OPTICS WHO WOULDA THUNK?????
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rich r · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 800

I have 2 PCs at my house that have not been turned off for 10 months. By the time most of the components will die a natural death from being used, they will be so archaic as to be useless. If the PC is going slower or something after having been on for a while or you need to reboot to recover memory, there is something wrong with your rig.

As for the high speed internet - Yeah once you get used to decent connection speeds, there is no way to go back. I won't even bother if it takes time to load sites. I have a friend who still has dial up. Might as well live in a cave. I say that but I'm also the last living human without a cell phone. I go from my home phone to the phone on my desk every day. that leaves about 10 minutes a day where a phone isn't near me. I don't even like talking on the phone. But the kids are making me get one. Maybe so they can borrow it.
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MAC · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 2153

shamey · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 166

HI franual54a............... Shamey here boy i am happy i found you i have not read any post from you in some time and was worried still this one is pretty old of a post to so i pray and hope your good happy most of all healthy and blessed of course so if you happen to find this post just say hello and then i will be at ease and know your fine.

your friend in canada always, ya i know boring little canada but still always our 2 nations are best friends Canada's just the little sister and the usa is the protective older brother lol lol .

Shamey all the best god bless.

briton32 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:21 am Post subject:

Hi there fran!!!

Its been awhile...I was wondering where you had gotten off to..Actually I figured you had been super busy with the committee and simply hadnt had time to post..Sort of like me with my newish job I barely have the time or energy to get online and read the posts every few days much less post..But I am generally here somewhere no more than every 2-3days..

Anyways I am glad to see ur doing well and like ur new internet..I personally have cable internet and actually one of the slower ones offered due to my money situation but its still plenty fast enough for me..Doesnt take much time at all to download anything or to load a page.. Enough about my net bussiness,lol...Hope to see more of you now that u have your pc back up and running full time...Take care and have a great weekend...

Your TN friend....
briton

Wren · Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 2657

Hey guys, that post from Fran is from 2 years ago. True that there haven't been any posts from her lately -- really hope she is doing well.

-Wren

starrshine · Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Mid-Coast Maine

Funny how we get our panties in a bunch when waiting for just a few seconds for these crazy machines to spew out incredible bits of information! Like 3 seconds seems like an eternity... I find myself saying "come on come on" if it isn't totally INSTANT~ if it isn't Instant it isn't gratifying enough, well, for most things in life anyway, I still prefer sex to last a little bit longer than a few seconds, but as long as i get.........

Karan · Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 350 Location: Southeast Coast

I'm still on dial up, and don't wait 3 seconds for pages to load more like 10 minutes or even 15 sometimes. I click on something and go into another room, get a task done and come back to see if the page has developed yet. I hate all those damn little moving gifs. Why can't they just make pages with text only.

So speak for yourself ;) (about panties in a knot) lol

Wren · Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 2657

Karan, I think you can adjust your browser settings to "text only" or to "block images". That way you wouldn't have to wait for the images to load.

Try some Google searches like:

load text only

text only browser

text only browsing

change browser settings to text only

You can also go to Tools, Options (in your current browser window) and see if you can find a setting to block images.

You might also be interested in the Chrome browser, which is faster than Explorer and Firefox.

Also I just discovered Lynx, which is a text only browser.

http://www.vordweb.co.uk/standards/download_lynx.htm

-Wren