ISDN!!

I just got ISDN into the house and it's soooo good. I bet you're all jealous, so you should be.

Sure, calls cost twice the amount they used to for me (used to cost 1 old pence, now it costs me 2) but now I can actually play MW3 (Mechwarrior 3) and I only have to shoot 5 or 6 mechs ahead of the enemy mech to get him!

Delighted!

Diego Maradona

You need to get out more

Clitlady

Hows your ping for Quake 3 Arena?

Benny_Cake

Sacramento wrote: »

I just got ISDN into the house and it's soooo good. I bet you're all jealous, so you should be.

Sure, calls cost twice the amount they used to for me (used to cost 1 old pence, now it costs me 2) but now I can actually play MW3 (Mechwarrior 3) and I only have to shoot 5 or 6 mechs ahead of the enemy mech to get him!

Delighted!

How are things in 1999? Call Bertie and warn him about the economy.

PC CDROM

That's some early drinking right there.

mikemac1

Buy shares in Apple!

Don't buy shares in Eircom

The King of Moo

wowdatzculdusitmakbebobeter?

tanks xXxdakingufmooxXx

Adyx

Nothing wrong with ISDN. Plenty of TV/Radio stations use it for OB because it has more consistent upload speeds. Rip-off for home use of course. You should get a WAP mobile phone next.

Adyx

Adyx wrote: »

Nothing wrong with ISDN. Plenty of TV/Radio stations use it for OB because it has more consistent upload speeds. Rip-off for home use of course. You should get a WAP mobile phone next.

Buying a WAP capable phone next week!
Oh and everyone ASL?

Xantia

It
Still
Does
Nothing

Ghandee

Stupid thread is stupid.

Dyr

Adyx wrote: »

Nothing wrong with ISDN. Plenty of TV/Radio stations use it for OB because it has more consistent upload speeds. Rip-off for home use of course. You should get a WAP mobile phone next.

Pain in the whole to troubleshoot when things go wrong though

Jester252

have fun

Bell Butter

Sacramento wrote: »

I just got ISDN into the house and it's soooo good. I bet you're all jealous, so you should be.

Sure, calls cost twice the amount they used to for me (used to cost 1 old pence, now it costs me 2) but now I can actually play MW3 (Mechwarrior 3) and I only have to shoot 5 or 6 mechs ahead of the enemy mech to get him!

Delighted!

Did you double up the lines, I used to and I could get a whopping 128K!!!!

Capt'n Midnight

ISDN ? you were lucky to have ISDN, all we had was a modem on a bad line

krudler

Youre gonna freak out when the Dreamcast comes out

southcentralts

Now might be a good time to buy a house, sure a mortgage wont kill ya!

Gunmonkey

Benny_Cake wrote: »

How are things in 1999? Call Bertie and warn him about the economy.

Probably better to call the economy and warn it about Bertie.

Organic Cavity

ISDN was class back in the day.

goodie2shoes

Zzzzzzzzzzz

demanufactured

Remember a mate of mine got it and we used to get him to host our quake 3 games , there was about 12 of us on 56k connecting to him and it was great auld craic

Almaviva

Cant see the point of it to be honest. Upgraded my modem from a 33k one to a 56k one a few months ago and it is lightening fast. More than enough for most uses. Business maybe need ISDN, but no need for it for the home user. Just my 2c.

Almaviva

Almaviva wrote: »

Cant see the point of it to be honest. Upgraded my modem from a 33k one to a 56k one a few months ago and it is lightening fast. More than enough for most uses. Business maybe need ISDN, but no need for it for the home user. Just my 2c.

What's "2c"?

Pedant

What the hell is ISDN?

Mr Benevolent

Pedant wrote: »

What the hell is ISDN?

A step up from 56k.

Mance Rayder

I really need to start studying this technology.

BeerWolf

I upgraded from Dial-up to wireless broadband in 2007... only took half a decade to get bloody broadband finally... And even then, being in the countryside it's so god damn prone to lag spiking! >:(

Rhyme

The book I'm reading has an ISDN.

No, wait.

davetherave

CiscoStudent wrote: »

I really need to start studying this technology.

With a username like that I should bloody well hope so sunshine :pac:

Pedant

Confab wrote: »

A step up from 56k.

What the hell is a 56k?

TouchingVirus

Diego Maradona wrote: »

You need to get out more

I like that Biggins thanked this post :pac:

Cuddlesworth

davetherave wrote: »

With a username like that I should bloody well hope so sunshine :pac:

Cisco have stripped ISDN out of most of their coursework. The closest you will get to it now is Frame Relay.

But since I just had the pleasure of setting up four E1's and two T1's, its obviously not dead.

imitation

I remember the bank managed to some how con my parents into getting ISDN for internet banking (as a farm it needed business banking.. and about 5 minutes after the line went in.."ah shure home online banking will do ye").

I was like a dog with two mickeys, no longer did I have to beg to use the phone for a few minutes to have a lash off counter strike, and there was actually a point to the game without it crapping out every 2 minutes. Friends use to look on with envy, some of them didn't even have computers !

After 6 oclock the internet was my playground, I could do some random chatting on IRC or get some songs off Napster and burn them to CD because nobody had invented a mp3 player that could hold more than 2 songs.

Ah yes, those were the days, they were awful !

Mance Rayder

davetherave wrote: »

With a username like that I should bloody well hope so sunshine :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

Mance Rayder

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Cisco have stripped ISDN out of most of their coursework. The closest you will get to it now is Frame Relay.

But since I just had the pleasure of setting up four E1's and two T1's, its obviously not dead.

Sure its alive and kicking in Roscommon! Your right though I barely touched it in the cisco discovery courses.

languagenerd

This thread has confirmed to me that I'm still really rather young, thanks :P

(I have no idea what's going on, pretty sure it's cos I wasn't old enough to own a computer in the nineties...)

Mance Rayder

languagenerd wrote: »

This thread has confirmed to me that I'm still really rather young, thanks :P

(I have no idea what's going on, pretty sure it's cos I wasn't old enough to own a computer in the nineties...)

pfft 90's I had a computer in the 80's. It was called a digital watch.:pac:

Cuddlesworth

languagenerd wrote: »

This thread has confirmed to me that I'm still really rather young, thanks :P

(I have no idea what's going on, pretty sure it's cos I wasn't old enough to own a computer in the nineties...)

Unless you were rich or stupid(see the above farm post) there was no reason anybody should ever install a ISDN line into their house. They still cost a absolute fortune to run.

Stinicker

Ah yes, ISDN, i thought it was faster than Dialup but only when you had the twin channels running at 128k. I have used Broadband since 2005 and Dial-up and ISDN were a total pain in hole. Having to wait until 6pm for the lower rate of charges.

Capt'n Midnight

Pedant wrote: »

What the hell is a 56k?

absolutely mindblowing compared to 2,400 bps

Canis Lupus

ah 56k modem... The days when internet porn still involved imagination as you waited for the picture to load.

alphabeat

what about the first wap porn ?

basically about 8 black dots in a picture , you just had to fill in the lines with your imagination .

Firefox11

Pedant wrote: »

What the hell is a 56k?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8XKhCfsTts

danniemcq

Canis Lupus wrote: »

ah 56k modem... The days when internet porn still involved imagination as you waited for the picture to load.

hah saving images onto a 3 1/2 floppy, (fnar fnar)

OP has it taken boards this long to load on the connection?

JustAddWater

Great Scott!!! It actually worked

Sacramento wrote: »

I just got ISDN into the house and it's soooo good. I bet you're all jealous, so you should be.

Sure, calls cost twice the amount they used to for me (used to cost 1 old pence, now it costs me 2) but now I can actually play MW3 (Mechwarrior 3) and I only have to shoot 5 or 6 mechs ahead of the enemy mech to get him!

Delighted!

JazzyJ

Ah ISDN... high speed internet connectivity! :rolleyes:

I moved back from the US in 2001 where I'd free 1MB broadband from NetZero. Arrive back to Ireland and eircom are pushing ISDN as their high-speed solution .

Can't believe they're still flogging it.

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

ISDN ? you were lucky to have ISDN, all we had was a modem on a bad line

I had a modem on a bad line, Eircom said that the line was OK and refused to do anything about it! :mad: so I asked to upgrade to ISDN which of course failed.

So Eircom had to replace the entire line back to the exchange to make it work.

Three months later I cancelled and had a perfect analogue line and a modem that worked at 56k.

Now have broadband, but this now and that was then..

MagicMarker

JazzyJ wrote: »

Can't believe they're still flogging it.

Loads of businesses still use ISDN, it's almost as widely used as PSTN.

MagicMarker

Speaking of WAP phones, I just downloaded the new Sweet Child O' Mine polyphonic ringtone! :cool:

MagicMarker

MagicMarker wrote: »

Loads of businesses still use ISDN, it's almost as widely used as PSTN.

I work in telecoms and almost all businesses we support use ISDN as a backup service in case the DSL service failed.

Agricola

Up to 3 years ago I still had a 56k modem which I coaxed a silky 33k out of. Ah those were the soul destroying days.