Why did YOU come to Speedguide?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Tue May 04, 2010 8:22 am

In keeping with recent discussion, why did you come to SG?

I came here originally about 10 years ago. My broadband provider then was Media General Cable Roadrunner (bought out by COX). Bandwidth was a whopping 1.5 Mb down and 256 Kb up. Windows 98 & Windows 2000 needed tweaking, home routers were not that common and ISP bandwidth was not what was expected.

Sarahnn · Post by **Sarahnn** » Tue May 04, 2010 8:49 am

TonyT wrote:In keeping with recent discussion, why did you come to SG?

There's no simple answer for me.

I'd have to remember how I got here to remember why.

OSULLY · Post by **OSULLY** » Tue May 04, 2010 9:12 am

Came here in 07, I was getting a third of what my service was rated for and I was using XP. Tweaking brought me up to 95% of what I was rated for.

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue May 04, 2010 9:35 am

I had just gotten high speed internet and was looking to get the best speeds possible.

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Tue May 04, 2010 9:38 am

I had just gotten roadrunner from timewarner cable and the installer pointed me here. Said he couldn't install the tweaks, but if I wanted too, it would improve my speeds. It did! Kind of stinks that they can throttle everything from the headend now.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue May 04, 2010 10:46 am

TonyT wrote:In keeping with recent discussion, why did you come to SG?

I came here originally about 10 years ago. My broadband provider then was Media General Cable Roadrunner (bought out by COX). Bandwidth was a whopping 1.5 Mb down and 256 Kb up. Windows 98 & Windows 2000 needed tweaking, home routers were not that common and ISP bandwidth was not what was expected.

I came here originally for the broadband tweaks

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue May 04, 2010 10:51 am

Back when the very first Linksys befsr41 routers were hitting the store shelves, back when cable and DSL were brand new products across the country..they were going through issues with their firmware properly supporting PPPoE connections (for DSL). Firmware version 1.x..and the first iterations of that, did not allow MTU to be changed.

I had a yacht broker client, that got one of the first DSL installs in the city here. Like many smaller businesses...they had been sharing a multiple dial up connection for their network..and were exciting about getting DSL installed. So I went over with a brand new Linksys router, installed it, got their network up on the DSL...and enjoyed the speeds. Surfing was great, e-mail worked, etc. Next day though, they called with a problem. When sending e-mail with an attachment..the e-mail client would give an outbound e-mail error..SMTP server related. Basically couldn't send e-mail out if it had an attachment.

Switched them back to dial up...worked..back on DSL, didn't work. Got on the phone with Linksys support...he was aware of the problem, and he sent me here to Speedguide.Net to download 2x patches for Windows 95...the MTU patch and the vtcp386 patch. Those worked great. I then wandered around the site..and hung out in the tech forums...was brought me in was some of the router questions from gamers trying to host gaming servers from their home, like Quake and Unreal.

Shortly after....Ken bought me a few drinks, had his way with me, introduced me to MadDoc..and I've been held captive in the basement since.

Great times throughout my stay here. I've met a lot of fellow members here in real life...going down to Florida frequently to meet Ken, Philip, Koldchillah, and Roody.

Been to Michigan to meet MountainMan, Stryker, Noevo, BMED, and Bala.

Went to Maine to meet Lefty...
...although Lefty met me first at my house when I hosted a couple of SG meets...where I also met Meggie, YoS, MorbidPete, Bouncer, and TinyTim.

And of course I see Daves World almost every day at work..although he doesn't hang around here much.

Almost met Patrick (JCOS)....he was going to crash at my pad overnight on the way through the east coast, but his schedule got backed up.

Forgive me if I've left anyone out....I'm a bit tired this morning.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Tue May 04, 2010 11:02 am

Shortly after....Ken bought me a few drinks, had his way with me, introduced me to MadDoc..and I've been held captive in the basement since.

gimp in the box

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue May 04, 2010 11:09 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote: Forgive me if I've left anyone out....I'm a bit tired this morning.

don't forget our night together in Nantucket,,,,,

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Tue May 04, 2010 11:13 am

i came here to share what i've got from here

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Tue May 04, 2010 11:25 am

akbarri wrote:i came here to share what i've got from here

Somehow this sounds a little bit strange. I have visions of sheep in my head.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue May 04, 2010 11:27 am

blebs wrote:Somehow this sounds a little bit sensuous . I have visions of sheep in my head.

fixed

DIDS · Post by **DIDS** » Tue May 04, 2010 11:50 am

I was playing Unreal online and having connections issue's. Someone in the game recommended I come here and learn how to tweak my connection.

DIDS

DV · Post by DV » Tue May 04, 2010 12:16 pm

I was working for Cox Communications doing cable modem support when I joined. I mainly browsed the broadband forums and occasionally chimed in. I don't recall when I transitioned into a gen forum lurker.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Tue May 04, 2010 1:33 pm

Came here to tweak my 1.5 mbps cable connection back in 2000..ended up learning how to build my own computer from the hardware section on this site.

My first build was an Asus A7V, 1 ghz T'bird, 512 mb ram and a voodoo 3 or a voodoo5 (not sure when I got the voodoo 5)

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue May 04, 2010 1:41 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Ken had his way with me

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue May 04, 2010 1:42 pm

Dan wrote:don't forget our night together in Nantucket,,,,,

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue May 04, 2010 3:50 pm

No damn clue... all I know is my connections went from 33.6 dialup to 56K dialup, 128ISDN, then old Adelphia cable which sucked balls but was much better than ISDN and now with Comcast who took over Adelphia's job of sucking balls.

Otherwise no idea, but prob looking for a solution to a problem most likely.

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Tue May 04, 2010 4:36 pm

Stumbled upon the site while looking for brunette avatars and CD's profile came up over 100 times with different pics.

ThaDude · Post by **ThaDude** » Tue May 04, 2010 4:41 pm

I was looking for an underground car video called "Rendezvous", basically a 70's vid of a Ferrari blasting recklessly through Paris at dawn. Through google searches I found someone on here, in the automotive section with a link to it.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue May 04, 2010 5:01 pm

Roody wrote:I had just gotten high speed internet and was looking to get the best speeds possible.

same here

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Tue May 04, 2010 5:36 pm

If posts going back to 2001 were still searchable, I could tell you.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue May 04, 2010 6:09 pm

Burke wrote:If posts going back to 2001 were still searchable, I could tell you.

What was your original name here? I've lost track lol

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue May 04, 2010 6:38 pm

24giovanni wrote:Stumbled upon the site while looking for brunette avatars and CD's profile came up over 100 times with different pics.

Win.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue May 04, 2010 6:40 pm

I arrived here from John's forum.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Tue May 04, 2010 7:50 pm

Needed a Windows 95 broadband patch 10 or so years a go.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue May 04, 2010 8:07 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:What was your original name here? I've lost track lol

recondite or something like that ?

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Tue May 04, 2010 8:42 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:What was your original name here? I've lost track lol

Roadbuster.

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:20 am

back in 2000 i was taking computers in college. got alot of info off of this site at the time. also got the broadband tweaks for windows 98 for my ibm aptiva P3 400mhz.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed May 05, 2010 12:26 pm

CableDude wrote:I arrived here from John's forum.

lol
speedcorp was my name suggestion for that site. I still have copies of the original ICQ discussions between myself, John & Norm.

chimdogger · Post by **chimdogger** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:25 pm

The hot chicks...

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:31 pm

Burke wrote:Roadbuster.

Even google fails to find 2001 posts but it looks like you were best known for using the classified section here at first.

DV · Post by DV » Wed May 05, 2010 5:39 pm

I can still find my 2000/2001 posts, but I suppose it could be because of my rather low post count?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:46 pm

DV wrote:I can still find my 2000/2001 posts, but I suppose it could be because of my rather low post count?

I think some where lost in the UBB to vB conversion. Or maybe not lost but the thread ID messed up.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Wed May 05, 2010 6:35 pm

came here to uncap my cable modem, Decided to stay! visited a few members here @ cats, Talked to a few on the phone. Played Xbox Live with a bunch. I like it here lol

Qwijib0 · Post by **Qwijib0** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:22 pm

For the intelligent, rational, insightful political discourse.

The_Informer · Post by **The_Informer** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:50 pm

I stumbled across the site doing research for something other than broadband.
There is a wealth of information in this general forum from past threads.

BMED · Post by **BMED** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:16 pm

I've been asking myself that question for 10 years.

...to be continued