Post #587528
2024-04-10 06:00 UTC
Replies (29)
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@ipg@wetdry.world 2024-04-10 06:16
Opps tried sending me a DDoS. Jokes on them, I never had service to begin with. I blink packets into the heavens like sending SOS morse codes. My computers plugged into the dirt below me. We transmit packets over tin can and string. Tried dialling into the ISP they put me on hold
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone 2024-11-26 04:34
@ipg oh, i've had bad fucking Internet before. it's story time. my parents know fuck all about technology and Internet stuff, but they somehow got a DSL at&t modem installed sometime in the early 2000's... and stuck with it until fucking 2020 when it finally broke. my Internet was the absolute worst ever. average download speeds were around 70 kilobytes per second. i basically couldn't do anything. imagine basically anything you do online, it usually just didn't work. stuff as simple as loading images usually took several minutes. i could watch youtube, but only at 144p. i tried to play games online, but i'd always get disconnected very quickly. not only that, but every few minutes it would completely crap out and i'd need to unplug it, plug it back in, and wait around two minutes for it to be back up and working. every. few. minutes. this would interrupt all my active downloads, so even downloading a file that was a few megabytes would usually require several tries. in 2020 the modem finally died and my parents got a new DSL router/modem with a speed of around 10 megabytes/second. after over ten years of having to deal with internet that was comparable to 90's dial up, it was absolutely incredible. i could finally do things like watch youtube at an actual resolution, browse the internet, play games online, etc. 10 megabytes per second isn't the best, but it was just incredible to me. a year or two ago we switched again to 5G which has been pretty good, i think speeds are around 30 megabytes per second so fairly fast. i would *never* want to go back to what i had to deal with back then.
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@chfour@wetdry.world 2024-04-10 06:19
@ipg ADSL over Wet String
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@FrostyFoxTeals@grimgreenfo.rest 2024-04-10 07:16
@ipg@wetdry.world me
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@levzzz@mastodon.social 2024-04-10 07:47
@ipg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
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@natalie_romana@mastodon.nz 2024-04-10 09:21
@ipg You of course know the bragging rights you have with the bandwidth of your Jason transport protocol? Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of SD cards. 😆
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@nyankat@beach.city 2024-04-10 11:22
@ipg @darkphoenix wasp fade for everyone!
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@qwertyoruiop@nso.group 2024-04-10 11:59
@ipg 10gbit uplink with qc rule to drop 99.9% of packets gang
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@s@possum.city 2024-04-10 13:38
@ipg@wetdry.world we rigged up the wifi with walkie talkies ...thats one way to not get tagged
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@southpaw1312@yiff.life 2024-04-10 19:04
@ipg this is still a reality in much of the world outside of the west
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@halligan@infosec.exchange 2024-04-10 21:26
@ipg This reads like a Beat poem
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@marsh@fedi.on-a-ps4.lol 2024-04-11 11:27
@ipg my instance runs on a playstation does that count
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@fenrirre@wetdry.world 2024-04-12 04:42
@ipg this shit aint nothing to me man
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@rrix@notes.whatthefuck.computer 2024-04-12 05:00
@ipg @lifning i always think about @joeyh ‘s old uses this profile https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/
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@halotroop2288@meow.social 2024-04-12 05:08
@ipg Tag yourself. I'm "bird shit on the satellite dish"
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@Farbs@mastodon.social 2024-04-12 07:40
@ipg I knew a dude who was responsible for getting the final build of a game* to the CD duplication facility in time for their scheduled print run, and game developers being game developers they were fixing bugs right up until the last minute. They got it there by helicopter. * I think it was the PS1 version of Driver
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@imikoy@meow.miabaka.moe 2024-04-12 09:09
@ipg@wetdry.world Using TCP (tin can protocol)
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@DrewNaylor@mastodon.online 2024-04-14 04:38
@ipg Not sure if it's bad enough, but a school I went to borrowed Wi-MAX (most likely, since the ISP is mainly a WISP; could've been cable, too) Internet from the neighbors by making a small dish out of tin foil and putting it behind the Wi-Fi antenna on a router in the upstairs window nearest to their house and had it acting as (I assume) a bridge. At least one of the neighbors in the house they borrowed from was a former student. Didn't know it was that jank until I saw it one day.
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@slonkazoid@ck.katzen.cafe 2024-04-16 19:09
@ipg my instance's networking would drop to 0.5K/s sometimes is that good (i had to configure & compile the kernel and write a patch for & compile iwd to get it to only do that sometimes)
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@NotThatDeep@transfem.social 2024-09-16 03:33
@ipg@wetdry.world you think UPS is bad? I'm running my family's router on bloody Royal Mail
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@montar@mastodon.social 2024-09-16 13:47
@ipg Every company should have a Person equipped with old PC that's got 1GB of ram 128GB harddrive and potato chip in place of CPU, dialup internet and windows 7 and outdated debian dualboot. Every piece of properitary software meant for end-user needs to be speed-tested on this Person's PC on both OS-es and legally required to work well.
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@kelsey@goto.tomato.pink 2024-11-01 07:55
@ipg you're a modern day poet
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@eleix@puppo.space 2024-11-10 00:34
@ipg Add to that. Encryption's broken. Gotta send everything over ham radio but oops the sun decided to puke and send a solar flare.
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@lolcat@digipres.club 2024-11-10 15:14
@ipg @loriemerson Some poetic, subversive othernets vibes here. I love it.
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@meowking@praxor.wtf 2024-11-10 15:37
@ipg literally, it's so satisfying when your internet is slow and you slowly watch the download complete
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@a@pdx.social 2024-11-10 16:50
@ipg @loriemerson My crappy DSL line has super unpredictable latency, often measurable in seconds. The crappyness of it got me to calculate the bandwidth of Netflix’s old DVD or BluRay programs, in the spirit of the proverbial station wagon filled with mag tapes.
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@simsa02@mastodon.social 2024-11-11 13:21
@ipg yep.
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@enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be 2024-11-12 07:20
@ipg@wetdry.world I dont know why but I can hear Eminem rapping this
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@kaiiak@wetdry.world 2025-01-26 02:46
@ipg@wetdry.world god thats ME so much mountain satellite rural internet is GOD SLOW and if it's snowing? FORGET IT