If your marina has no wifi

[Snowgoose-1]

 

[wonkywinch]

First saw this pun back in .... 1995

 

[Minerva]

Do we have to listen to Oasis too?

 

[mjcoon]

I approve of the apostrophe (in the right place for once!)... But what's special about 1995? We still had phones then!

 

[Sandy]

To be honest most marina WiFi systems are pretty rubbish. I get far better results from the phone Hotspot.

 

[penfold]

No real need to go that far back, wifi was a rarity in marinas even in 2010.

 

[wonkywinch]

If you'd like to reminisce ..

 

[lustyd]

If you'd like to reminisce ..

Ah the V92. Much nicer than the 36.6 dial up sequence as they added the bongggggbong bit in the middle for a bit of variety

 

[wonkywinch]

I still remember using Compuserve local dial up numbers and using NavCIS to download threads and upload my responses to AVSIG and other "special interest groups". Also a dig around various BBS using Wildcat. I still have friends who have @AOL.com email addresses.

 

[38mess]

Seems like yesterday I was using dial up

 

[Seashoreman]

I still remember using Compuserve local dial up numbers and using NavCIS to download threads and upload my responses to AVSIG and other "special interest groups". Also a dig around various BBS using Wildcat. I still have friends who have @AOL.com email addresses.

I have AOL for my email address. Have done for over 20 years. It works fine for me and an awful lot of people
have my address and use it. Why should I change please?

 

[rotrax]

I have AOL for my email address. Have done for over 20 years. It works fine for me and an awful lot of people
have my address and use it. Why should I change please?

We were one of the first towns in the UK to have fibre optic cable, through Comtel.

We still have an aol email, had it since 1994 IIRC.

Some time ago it was known in the USA as 'aohell'.

A bit harsh, I think.

 

[jwilson]

I think I remember buying a 2,400 bps modem and then quite soon replacing it with a 14,400 bps modem Thats bits, not megabits or gigabits - ie 0.0000024 Gb/sec in new money. And the computer had a lot of RAM - 64Kb - which is over 50,000 time more than my present PC. Funnily enough, much of what I do could be done on the early 1980s computer - basic spreadsheets, word processing etc. But it certainly couldn't edit video.

 

[lustyd]

Thats bits, not megabits or gigabits - ie 0.0000024 Gb/sec

I make it 0.0000022Gbps

 

[Seven Spades]

Don't you remember CIX the internet without a browser? Until Mosaic came along that is.

 

[wonkywinch]

I have AOL for my email address. Have done for over 20 years. It works fine for me and an awful lot of people
have my address and use it. Why should I change please?

Do they have IMAP now so you can use Thunderbird/Outlook/mail programme of choice or are you still constrained to their GUI/app?

 

[capnsensible]

In around 2008/9 we were living on our yacht in Puerto Calero in Lanzarote. The WiFi was a bit pants.

A year or so before a Volvo rtw race, the electrics company Erickson moved in to the marina to open a training base for their 2 entries. They sorted the WiFi snd it was fab.

Nice to watch the yachts in action too!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I make it 0.0000022Gbps

I think I've used remote connections through every speed from 300 baud (teletype) up to around 600 Mbps today! The big jump was when I got a cable connection - went from 19.2 kbaud to a few MBPS (I know, mixed units, but dial-up lines are measured one way and cable/ ISDN/ fibre another).

The slowest connection I ever used was EPSS to connect from Cambridge to a computer at Los Alamos (legally!). It would only work in character at a time mode (i.e. a packet only transmitted a single character) and the latency was such that I pressed a key and then waited about a second to get the echo of the character from the other end. It worked, but you needed patience!

I should mention that I first used a computer in about 1972 and it became my job in about 1977! And in about 1978 we were providing a dial-up service for clients - no internet, of course; this was leased GPO lines.

 

[Wansworth]

In around 2008/9 we were living on our yacht in Puerto Calero in Lanzarote. The WiFi was a bit pants.

A year or so before a Volvo rtw race, the electrics company Erickson moved in to the marina to open a training base for their 2 entries. They sorted the WiFi snd it was fab.

Nice to watch the yachts in action too!

Welcome to organize a race in the village,anytime

 

[Seashoreman]

Do they have IMAP now so you can use Thunderbird/Outlook/mail programme of choice or are you still constrained to their GUI/app?

I have absolutely no idea what you mean. I send and receive email using AOL from my various devices
and works fine.