Just gone broadband

What was the first thing you did with it?

[Syzygy]

Last night I finally made the transition to broadband at home after the best part of a year um-ing and ah-ing. I'm in the UK and a lot of us are very slow at these things..;-)

It took all of two minutes to set up and I was away - it worked. With that I thought, "what can I do that's 'broadband'"?

First thing I did was to phone up a friend. "Yea hey, just got broadband, can you send me something large by email - I just want to make sure it all works as it should," said I excitedly.

He sends me an mp3 of a Who track and a few short minutes later I'm listening to it on my Mac. This is great!

Ok. So from here I want to go on the web and just do something that I couldn't do properly with my old dial-up connection. Unsure, I end up on a music site and watch my first 'proper' video stream from home.

It was Britney Spears - "Toxic"...;-)

Now that's a bit embarrassing to admit, but in my excitement I just didn't know what else to do!

Thus, the question is, when you first got connected to 'broadband', in whatever shape or form, whenever it was, what was the first thing you did via home, to prove to yourself that you had now moved on to the next level?

Anything more cringe-making than Ms Spears?

Syzygy

[pendanticist]

I'll never forget the first time I went DSL.

It coincided with a reformatting project and once I loaded the OS, was off to the updates pages and the newest versions of those heavy programs / applications.

I swore then, that I'd never go back to dial-up! Very simple declarative sentence that eventually DID come back to haunt me.

However, that time in my life is over and now I'm on Cable Modem since DSL service is not available in my neighborhood. Faster is definately better, no matter what you're doing on the 'Net.

[KeithDouglas]

I happened to have found this site

[theircircularlife.it...]

just before I got DSL, so I experienced what it was like over dial-up and DSL.

[g1smd]

First thing I did on broadband was to download and install a firewall.

The second thing was to update the virus definitions (in about 45 seconds instead of 15 minutes), and turn the auto-update feature ON.

[lorax]

Router/firewall and then another firewall on the box.

[Syzygy]

LOL!

OK, g1smd & lorax, thanks for that. But what was the first thing you did for fun? I'm not sure that I'd consider your actions enthused, nor more 'of the moment' than my interaction with Ms Spears...;-)

Syzygy

Nice link KeithDouglas - I enjoyed that...

[lorax]

>> I'm not sure that I'd consider your actions enthused

Oh but I was! I always get excited when I get new toys. Broadband was simply a good excuse to get an office network setup.

>> for fun

I don't remember off-hand. Probably something I shouldn't have or couldn't have done easily with dialup. Picture galleries come to mind. ;)

[Trisha]

I just got a cable connection a few weeks ago. The first thing I did was try to get it to work. It turns out the cable line going into our house was bad. It took a few days before that problem was solved.

After that I don't remember what I did first, but what I like a lot about it is, emails download much faster. So do log files. Faststats doesn't seem to go any faster though, but it may be this computer. Actually, I do remember now one of the first things I did - upload a bunch of large images files!

It really sucks when I have to go back and do something on my old computer with only a dial up.

[ronin]

I'm sorry to say the first thing I did was to check the download speeds across my website.

[ska_demon]

Got hooked up on one of them file share programs and filled my harddrive with crap movies and 100 episodes of the simpsons.
Ska

[grelmar]

Got hooked up on one of them file share programs and filled my harddrive with crap movies and 100 episodes of the simpsons.

I resemble that comment.

[mincklerstraat]

Now you'll need sloppy [dallaway.com].