Gulfcoast On-Line Development, South Mississippi's smallest Internet Service Provider (ISP) has acquired new digital access server technology that will allow its customers to connect at the highest possible speed from their location.
You might want to test your phone lines to see if they support 56k technology. You can find out more about how to do that here.
In addition to a substantially larger Gulfport Mississippi modem pool, Goldinc customers can now enjoy blistering analog connection rates of 50+ k bits per second (kbps) or more using V.90/x2 technology, as well as ISDN, using the recently installed US Robotics Total Control server.
Naturally, these improvements to dialup Internet connectivity come at No Additional Charge -- and just in time for Christmas! (1997)
Existing customers of Brand X ISP might want to call 864-JM76 (also known as 5676) to determine the connection speed that they could be experiencing if they moved to the Goldinc Neighborhood. We won't turn away k56Flex calls, of course, but connections higher than 33.6k using that "competing" technology are unlikely. Some Flex modems are upgradable to V.90, of course.
If you want it, here it is, come and get it!
Here are some actual connection speeds from actual calls reported by actual people:
- 98,666 -- from Depew Rd., Orange Grove
- Tom Shaver (again) playing with Multilink PPP within Windows 98
- Two 3Com V.90 modems
- Tom says "I was looking at the jpg I sent you, and noticed the "Stac compression" line. So, guessing, I turned off software compression on my dial up connection. Now it works great. I get sustained 9-10k/sec to my PC at work download, and 7k/sec upload on zip files. I downloaded a .bmp file at 21k/sec. That's an impressive number for a couple of analog modems :). I get 10-11k/sec pretty regularly just surfing around."
- 54,666 -- from Depew Rd., Orange Grove
- 831 exchange
- US Robotics internal x2 modem
- Reported by Tom Shaver.
- Since the speed of x2 connections are limited by the FCC to 53k, Tom has achieved the impossible, if not the downright illegal. (He usually experiences 50,666 connections like us mere mortals).
- Tom says "I didn't notice the connect speed until I was ready to log off, so then I stayed on and tried some downloads. From my PC at work and ftp.goldinc.com, the highest throughput I could sustain was 4.7k/sec, I saw as high as 5.0k/sec... So I have a feeling the modem reconsidered the original 54666 connect speed."
- 53,333 -- St. Charles Ave, Bay St. Louis
- 467 Exchange
- US Robotics external x2 modem
- Reported by Catchie Crider
- 53,100 -- 8th Street, Bay St Louis
- 467 Exchange
- Telepath for Windows internal modem
- Reported by Jeff Hinson
- 50,666 -- from 14th Street, Gulfport (Markham Bldg)
- 374 exchange
- US Robotics internal x2 modem
- Reported by Charles Yow
- 50,666 -- from Dunbar Ave, Bay St Louis
- 467 exchange
- US Robotics internal x2 modem
- Reported by Charles Yow
- 50,666 -- from Pineville Rd., Long Beach
- 868 exchange
- US Robotics x2 modem
- Reported by Bill Maloy
- Dropped to 48,000 after several days of heavy rain.
- 49,333 -- from Live Oak Circle, Long Beach
- US Robotics x2 modem
- Reported by Bruce Bricker
- 48,000 -- from Bay St. Louis
- US Robotics x2 modem
- 467 exchange
- Reported by Daryl Rito
- 45,333 -- from W. Old Pass Rd in LB
- Reported by Scott Hammack
- 33,600 -- from Highway 90, Bay St. Louis
- generic 33.6k modem
- 31,200 -- from St. Charles St, Bay St. Louis, exchange (US Robotics 33.6k Sportster)
This location had previouly experienced consistent 28.8k connections to older Analog equipment. - 28,800 -- from Gates Ave, Long Beach (US Robotics 28.8k Sportster)
Hey, it didn't get any worse!
Like wow, dude!! Or as one Goldinc customer recently put it: "Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow". (You know who you are.), or as another put it: "NOOOOOO WAY!" (You know who you are, too.)
Existing Goldinc customers will want to create a new dialer for accessing the digital server. Just fill in your Goldinc username and password in the space provided. No connection script is required.