My friends really bad PC has something I have not seen before

[JamesHewitt]

So........I'm confused by this symbol...

 

My friend has incredibly unreliable internet and when looking into his router and connection, I discovered this logo. Any idea? ( one next to Broadband connection )

[tt2468]

On 2/4/2017 at 4:30 PM, JamesHewitt said:

So........I'm confused by this symbol...

 

My friend has incredibly unreliable internet and when looking into his router and connection, I discovered this logo. Any idea? ( one next to Broadband connection )

LOL

The days of dialup.

 

Those were dark times...

[JamesHewitt]

It can't be dial-up can it!? I was having thoughts but....

[fiberzs is dad]

darn that older than me........

[JamesHewitt]

Wait so...is this seriously dial up? He's insisting it isn't dial up. Anyway to be sure? I can't see very well due to tears of laughter btw.

[flibberdipper]

If his PC has a 56K modem installed then I'd imagine that'd be showing up.

[gtx1060=value]

1 minute ago, JamesHewitt said:

Wait so...is this seriously dial up? He's insisting it isn't dial up. Anyway to be sure? I can't see very well due to tears of laughter btw.

don't use windows 10 - but looks very similar to the dialup logo - probably is dial up - although i don't see how he could even have dialup unless you live in rural russia

[JamesHewitt]

He lives in a rather...poor quality large town in England so probably worse than rural Russia.

 

It can't be fibre either cause...

[JamesHewitt]

Could it be his receiver inside his PC? 

[brwainer]

if the computer is configured to connect directly to the modem, and is using PPPoE, then you will get that logo. PPPoE is technically an "on-demand" connection, that uses terms from telephony like "circuits" and "dialing". This is because PPP was designed for the connection to be set up when you want to transfer data, and disconnected when done. PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) uses most of the same connection/disconnection and data transfer functionality, even if the connections are typically left connected at all times. Hence why the logo is still similar to Dialup. Also, to this day even in Windows 10, the backend application used to set up PPPoE is the same as the one used to set up dialup (for those dialup providers that work with the builtin Windows client).

[Guest lilbman]

-gets dial up-

 

-wonders why his internet connection is absolute utter garbage-