dial up internet

does anyone have dial up internet anymore? if so... is it as disgustingly slow as i remember?

or have they managed to speed it up.

tell me all the negatives and positives to having dial up please :please:

I'll NEVER go back to dial up!
I have DSL at home and my computer at work runs on dial up... Oh on... never again!

I'm waiting for the first of the younger generation to ask..."what's dial-up"


As to some thoughts...

If DSL is available you will find that the service is the same or cheaper in some cases than dial-up. I finally got my dad to leave AOH...AOL after I can't remember how many years he's had it. Anyway the promotional first year was like $12/month which is less than he was paying the dial-up service. On average without promotional deals I see DSL for around $15/month. Cable internet is usually up in the $40-$50 range around here.

I could NEVER go back to dial up either. We have cable, and I actually can't stand to use my parents DSL. Even that is soo slow to me! :oops:

i can't imagine living without high speed internet... but we have an opportunity to move to a place in the mountains and there is no high speed there. :(

To me, broadband is a required utility, like water or electricity...we passed on an apartment a few years ago because it did not have access to any kind of "real" broadband (I don't consider satellite broadband)...

Isn't your magazine all on-line? I would think you would go NUTS trying to do that over dial-up.

I use dial-up, and have wireless access at work. Honestly, there isn't much difference unless you are downloading. At least not to me.
I have PeoplePC and its $10 a month, and all the high-speed stuff is $40 or more.
Wolfy

The fastest dial-up I've seen is People PC. They're not lying when they say they get you the fastest connection, for dial-up that is. I still wouldn't get it anyway, just because of all the junk associated with dial-up (no phone usage, SLOW, etc.).

I use EarthLink DSL. It's fast enough but could be better. Qwest is faster (in my opinion). If dial-up was ever implemented at my house, chaos would ensue.

anyone use satellite or have any prices on it. remember.. i'm in canada

You really should look into wireless Internet (we get it for Mark's laptop, through Verizon.) It is $60 per month, and it has been working fine for Mark; but you need to be in an area that gets Verizon phone signals.
Now, I would be Very cautious before getting the Dish service from HughesNet. We have it.. but there are some major drawbacks. One, the contract they make you get into.. ours is a 2-year one. Two.. you can not download more than a certain amount of data per week.. they do NOT tell you about this anywhere, we found out the hard way when Mark was DLing Counter Strike.. the limit is 100 KB a day.. so if you plan on Dl much, please use caution.. the other negatives are: snow collects on the dish and needs to be swept off.. the CS reps can NOT speak recognizable English.. their home rep deleted things off of our computer (an antivirus) and installed a different one w/o permission.. also, it is Not as fast as cable.. but if you can't get anything else, it is way better than DU.. as long as you have a newer or faster computer.
Please PMJ me with any Qs about this.. I feel I could go on and on but it is getting late!

okay i found this:

http://www.virgintechnologies.com/ho...-internet.html

which is not at all expensive... as long as i go with the first option. so a question to all you computer geeks... is that a decent speed? ($64.99 option)

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

You really should look into wireless Internet (we get it for Mark's laptop, through Verizon.) It is $60 per month, and it has been working fine for Mark; but you need to be in an area that gets Verizon phone signals.
Now, I would be Very cautious before getting the Dish service from HughesNet. We have it.. but there are some major drawbacks. One, the contract they make you get into.. ours is a 2-year one. Two.. you can not download more than a certain amount of data per week.. they do NOT tell you about this anywhere, we found out the hard way when Mark was DLing Counter Strike.. the limit is 100 KB a day.. so if you plan on Dl much, please use caution.. the other negatives are: snow collects on the dish and needs to be swept off.. the CS reps can NOT speak recognizable English.. their home rep deleted things off of our computer (an antivirus) and installed a different one w/o permission.. also, it is Not as fast as cable.. but if you can't get anything else, it is way better than DU.. as long as you have a newer or faster computer.
Please PMJ me with any Qs about this.. I feel I could go on and on but it is getting late!

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well we are in canada... and there is only dial up where the house is. nothing else. and cell phones don't work there either... this is in the mountains (with a mountain coming up out of the ground right behind the house) and forest across the street... so... no wireless.

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okay i found this:

http://www.virgintechnologies.com/ho...-internet.html

which is not at all expensive... as long as i go with the first option. so a question to all you computer geeks... is that a decent speed? ($64.99 option)

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512Kbps download is pretty decent if you ask me!

well i called my daughter's boyfriend who works for an internet company. he said what i have now is 300 something or another... the satellite will be 50 and the dial-up extreme (5 times faster than regular dial up) is 9.

so... i guess i'm just going to have to become a ssssssssllllllow nonspeed internet persom :(

You couldn't get me to move to an area without high speed internet. DSL is horrible too. Cable is the way to go.

I am on dial up............after having dsl too...........works fine for me.

Gin, that 100kb a day cannot be right you would use that up visiting a single website! ;)

Anyways I use a wireless broadband at home through a local ISP I used to work for. Its faster than dls or cable mwahaha! I don't know about the satelite stuff other than it used to be outrageously expensive and wasn't much better than dialup. Don't confuse wireless broadband, satelite, and cell wireless...they are all different things.

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well i called my daughter's boyfriend who works for an internet company. he said what i have now is 300 something or another... the satellite will be 50 and the dial-up extreme (5 times faster than regular dial up) is 9.

so... i guess i'm just going to have to become a ssssssssllllllow nonspeed internet persom :(

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I think the 300, 50, and 9 correspond to the actual max download speeds respectively. Say you are downloading a file that is 1MB in size. With your current speed you could finish downloading it in 1000/300 = 3.33seconds. With a satellite connection it would take 1000/50 = 20seconds. With dial up 1000/9 = 111seconds or approximately two minutes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

There are no positives to dialup - it sucks. I am getting cable tomorrow!!! :carrot:

well the good news is... we heard back from the realtor today and they have high speed internet there *whew* so i'm happy again!!! :carrot: