Who still has dial-up?

[Aqualung]

because I do, and it sucks. It takes years for anythign to load up. I probably spend half of my time on-line just waiting for the pages to come up. Plus, every time I want to go on line, I have to make sure nobody is waiting for an important phone call. Then, I have to drag my phone chord from my computer, which is upstairs in my room, out my door, down the stairs, through the kitchen, and plug it in, all the way stringing up the chord along cabinets so it doesn't clothes-line some unsuspecting snaker on their way to the fridge. I hate it!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I know what your talking about. I live out the middle of no-where Indiana (one of the many) and I have no choice but dialup. I could go satalite, but I've heard it sucks, plus its 60 a month.
I use NetZero highspeed. You can still tell its not Broadband (even though the commercial claims you cant) but its a bit faster at loading web pages. I use IDA to speed up downloads. I also bought this thing, I can't think of what its called, but if you have call waiting, this little device disconnects the internet automatically so the caller can get through.

 

[Aqualung]

I keep trying to tell my parents that they should get better service, but they insist that ours is fine, and that we don't need anything faster (or that is any bit more expensive.) but when I go to college I'll get better internet service than I have now. stupid rural united states. why did i have to get dragged our here from all the big cities i lived in in my youth . . .

 

[QTpi]

We still have dial -up, too. Unfortunately, we cannot get cable or DSL where we live, so it looks like we are stuck with very slow speed when it comes to the Internet. I can certainly sympathize with you. We tried satellite, but that was completely unreliable. It may have worked two weeks out of four months. That meant no Internet the rest of the time. Bummer,

 

[Crystallas]

You know that all the high speed dialup is just web-browsing and letting your ISP compress websites while your computer decompresses them. Some of them that claim 5x the speed even reduce the image quality to shrink down pictures. So when you download files that are allready compressed, its the same as regular 56k.
Big INNOVATION!
It sucks not having an alternative or being poor =/ I guess and not being able to afford faster connections. Esspecially in areas where its not $20 bux or 45 bux, but its $60 and $80 bux a month.
But SBC Yahoo is offering DSL now for 13.95 for 4 months. I think its 25 after that. Its not really FAST, but its a WHOLE lot better than modumb.

 

[Bastet]

I'm stuck with dial-up because I'm renting and one of the rules is no cable (tv or internet). That, and I can't afford anything more than dial-up anyway. I console myself with the thought that my dial-up is better than my mum's, who lives in the middle of nowhere. Hers really sucks!

 

[kreeden]

I'm on dial-up .... and I'm not sure why ? I guess that I am cheap ? Actually , there are several reasons why I have been putting off getting cable . Part of the reason is the cost of running the cable . Part is that I don't yet had the need for cable , but that may change as people keep sending me larger and larger e-mail attachments ...

 

[michel]

I feel for you guys, with dial up; I was constantly being 'told off' for blocking the telephone line with the modem.

Although I am on Cable, I have kept the modem plugged in on a 'pay as you go' basis - it is a voice modem, and I just love to record telephone conversations from Banks and the like, when they make empty promises on the 'phone'. I even have the customary 'For training and for secutity purposes, this telephone call may be recorded'. It works! :biglaugh:

 

[CaptainXeroid]

Way back when, we signed up for DSL as soon as it was available. It was so fast and cool! Then in early 2002, our condo complex had extensive water pipe breakage due to poly-butylene , whole 'nother topic. In the process of digging up and replacing pipes, just about every phone line was broken. Our was broken 4 times.:banghead3 After the work was completed, our RBOC, decreed the lines no longer supported DSL, and our service was discontinued.

The point of that was we were on dial-up for 2 years, and after being spoiled by DSL it was PAINFULLY slow. Then, dial-up became unstable because of noise on the the phone lines. When the phone company couldn't figure out why, and told us that DSL is still not supported, we went with a cable modem, and it is wicked fast.

I still have a dial-up account for when I'm on the road and can't find a WiFi Hot Spot, but I rarely use it. The internet has become so graphic intensive that dial-up, IMHO, is already obsolete. Anyway...those on dial-up...I feel your pain and sympathize with you greatly.

 

[Original Freak]

My only computer access is at work. So at home I don't even have the internet...when we did it was dial up...so frustrating I'm almost sure it's better not to have it.

 

[Malus 12:9]

I am on satellite and sure, it's fast. But for the average person who posts at RF or sends emails,dial up is efficient. Why bother getting satellite, when you spend your net time going to message boards or using email or messenger?

That and I download approx LARGE(sometimes 1gb)files. If your pages load slow, it's not dialup, it's either a crap ISP or spyware.

Although dialup has better options for somethings such as if you are worried about SPECIFIC IP exhibiting :flirt:

ISOs are big in filesize to download..thats why I use sateelite, otherwise I see no problem in dialup.