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CorydonCultivant son jardinPremium
join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO | reply to benc
Re: Keep your broadband, say dial-up users Back in the day, I only had one line coming into the house, so I couldn't stay on the internet for hours at a time.
The first summer I was on the internet a lot (rather than just local BBSs) I actually ended up staying up all night and sleeping all day so I could be online without anyone yelling at me to get off the phone and (worse) picking up the receiver.
That was about the time I got into MUDding and IRC quite a bit 
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 bencPremium
join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
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| said by Corydon:Back in the day, I only had one line coming into the house, so I couldn't stay on the internet for hours at a time. The first summer I was on the internet a lot (rather than just local BBSs) I actually ended up staying up all night and sleeping all day so I could be online without anyone yelling at me to get off the phone and (worse) picking up the receiver. That was about the time I got into MUDding and IRC quite a bit That was one of the things I hated the most about dial-up, and why I assumed that anyone using dial-up exclusively will want a second line.
I think it's safe to assume that even on dial-up, you'd spend more time on the Internet, if only to wait for downloads to complete. So then the second line is there so you don't lose the ability to talk when you go on the Internet.
When I heard about the so called land-line losses, I figured it's the result of people leaving dial-up. It's like "now that I have broadband, I don't need a second line for dial-up anymore."
I have a back-up dial-up account, but only my one POTS line. That's because my cable doesn't usually go out, though a couple times in the last year it has. I can't get DSL here, so I have the dial-up.
If I could get DSL, I'd follow my own advice, get a slow DSL connection, ditch the dial-up, and let the DSL connection be a back-up. An added bonus is that when I have both I could use both. I could set up a dual WAN. | |
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