http://www.dslreports.com/forum/No-way-22153862 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:53:38 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:53:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-No-way-22155569 said by ender7074:

To be honest, I'd rather not have internet than go back to dial up. It would be nothing but frustrating and I wouldn't be able to do any of the things I currently do on the net over dial up. Just another piece of trash put out by our worthless media to take up space.
true that. i would rather *know* i don't have an option rather than tease myself.

however, with the rising cost of many other services that msos/telcos provide, i have decided to drop cable and phone. this cuts a larger amount of fluff out of my spending and only is marginally more (going from cox preferred to cox premier is only $12 or so extra per month and adds another 3-4 megabits down and doubles my upstream). this allows me to use more of the web-based services for my entertainment needs.

q.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-No-way-22155569 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:05:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-No-way-22154148
I maintained backup dialup account for a long time after we got DSL. Finally dropped it several years ago. As web sites optimize for broadband with image heavy content using dialup becomes too painful. Besides services like: Youtube, Netflix, Hula, and Software updates don't work with dialup or take hours or days to download.

If Broadband ISPs start seeing a significant decline in subscribers they can always come out with entry level packet to compete with dialup.

/tom ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-No-way-22154148 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:47:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/No-way-22153862 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/No-way-22153862 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:59:14 EDT