johndoe234
@starstream.net
| reply to Dustyn
Re: His Choice
Not really. I know plenty of people who got hit by worms like blaster who were using dial up. It may offer a slight security advantage over having a computer directly connected to the Internet over broadband, but it is by no means safer than being behind a router. |
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Sailor Enlil
@pldt.net
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Here's my take (which I submitted to the form on that website with the report but I'm not sure it will get published). Once I got hooked on ADSL I never looked back at 56k. One of the biggest problems of Dial-up internet in my locality is a Busy phone line, which happens too often, especially during peak hours, and moreso with the popularity of pre-paid dial-up internet cards, thus dial-up servers these days bite off more than they can chew. What good is a "cheap" connection if you can't get through most of the time? And what's more, I often had to resort to staying up at the ungodly off-peak hours (like 3 in the morning!) to use the internet more effectively with dial-up. And given how sophisticated webpages are now with graphics and flash animation and stuff, loading a webpage alone can take eons these days on dial-up, which also means lots of minutes of connection time, which increases the charges (in fact I found that I often ended up with much higher bills with metered 56k than I have now with flat-rate ADSL because of necessary connection time). No thanks, my "need for speed" has to be satisfied and I won't settle for anything slower than 384kbps. Oh and another thing, 56k dial-up just won't do for the 3 Networked PC's in my house that share our internet connection. |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
 ·Embarq
| reply to rbright
Did anyone read the article? Unless I need a college refund pronto, it's an essay on what some people do with their time once they have BB, not a debate on one access method versus another.
IMO, the author makes a valid point: There will always be people that spend most of their spare time on line even with a dial-up connection; the point -- I think, anyway -- is that once you obtain 'the need for speed' that BB provides, the possibility of worsening an Internet addiction, whether latent or full-blown, is certainly more likely. Sure, you can be a boozer w/dialup; what are you with T2 speeds and more?
An Internet addictive personality + BB, to some folks, would be akin to capturing a bear only to find themselves in the cage with it -- at least I believe that's what the article was driving at.
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MM331
Premium
join:2005-01-22
Miami, FL |  reply to rbright
Re: Mine is not by choice
I am with Lightning bolt DSL here and My uploads are slower than Dialup at a whopping 0002 UP. Downloads are ok at 2k (+/-) 10% on 3k/384 line. I do have the use of the phone while online. |
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Dustyn
Premium
join:2003-02-26
Ontario, CAN
| reply to lyls
Re: His Choice
said by lyls:
uhm no that wasnt why :P didnt seem like that at all anyway... you dont think you can get worms and spyware on 56k? =)
Of course you can...
I'm talking more about hackers.
There is LESS chance of being probed on an unsecured dial-up connection than there is on a secured DSL/Cable connection. Why? Because Dial-Up is in a completely different range than that of DSL/Cable. Hackers won't waste time trying to bring down a dial-up connection that doesn't stay connected for long.
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"You have no idea what I am capable of. People who have tried to cross me, have lived to regret it... ~Michelle Stafford (Phyllis) |
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aztecnology
O Rly?
Premium
join:2003-02-12
Murrieta, CA | reply to antdude
I was actually thinking 9600 at the time... doing too many things at once...:D |
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lyls
@tele.dk | reply to Dustyn
uhm no that wasnt why :P didnt seem like that at all anyway... you dont think you can get worms and spyware on 56k? =) |
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Dustyn
Premium
join:2003-02-26
Ontario, CAN
| reply to rbright
I can understand how he feels. He just wants to use the internet without worrying about how much time he has to invest in learning about the dangers and threats. Dial-up provides a little better security from hackers.
Not everyone wants to spend every waking moment online seeing if they are up to date on the security front, antivirus, anti-spyware....ect...ect. It can all get too tiresome. 
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antdude
A Ninja Ant
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
|  reply to aztecnology
said by aztecnology  :Send him back to 2800 baud... 2800? Did you mean 2400?  |
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aztecnology
O Rly?
Premium
join:2003-02-12
Murrieta, CA | reply to rbright
Send him back to 2800 baud... |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | reply to rbright
I think a page load from CNN is now nearly a meg.. god help you if you like the news on dialup. |
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rbright
Premium
join:2002-12-10
Lexington, KY
clubs:
1 edit | However, I see plenty of reasons to stick with my broadband connection. If he was unable to see the benefits, there wouldn't be much use in trying to explain them to him. |
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