 | | Craziness People would be crazy to go back to dial-up considering how many websites are built on flash.
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Pleasant Hill, MO | Re: Craziness And you need a land line for dial-up and with VoIP and cells a lot of people have no land line. | |
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| | | Considering the sheer evolutionary factor of the internet as of late, Dial-up can't even come close to supporting todays websites. | |
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| Re: Craziness said by PapaMidnight:Considering the sheer evolutionary factor of the internet as of late, Dial-up can't even come close to supporting todays websites. Yeah... Tell me about it.. Though as in ATT's commercial says.. " Theres no reason not to switch to FastAccess Dsl!!"" And they are right.. Assuming your covered by their service.. Rest of us have to hope cable is in the area or that the tree's are too tall/thick for wireless...
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| | | said by Boricua65:People would be crazy to go back to dial-up considering how many websites are built on flash. "Crazy" for most of the audience here, and anyone else that can't live without viewing media on the web.
Considering there is really a whole population out there that wasn't raised on technology and/or don't need the web to live their lives happily, I could see the downgrade for light users, budget conscious or not (Hi Grandma!). Mail on dial up is adequate, informational sites (bank, government forms, etc) don't use media - Even flash sites, that know what's good for them, still include a link to skip flash.
I went on a low budget diet myself a few years ago and backed down to 'gulp' dial-up. I was rarely home as it was, and it was enough to get mail and any occasional larger downloads were multi-tasked with things like coffee fetching and sleeping.  All else I downloaded at work.
I don't see this as a major trend, but it happens even with the sane. | |
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| Re: Craziness Ok, so let's say 1 out of 100 have needs similar to what you describe. Not the type of interest the ISPs will likely force their marketing efforts towards.
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| | | | | Re: Craziness said by BucknRusty:Ok, so let's say 1 out of 100 have needs similar to what you describe. Not the type of interest the ISPs will likely force their marketing efforts towards. I agree, it's a small market. I just don't see it as really crazy for anyone to do it though. Marketing for this is more wishful thinking, but what else have they got? A bad economy and hopes all those with copper would drop from dsl. Or, maybe it's a publicity stunt........ Got us talking. | |
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| | | | said by JamesLevinworth : it was enough to get mail and any occasional larger downloads were multi-tasked with things like coffee fetching and sleeping. You must have caught up on your sleep, and then some. | |
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1 edit | I would rather stick hot needles in my eyeballs than go back to dialup, as it would be less painful.
Not to mention the d/l speed of ONE windoze update. It might take three years to download.
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Mullica Hill, NJ | also as mentioned in another post on this story, any modern PC will lack a modem. im even amazed that stores still stock modems.
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Mount Airy, MD | No Money Saved With Dialup Why would money be a factor to going back to dialup? You still have to pay for the landline phone and the ISP account. In most situations the combined cost of those are more than broadband.
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| | | Re: No Money Saved With Dialup That's just it.
Where dsl or cable is available you could get a bottom tier broadband along with a voip service for less than the cost of dial-up and landline. You'd have a faster connection and virtually unlimited calling for less money. | |
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| | | said by pnh102: In most situations the combined cost of those are more than broadband. That's what eventually got me to switch. I did the math and realized the cost of my second phone line plus the cost of having dialup was a little bit more than what I'd be paying for cable. | |
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| Re: No Money Saved With Dialup I was paying $67.00/Mo for POTS and DSL. I dropped the POTS, and got Dry Loop DSL for $19.99/Mo. Moved the Landline # to my CELL, which is all I ever used for voice anyway.
Much cheaper all in all! Can't see anyone going to dialup, at least not for financial reasons.
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1 edit | Die already 56kgay I'd love to have dialup & sit and wait....for hours while a website loads in flash and especially when I try to watch a small clip on a news website like cnn.com....not.
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Old Orchard Beach, ME | dial up dial up just cant properly support most users internet needs.
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| Re: dial up I'm not a complainer but in my area not only is dial up useless it is also expensive $20 a month plus phone line I'm not ranting on the phone company but they really need to wake up! If I were hard-pressed for money I would cancel Internet for a time rather then go back to dial up. | |
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| | | | Re: dial up said by IowaMan:I'm not a complainer but in my area not only is dial up useless it is also expensive $20 a month plus phone line I'm not ranting on the phone company but they really need to wake up! If I were hard-pressed for money I would cancel Internet for a time rather then go back to dial up. $20/month? If you have a land line, can't you get any dial up provider you choose? Most are around $10/month such as Net Zero.
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Grinnell, IA | Re: dial up if I want long-distancecharges then Yes otherwise No. there is no local access number in my area and, they are 800 number line is limited to 30 hours per month otherwise it's 2/1½ per minute | |
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2 edits | Dialup more expensive than cable For fun, I looked into dialup prices at a non-profit school.
Dedicated phone line with local calls only: $50/month
Mandatory phone line fees: ~$3/month
Phone line installation: ~$100
Dialup service cost (Netzero): $10/month
Dealing with Fairpoint: endless frusturation
Total: ~$63/month for dialup + ~$100 install
High speed internet by cable: $30/month for 3mbps. (Metrocast Cablevision) | |
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| | | Re: Dialup more expensive than cable Don't forget "mandatory access fees" and "mandatory federal fees". | |
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| | When THEY triple the price and cap you to 60GB Such as BEll canada is doing many will see the over priced 25$ dila up as the only way to at least get on the net.
THOSE rich downlaoders with the fancy pants HD hardware will jsut pay the extra and keep on doing as they do.
IT affects the lower end more when they do this stupidity.
THE data is form people that are over 50 that say its too expensive NOW. | |
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| Re: When THEY triple the price and cap you to 60GB I remember when I was stuck on dialup. Then wanting to download a half-life MOD or something. I done that kind of downloading while I was at work. At break time I would call my home land line. In order to see if it was still downloading. Cause if line was busy it was still downloading.
Cause the ISP kicked you off. If you did use the internet for 20mins. | |
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| | and lets not forget that All new computers don't even have a modem, which isn't to say you can't find one for nothing but, average joe user isn't going to stick one in their box. | |
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| | dial up is cheaper 9$ ether way for dryloop
15$ for dial up
total 24$
tell me where i can get including phone line in canada broad ban that cheap
then you pay for your broadband , anyone saying its more expensive then a broad band account needs a new hole in there head , WHILE its too is massively overpriced
its far cheaper then broad band in canada i about to become thanks to BCE aka bell canada | |
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