Who still use dialup ?

[bletch]

Just curious, does anyone like me still use dialup ? :-D
I live in a remote area just north of Stockholm, Sweden and there is no broadband here whatsoever...and that is to bad.
Imagine, using 56k dialup today!!!!!
Well, i shall move soon to an area that has hi-speed broadband...but until then, pain pain pain pain.................

Regards

[ed klein]

I still have dial-up in mid-Amercia USA, 56K modem, but actually runs at 28.8 best (even tweaked) you can get out of the copper lines with the telephone company central office 16 plus miles away.

Moving at the end of this year and will get what is called high speed internet. Three versions here basic, middle speed, and high speed. Basic is up to 150kb/sec at $14.95 per month, in order to get the very high speed you would need fiber optic cable from the telephone company central office to your house, including fiber optic cable into your house. Thats about 650kb/sec to 850kb/sec.

:toast:

[AlienX69]

Fast Eddie, hows things, I see me and you are running at around the same post count .... I miss the ole forum !!!!!

Basic is up to 150kb/sec at $14.95 per month

Who is offering that, I use dial-up (Juno Turbo, $14.95), for what I do on the web, I don't need Cox Cable's overpriced broadband. See attached for what I got after test at CNET: http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html

124.9 Kbps

[phishman1]

I live in a fairly rural section of Ohio. We've been on dialup forever, but just got a cable internet connection. Very convenient. Time to fill up that HDD!

[drfsupercenter]

I have 500k cable, not too much faster than dialup :rotfl:

[bletch]

oh, so i'm not alone then :)

[bletch]

I live in a fairly rural section of Ohio. We've been on dialup forever, but just got a cable internet connection. Very convenient. Time to fill up that HDD!

glad for you :)

[MikeyBK]

For me, when we went from dial-up to DSL, it was like night and day and I wondered how the hell can I get instantaneous page loading on DSL when I used to wait sometimes 30 seconds from dial-up??? They're both still coming from my telephone lines???

I'm hoping to try Clearwire with my laptop soon...:toast:

[Chewy]

When they first rolled out dsl a friend found an apartment that overlooked the slick accross the street, he had to sign a lease and order phone service so it could be certified/checked. He told the apt manager he wouldn't move into a unit unless it tested 100%. Online UT gamer, then funny cause he found out the game server he was playing on was hosted in a university dorm 400 miles away and the other players lived in the dorm. Ping time killed him.

[dazuk1972]

Just curious, does anyone like me still use dialup ? :-D
I live in a remote area just north of Stockholm, Sweden and there is no broadband here whatsoever...and that is to bad.
Imagine, using 56k dialup today!!!!!
Well, i shall move soon to an area that has hi-speed broadband...but until then, pain pain pain pain.................

Regards

I've used Broadband for about four years and I'll never use Dial-up again. Some people still use Dial-up for a very good reason that I totally understand. Some people don't use the internet much and some only use the internet for e-mailing and surfing the odd web site here and there and they are patient enough to wait. They also feel that all the time they hardly use the internet, they find a Dial-up service cheaper where they pay something per minute instead of paying a Broadband monthly payment where a Broadband monthly payment will cost them more. As I said, some people are patient enough for a web page to download and patient enough to wait for an e-mail to send.

I use my internet a lot in the evenings sometimes and I need Broadband. I pay £24.99 a month for mine. With Dial-up, I used to get cheesed off getting cut off or getting an engaged tone when I wanted to log-in. Sometimes it was engaged so long I felt as if a wedding was coming. I do get the odd problems with my Broadband where the server is down for hours like two days ago but that only lasts for a few hours.

Sorry to read you don't have Broadband, that is strange. I hope your country gets it very soon. You'll love it. I feel bad for you and others that can't get it at the moment. This is news to me because I thought the whole world can get Broadband because it's common PC technology.

Darren.

[ed klein]

@AlienX69,

How have you been?
The $14.95 per month is from Southwestern Bell Telephone Company ordering thru the internet, and you do all the connecting and tweaking yourself, unlimited usage.

:)
Southwestern Bell serves AREA 51

[doctorhardware]

The only way to get high speed, was cable. I have been waiting over 10 years for DSL, I been told any day now. I'm still waiting. MY dial speeds if I was lucky on a good day would be 18,800Bps the rest of the time iwas stuck at 9600Bps.

[RFBurns]

When they first rolled out dsl a friend found an apartment that overlooked the slick accross the street, he had to sign a lease and order phone service so it could be certified/checked. He told the apt manager he wouldn't move into a unit unless it tested 100%. Online UT gamer, then funny cause he found out the game server he was playing on was hosted in a university dorm 400 miles away and the other players lived in the dorm. Ping time killed him.

Indeed! I remember my Quake-ing days playing multiplayer with 10 or more in the melee, 99 percent of the servers were on university multi-T3 systems with ultra-fast servers. It was the norm for a majority of players in residential areas that had nothing but dialup to experience considerable lattency problems.

It was a nightmare. When two or more players on the univeristy LAN came close to your position in the game, the lag would skyrocket! If they moved off to some other area in the level, the lag dropped back down and you could at least move a little bit.

It took learning the lattency timing, which varied of course, and knowing when to hit fire or run or duck in order to get a good game in. There were all kinds of lag monitor programs written by gamers to help with monitoring the lag times during gameplay. Some just had a numercial readout, others had a graph.

Sometimes it was quite funny to see another player fire at you, you attempt to move out of the way, only to see motion stop for a second or two, then poof!....your fragged!

:toast:

[Squee77]

Fast Eddie, hows things, I see me and you are running at around the same post count .... I miss the ole forum !!!!!



Who is offering that, I use dial-up (Juno Turbo, $14.95), for what I do on the web, I don't need Cox Cable's overpriced broadband. See attached for what I got after test at CNET: http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html

124.9 Kbps
That would be AT&T i believe. heres the page for 14.95$ you get with 768 Kbps http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431

[AlienX69]

That would be AT&T i believe. heres the page for 14.95$ you get with 768 Kbps http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431

Looks like I have to switch to ATT, which I might do will call on Monday to check pricing and available services.

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THX ... Squee77

[Chewy]

our local telco was charging 20$ for dialup then got you to sign for 256K for an extra 5$ then to compete with cable gave you 1,500 for the same price if you add it to the deluxe phone package
since they are rolling out the 8 mega bit service I wonder what their next incentive will be

[AlienX69]

@AlienX69,

How have you been?
The $14.95 per month is from Southwestern Bell Telephone Company ordering thru the internet, and you do all the connecting and tweaking yourself, unlimited usage.

:)
Southwestern Bell serves AREA 51

Been good, went to the Casio's and won a few bucks !!

I will check-out the features with SBC, probably ready for a change, always hate doing that as all my important email stuff goes to my ISP addy and the General stuff goes my web based addy(s). Will check it out monday.

Are you able to accept phone calls while on the web, or is that a ADD-ON ($$$) ?

Ciao

[bletch]

I've used Broadband for about four years and I'll never use Dial-up again. Some people still use Dial-up for a very good reason that I totally understand. Some people don't use the internet much and some only use the internet for e-mailing and surfing the odd web site here and there and they are patient enough to wait. They also feel that all the time they hardly use the internet, they find a Dial-up service cheaper where they pay something per minute instead of paying a Broadband monthly payment where a Broadband monthly payment will cost them more. As I said, some people are patient enough for a web page to download and patient enough to wait for an e-mail to send.

I use my internet a lot in the evenings sometimes and I need Broadband. I pay £24.99 a month for mine. With Dial-up, I used to get cheesed off getting cut off or getting an engaged tone when I wanted to log-in. Sometimes it was engaged so long I felt as if a wedding was coming. I do get the odd problems with my Broadband where the server is down for hours like two days ago but that only lasts for a few hours.

Sorry to read you don't have Broadband, that is strange. I hope your country gets it very soon. You'll love it. I feel bad for you and others that can't get it at the moment. This is news to me because I thought the whole world can get Broadband because it's common PC technology.

Darren.


Thanks man, i have broadband at work but you can't use it. Download a file and get fired :-D
Broadband will come, i just have to wait.

Cheers

[Squee77]

Looks like I have to switch to ATT, which I might do will call on Monday to check pricing and available services.
THX ... Squee77
I hoped it was helpful for you.

[anonymez]

256kbps DSL, 12GB limit, gets shaped to 64kbps around 20th of each month http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9051/happy2bb.gif

[techreactor]

I use dialup as a backup to my BB (512 Kbps). My dialup is a 150 KBps through my wireless phone and pretty okay in speed. I am waiting for the Wifi BB to start.

[AlienX69]

I called Juno to cancel they lowered my rate to $9.95 indefinetly ..... so I'll keep till I need something faster ...

[Kabuchan]

$24.99 p/m for DSL Elite with ATT. Very happy with them considering Roadrunner in Florida was charging me $49.99 p/m.

I really don't see a speed difference between going through the phone lines and going though cable, except I would lose cable service at least once a week.

[doctorhardware]

:ranton: I just tried ordering DSL again and got through the whole on-line process. Then about a week later, I get an E-mail saying that DSL in your area is not available yet. But if I drive down my street I pick up 2 2wire wireless routers/modem combo's in my area. The first one has been here for a while, and then I notice that in my list of wireless connections I see that there is a second 2wire connection now, this was about a week ago or more. I was told by the SBC/ATT rep(which was about 5 years ago) that I would be the next person in line to be able to be hooked up to DSL.:please: I am approximately 1350 feet from the phone company's CO, I am well with in the required distance from the CO. But 10 years later I still can not get DSL. I would like to switch from cable. Comcast charges 44.95 per month for high speed internet connection. DSL would be cheaper and you can select which you want. I am thinking of going back to slow dial-up, it was more reliable than Comcast.:smashead:

I have to use open DNS in order to improve speed, and to cut down on page not found and various down load problems.:angry: :rantoff: