I always see thread titles with 56k no go. Are people still actually using dial up? My cell phone is probably faster than dial up.
Do people still really use dial up?
- Thread starter bmoss85
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Believe it or not, there are still some places where DSL/Cable intarnetz is not available in the US.
...something Mike and I have been considering with our pending eventual move to the Middle of Nowhere.
...something Mike and I have been considering with our pending eventual move to the Middle of Nowhere.
lol, im in one of those said areas. my current choices are dial-up(no go, because i donr use a land line) satelite, (waay too expensive, and limited bandwidth) or cell..using that one, but at times, it makes me wish for a blazing fast dial-up connection
I would go insane listening to all those stupid tones as its connecting. I remember when I was kid trying for hours to get connected to aol.
My first modem long ago on my commodore 64 was 300 baud, whoa that was slow..........no internet back then either, just Bullitonboards for contact.
Ok, ya it sucked.
If we were all still stuck with dial up the internet would no longer exist.
Ok, ya it sucked.
If we were all still stuck with dial up the internet would no longer exist.
What can you do on 56K now anyway? Maybe search google and look at the links that you *could* click on, if you wanted to wait an hour for any of them to load.... but that's all I could think of. I remember surfing the dsmtalk forum on dialup. You had to really NEED an answer to spend all that time asking and searching.
Cripes... I've got THREE internet connections - one for my home network, one for my smartphone, and one for my internet stick. They are ALL faster than 56k dialup.
16 MB Cable Modem here at the house.
3 bonded T-1's at the office for about 4.5 MB
And supracentral (the server SM is hosted on) is really limited by its network card & processor as the upstream fiber connections are faster than any single box could ever saturate.
I think the last time I had dial up was in the 1990's...
3 bonded T-1's at the office for about 4.5 MB
And supracentral (the server SM is hosted on) is really limited by its network card & processor as the upstream fiber connections are faster than any single box could ever saturate.
I think the last time I had dial up was in the 1990's...
gtsfirefighter
SM Expert on White trash
I've only had a high speed connection for about 2.5 years, if that. Surfing SM was a bitch! DSL all the way now.
Supracentral;1613581 said:
So what your really saying here is........you get a crapload of porn no matter what connection your using?
