ender7074
join:2006-11-21
Saint Louis, MO
 ·AT&T Southeast
| No way.
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. |
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tschmidt
Premium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
 ·Hollis Hosting
·Verizon Online DSL
·Fairpoint Communic..
| As a family of four Internet access is very important to us. DSL cost is modest, about $30 per month. We'll give up lots of other stuff before we give up Broadband Internet access.
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 |
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tubbynet
reminds me of the danse russe
Premium
join:2008-01-16
Chandler, AZ
 ·Cox HSI
 ·Callcentric
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·FrontierNet Intern..
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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.
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