Sailor Enlil
@pldt.net
| reply to rbright
Re: His Choice
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. |
