TheWickerMan
join:2002-04-09
Enola, PA
| reply to Nightfall
Re: Makes sense
said by Nightfall  :
I know a lot of people who moved to broadband not only because of the speed, but to get rid of the extra phone line. It is simple math.
Basic phone line = $20-$30 per month depending on location and services.
ISP = $10-$20 a month depending on who you go with.
That is what eventually got me to switch: Realizing that I was paying about as much for my slow, unstable dialup account and second phone line as I would be for fast, reliable cable. Now that I've seen these speeds, I could never go back to dialup.
It's getting to the point where you almost need a broadband connection. Even game demos and program patches are starting to get huge. Windows update on my machine took only a couple minutes. On my friend's machine, who still has dialup, it took over an hour. |
