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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Keep your broadband, say dial-up users quote:
Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they're stuck with the older, slower connection technology because they can't get broadband in their neighborhoods, Pew reported Wednesday.
Nice slant. How many don't have internet at all because they can't get broadband and putting up with dial-up isn't worth the hassel at ANY price. My best friend is like that. He'd have internet in a second if he could get broadband. When he moved he found out he could only get dial-up tried it for 2 months, got rid of it.
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Thirty-five percent say they're still on dial-up because broadband prices are too high,
WTF? You can get 768 Kpps from at&t for $20. Hell I'm on a special paying $25 for 6 months from Charter for 10Mbps.
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while another 19 percent say nothing would persuade them to upgrade."
19% are idiots. I bet when sites take an hour to load they'll upgrade. This isn't 1998. Hell the Dark Knight website took 8 seconds to load for me and I'm on 10 Mbps. So on dial-up that's 25-30 MINUTES. Yeah ok sounds like fun. | |
|  | battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Re: Keep your broadband, say dial-up users This might come as a surprise to you but some people just don't care. Here is something else that's will shock you as well. There are people out there that don't want a computer nor do they want to get online. | |
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| Dial Up = for old idiots... lol.... AT&T has a dsl lite plan for only $10 a month... The only people still on dial up are old people that have no clue what they are doing... They are all idiots IMO... Dialup is crap and I can't believe they wont upgrade b/c they are scared... Come on... | |
| benc
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| Keep your broadband, say dial-up users "Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they're stuck with the older, slower connection technology because they can't get broadband in their neighborhoods, Pew reported Wednesday."
I don't believe that for a second. Who wouldn't want faster? Especially when the price difference is small, and in some cases non-existent? I doubt $10/mo. extra will break anyone.
"Thirty-five percent say they're still on dial-up because broadband prices are too high,..."
Wrong. Dial-up is more expensive, and is to be avoided when possible.
El-cheapo DSL: Total $20/mo.
Dial-up: Total $30-$40/mo.
Breakdown:
Dial-up account - $5 to $15
Second POTS line (Basic + CID) - $25
"Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's key inventors and an advocate for the idea that the government should be more active in expanding broadband, suspects that many more dial-up users would be interested in going high-speed if they had a better idea of what they're missing."
How can anyone not see what they are missing? Not only is the el-cheapo DSL cheaper, but can you imagine downloading a Vista Service Pack over dial-up? (shudders) Even in the NT4 days it took overnight to download a service pack.
I can imagine having dial-up as a back-up line, if you live in a broadband monopoly area. I even do that. However, I can't imagine relying on it exclusively anymore. I gave that up awhile ago.
I wonder how much of a negative impact this has on rural areas? I could see myself enjoying living in a rural area, except for the higher costs involved. T1 lines aren't cheap. | |
| | Corydon
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| Re: Keep your broadband, say dial-up users Back in the day, I only had one line coming into the house, so I couldn't stay on the internet for hours at a time.
The first summer I was on the internet a lot (rather than just local BBSs) I actually ended up staying up all night and sleeping all day so I could be online without anyone yelling at me to get off the phone and (worse) picking up the receiver.
That was about the time I got into MUDding and IRC quite a bit 
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| | | benc
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| Re: Keep your broadband, say dial-up users said by Corydon  :Back in the day, I only had one line coming into the house, so I couldn't stay on the internet for hours at a time. The first summer I was on the internet a lot (rather than just local BBSs) I actually ended up staying up all night and sleeping all day so I could be online without anyone yelling at me to get off the phone and (worse) picking up the receiver. That was about the time I got into MUDding and IRC quite a bit That was one of the things I hated the most about dial-up, and why I assumed that anyone using dial-up exclusively will want a second line.
I think it's safe to assume that even on dial-up, you'd spend more time on the Internet, if only to wait for downloads to complete. So then the second line is there so you don't lose the ability to talk when you go on the Internet.
When I heard about the so called land-line losses, I figured it's the result of people leaving dial-up. It's like "now that I have broadband, I don't need a second line for dial-up anymore."
I have a back-up dial-up account, but only my one POTS line. That's because my cable doesn't usually go out, though a couple times in the last year it has. I can't get DSL here, so I have the dial-up.
If I could get DSL, I'd follow my own advice, get a slow DSL connection, ditch the dial-up, and let the DSL connection be a back-up. An added bonus is that when I have both I could use both. I could set up a dual WAN. | |
| | Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ
| to me even if all i did was check mail vs being the the bandwidth sucking swine i tend to be. id still want a basic BB line just because it doesnt tie up the telephone or reqire the cost of a second line(which once added in, you may as well have broadband).
or just get the cable/fiber triple plays and get full broadband and the phone.
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| VerizonCynic
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| some dont care Look some people could care less about the net period or do so little on it that dial up is fine. And I agree the prices for really good speed (over 5mb) are really too high and just not available. I want FIOS but it is not going to be cheap. I know people who have fios avail and stay on verizon dsl and they use the net daily. they dont want to deal with change. Same reason they stay on aol or dont get a new computer. What they have works for their current need. Gamers push the speed envelope. Oh and bit torrent people. But I think the industry realizes they are only 2% of all web users
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| Re: some dont care said by VerizonCynic :Look, some people could care less about the net period or do so little on it that dial up is fine. There you have it...
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| | BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by VerizonCynic :Look some people could care less about the net period or do so little on it that dial up is fine. That would be believable if it was 6 or more years ago. Most websites use flash or are heavy in graphics. They literally take over a minute to load on dial-up. Who in their right mind wants to put up with that? They say "time is money" so saving time is saving money.
"Twenty-four percent of rural dial-up users say they would get broadband if it becomes available, compared with 11 percent for suburbanites and 3 percent for city dwellers."
Now this is mroe beleivable and tells the TRUE story. Of course those that live in the city and have dial-up actually ant it. They HAVE choices and CHOOSE to stay with dial-up for whatever reason. 1/4( probbaly higher ) that lvie in areas WITGHOUT broadband want it. This is MILLIONS of potential new customers. Why ISPs don't want these MILLIONS of new customers is beyond me. | |
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