Foo - Broadband or dialup?

Who is still stuck in the dark ages?

DSL, upgraded, forget the speeds though.

I don't know how people exist on dialup i think i would give up.

High Speed Cable.

I'm on a noobish 786/128.

I don't know how people exist on dialup i think i would give up.

My dad is threatening to go back to dial up at his house. I immediately threatened the discontinuation of any and all tech services on his computer if he did so.

had broadband since 98.... Cant believe people are still using dialup...

Dont let Vega see this thread.

High Speed Cable.

:D

Verizon DSL = teh sux

go cable

A Hawking Hi-Gain dish antenna and wireless card ;)

Great for people who get banned all the time too......:lol:

Cable- 15 meg ;)

I've had Pacific Bell DSL since 2000. It was called 384/128 back then, though actual throughput was more like 1.5Mbps. Now it's more like 2.5Mbps, but it's always been more than plenty fast. I don't know if they've upped the guaranteed minimums, but it's worked so well (and I've heard the Pacific Bell horror stories) that I've been afraid to do anything to it for fear of it turning to crap.

If I had to go back to dialup, I could probably manage. It'd take some changing of habits, but I think I'd live. It'd probably force me to get out and do other things once in a while, though. :)

Dont let Vega see this thread.

She might be the only one.

Where is the "I'm leeching off my idiot neighbor's unsecured wireless" option?

Though, I guess, technically, it's broadband. ;)

Broadband, but I have to go through the Great Firewall of China to get any international pages... local pages are really fast, but anything out of China is sort of "meh" speed at best. Plus, there's no Wikipedia, BBC, Flickr, or Blogspot (among others), and both YouTube and Google have been known to act funny :(.

I was in the dark ages until mid-summer when we got DSL. I also still photograph with (gasp) B&W film!

Been out of the dark ages for over a year now.

DSL at home, dial-up at work, where we still gather data on cassettes, like a vic-20!

28.8 sucks, but living on a boat, in the middle of nowhere, leaves me with no better(affordable) option. I had an Aircard, but it wasn't much faster. Direct TV Highspeed doesn't work(the dock moves too much).

Having dial-up teaches me to have patience.

Earthlink DSL - 3 Mb/s.

When I began my last job, they had one 28.8 kb/s dialup connection for 3 people to share on a network. :lol: Talk about S-L-O-W.
They finally got slow DSL (~700 kb/s) after I'd been there about 3 months.

We've been on Comcast cable for 5 or 6 years now. I think we'll be going with verizon FIOS when it's available.

I was lucky enough the get fios service in my area.. It is super fast, makes dsl look slow..

15mbps speed..

I don't know how people exist on dialup i think i would give up.

I am not home now. Temporarily subscribed in dialup. I have all but given up on you tube. At home ADSL.

Yahoo DSL...it would be so hard to go back to dial-up, but maybe good. I'm on the internet way too much!

Verizon DSL... I love it!

Looks like I'm still living in the Pleistocene.

I have free dial up from my college. We don't particularly feel like paying for internet right now. And if we spend less, we can work less (and ride our bikes more; or in my case, study more). If I need a high speed connection, I can walk down to the college and use a computer there.

After I graduate, we will decide what to do next.

Running high speed wireless broadband since I live too far in the boonies for cable.

Seems like FIOS is not at all available in the seacoast NH region. We've all got one choice: Comcast. I love competition

I've had broadband since the midish 90's. The day rogers announced availibility for high speed I bought it back in onterrible.

Cable- 15 meg ;)

How much do you pay a month. I think cable internet here alone is $50/month and the fastest I've gotten is about 10Mb. Do you know your upload speed? I think I'm stuck here at 512Kb up.

I have the option to jump to a 20meg (shaw extreme or something like that) but can't justify the speed vs cost. If I really need to download something I just use the ds3 at work.

Comcast cable here - 6M with PowerBoost to 12M inbound, 512k outbound

i've got university broadband but it's about fast as dial up or worse. you see, we get 11 mbps for an entire building. somehow this runs anywhere from 10 kbps to 200kbps usually around 30 kbps. so yeah..... :(

According to http://www.bandwidthplace.com/

7.87megabits per second
960.38kilobytes per second
2.489seconds
0:52 AM Mon Nov 26, 2007

Wireless broadband here. I pay $19 for 512k up and down. It's enough for what we use the internet for.

Hi speed cable at home, dsl at work.....