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Look into cable internet, and into Verizon's fiber to the premises service (only available in limited areas, http://www.verizon.net/fios/ ) .
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quote:if I want to use two computers in my house, do I have to get two lines for dial-up, or can they share.
They can share.
I currently have my dial-up at home connected physically to my Windows XP box, and then my other computer connects to internet through it.
However, realize that if you are using the internet on more than one PC at a time through the same connection, that makes the slowness even more of a factor......
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We just recently got high speed Netzero. It is much faster depending on what you're downloading. Hatrack pages come up much faster than regular dial-up. It won't work for pages that are secure, though.
My wife uses it more than I and she hasn't been happy with the service. Although it's fast, it drops her all the time.
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The dial-up "high-speed" services are mostly marketing. What they do is run a program (which you can probably download off the web, these types of programs have been around forever), that while you are reading a page goes and downloads the pages pointed to by all the weblinks on the curent page. They download it at regular dial-up speeds, they just are doing it when the modem would otherwise be idle.
This sort of look-ahead can't be applied to email, downloaded files, etc., so if you only do all web stuff, then you will get a boost.
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To be fair, it also relies on locally cached versions of pages viewed by others with the same ISP.
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True, but accelerated-dialup providers have the same type of speedup-through-advanced-caching for ISDN lines as for telephone lines, so speed is even further increased. Plus faster line-speed is handy for loading up photos, video, gaming, and other large files. And one still has the two-telephone-line advantage of being able to use a phone and a computer at the same time on ISDN.
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Not only that, but they also we do on the fly compression and decompression of the data, recompress images, and all sorts of things like that. http://www.quikcat.com/ Is one of the major companies that provide these services to ISP's.
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I checked on prices for ISDN thru Qwest and it is expensive. The installation fees add up to more than $400, plus a monthly fee of $50-100. I might as well get cable or something else for that price.
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I know that some of these dial-up programs have accelerators that only speed up certain types of files, i.e. graphics, etc.
Can they also compact files from MMORPGs? In other words, would they provide any advantage in playing World of Warcraft versus dial-up without the accelerating software?
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Is the price on satilite connectivity the same price range? I have a friend in FL who is dying...he has always had either DSL or a cable modem, and he now is stuck with dial-up....
It's driving him crazy..
Farmgirl, I think that was the price range for the ISDN line, not a Sat provider...
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