What a difference. Wow! Nathan is very pleased, too.
And by the time I got done "bundling" services, the cost is actually less. Go figure. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Welcome to the 1990s! Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
At least with dial up Starcraft is perfectly playable.
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: At least with dial up Starcraft is perfectly playable.
Yes but it gets annoying.
*Goes off to play starcraft RISK V2*
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Congratulations. Be warned it's addictive. There's no going back.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
Starcraft LOTR!!!!
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
What do you mean "welcome to the 1990's", rivka?! Am I still that far behind???
*gnashes teeth*
Posted by Sean Monahan (Member # 9334) on :
People still offer dial-up??
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, not 1992 or anything. But I'm fairly certain I had DSL by 1999.
Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
You were riding the information super highway on an ass. It must feel nice not to be a caveman anymore. I always wonder why AOL still exists. They must be patronizing the same people who shop at Radioshack.
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
I know aol has a "broadband" service, but it doesn't make any sense to use it from what I can tell, they don't actually provide the broadband connection, so you have to pay another company for your broadband connection, then pay aol, what is it? $19.99 or $29.99 to what? Use their web browser? Come on...
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Dial up is all that most people in this country, those who can afford computers and of course have electricity, can afford.
Yeah, there's still a LOT of people on dial up.
ETA: And most days our so-called high speed ADSL goes about the same speed as fast dial up is supposed to go, or slightly faster, but not much.
But then, that's pretty good compared to the days when our Internet doesn't work at all because an undersea cable's been cut, which happens surprisingly often...
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Here in Brazil most people use dial up. I Have an 8 mbps ADSL connection. It's a premium speed over here (and I sure pay a premium to keep it), but I know 8 mbps it pretty tame in US, EU, Japan, etc.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
I converted because Vista hates dial-up. *gnash teeth*
What I discovered, though, by the time I got done totting up numbers, is that the DSL will be more affordable than my dial-up.
With dial-up I was paying for my basic phone line ($23/month), Earthlink service ($26.99/mo) and McAfee ($~60/year) and then my cell phone ($50/mo).
Bundling my Verizon cell into my Qwest services, since they are an authorized carrier, will save me $5.00/mo on my cell phone. Moving from basic phone to phone with voice mail, call waiting, caller ID will cost $26.99. DSL is $29.99/month and comes with it's own version of McAfee wrapped into the cost. And Nathan and Greg love the fact that DSL gives us access to TV on the computer (since I am a no TV in the house kind of person.) Plus, the DSL connector was free ($50 savings) and I got a gift certificate to use towards the installing cost of their technican ($50.00 savings on a $60.00 fee).
So, from about $110 per month communication costs, I am now paying $100.00 -- but without having to spend hours on the phone trying to fix dial-up and/or paying for technicians to fix the problem at their shop or in my house ($300 so far this year while struggling with Vista, Earthlink and dial-up).
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean Monahan: People still offer dial-up??
I am actually on FREE dialup. Take tha, together with a computer that is about 8 years old, and you can imagine how slow the net is here ( but I get lots of laundry done between page loads!)
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