Dial-up vs. broadband

[hammerdrill376]

Oh trust me...she would rather me go "old school" with a belt than take her computer priviledges away. Wish my dad would have thought that way.......then again we didn't have a computer..........OUCHHHHHH. I can STILL feel that leather belt!!

[Robmeister]

I was prolly one of the last to be done with dial up...

had it up to 2004, maybe 2005

[BALDANDRE]

Broadband...please bro!

[TheTrucker]

As much time as my 16 year old spends on MySpace she would probably have a nervous breakdown if we went back to dial up!

Man, this made me laugh out loud!

[Mike]

Our desk top is still on dial up. I wish we could get broadband but we are 4 miles out of town which is 2 miles too far to get it. One day I was playing games on my new laptop and noticed that the internet was connected. So I started walking around with my laptop and found a band that I can get wireless in. It goes thru the dinig room and thru the living room in the house. I walked around the property and found it goes down to the mail box and then thru the woods to the property line. I found that it only works about 4' on either side of the 'wireless internet vein' as my wife calls it. I had to use dialup the other day and it took like 5 minutes to load my email, I could have died, lol.

[Jer]

I just finally got broadband here around Christmas.  I had never been on much and would usually just check e-mail, but now I'm always doing tons of research on narcotics, weapons, concealment methods, drug trends and all that FUN stuff.  So high speed helps a lot with getting info faster.

Jer

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Home machine is dial-up, I've been thinking about DSL, but I really don't know enough about the alternatives that are available.  We could do it by our DishTV I guess, but I don't know of any other alternatives. We had a trial free wireless network for the City and I would us my laptop a lot then, but their business plan didn't work so now at home it's either dial-up or see if there is an unsecured wireless available---not nice I know but then it's running anyway!  There's always the coffee shop type deal too.

At work, broadband, and my "electronics package" at the new job includes a laptop w/ wireless and air card, Blackberry, etc.  So I guess that may also come in handy--but it's subject to a Big Brother system.

[DaveDorm]

Yeah, I've been on broadband for well over a decade now.  I got my first cable modem, I think, in 1997. I have never looked back. It is more expensive, but dial up suuuuuuuuuccccckkkkksssssss....

I'd pretty much rather do without than go back to 56K.

[Bensen]

uh, i remember the time i got my first 28.8 dial-up somewhere in the early 90'ties.
it wasn't too bad at all. but since we got stuff like youtube and websites with flash and a ot off pictures there no way back.

i got my first 6 Mbit broadband connection this year and i love the speed.
6 Mbit is the highest level i can atm, becuase that country sides area here.

i tried to go online via my mobile phone a couple of weeks ago. just for checking it out. it works well, but it's really expensive. i won't use it anymore.

ben