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!!
I was prolly one of the last to be done with dial up...
had it up to 2004, maybe 2005
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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