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View Poll Results: Dialup? Yes or No?
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Yes, there is no broadband (except possibly satellite or ISDN) in area.
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Yes, there is broadband (cable/dsl/fiber) in area, but it is $40 or up.
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Yes, there is Cable/DSL/Fiber in area, but it is $50 or up.
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Yes, and there is cheap broadband in area (<$40)
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Yes, and there is broadband in area, but it's unreliable/censored.
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No, I have Cable/DSL/Fiber
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No, I have Satellite.
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Voters: 61. You may not vote on this poll
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Anyone here still on dialup?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Felton, CA
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Well, is anyone still on dialup? I know newbies and stuff sometimes are but are there any significant amounts of MacNN users on dialup?
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Trainiable is to cat as ability to live without food is to human.
Steveis... said: "What would scammers do with this info..." talking about a debit card number!
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2004
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No, but my mom is. She just uses email.
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
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I know newbies and stuff sometimes are
What?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Felton, CA
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To Oisin: On dialup. You know, some newbies to PCs acually, like, still, sort of, use, that thing... (modem...) 
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Trainiable is to cat as ability to live without food is to human.
Steveis... said: "What would scammers do with this info..." talking about a debit card number!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
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Wouldn't most newbs in this day and age find it easier to plug a USB DSL modem in the back of their boxen rather than mess about with dial-up?
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
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Originally Posted by ryaxnb 
To Oisin: On dialup. You know, some newbies to PCs acually, like, still, sort of, use, that thing... (modem...)
I understood the sentence, just not why “newbies” would be more likely to be on dial-up (I’d assume it to be the other way around), nor what exactly constitutes “newbies and stuff”.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Mississippi
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I sadly still have dial up...I have a DSL modem from ATT but it is unreliable and we experience outages seemingly once a month for 4 or 6 hours at a time. We are on the end of the line and we just got DSL less than a year a ago. We had Sat. but it royally sucked.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
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I sometimes see those commercials for cheap dial-up service (like PeoplePC) on extended cable channels and wonder who the heck they could possibly be marketing to.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Mississippi
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
I sometimes see those commercials for cheap dial-up service (like PeoplePC) on extended cable channels and wonder who the heck they could possibly be marketing to.
It was me, but People PC doesn't use a Mac System.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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Damn, voted wrong. 
(Picked "Yes, and there is cheap broadband in area (<$40)")
I'm on cheap broadband, $ 20 per month.
It's painfully slow (768 up / 256 down). It suxx, it's like dialup.
Thinking about it, I guess I voted right. I'm on dial-up broadband 
Back then, I didn't wanna spend too much, so I opted for cheap. Since I'll be moving soon, I'm no gonna change it now. But my next broadband is definitely gonna be faster.
-t
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2006
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My relatives live way out in the middle of nowhere, and they just upgraded to broadband via satellite, just like their TV.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Wait, your upload speed is actually three times faster than your download speed?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
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We haven't had dialup for ages. We are considering however having it as a backup. Ever since Comcast took over Adelphia here, the internet goes down at least once a week for 8-12 hours or more.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: CO
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While on the subject of speed, we have a rural DSL... which used to give us about 380K down and 250 up.
In recent weeks our down speed is often in low 100s (though up can be in 200-400 range!). The tech guy for DSL company says all of web is hurting (I don't notice it at office). He maintains his daughter is on "Cox" (whatever) in major city and has seen similar.
This doesn't wash with me. Despite Egypt and India taking big hit from cable cuttings, I don't think that really hit mainland US. Did it?
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Not in this century. I haven't had to dial up from anywhere except once in a hotel in Little Rock since 1998 or so.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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Originally Posted by Love Calm Quiet
This doesn't wash with me. Despite Egypt and India taking big hit from cable cuttings, I don't think that really hit mainland US. Did it?
I don't think so, I haven't seen a noticeable slowdown in the last months.
-t
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
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Originally Posted by Love Calm Quiet
While on the subject of speed, we have a rural DSL... which used to give us about 380K down and 250 up.
In recent weeks our down speed is often in low 100s (though up can be in 200-400 range!). The tech guy for DSL company says all of web is hurting (I don't notice it at office). He maintains his daughter is on "Cox" (whatever) in major city and has seen similar.
This doesn't wash with me. Despite Egypt and India taking big hit from cable cuttings, I don't think that really hit mainland US. Did it?
Prolly nothing to do with those cable cuts. As more and more punters get the 'net, it's being strained by lack of bandwidth to the backbone and user contention ratios. Etc..
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: petting the refrigerator.
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I pick up mystery signals from the apartment complex next door, and on some days I can get it from campus or starbucks across the street. Its usually broadband.
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Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
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I have some friends in the sticks that had 28k dial up until about three months ago. Now they have sat.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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