Who else has no option but dial-up?

[FoxfireWoman]

A post made in admin made me wonder -

How many folks are like me who have no other way to connect to the internet except by dial-up connection?

Cable, DSL aren't offered out here in the boonies, and we aren't situated right for a satelite connection. Leaves us with dial-up or nothing.

Who else is stuck with what many perceive as outdated technology?

Kat

BTW, I do click at least two google ads a day here because I know every little bit helps keep this place running.

[HilltopDaisy]

Me.

[3sunz]

me too!

[Trixie]

I may possibly have other options, but then I am not sure I do.

What options are available, exactly, I don't know. I know one of our neighbors has WiFi (I don't know what it really is!!!), and the young man who used to live on the other side of us had WiFi. When we would come home for a short time, we just used his - OK with him. So I know it's available. I'm not sure how.

I don't want something that has to have a contract other than month to month. We did that with Dish and that's a whole 'nother can of worms, but we only used it about 3 months total because we weren't here.

If I use dail-up, I can cancel it any time, get another one whereever we set up in the travel trailer. I have even gotten a land line with unlimited long distance and just used my old dial up at home.

So I may have options, but then I may not given my circumstances.

It is slow, though and it is much slower than it was just a few years ago. I don't know what makes it slow - I have heard it's the phone lines, but these are the same lines we were using 5 years ago.

It's a pain,

[crafty2002]

I have been trying to get DSL for the longest of time and the city I live in has over 50,000 people in it.
I get so mad at this slow dail up service I can't stand it, but what's one to do.
I come up from the shop to take a break and get on here and it is so slow, I will wake up a couple of hours later in worse shape than I was when I stopped for a break.
I want the AT&T with hook ups for two computors and where you can still use the phone at the same time. Maybe by the time my new born grandson gets old enough to use it.
You must admit, the 50 to 100 x as fast sure does sound sweet, huh????
Dennis

[Clifford]

We live too far away from town to get DSL. THey say it's only good for 17,000 feet (a bit over 3 miles). There is a wireless company that my Dad uses, but the trees on our property prohibit us from using it. Also, there is a satelitte outfit that offers Bluetooth(?) through DishNetwork. They are about $75 a month. I'll be sticking with AOL for now.

[Snowdancer]

Me too! I technically can get Wild Blue Satellite & in fact ordered it but the installation tech(only one in the area) was a no show/no call three times so I called Wild Blue and cancelled.

I connect at a blazing 26.4kbps.

Up till April when I moved back to the country, I had DSL for years, so this is really a big change.

Normal surfing isn't too bad but uploading pics or downloading anything with a lot of graphics is next to impossible.
I have an accelerator on the dial up but even that doesn't help for large graphics.

[Lynne]

No options here except satellite.
Zipping along at 26Kbps….WWeeeeeeee!

[bopeep]

It is dial-up for us, that is all we can get, it is slow,but at least we have something.
bopeep

[FoolishDreamer]

Look on the bright side. Slow as it may be, at least you're able to get on the internet. Up until 20 or so years ago there was no such thing.

[Country Lady]

We can now get DSL here, but being on our tight budget, we decided to stick with dial up for the time being.

[BethW]

We could do satellite, but it's expensive and I hear it's not that much of an improvement.

If dial-up was all I'd ever known, I'd be less grumpy about it. But like KY Guest, we moved out of the city and left our DSL behind. I now drive with my laptop to a friend's house to run downloads and updates since that's simply not possible on dial-up at home.

I never thought I'd hear the EEEE-OGH EEE-ONG of a dialup connection again. And yet here we are. Still worth it, though! I'd not trade my farm life for DSL ever!

[javabrain]

We are stuck with dial up too. It drives me nuts. I usually get tired of waiting for stuff to download so I don't look at much of my email and rarely send any of it off to someone else. grrrrrr

[LamiPub]

Only get dial up here but what is really annoying is when they call and mail us all this sales pitches (our phone company is always trying to get us to switch over) to high speed interent and then I call them and say "Oh so you guys are finally getting dsl out here to us?" Then they check and say "uh, no it isn't available to you and won't be for some time" Argh! Then don't call me or send me the junk mail!

[anniew]

Dial-up is fine for me. I use it mainly for email for my part time reporter job and my CSA. I could get DSL, but I'd rather spend the money on other things.

[country_wife]

We have dial up, too. I don't mind it. We don't want tv cable or satellite, and I don't even know if you can get them for your pc without getting the whole package. Our neighbors have DSL, and I'm sure they pay more than our $9.95 per month (we have Netzero.).

[Ed Norman]

Dialup is all I ever knew. I'm usually at 28.8 kbps. I remember my first modem was 2400bps in '91, I didn't have the cash for the fancy 9600 fax modem.

I run Firefox with ImgLikeOpera for a plugin, and it keeps the graphics off. But it shows a little rectangle for each picture and if I want to see it, a right click loads the image. That's why I am oblivious to all the little smilies and wavys and laughies and that stuff.

[pancho]

Dial up here but at 49.3. I'm flying.

[Spinner]

Me too.

I could get hi-speed by satellite, but it would cost 4 times what I pay now, and I don't miss something I've never had. Besides, DD has the hi-speed satellite and it's not that much faster than my old dial-up. I usually connect around 40-44 which is much faster than the 28 that my old computer connected.

[m39fan]

We're on dial-up now (26k usually), can't afford Satellite until the old house sells (2 mortgage payments!) and REMC's Broadband through the power lines is at least 12 months away from being released. I hate dial-up especially when you're trying to bid on an item at the last minute or have your high-speed friends/family filling your inbox with megs and megs of junk!!!!!!