Who else has no option but dial-up?

I get my service from Cingular via the cell tower system.Theres no cell phone involved just a little modem that is a PCME card and plugs right in to my laptop.
I have found that if you connect it to an external antenna it works even better so when at home thats what I do . You can put that antenna(mines a wilson) anywhere its only a few inchs long .Mines way up above the house and the cable just runs into the house and plugs right in to the PCME card .

Dial up here, too, as we are in the boonies. No DSL in our future any time soon. I can't say I have too much of a problem though. I usually connect at 52 kbps most of the time, although bad weather or weekends I go as low as 44 kbps. All in all, I am just happy to be able to do research and read/participate here.

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I chose to not install DSL on my home system because my dial up is only $6 a month and the 50k to 54k dial up with accelerator allows me a leisurely pace to do other things while surfing. Dial up for me is more cost effective, more productive of my time through multitasking and while my dial up connection may go down once every few days, my neighbor and others nearby on DSL have to restart their PCs or reset modems 2 or 3 times a day usually.

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We have dial up after years of using cable when we were in town. Out here dsl is all around us but we live at the end of the line(our wire comes from the other Central office). We call ever few months but it is not worth there time and money if the other folks don't want it. I have gotten used to dial we use people pc and just use the settings that make the pictures distored unless you right click them and for message boards we turn off all pictures and signatures so that the pages download faster.

On here if you go to your user cp and edit your options to not Show Signatures, Show Avatars, and pictures it will download faster and if you want to see the pictures you can just click the link.

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We get between 19-24 kbps - slow, but at least we connect! It's the slower speed when woodpeckers keep stuffing acorns in those little black boxes on the phone lines.

I get on the internet with my cellphone. it's the same as the other person posted but I don't use a card, I use my cellphone plugged/tethered to my computer.

it's through sprint and it's expensive 39.99 a month plus 29.99 a month for the cellphone but I dropped my landline which was 25 a month.

its about 256kb. the are installing a new system on towers which is supposed to be 3 to 5 times faster than that. should be completely done nationally by this fall. can only get that faster speed with a card until they come out with a new phone that can read it.

even with the savings, I'll never go back to dialup. would love cable or dsl but that would mean too many people have moved to my area.

Dial up at 50.7 -52. I am satisfied.. I can get the house cleaned while still online LOL.

Thats what I'm talkin about. I surf, make coffee, feed and sell bait, clean house or whatever as the system connects and loads.

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We don't have a land-line phone, so dial-up isn't even an option. We started with satellite. It had good download (about 384 Mbps) but lousy upload (10 Mbps), and cost about $60 per month, but since I do some of my business by internet, it was necessary.

We now have something called wireless (or dish) service. The downloads are comparable, and uploads are much faster, and it's a bit cheaper ($45/mo), but less reliable. (Satellite didn't work if it snowed or if there were thick, icy clouds; our wireless conks out every time it rains.)

There's also cellular internet available through Verizon, though in our area it would only give us dial-up speeds.

I can't afford Satellite, so stuck with dialup. To make things worse, we have bad phone lines out here, AND the wiring in the house is real bad. All that equals bad connection!

The Internet started in the late 1960's (I first read about it in Science Digest in 1973 or 1974). It just wasn't "the internet as we know it" back then. It was also too expensive for most everyone except the wealthiest, as computers were almost unheard of in people's homes (they were big, bulky, and VERY expensive, and that was pre-windows. Most people didn't have the skills to learn how to use them). The Internet service cost $30/month plus $5 an hour. That was a LOT more money back then than it is now.

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..............If you are on good terms with your neighbor , see about collaborating with them on a Wifi setup . You can buy omni directional antenna's on the net for less than $100 . Since they're on DSL you can Wifi onto their DSL , I believe without too much expense . , fordy...

In the next 2 months I will get CABLE TV Over my DSL lines (called IPTV) Then I can get rid of The Dish Network Sat. and keep the monies in MY AREA as well as DSL Internet, of which I have now. My independent Co-op phone company went around our 2 counties and put up Booster Boxes for DSL~!

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Happy Utahn: "We don't have a land-line phone, so dial-up isn't even an option. We started with satellite. It had good download (about 384 Mbps) but lousy upload (10 Mbps), and cost about $60 per month, but since I do some of my business by internet, it was necessary."

WHAT?!?!?!? The very fastest internet connection possible by any means is 12MBPS down MAX!!! there ain't no ISP in the stinkin' universe that can do 384MBPS down and 10 up!!! Seldom can even the most experienced network engineer get a 10/100/1000 network to run that fast!! I cant even get a direct connection between 2 computers over a crossover cable to run that fast, and these are gigabit ethernet cards on a pristine cat6 crossover!! Like I said, there ain't no ISP in the universe that can go that fast!
Now, getting back onto topic; I have the option of getting hugesnet satelite, but because they limit you access and call it "unlimited" anyway, they're off the list of consideration...Price is the other factor, as mom won't even pay $21.95 for decent dial up, so I'm having to settle for an ISP that won't even load 3 pages consecutively without disconnecting. Peace n Quiet, yer not the only one here having to make do with a pile of male-bovine-solid-waste that calls itself the best ISP in the world. I hate them, but mom won't pay for anything better....Guess I'll have to pay for a decent ISP when I turn 18.
LIFE, THE THORN STUCK DEEP IN THE SADDLE-SORE!

We moved here from Michigan.. and Up there we had fast fast cable... Moved here to dail up ONLY and I was ready to rip my hair out! Then about 1 yr ago DSL came available and i practically was the first on the list!

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Change the mbps to kbps and you probably have what was intended.

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Where I am you can't get a phone, so I use a cell phone which cost me $50.00 a month and $60.00 month extra for wireless Internet that runs just about as fast as dial up.

Plus I had to buy a $40.00 special cord for the hook up.

$ 110.00 plus tax and what ever else.

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I just signed up for Hughes Satellite!! I'm getting the Pro option and I am so excited to be back in the world of high speed!! :baby04:

For some reason, the dial up times out when trying to load pics which is something I don't remember having a problem with when I was on dial up back in 2003 & 2004.

That sounds all too familiar.

Sorry, I meant kpbs in all of the above. Guess I was dreaming! So yeah, our upload on satellite was only 10 kpbs. Pretty dismal.

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I thought I had no option but dial up - until suddenly I had no dial up.

The message was '817-7 - All circuits are busy'. The internet provider said it was the phone company - the phone company said it was too many people dialing into the provider.

Actually, according to the internet provider, it was because Quest owned the access numbers around here and just decided to drop them. So they had to go another route.

The phone service has just changed from Sprint to Embarq and I accused Embarq of doing this on purpose so people would sign up for DSL. After 3 days of no internet, I decided to talk with them.

I supposedly am getting DSL for 24.95, I have been paying 19.95 for dial up - so it won't be that much more. That's for 1.5 kaddlehoppers.

So today, right here beside me is my brand new, box of 'things' that I am supposed to use to get hooked up.

They guaranteed me there was no contract - month to month. It had better be.

When husband gets through mowing the yard, we will tackle it and see if it really works.

I do so hope it does. Truly I didn't mind dial up - but it kept getting slower an d slower. When we first hooked up with them a few years ago - we would connect at about 60 - lately it's been 28- sometimes 38, and still got knocked off a lot, etc.