Anyone Using Dial-up Internet?

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The modem for my At&t DSL quit working yesterday after trying to fix a faulty power button. They want $80 to replace the modem
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so meanwhile I'm on there dialup till I decide what to do. It's a joke...you can't go anywhere that has pictures, video or listen to I-radio. Maybe I'll just ditch AT&T and go with Comcast, not sure. Rant Over!
 
You can buy a dsl modem anywhere and just give them the MAC address, instead of renting a modem from them.

It is cheap hardware.

I have a cable modem that I bought used on ebay for 20 dollars, I save about 4 dollars per month not renting from time warner cable.
 
Yep, every website these days is designed for broadband. Go back and look at the old CNN homepages from 1998 -- small images with tiny color palettes, minimal scripting, no animations, few ads, etc. Nowadays you HAVE to use 1.5Mbps to have a decent browsing experience.
 
Originally Posted By: exranger06
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Anyone Using Dial-up Internet?


What is this, 1997?
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Kinda feels like it....just need to find my VHS tapes now.
 
I have a few neighbors with unsecured wireless. I'll jump on them as long as I'm not keying any sensitive info (credit card purchases etc). Worked till I got my router replaced.
 
Originally Posted By: dparm
Yep, every website these days is designed for broadband. Go back and look at the old CNN homepages from 1998 -- small images with tiny color palettes, minimal scripting, no animations, few ads, etc. Nowadays you HAVE to use 1.5Mbps to have a decent browsing experience.


1.5 mbps, Bah... I have that speed at work and it seems super slow compared to the 10.0 mbps I have here at home. I could not imagine going back to dial-up. Try loading any Amazon page with dial-up, no way lol
 
I just got on-line about a month ago. I had dial-up since 1995 but never used it especially the last 7-8 yrs. Recently got extended range DSL out here in the sticks and its not really that great at 470 kps but its somewhat useable for basic surfing. 80% of my county is still dial-up,, its that rural.
 
Originally Posted By: JustinH
You can buy a dsl modem anywhere and just give them the MAC address, instead of renting a modem from them.

It is cheap hardware.

I have a cable modem that I bought used on ebay for 20 dollars, I save about 4 dollars per month not renting from time warner cable.


It is vary rare for DSL providers to do any sort of MAC binding. That is a cable thing.

OP:

Pick up a cheap D-Link ADSL modem. It will likely be better and faster than what you had anyways.
 
Originally Posted By: Blaze
I just got on-line about a month ago. I had dial-up since 1995 but never used it especially the last 7-8 yrs. Recently got extended range DSL out here in the sticks and its not really that great at 470 kps but its somewhat useable for basic surfing. 80% of my county is still dial-up,, its that rural.


Wow!
 
Originally Posted By: hate2work
Originally Posted By: dparm
Yep, every website these days is designed for broadband. Go back and look at the old CNN homepages from 1998 -- small images with tiny color palettes, minimal scripting, no animations, few ads, etc. Nowadays you HAVE to use 1.5Mbps to have a decent browsing experience.


1.5 mbps, Bah... I have that speed at work and it seems super slow compared to the 10.0 mbps I have here at home. I could not imagine going back to dial-up. Try loading any Amazon page with dial-up, no way lol


Yep....
 
Thats basicly why I quit using the internet because it got so dial-up unfriendly and pages wouldn't load. I gave up and just let my dial-up account expire. Interesting... My step-sons daughter told me she has never heard of dial-up. She is 14 yrs old. I told her there was a time you had to sit down and drink a cup a coffee and watch the pages load. She looked at me dumfounded.
 
stay with ATT, get a used modem on craigslist or ebay for $20 and you're good to go. Going comcast will cost you significantly more even if you get your own modem.
 
Most electronics retailers sell DSL modems. Heck you could even get a wireless DSL modem so if you got a laptop or something you are already all set to go.
 
Originally Posted By: Blaze
Thats basicly why I quit using the internet because it got so dial-up unfriendly and pages wouldn't load. I gave up and just let my dial-up account expire. Interesting... My step-sons daughter told me she has never heard of dial-up. She is 14 yrs old. I told her there was a time you had to sit down and drink a cup a coffee and watch the pages load. She looked at me dumfounded.


Back in the 80s my sister had a 14 year old friend over and she couldn't figure out our rotaty phone.
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She just stuck her fingers in the little holes, thinking they were buttons. You think she might have seen one in a movie or something...
 
I had a similar problem, my modem died, it was the motorola version. I called them, they wanted $$. I told them I had been an ATT customer for a long time, with cell and land line etc, and they sent me a free replacement if I would agree to stay another year. You might try that, I had the modem in a couple of days.

Good Luck
 
I'm one of the 10% of the internet public still on dialup. One big problem is that most internet sites I've been visiting for years now have adopted flash graphics, and now they take a horrendously long time to load.

Now that I got my cell phone (first one) last month, I see no need for the land line and I plan on canning it for hi-speed from my cable company.
 
The funny thing for me is in college back in 1994 I was in a brand new university owned apartment that had Ethernet jacks in the room.

I connected it to after buying a very expensive ethernet card then and was on the world wide web at very good speed beyond hooking to university computers to do my computer science homework.

I was sorely disappointed with dial up after college and did not bother with internet until 1998 when cable modem came in since our cable was so old. (went from 22 channels to 100+).

It is sad our rural communities don't get the high speed access so they can stay viable and relevant.
 
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