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Old 12-11-2006, 07:24 PM Anyone here still on dial up?
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I'm luckily not. I haven't used dial up in about 2 months, but that's because I was at a friend's house. Nowadays a weak WiFi signal resembles dial up to me .
But seriously, I don't know how anyone who's online more than 2 hours a day, can stand using dial up. And now, more web pages have heavier graphics, which take a while to load on dial up sometimes. Before, a 20KB some are even 2-5MB, which would take about 15-30 minutes on dialup to load, if I'm not mistaken, or even more perhaps.
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Old 12-18-2006, 07:52 AM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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Well Im in a big city and I still cant get it apparently a black spot what a load of crap hey, my wireless adsl gets put on soon thou thank god
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Old 12-18-2006, 06:58 PM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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I can't imagine going back to dial up!! I've had cable for 3 years and dsl for 2 years before that. We had a huge storm in October that knocked out electricity for over 200K people....for me it knocked out my cable for 3 days and I thought I was going lose my mind. I felt guilty, knowing that lots of people were worse off than me, but I still missed my internet badly!
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Old 12-18-2006, 11:52 PM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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A little off topic but:

Every webmaster should have to surf every page on their site from a dialup connection.

It has been over 5 years and I would quit the internet before I went back to dialup.
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Old 12-19-2006, 12:58 AM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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dail up = death lol
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Old 12-19-2006, 01:51 AM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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Yes is annoying hey, atleast I have cable at work
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Old 01-05-2007, 09:10 AM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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I used to have dial-up about two years ago when I wasn't into surfing the net yet. But when I started to need the internet for researching and other school related work, we just had to get DSL. Now I can't live without fast internet.
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Old 01-05-2007, 12:41 PM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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I have had bband for abotu a year now, and once i went round a mates and was on his pc and he has dial up and i was like screaming at the pc. i completely forgot how slow and annouying dial up was! lmao

i hate it.
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Old 01-05-2007, 01:24 PM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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I remember when i had dialup it took me a week to download **** small linux, The smallest Linux distro available. Now i can download kanotix in he time it takes me to make and drink a coffee.

Give it a couple of years and we will all be on 100mbps as standard.
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Old 01-09-2007, 10:07 PM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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dialup is the past guys, we live in the modern woold of cables and high speed internet. Me too, as a kid downloading games - i remmember it took it 1week to download a 600mg file! which now i can download in one hour
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Old 01-13-2007, 01:30 PM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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I have to use dial-up occasionally when on business travel and its torture just downloading emails.
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Old 01-13-2007, 02:51 PM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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dial up iS STill in this world, even in the us and canda there might be some ppl using dialup, yet dsl and cable is gaining control
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Old 01-14-2007, 02:05 AM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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Everyone used to have one. Over the last 6 months it's become unheard of. It's because now everyone is on the internet longer, I'm personally on 12-14 hours a day on weekends, everyones playing games online, people are downloading videos and want their porn faster. =/
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Old 01-14-2007, 11:23 AM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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I switched to a broadband connection about 5 or 6 years ago, and I've never looked back. Now when I'm at home, I'm on a Comcast cable connection. At school, I'm on their T3-based network, which is nice. At work (I work in government), we have an insanely fast dedicated line from Verizon, but I'm not sure what it ranks at. It *might* be an OC line of some-sort.
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Old 01-31-2007, 09:14 AM Re: Anyone here still on dial up?
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sometimes i use dial up (cell phone +l appy via GPRS & EDGE) :-)
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