Broadband or dial-up?
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This is a question I got reading the Download/Hard copy discussion. It's just a little poll but I need many responses to get a clear picture! So, do you have a broadband or a dial-up connection and do you have data limits for downloading? (If this post doesn't fit here, please kick me to the right place! ) Bernard
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Hi Broadband .... But thinking of privacy issues and licensing agreements - what are you going to do with this information ?? Cheers. Mad
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Hi Bernard... Good topic... I have Broadband never had a problem with any downloads...
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Hey Bernard, I use Broadband is the best.
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Well, I'll break the trend here: 56K dial-up connection for me. Maybe one day...
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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So far the broadband users are the majority, that's exactly what I suspected when I started this topic, not because I think there are a lot more broadband users but the people who have a broadband connection are more active! I wish all the dial-up members react also, because I want to get a clear picture on this subject. Mad, don't worry! This is a topic that I put here just to cure my curiosity and not for any commercial reason! Sometimes I post in topics only to see what the reactions will be. Bernard
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Our only choice for anything faster than dialup (out here in the sticks) is Satellite internet. Not exactly Broadband, but faster than dialup. And right now the dish is filling up with snow, so I might not even be able to send this till later. :eeksnoman:
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Just wish we get some snow here! Bernard You can have ours. It's snowing now in the Chicago area, where the temperature was 48F at 4:00 PM and is now (10:20 PM) down to 4F and is headed to -4F overnight. We're known as the climatic armpit of the world. :shiver:
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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I had dialup till recently when HighSpeed Internet became available at a reasonable price. I like it so much better because now when I get emails with attachments - especially pictures it downloads them fast. With dialup it could take as long as half an hour to receive one email with pictures.
Gerry
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SkeeterUK - interesting comment about "why is dial-up still sold to the public." I live 30 miles west of Washington D.C. in one of the richest Countys in the US (except for me) on a dirt road with no cable and no broadband internet available by wire. I get my "cable" by satellite (DirecTV) and my broadband from a line-of-sight tower. So in this huge country of ours, sometimes dial-up is the only available way. I must say, though, I've had my broadband for a year or less and, my gosh, I love it. Some day (sooner than we think) it will be universal and "there" just like the phone line. (When we can hook up our computer to our cellphone then wireless broadband will be universal.)
BeaSong - how is your satellite internet working? I considered Huges Net (now Skynet?) but my son pointed me to a forum of people who could only talk about how much they hated it.
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Broadband (dsl)
No limits.
Can and have downloaded large game files, but it takes longer than I think it should.
Would cut back on groceries and heat before I'd give up my broadband.
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DSL Broadband here also.
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Broadband also. Chief
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Here in Denmark where I live the power companies (those who provide the electricity) have a plan to offer broadband with much higher download speed than normal. We're talking 10-30 - to maybe 100 MB download speed. There are, in fact, some places where you already can get this. However, I doubt if the power companies have been succesfull at this point? I think that providing high power downloads via the electric cables is the way to go. Then broadban connections will be as availabe and normal as electricity is today - at least in some places of the world. Oh, and I forgot to add that my broadband is cable of sorts, don't have a download cap and that(normally) game downloads etc. happens with a speed between 10-30 MB/minute (or sec?) /Karsten
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Karsten, I've heard rumours about Internet by the power grid, even participated in a field experiment but as far as I know, it has not been a success anywhere. Reading the posts I realized I didn't mention my own connection. I have cable broadband >20MB, there's a price tag to it but I reduce it by providing a small WiFi network for my neighbours. They pay a a few Euro's to me every month so below the line my costs aren't too high! Keep on posting people, I need at least between 100 and 200 reactions to get a good view. Bernard
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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Dial-up -- out in the country, no other choice. And it's only running about 26k.
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Re: Broadband or dial-up?
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We had dial up for years and was hating it more and more. So we got a deal from AT & T last year and got broadband, and loved it cause it wasn't that much more and it meant that we could talk on the phone and use the internet at the same time without an extra line. Well, U-Verse came out here ( still AT & T), and they gave us a deal in December to upgrade to it which includes the tv and wireless. It was cheaper to change to U-Verse and have more channels, more tv's and wireless than stay with our cable and use the regular AT & T broadband, go figure (?). I think U-Verse is broadband, maybe someone can correct me. I know it isn't dial-up! I am totally and completely spoiled with the wireless and the broadband, and am still amazed with how much we can do compared to just 10 years or more ago! Koalanut
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It's been ADSL broadband with me for about four years now. About 2 years ago we got a free upgrade to 2MB (everyone on the island in range of the exchanges got the upgrade), and now they're talking about a similar upgrade to 8MB by the end of this year.
However, if you want real speed, you need to go to Japan and Taiwan where broadband can be as much as 100MB.
Regarding power line networks, I know that they can definitely work in a domestic situation - I installed one last weekend, though my blog has more details of the Netgear XE103 product recall that I'm now going through. (see my sig)
Finally, for those people with 'broadband but not stable enough for large downloads', you might like to investigate P2P networks like bittorrent (eg. uTorrent, or Azureus). Please note, I'm not advocating piracy. You will find that some of the larger downloads (OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu linux distributions, for example) can be obtained (completely legally) via bittorrent. These systems are designed to download even the largest of files in many, many chunks, and to be completely resilient in the face of an unreliable connection.
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Broadband here, no limits.
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Dial-up here unfortunately. No limit on downloads. For any large dl's I go to my son's house for his DSL.
What a pleasure to download lots and lots of files for my scrapbooking. Takes minutes to load on my flashdrive.
Sometimes I need to update my system and it would take hours to download so his DSL really comes in handy.
I would get broadband in a minute if it were available here.
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Verizon high end Fios Broadband. Not a problem in the least with game downloads, particularly with a download accellerator I use to make connections practically warp speed.
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Live in a small town and have dial-up at 31.2kbps. Largest download I can do is about 80Mb and can take up to 6+ hours. The one little phone company in town offers a high speed/router (with a no return option and can never be used elsewhere if one decided to move), starting at 64kbps. Phone/internet company has no competition and has never had any competitors.
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I have road runner cable and can get up to 900. kbps and can download just about anything at lighting speed,love it Richard
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Broadband, no limits.
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Broadband on the desktop, wireless broadband on the laptop. My ISP also offers a 1-800 dial up number for broadband users when on the road at 10 cents a minute. Howard the Doc, its been possible to connect to the internet through a cell phone for years, but its Sllooowwww (19.6k baud). I have an Ositech card and it does work as advertised. www.ositech.comAlbert
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I have Broadband of 2000 kps and wireless in my laptop. And i never had problem with my downloads. My down is very fast. For who it has dial up connection is bad is very slow for make dowload.
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Hi- I have Cox High Speed Cable and just love it, it is very fast as far as downloading. Would not want anything else. Maggie
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Dial up at 56k. No limit on it. Just don't download enough or on the internet enough to make it worthwhile.
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Dial-up (and my computer is ancient). I'll upgrade someday but for now I can't download large games.
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Broadband with no limits (that I know of, lol). I can DL a full game w/in minutes or less generally. I've not tried DL'ing a really LARGE game as I like to buy hardcopies.
If someone told me I had to go back to dial up, I would throw a fit and start reading more!
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ADSL through the phone line, plus wi-fi from the router for the laptop. Here in France, most everyone has broadband. Wouldn't go back to dial-up for anything. Broadband was one of our criteria when buying a house here.
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