I keep reading "dial-up" warning on threads heavy with pictures.

[Writer]

Seriously now, how many are still using dial-up to necessitate such a warning?

[malta blue]

1. I may be headed that way in the next few months

since I am financially strapped :shrug:

[Pierre.Suave]

2. Somebody posted earlier

that the weather had knocked out their satellite high speed service, so they were using dial-up until that was fixed.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. Somebody posted earlier

that the weather had knocked out their satellite high speed service, so they were using dial-up until that was fixed.

[mentalsolstice]

4. Even though I'm on DSL

I still appreciate the warning. Even broadband these days has different speeds. Nor would I want any DUer who is on dial-up to feel put upon. However, I'm just fair like that, no snobbery or assumptions here about another DUer's capabilities or preferences. YMMV.

[Rosie1223]

5. I did until last week

finally switched to satellite -- not many choices out here in the sticks.

[MorningGlow]

6. There was only dialup available at our old house (we moved from there three years ago)

It was in the back o' beyond on a seasonal road. We called the cable company and they laughed at us. So did the phone company. We even promised to get everyone on the street together to go in for highspeed (there were about six houses). No dice. BUT only a quarter of a mile down the road, on the street that ran along the lakefront, there was highspeed. We toyed with the idea of bribing someone on that street to let us run a really, REALLY long cable up the ditch from their house to ours.
:rofl:

Last I heard, they still didn't have anything but dialup.

[NV Whino]

7. Many of us who live in the booneys are stuck with dial-up.

I'm one of the fortunate few in my area with DSL. And, trust me, it's still not a fast connection.

It's called being cost effective, no one is going to run a cable to accommodate three houses on a road and another three several miles away. DSL is only effective with in a three mile radius of the switching station. Rural areas are fucked... unless you want to pay the bucks for satellite, and then the upload time is only as fast as dial-up.

[Jamastiene]

8. Quite a few people are still on dialup.

I was until summer of this year.

[RebelOne]

9. I am. I can't get DSL in my area.

But I can get Comcast Internet, which I'm going to do as soon as I get around to it.

[suninvited]

10. I live on a seven mile long dirt road

satellite is available, but some of us are on a budget.

We dont even have cell phone service where I live !