New appreciation for dialup users

**CharlesW** · 03-31-2007, 10:55 AM

My cable internet has been on again, off again the past 24 hours and I have been using a backup dialup provider.
Wow, I had completely forgotten just how slow dialup was.
For all you members that have to use dialup regularly, I don`t think I would be much in to the internet thing is I had to depend on it regularly.
I do admire your patience. Something I don`t really have a lot of.

Charles

**Tex Star Detail** · 03-31-2007, 05:36 PM

Agree. When I go to visit my parents, I usually get online to at least, check my email. 30 minutes to check my email......I was exhausted!!!!!!

**audiboy** · 03-31-2007, 05:46 PM

What`s this dialup that you speak of?

**Jngrbrdman** · 03-31-2007, 06:12 PM

Dialup sucks. I was on it for 5 years before I finally got DSL. I built most of OCDetails.com on dialup. It would take like an hour to update the site. lol Most sites just aren`t 56k friendly anymore anyway. I was glad that Strongbad only creates one email a week simply because it would take most of that week for the email to download. LOL

I feel for the dialup users out there. In most cases DSL is almost the same price, but the reason I had to go so long without it was because it wasn`t even offered in my area. Cable and DSL weren`t on the menu for the three years I really wished I had it. I was ok with dialup when all I did was hang out on message boards and do homework, but once I started doing design it started getting really inconvenient to have to wait so long for pages to load and software to download.

**Tex Star Detail** · 03-31-2007, 07:46 PM

It is like Cassette Tapes to CD`s now to MP3`s

**klumzypinoy** · 03-31-2007, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by audiboy

What`s this dialup that you speak of?

Dial up is 56K (kilobytes) internet. The speed of cable is like around 5 megabytes or so(maybe less, maybe more). 5 megabytes is 5120 kilobytes. 56 kilobytes is really tiny compared to that :

**Big Leegr** · 04-01-2007, 09:15 AM

Yep. I went to visit my Mom and I didn`t even try to go online once I saw how long it took to load her "homepage." (Which was a factory direct commercial for her computer. I don`t know why my sister hadn`t changed it for her to at least a search page. Ugh. Oh well, all fixed now and I get brownie points over my sister!

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**Scott P** · 04-01-2007, 10:53 AM

My parents live in a rural area that doesn`t even have cable running down the road. I have to connect via dial-up at 33k...really slow loading.

I got in early when TW first released Road Runner service back in Rochester and haven`t looked back.