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Do you still use dial up.
1. Yes - It is fine for me. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
2. Yes - It is horrible 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
3. No - I feel the need for speed. 53%  53%  [ 21 ]
4. No - but I would be fine with dial up. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
5. No - Only because I watch Youtube and Flash games 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
6. No - Only because I download lots of big files. 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
7. No - I like to watch videos intended for audiences over the age of 18. 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
8. No - I am committed to the P2P community. 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
9. What is the Internet? 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
10. 42 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
11. No - The number 69 is a special Interest. 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 40

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30 Jul 2012, 8:22 pm

I could stand being on 1Mbit, but I have 50Mbit and every station my cable company offers because I work for 'em and get a deep discount. ;)



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30 Jul 2012, 9:47 pm

largosan wrote:
Modern webpages are image and video heavy, even forums like this have a bunch of images all over. Dial up is not practical anymore if anything else can be gotten at a reasonable price. Hence, my family has cable internet. We used to have DSL, but a company called FrontierNet bought the AT&T service in my area, and they now have frequent outages, and friends of mine who use them say that they occasionally try to charge a double bill. The other local ISP, TC3Net, is plagued by even more outages than Frontier. Comcast is simply the best choice here.


I don't think DSL is going to survive much longer. In NYC the options are fiber optic or DOCSIS 3 cable, and both are 50+ mbps. Well, those or Verizon 4G, which is actually pretty good if you don't need to download full length movies or anything. I think 4G mobile is around 30mbps? The Verizon caps are a few GB a month.



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31 Jul 2012, 2:47 am

BlueMax wrote:
I could stand being on 1Mbit, but I have 50Mbit and every station my cable company offers because I work for 'em and get a deep discount. ;)


There's rarely much of a difference between 10mbps and 50mbps for me. I've had a few downloads hit unreal speeds on the faster connection, but it's only been a few times.

1mbps... that's getting kinda slow.