Dial-Up, Just cause I have it!

[darkspines35]

Hi! I want to know if anyone else lives someplace where their stuck with dial-up, cause i am! Ntelos (suuuuxxxx) is my frakin internet supplier and they have dsl on the road right beside where I live, but they won't put on our road. Anyone that feels like please postif you have dial up or have an idea to get something faster than dial up (not including moving because I WON'T) please let's discuss this predicament

 

[Rapid_Assassin]

I used to have dialup for many years longer than most people I knew had. Finally got cable internet in 2004 or so.. I'm not sure what your choices for internet are where you live. Sometimes there's a lesser known company available in your area, but you wouldn't know it because they don't advertise much. Do some research on the companies in your area.

 

[omfgomfg]

how do you get verizon to come to your neighborhood and install fiber optics for the neighborhood? this enables the fios option. i want it but they just don't come.

 

[OffTheChain]

I remember having Dial up a few years back, I always thought it was the computer itself and not the connection that sucked but I came to learn the truth at some point.

 

[darkspines35]

The fastest internet I can get is Dish Satellite internet, but it's freakin $200 for the lease fee and $40 per month. No cable providers are down here cause they say that Ntelos has us charted and they can't put it on this road. And I'll look into other companies here in Fincastle.

 

[omfgomfg]

can anyone tell me how you get verizon to install fiber optics in your neighborhood?

and by the way you should upgrade dial up.

 

[Dark Link]

can anyone tell me how you get verizon to install fiber optics in your neighborhood?

and by the way you should upgrade dial up.

Pay them about $15000 and they could run you a line. Other than that, you have to wait for them to pick an area (ususaly 500,000+ population density like St louis, Chicago, ECT). Try www.dslreports.com to search for some close to you.

You can also try searching for:
comcast
centurytel
Socket
Speakeasy
roadrunner

 

[MilesPrower]

I live in the mountains of NC and I'm stuck with it. I've stretched it out a good mile though, finding this to get me online with my DS, PSP and Wii; and getting a better modem. My old one would only let me get to 42 KBPS, but the new USB one I got a while back lets me get up into between 48 and 52 KBPS.

The one in this here laptop (my old computer sorta died on me btw, working on it right now) the modem in the laptop is exellent. It almost always connects at 52 KBPS, and since it's a constant connection, it beats the karp out of the sattelite card that it has sometimes.

But for viewing videos, the satellite card by Verizon can't be beat. You have to have service though, just like a cell phone. It can also go dormant, which is basically (to me) putting the connection on hold, which disables the connection until enough traffic of bits/bytes gets going to make it wake up again.

And I can't get the router to work with the satellite card, even though it can get up to download speeds of 148 KBPS; but that's not constant by any means because it goes up and down up and down....

And it was already dispelled by someone here that dial-up is actually faster for online gaming due to higher ping rate.


I did hear that by 2009, all landline phone lines require to have DSL. Sorta like that TV transmission thing I guess.

So even if it's a year or two, it won't be long hopefully before we can break these chains and free ourselves and run run run. O.o;

 

[Fox P McCloud]

I had dial-up for a decade before Sprint's EVDO service (mobile broadband). Before, with dial-up I would consistently connect at 50.6kbps, which translated into a real-world speed of around 45kbps...which mean I'd usually get 5.6 KB/s when I downloaded a file...and once in a great while 5.7 KB/s. My latency hung around 186 ms to www.google.com.

So, for dial-up, I was getting really good speeds, and "decent" latency.

When I got Sprint's EVDO service, I got 1.28 meg down (1288 kbps) and 400-500kbps up...my latency was around 100-120 ms to www.google.com

the latency wasn't the greatest, but hey, it was way better than dial-up or satellite....plus, the speeds were a lot better than satellite too. Also, I had truly unlimited download caps; satellite limits you...EVDO does not (with Sprint anyway).

I highly recommend anyone who has dial-up to go check out www.sprint.com and check out their mobile broadband (EVDO) coverage map....EVDO is not nearly as good as cable or DSL, but it's way better than dial-up or satellite.

as far as DSL being required on all phone lines by the end of 2009? I wish....there's a few companies who have that as their stated goal (for example, Embarq plans to have 100% of its customers covered with DSL by the end of 2009), but not all companies have this within their policies.

getting Verizon to deploy FiOS in your neighborhood? *laughs* good luck with that; fiber optics are incredibly expensive to deploy.

I might also comment, MilesPrower, that getting 52kbps (connection speed) is really good; here in the US, the maximum is 53.3kbps (connection speed) the incredibly stupid FCC told the phone companies that they needed to reduce the amount of power they were using to transmit....because of this, you cannot reach 56kbps in the US (in foreign countries, you can). Technically, you could get 64 kbps with dial-up, but there are a bits that that are lost in the process, so 56k is the maximum possible, for now (one day, in the future, we might be able to achieve 64kbps with our phone lines...but I doubt it...there's really no need to further tweak dial-up......still, I do hope that some eclver engineer will be able to do it one day).

I might also recommend to see if there are any WISPs (Wireless ISPs) in your area....they aren't usually heavily advertised...but you might be surprised who covers you (or not).

it'll be a very long time before we have 95%+ broadband penetration.....I'd guess we *might* hit that number by the end of 2020.