Last time I used a dial-up was probably many years ago in a hotel room. Nowadays almost all hotels have wi-fi or ethernet connections. At home if my internet access is down I guess I can still access the net via my phone. That’s a big “if” since the connection is extremely reliable with only rare short outages.
I’m on dial-up. It’s that or satellite where I live, I can’t get access through a cell phone.
Once a month or so I visit my brother’s high-speed connection and download as much as possible. I visited him once and didn’t take my computer, he was so confused it was comical.
I thought it was hilarious one day we were all in the car and my husband said something to me about dial-up and my then-14 or 15 year old son (now 16 and so much wiser) piped up from the back seat with “what’s dial-up?”
Oh man, way to make us feel old.
Sad to say, but where we live we can’t even get cable for the tv, let alone for the computor. DSL…nadda. Dial-up here. We could get internet through our DirecTv, but even the service guy (who is a friend of ours) didn’t recommend it. In fact, he can get it for free, but opts to pay for something else. He said it is very limited on what we would be able to do, and with 2 kids in high school it wouldn’t work for what they would need. He also mentioned that what they would offer us out here wouldn’t be any faster than our currant dial-up. IF I have to have something faster, I run into town to the library.
Once nice up-side of it…my kids don’t want to spend hours and hours on Facebook, Youtube or any other internet site. (and my son can’t play on-line video games on his Connect or WII system either)
In 2001 I had cable internet, then after I moved in 2002 I was waiting for ADSL to be installed so had to go back to dialup for a couple of weeks.