I am still using crappy dial-up ISP, via 56 k. It is pathetic. I can’t afford DSL yet. I have had the opportunity at other places to use DSL and all I can say about it is:
::::drool:::: [Homer Simpson] Mmmmmmmm, DSL [Homer Simpson]
At school, I have an ethernet connection, but at home, we have a dial-up connection. Which is actually faster than our school’s ethernet connection, in that I can actually download a file greater than 1MB within my natural lifetime.
Bah. A pox on my connection. :mad:
I’ve got free service with NetZero. Until free is gone, I won’t pay.
Also, I once tried to work at my brother’s cable-connected computer. Sure downloads were faster, but that’s the only thing! All other surfing depends on getting the web site’s attention on every click, and it goes no faster at all.
That would be me. But I am perfectly happy with it and it’ll be a cold day in hell before I give Southwestern Bell any more of my monthly income for DSL.
I’m using MSN to dial up with a 56K.
I used to use CWIA, which only cost half as much, but it also took me three times as long to dial up and actually get on the Net.
at home, they use a dial-up connection. Not me, since the university provides me with the ethernet connection. You want to know what is the speed of my home’s dial-up connection?
Be prepared…
14.4 kps. Yes, that’s the speed of the internal modem. Nope, no money to change it to something better. Besides, the computer needs other upgrades more important than that.
Oh yeah, NO faster at all. Stupid fools paying $40 a month for “high speed” internet! :rolleyes:
Dial up here too. I connect at a rock solid, blazing 26.6.
Works for me.
Yo. But I’m in rural Buttwipe, Wisconsin, and we’re lucky to have 911 here, much less Internet. I’m connected right now at ~50Kbps, so that’s not too bad. And my ISP charges are a tax-deductible business expense.
Yeah, I use a 56K here in Atlanta. I want to go up to DSL, but since I use msn and foolshly signed a 3 year contract 18 months ago when I bought the now defunct laptop I have to wait until they bring high speed to the area. Which they’re supposed to do around January. 
Plus, then I’ll be able to get rid of the second phone line, and the cost should actually be less than I pay for dial-up and the second line.
Country yokel checking in… 
Cable & ADSL do not exist as yet in my area 
There was a rumour that ADSL was on it’s way, but I’m still waiting to hear a follow up …
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ADSL
Here in Union City, CA, self-proclaimed “Gateway to Silicon Valley,” neither Cable internet or DSL are even available. Sheesh. I wouldn’t pay it anyway. I use AT&T dial-up for only $5 a month and for what I need to do (nothing), it’s plenty fast. Hubby has a T1 at work though, which is neato keen.
Dialup AOL via a $50 Zoom USB 56K. My motherboard came with an onboard 56K but it died a couple of years ago. If I want a faster connection, I just wait until I get to work and use their T1 line.
Two phone lines, on two computers. But, being a neo-Luddite, I can’t do much else. 
50,666 average connection on the desktop, 28,8 on the laptop because of the modem. Plenty fast for me, actually. I’m a very patient person.
Corr
I like dialup, its cheap, easy to get modems, you can still use your computer to fax & you can use it anywhere. Try that with DSL, ha!
Lots of people still use dialup. It hasn’t become obsolete quite yet.
Me , i don’t need anything more i can play games over my 56K
and i don’t often download big files + ADSL is around but it costs x4 more and that doesn’t include installation either , + i don’t use it that often , and also i use more than one PC which if i used a cable model it would be restricted to one PC , + i i’d need upload speed more and cable is the only cheap option here (£25pm) which has shitty upload speed
Geobabe, true, dial-up is not obsolote and many people still use it. Unfortunately, many big names who have webpages(VH1, MTV, U2, RHCP, even PBS) think that is not the case and continue making more and more graphic full complex pages. My home computer chokes each time I try to enter those webpages.
I’m using a 56K internal modem, hooked up to Juno. It’s plenty fast enough for me. Like the poster before me, I’m not shelling out any more money than I have to.
Dial-up here, too. DSL clocks in at $40 per month and I’ll be disemboweled by a pack of rabid howler monkees with rusty butter knives before I cough up a single red cent to Comcast for a cable modem.