Seaplane down off Miami Beach....

"Peter R." wrote

I didn't think anyone in the US used dial-up anymore, what with cheap
broadband almost ubiquitous.

Cheap? Not here!

Still, to use dial up, means that you don't get to use much of the Internet,
because of the speed. (or lack there of)
--
Jim in NC

I sure like my 4 Mbit/sec cable, but I still have a 56 K
dial up as a backup, for $75 a year from the local college.
That's one reason I didn't want the cable telephone service,
I like redundant services in airplanes and on the ground.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

--
Merry Christmas
Have a Safe and Happy New Year
Live Long and Prosper
Jim Macklin
"Peter R." wrote in message
...
| George Patterson wrote:
|
| "Cheap" broadband costs twice what dial-up does. In
addition, rural telcom
| networks usually can't handle DSL and those same areas
are likely to be outside
| the cable service areas. That leaves satellite, which
has it's own set of
| problems (including the cost).
|
| Verizon DSL just dropped their ~760 KB/sec download speed
to $14.95/month.
| For those dial-up customers, including the fake MW out of
the Virginia/DC
| metro area, who live in a DSL-served area, there is now no
excuse to remain
| with dial up.
|
| Verizon FiOS (fiber optic broadband, to which I just
started subscribing)
| is being rolled out nationwide. When it is complete,
expect to see cable
| broadband come down to remain competitive, since they
really cannot raise
| download speeds tremendously to compete. There was also a
rumor that
| Verizon FiOS will offer a 1 MB/s download speed for
$9.99/month to grab
| local dial-up customers.
|
| Yes, I am aware that there are many out in the boonies
that will never see
| cable, DSL, or fiber broadband. My original comments
were actually meant
| as a dig only to the fake MW who thought he was being
totally anonymous,
| but I see that I could have worded it a little better.
|
|
| --
| Peter

Hopefully, anyone who has read my posts in the r.a.*
newsgroups over the
years, knows that I don't use language like this.

Matt

Right, Matt. Sometimes you p*ss me off, but you do it politely! bfg

I've not been nice to people at times, but I usually feel like I was
provoked into the rudeness. Never-the-less, my New Years Resolution is to
try and have a longer fuse, so, to all "I" have p*ssed off, try me again,
and I'll try to be better!
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:


Hopefully, anyone who has read my posts in the r.a.*
newsgroups over the
years, knows that I don't use language like this.

Matt

Right, Matt. Sometimes you p*ss me off, but you do it politely! bfg

I've not been nice to people at times, but I usually feel like I was
provoked into the rudeness. Never-the-less, my New Years Resolution is to
try and have a longer fuse, so, to all "I" have p*ssed off, try me again,
and I'll try to be better!

Sure, Jim, sure! :-)

Matt

Morgans wrote:

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:49Dqf.30336$QW2.5169@dukeread08...

Very true, just thought that some, including the impostor,
would like to see the info that is available to catch them.
He might even be in violation of Federal law and face some
time in prison.


Don't hold your breath, Jim. Internet jailings are few and far in-between,
and usually reserved for sex crimes.

Shoot, we can't even keep murder convicts in jail for their full terms.

Yes, it is probably some teen thinking he or she is being cool. They
will tire of using my name after a while and move on to the next cheap
thrill.

Matt

George Patterson wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

Hopefully, anyone who has read my posts in the r.a.* newsgroups over
the years, knows that I don't use language like this.


It *was* a bit surprising!

I hope so! I love a good argument and will churn it up with the best,
but I don't use vulgarity and try very hard to even avoid a personal
insult. I won't claim to always be successful on the latter, but I
think I've been about 100% successful on the former.


Matt

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:49Dqf.30336$QW2.5169@dukeread08...
Very true, just thought that some, including the impostor,
would like to see the info that is available to catch them.
He might even be in violation of Federal law and face some
time in prison.

Don't hold your breath, Jim. Internet jailings are few and far in-between,
and usually reserved for sex crimes.

Shoot, we can't even keep murder convicts in jail for their full terms.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"Peter R." wrote

I didn't think anyone in the US used dial-up anymore, what with cheap
broadband almost ubiquitous.

Cheap? Not here!

Header makes it look like your on through Charter...

Still, to use dial up, means that you don't get to use much of the Internet,
because of the speed. (or lack there of)

Gimme an area code and a prefix, I'll see what I can offer...

Jim Macklin wrote:

I sure like my 4 Mbit/sec cable, but I still have a 56 K
dial up as a backup, for $75 a year from the local college.

Do a few speed tests to see if you are actually getting close to that 4mbps
speed they are advertising.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://ciseweb100.cise-nsf.gov:7123/

When I was a Time Warner Road Runner cable broadband customer, they claimed
4mbps, too, but in reality I was seeing a consistent 1.5 mbps (190
Kbytes/sec) down and a dismal 300kbps (38kbytes/sec) up.


--
Peter

Peter R. wrote:

Verizon DSL just dropped their ~760 KB/sec download speed to
$14.95/month. For those dial-up customers, including the fake
MW out of the Virginia/DC metro area, who live in a DSL-served
area, there is now no excuse to remain with dial up.

I wish for a day that I don't see spam with Verizon routing in it...

Its like having our own bit of China/Korea/Japan/Brazil/Nigeria right
here at home...