(56k Warning)

[Bawx]

I just saw this on a different thread under the main subject. I'm 99.9% sure we can forever retire that phrase. It's 2008, I literally haven't seen anything dial-up for about 6 years. If you don't have hi-speed internet, I don't know why you're on a modern tech site.

[Sethos]

Oh believe me, they are lurking everywhere, stopping progress and dragging us down them with.

[Matrix XII]

There will always be people lagging behind.

I've had cable internet for like 8 years now, so some people really are lagging. :|

[Corris Veteran]

It happens, some people are stuck with crappy speeds.

A friend of mine, the only way they have managed ot get anything over 56k is buy getting one fo those mobile network adapters.

Their street wasn't cabled, and the BT people have told them time and time again that they can't get broadband.

At least that is what it was like about 4-5 months ago.

Though some threads round here should carry a 1Mb warning, I'm thinking of a certain thread in a certain section, though we have been saved by thumbnails. :D

Though if people took the time to thumbnail pictures we wouldn't need warnings of any kind.

[Dave Diller]

You wouldn't believe how many people come in at my work with dial up service still.

[revvo]

Some people don't even have a choice because dialup is all they have

[John S. Veteran]

Plenty of folks still using dialup...and wanting to keep it.

Keep your broadband, say dial-up users

Study suggests attitude, not availability, keeps users from upgrading

AP July. 2, 2008

NEW YORK - A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.

The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project challenge the argument that broadband providers need to more aggressively roll out supply to meet demand.

Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they're stuck with the older, slower connection technology because they can't get broadband in their neighborhoods, Pew reported Wednesday.

Thirty-five percent say they're still on dial-up because broadband prices are too high, while another 19 percent say nothing would persuade them to upgrade. The remainder have other reasons or do not know.

Overall, Pew found that 55 percent of American adults now have broadband access at home, up from 47 percent a year earlier and 42 percent in March 2007. By contrast, only 10 percent of Americans now have dial-up access.

Despite the increase in overall broadband adoption, though, growth has been flat among blacks and poorer Americans.

[Rappy Veteran]

It happens, some people are stuck with crappy speeds.

A friend of mine, the only way they have managed ot get anything over 56k is buy getting one fo those mobile network adapters.

Their street wasn't cabled, and the BT people have told them time and time again that they can't get broadband.

At least that is what it was like about 4-5 months ago.

Though some threads round here should carry a 1Mb warning, I'm thinking of a certain thread in a certain section, though we have been saved by thumbnails. :D

Though if people took the time to thumbnail pictures we wouldn't need warnings of any kind.

orly?

;)

[Neo003]

I know sometimes you don't have any choice but dial-up, but I'm hoping that in the next rollout they will come up with something that you can make neowin compact so 56k dialers can browse thur without keeping High Speed users tideup.

[GreenMartian]

Here in Aus, most ISPs throttle your speed down when you reach a certain download limit. It's normally 64k, which isn't that far from 56k :p

I also have some friends who live a bit further away from the city that are stuck with dial-up.

[revvo]

does 56k dialup still use the full telephone line with that BEEPBEEPBEEPGHSHHHHHHHHHHWOINWOINNNNNN noise, or can you use the phone at least?

[Matrix XII]

does 56k dialup still use the full telephone line with that BEEPBEEPBEEPGHSHHHHHHHHHHWOINWOINNNNNN noise, or can you use the phone at least?

lmao, yeah I wonder that too, I don't even know how 56k works these days...

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

does 56k dialup still use the full telephone line with that BEEPBEEPBEEPGHSHHHHHHHHHHWOINWOINNNNNN noise, or can you use the phone at least?

Unless you get a second phone line.

It's making a phone call, you can't make 2 separate calls on the same line unless you've got a setup (like PBX or something, I don't know)

[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

Ugh the thought of going back to dial-up ..... *shudders*

NOOOOOO thank you!

[roadgeek9]

My father has had cable internet since...2000 or 2001.

My mother didn't get cable internet until 2004.

My grandparents didn't get DSL until 2007. :|

[Matrix XII]

Well for grandparents I can understand. My grandparents don't even have a computer, I doubt they'd even know how to bring up an internet browser.

[dead.cell]

Please remember the people who have no internet providers reaching out into their area.

A friend of mine in my gaming clan some years back made the mistake of moving out to the country area where they had "decent internet", only to find out that meant 56k. Needless to say, there was a lot of time chatting on the forums and not enough gaming being done.

[tuckerm]

Eh, occasionally a fiber gets cut and our internet goes out so I switch to DialUp to check my mail. This hasn't happened in a few years though.

[TheKindred]

There are still several places throughout the world that do not have access to broadband services. Or they might just be people like my mother who does not need to pay more than ten dollars a month for internet. All she uses it for is email, random researching when she can't get to the library, and to sometimes shop for things she can't find locally. She probably spends two hours a week on the internet as it is.

So why would people like that want to spend thirty or forty dollars a month on broadband services they will never use?

[Alex_is_Axel]

its only adding 12 more characters to the thread line and besides the next phase will be adding "bandwidth warning" for people who only have a limited amount of monthly bandwidth cap on their broadband packages

[White Cuban]

tell that to the people in africa, im sure they'll remember to update their internet after they go hunt for food/

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

Here in Aus, most ISPs throttle your speed down when you reach a certain download limit. It's normally 64k, which isn't that far from 56k :p

I also have some friends who live a bit further away from the city that are stuck with dial-up.

youre probably confusing Kbits and Kbytes... the ISP probably throttles down to 64KB/s while dial-up 56kbits is 7KB/s

[Fish]

Although my Dad could get broadband, he's happy using dial-up. He only really uses the internet to send the occasional email or to look-up something specific. Financially, he's probably better off. I'm sure he's not alone in this respect.

[revvo]

Here's what I stumbled upon for us DSL and Cable users :D

56K Simulator

ah.... good times

[DDStriker]

youre probably confusing Kbits and Kbytes... the ISP probably throttles down to 64KB/s while dial-up 56kbits is 7KB/s

no its 64Kb as in 8KB/s

but its much worse at least dial up actually worked when the cable gets throttled that much google barely loads

also the site should stay optimized for 56k users would give cable users a much better experience i'd rather an instance page then loading tons of useless graphics or could always bring back the lo-fi mode :p

thumbnails should be used regardless of the internet connection i don't want to waste my bandwidth on useless images that i probably wont ever look at (recently went into the 2008 desktop thread thinking it had something to do with desktop pc's...i was so wrong :p)