Dial up or high speed

DSL (which sometimes feels like dial-up)

Cable Internet - 1.322 Mbps

Cable/Broadband Internet. There is no way I could go back to dial up!

I have cable (road runner). The specs are normally ~4800 down/ 384 up. It is supposed to be a 5 meg connection, but can't get better than 3K down today.

I spent 8 days for the Christmas holidays at my mother in laws with dial-up. I still can't believe I got 2 weeks behind in work! I will never have dial-up again.

Dial-up? Oh please no, anything but that.

I feel the same way. Over the Holidays I visited a relative who had dial-up and I darn near gave up using the Internet.

I'm sure we pay way too much money for DSL - but it's not optional for me to wait for dial-up.

I've earned my living online for several years, but I am looking to change careers!

So - to save money - who knows? Maybe in the future I won't have ISP at all!

Cable modem in my home office but I want to do something with my laptop. Maybe wifi?

I use cable of course.

There are probably parts of the United States that do not have DSL, but you can still get Cable or even Satellite.


I tried Satellite last fall, when I was mis-informed about whether or not DSL was available in a new house I bought. The satellite (Direcway,) was very expensive - over $600 for the equipment - and never worked right. It crashed my computer, causing me to lose many valuable writing projects, and photos I had stored on hard-drive.

Then - I had to fight with Direcway to get out of my "contract,". Even though I had purchased the equipment, and paid over $200 for installation, they thought they needed another $80 per month - for two years - out of me. Even though I complained and complaine, and my system never worked - they said I didn't comlain enough.

I only called in 9 times, they said I had to call in 10 to negate the "contract."

Let me tell you people : when you have business practices like that - and customer service so bad that you are trying to force customers to use your service - you need to take a look at your company and your product.