Dial-Up Internet Users Still Don't Want Broadband, Study Says

This is sad

confirmed

This is quite the eye opener. I'm in a rural area with promises of broadband. Supposed to have been about 2 years ago! My son got it about 6 months ago and said it doesn't really make that much difference. Maybe I should reconsider my want list!

My political leanings are against regulation in general, but infrastructure is, in my view something which the community has an interest in and when market forces are failing, the government should provide leadership.

Cell phones and broadband are areas where other countries have implemented higher quality-solutions that end up being cheaper to customers. Once 3G is national, once DSL is everywhere, we're still caught looking backwards.

I think we have a national interest in higher quality information services and that the market forces are not sufficient. My vote is for regulation on this one.

High speed is great if like video's. It's necessary if your OS needs 500Mb patches (Apple). It is way overpriced.

Just abolish dial-up. I hate seeing those stupid NetZero commercials "every internet provider takes you to the same internet, why pay more?"

Because broadband spanks dial-up.

And broadband is pretty much available everywhere thanks to satellite internet.

I tried broad band from my telephone company and didn't like it people would get there e-meil back that where they were sending me and I got some back when I e-mailed people so I cancelled broad band from the telephone company and went back to dial up

I'm in the boat that wants to get it but don't really like the price. I also don't like the fact that you might not get the advertised speeds that you signed up for and you just have to sit back and take. I want what I paid for.

You think USA Net prices are expensive? Come Down Under for a while, my Yankee friends...your net prices are things that this sun-burned mega-island's inhabitants are green with envy for.

Sure for basic web browsing its not that huge of a difference, but you'll notice it if you ever want to watch video online or stream music. And for the person above that was saying that it was her broadband connection that was making e-mail get sent back. Uhm honey that was your e-mail box. You probably exceeded the max space in your inbox. Depending on your provider you only get a few megs of space, which fills up pretty fast when you factor in spam and "save as new" messages. Had nothin' to do with your broadband connection. E-mail is not dependant on your computer. And if they couldn't get your messages, either their boxes were full too, or maybe your outgoing mail server wasn't set up right. And y'know you don't have to use your ISP's e-mail account, i never use mine. There is such a glut of free e-mail out there, or if you want to be cool, get a domain from like godaddy or something, and have your own account with your own domain name.

I love my DSL, sure sometimes it feels slow, but then that's partially my aging computers fault. When browsers suck up nearly 75 megs of Ram by themselves, connection's only as fast as your computer. I would never be without broadband. I'm a merchandiser and I need to send in my call reports online with pictures, and a 2meg picture takes a loooong time to send over a dial up connection versus a broadband line. Sure its more expensive than dial up, but you can actually USE IT, And its not monopolizing a phone line. When you factor in the cost of another phone line for your modem, and even a "bargain" provider, you're not that far away from even like 2megabit or higher broadband or cable internet. Not to mention that if you want to pay just a bit extra or if you've got a good ISP that gives you a nice modem, you can get wifi built right into your router/modem and with a fairly cheap wifi card on your computer or laptop, you don't even need to string a cable to the computer.

Dial up is good in a pinch, I'll admit that, but for my day to day, I'll take DSL any day.