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Even as broadband Internet makes its painfully slow march across the American heartland, some are holding on to their painfully slow dial-up connections. Why would someone stick with download speeds that make your first gen iPhone look like a speed demon? One word: Price.
No surprise here: The current economic crunch is having an effect on the Internet Service Provider (ISP) business. At a time when the average broadband connection still clocks in at a reasonably hefty $35 a month, dial-up services -- like the new $7.95 a month plan from EarthLink or the entry-level $9.99 plan from AOL (which owns Switched.com)-- still hold an appeal for consumers looking to cut costs wherever possible.
The dial-up business will continue to shrink, regardless of tough economic times, but the recession has certainly slowed the death of plain old telephone-based Internet to a crawl. And it's easy to understand why when you can save $500 a year by sticking with a $10 dial-up plan from NetZero. Of course, what you save in cold hard cash may be more than outweighed by the time lost to waiting for all your videos to download. [From: USA Today]
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Subscribe to commentsHopeFeb 17th 2009 8:21PM
This is a stupid article. Not everyone in this country needs hi-speed when they only use the internet for emails. Senior citizens use the internet to send emails and connect with grandchildren. As a small business owner, I still use dial-up for a flat rate of $25.95. The only reason I switched to hi speed starting in January was AOL shut down my acct claiming I had violated their TOS but no one could explain what exaclty that was. My customers thought I went out of business so I had to contact at&t, combine all the phone bills and set up a new email address so my customers could get in touch with. I for one cannot see any difference between dial up and high speed. Then just as suddenly AOL activated up acct and it is is still in use until I can make sure all my customers have my new email address on file. Dial up may take couple extra seconds but works just fine. The old adage ... "a penny saved is a penny earned" now more than ever applies to all of us in these hard times so don't throw away or discount the dial up.
SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt)Feb 17th 2009 8:53PM
now i understand about the money thing but if you honestly can't tell the difference between dial-up and high speed you are either a) delusional b) have some kind of mutant fast dial-up c) have the worst high speed ISP out there or d) have an old as dirt computer.
seriously, i live more than a mile out of my town so they won't run high speed cables out here but i was able to find a satellite internet ISP that could serve me. i would get like 8kb/sec on dial-up and i can get about 90kb/sec on satellite. and lets not talk about when i go to my friends house who has Comcast high speed, i get consistently upwards of 900kb/sec and some times around 1.5mb/sec. so again, i understand the money issue, $500 is alot of money, but please don't say dial-up is close to high speed in terms of speed cause that's just ridiculous.
DomFeb 18th 2009 12:08AM
Dial-up may be slow,
but not so fast,
if no place else to go,
when money's got to last.
ckzx2Feb 18th 2009 1:28AM
The service may be cheaper, however you still need a POTS line, service there can be $20-40 per month. If you've "cut the cord" and gone completely cellular its likely cheaper to still just do the DSL/Cable route than stack services.
JSams4131Feb 18th 2009 10:04AM
yea there is ABSOLUTELY a difference between dial up and high speed. but yes using 56k to check email is perfectly fine (for mainly just non-HTML formats)....if anyone has the oppurtunity to get high speed, Ditch AOL ( i did many years ago, and did not look back), and if your have Verizon FiOS, or any kind of FiOS around you get that...you will be amazed how fast your internet is for less than 120 a month with tv and phone.