survey: are you on dialup?

[blaze]

Basically, just wondering if you are using dialup or not while working on the web.

[tedster]

Cable when I'm in our Boston or NYC office. Dial-up on the road when I can't find a Wi-Fi hotspot.

[truncatus]

Home
56k dialup

Work
More then I can use ;)

[anallawalla]

512/128 ADSL. They stopped cabling in Australia so new subdivisions can only have ADSL if they are within 3.5 km from a suitably equipped exchange. Costs about US$62/month including 14 GB data (far more than I need). You can get cheaper plans if you opt for less data.

[AprilS]

Cable Internet
4,000+ Kbps (approx 4Mb down) download
400 Kbps upload

I've been using cable internet for about 2.5 years and DSL before that (since 1999). So, I've been dialup free for 5 years! :-) Except for a bad few months when I moved to an apartment in a new city while looking for a house. Once you go broadband it is HARD to go back to dialup!

[bill]

<ducks>
100mbps fiber optic

I keep a $3.50/month dial-up account just for the rare work out in the sticks.

[limbo]

56k - I like to know what my average user is seeing.

DSL @ work.

[Hinso]

Cable broadband in the City.

Dialup when I go home to my little island. Will probably be amongst the last 750,000 BT subscribers to be offered broadband. A satellite experiment flopped last year - only seemed to work when the tide was out (don't ask).

[photon]

T3 at work, cable modem at home.

But I want bill's hookup

[trillianjedi]

DSL at home and office with 56k backup.

I had to call the backup into use the other day (a £10 PCI card modem) and I was amazed at how fast a 56k modem is these days. I found it really useable.

But I want bill's hookup

We also have a 100mbs pipe, but the servers are on that. I don't think anyone actually surfs from a 100mbs pipe?

Anything more than about 10mbs for viewing websites (as opposed to running servers) is a complete waste of money (unless you have 10,000 users surfing sites of course).

TJ

[ytswy]

I have a 512 cable at home, but the office is in the middle of nowhere and we have to use dialup.

"No one download anything for the next 2 hours! I'm updating the website." I'd kill for broadband at work..

[blaze]

Well for the curious:

Stated Broadband 25 (68%)
Stated Dialup 5 (14%)
Stated Broad at work, dial at home 6 (16%)
Stated dial at home, broad at work! 1 (3%)

Feel free to add more and I'll recount the stats ..

thanks for replying, this helps us target our b2b product better.

[TheDoctor]

Dial-up. I was just thinking the other day how much better dial-up has become over the last year or so. I get a connection when I want it, the connection doesn't drop unexpectedly.

I could subscribe to braodband, but for most pruposes dial-up works okay. Plus, I get to see how fast (or slow) my site loads in a worst case scenario.

[EliteWeb]

DSL, CABLE, T1, OC83489238949823984834823 but no dialup ;)

[anallawalla]

blaze,

Stated Broad at work, dial at home 6 (16%)
Stated dial at home, broad at work! 1 (3%)

Pardon?

;)

[jk3210]

3.0M DSL

[Monkscuba]

Not only do we have dial up, but we have 2 dial ups!

But we really want to change to ADSL ASAP. Just that where we are it's not available yet.

[percentages]

From my home office (USA) I have cable and DSL. But, I spend about 20% of my time on vacation and then most often I have to resort to a dial-up connection (especially when outside of the USA).

True joy will be the day we have global high speed two-way satellite connections to the net :)

[Duke_of_Url]

dialup (sob)

like HarryM and SuzyUK no option out here in the sticks (Cheshire), there is rumour of b/band option later this year so heres hoping

DoU

[tombola]

Cable.
(cable is available everywhere in Belgium, even in the smallest village)

[bill]

Just keeping these for posterity ;)

trillianjedi
Anything more than about 10mbs for viewing websites (as opposed to running servers) is a complete waste of money

Bill Gates
Nobody will ever need more than 640k of memory

My 100mbps fiber optic connection at home costs about US$45/month.

[jo1ene]

Being a country bumpkin, I have no real alternative. The local ISP/phone company has a natural monopoly in the area and they expect us all to "grab the ankles" when it comes to service availablity and prices. They have no motivation to extend DSL service down the county highway any further and they only offer the slowest service where it is available. And for $50 a month. Cell phone service is a similar story. That's just the way it is in this region. And I think you'll find that the majority of Americans live in a similar area.

[Larryhat]

Hello: I have nominal 56K dial-up at home, and some kind of high-speed at work where I don't do anything related to my site. I pay $10/month for 250 hours of service online at home. 2 months out of 3 I run out of hours and cannot maintain my site or read emails.

If I suddenly go quiet at the end of the month, this is why. I wanted to offer $12/month for maybe 300 hours, but that didn't fly. I smoke generic cigarettes too.

What amazes me are people who pay twice as much for AOL. My site gets fan-mail from AOL users. I cringe when they write in, you can almost hear them drooling.
Do those folks take a stupid pill when they get up in the morning? I would no sooner send an email from an AOL address than I would have the word DUMB tattooed to my forehead. - [burp!]

[digitalv]

Haven't used dial-up since 1996 ... I plan on leaving the Internet in a couple of years anyway, but if I was stuck on dialup I would have left a long time ago :)

[digitalv]

Being a country bumpkin, I have no real alternative. The local ISP/phone company has a natural monopoly in the area and they expect us all to "grab the ankles" when it comes to service availablity and prices. They have no motivation to extend DSL service down the county highway any further and they only offer the slowest service where it is available. And for $50 a month. Cell phone service is a similar story. That's just the way it is in this region. And I think you'll find that the majority of Americans live in a similar area

For your situation you might want to take a look at DirecWay, a satellite internet service (true two-way not that half phone line crap). $65 a month if you buy the equipment outright, $100 a month if you lease it. As with any satellite-based communication you have to deal with rain fade but it's only noticable during a really bad storm.

[tbear]

Dial-up, at home(which is also my office).
Like others, I like to see the worst load speed of my sites.
Maybe when 99% of users have dial-up it will be on my wish list ;)

[vkaryl]

digitalv - that's the satband I can't afford. Because we also have to have tv (for my husband to get his sports - this is the only place in the lower 48 where you CANNOT GET TV otherwise!), it would cost us around $150 a month if we buy the equipment outright.

Too much right now, especially since I'll be dropping out of the workforce again end of August. But my sanity is worth more than satband, I have been dealing with dialup for many years, just have to grin and bear it....

[Actually we almost never get rain fade here; snow on the dish is another story, and even with a cover, sometimes you still have to go sweep it....]

[robotsdobetter]

I use Roadrunner Time Warner cable and still keep my favorite internet provider AOL. By the way what are the prices for everyone? Just wondering because a lot of people are to cheap to pay more then 20.00 dollars.

[vkaryl]

$8.95/month charged to credit card. Unlimited access, but you get dropped auto every 5 hours. You can redial and connect immediately.

Been with these guys 4 years or so, have had practically NO problems with them. WebMail and 4 email accounts standard.

[Ah.... yup. I'm too cheap to pay EVEN $20 US.]

[Farix]

Dialup here, averaging about 32.0Kb per connection (about 4KB). The only broadband option available is satellite, and that is far too expensive for me. Verizon states that our exchanges are still of the 1970s quality of tech but that they are going to upgrade the lines sometime around the end of the year, but I still expect another year after that before DSL becomes available.

[trillianjedi]

Bill,

LOL - I guess you'll be reminding me of that one in a few years time when we're all using Flash V10 in our websites with DVD quality video ;-)

Is it too late for me to add ".... with the current internet" to the end?

Thought so.

My 100mbps fiber optic connection at home costs about US$45/month.

Are you in Japan?

TJ