Dial-up, a query

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• noise747 Posts: 30,806

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  07/04/14 - 13:05 #2

  pfgpowell wrote: »

  Just a thought, but is anyone here still using dial-up? In fact, does anyone know anyone who stlll uses dial-up?

  
  I am not, but I know of two households that are. one because they got little choice, the others because it is their choice.
  
  
  I don't even have a phone line now to use dial up, but I was going to try and see if I could put my laptop dial up modem through the VoIP system just for a laugh. It is suppose to work with Fax, so why not dial up?
  
  so it would be dial up internet going through broadband internet.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 189

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  08/04/14 - 23:08 #3

  I still use dial up for certain things although it's mainly all direct access not internet access.
  I have modems connected to customers networks so if the broadband goes down I can dial in and fix it.
  Occasionally I am at a remote site where dial up internet is the only option as there is only a telephone line and no cell coverage and I need to get a configuration file or something from the net

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• swingaleg Posts: 103,076

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  08/04/14 - 23:33 #4

  I've used dial-up recently when there was a fault with my broadband
  
  I used to have a PAYG account with BT dial-up as an emergency back up but they closed down their dial up service so I used one called 'FAST' which doesn't require registration or an account...........it was fine for emergency use until my broadband was fixed

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• michael37 Posts: 2,622

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  09/04/14 - 20:47 #5

  According to OFCOM there are still 0.8 million households which are unable to obtain any type of broadband connection.

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• gulliverfoyle Posts: 6,318

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  09/04/14 - 21:00 #6

  there are rural areas use dialup

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• alias alias Posts: 8,824

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  10/04/14 - 18:18 #7

  My phone at the edge of tower range (at work ) gives me a 15 kb connection if that counts.

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• Orbitalzone Posts: 12,627

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  12/04/14 - 09:37 #8

  I use it for access to remote site PCs - when the adsl modems get stuck I use dialup to access the PC and reboot the modem or PC which usually solves the problem,

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• BMR Posts: 4,351

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  12/04/14 - 19:01 #9

  I would imagine 99 percent of modern websites would be utterly unusable on dial up these days....

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• rj414i Posts: 147

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  12/04/14 - 22:16 #10

  I know someone who has dial up, his phone company won't supply broadband because their speeds would be so low. circa 0.5meg.

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• Richard_T Posts: 5,166

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  12/04/14 - 23:24 #11

  rj414i wrote: »

  I know someone who has dial up, his phone company won't supply broadband because their speeds would be so low. circa 0.5meg.

  
  
  0.5 meg was the standard speed when broadband launched i the UK, or not long after

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• cnbcwatcher Posts: 56,681

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  13/04/14 - 00:31 #12

  I know someone who uses dialup because he's a refusenik who won't get broadband or a modern computer. He only recently upgraded from Windows 98 to XP! He still has the Windows 98 PC and uses it a lot and I get the impression that he's living in 1999 and not 2014. He only recently got a new telly as well; he was watching an old 1980s/early 90s TV set until a few months ago and it was so small you needed a pair of binoculars to watch it.

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• Mr Dos Posts: 3,637

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  16/04/14 - 18:25 #13

  Dial-up - taking 20 mins to download one mp3 track on Napster. Happy days !

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• swingaleg Posts: 103,076

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  16/04/14 - 18:32 #14

  Mr Dos wrote: »

  Dial-up - taking 20 mins to download one mp3 track on Napster. Happy days !

  
  I've just downloaded the windows 8.1 'upgrade' on my fast broadband........it took two and a half hours
  
  It would have taken about a month on dial-up !........:o

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• Jesse Pinkman Posts: 5,794

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  16/04/14 - 20:32 #15

  Mr Dos wrote: »

  Dial-up - taking 20 mins to download one mp3 track on Napster. Happy days !

  
  Oh I remember those days - Hours for a whole album.
  
  Painful!

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 76

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  16/04/14 - 21:06 #16

  Richard_T wrote: »

  0.5 meg was the standard speed when broadband launched i the UK, or not long after

  
  0.5 meg would have been unimaginably fast. VirginMedia offered 64K broadband back around 2001

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