Do you personally know someone still using Dial-up?

[Stillie]

Hey guys,

do you personally know someone that still uses dial-up. If so why do they still use Dial-up?

I just watched this video and laughed that south africa was using this tech just over a decade ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mg9DxvfZE

keen to hear what you say

 

[rorz0r]

Can you still get dialup?

 

[satanboy]

Can you still get dialup?

teehee

I read something else

 

[Stillie]

Can you still get dialup?

according to mweb you can http://www.mweb.co.za/productspricing/2/Home/ADSL/Dialup.aspx

 

[w1z4rd]

Yes, old people and people in very rural areas.

 

[rorz0r]

Having seen vodacoms adsl pricing, maybe they still offer dialup too...

 

[MickeyD]

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/26/pe...phones-as-sole-internet-access-20-have-zilch/

 

[HavocXphere]

No. Actually scratch that...our office laptops are configured to allow dial-up as a last resort. Never heard of anyone using it...but its configured with dialup accounts etc.

Can you still get dialup?

Yes. Its popular with the business recovery okes for some reason. Much like the US medical okes use beepers instead of more modern tech...beepers won't go down even if everything else goes to sht.

I'm pretty sure mweb also still has a pile of people paying for dial-up contracts that they forgot about...

 

[Segg]

Yes, old people and people in very rural areas.

Yes

 

[kianm]

according to mweb you can http://www.mweb.co.za/productspricing/2/Home/ADSL/Dialup.aspx

@56kbps imagine the frustration

 

[Park@82]

Yes, old people and people in very rural areas.

^
this

 

[Stillie]

@56kbps imagine the frustration

imaging youtube on that lol! will probably run better than some ADSLs

 

[Swa]

I don't know about just over a decade ago but even 5 years ago it was still in rather high use. Must still be a market for it though with almost every major isp still offering it.

 

[yebocan]

lol!!

 

[Dylan_G]

Not personally.

Does anyone know of a way to throttle an ADSL connection to 56k? (humor me)

Would like to compare my daily browsing habits on ADSL vs dial-up speed.

 

[zaap]

Oh no!

 

[Moshidi]

Not personally.

Does anyone know of a way to throttle an ADSL connection to 56k? (humor me)

Would like to compare my daily browsing habits on ADSL vs dial-up speed.

Switch to Mweb

 

[genetic]

This dude still uses dialup:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/620609-M-Net-Analogue-Viewers-Unite!

 

[Keeper]

Today's minimum ADSL speed of 2Mbit is 36 times faster than 56k Dialup

 

[patrick123]

Today's minimum ADSL speed of 2Mbit is 36 times faster than 56k Dialup

I find it interesting that Wolfram equates 1 Kilobit as 1024 bits and 2 Megabit as 2000 * 1024 instead of 2 * 1024 * 1024.