ADSL rules, but dial-up still lives

My old workplace still serviced about 10 or 20 dial up accounts for farmers around Grahamstown, but I doubt anyone in places with ADSL still use dial-up
 
The Web has moved on from dial-up. Most pages are no longer optimised for such small bandwidth throughput, not even mobile web pages.
Dial-up users must be sado-masochists who love frustration.
 
lol at your internet connection is "wifi".

Wifi has to connect to something to give you internet.
 
Garyvdh said:
The Web has moved on from dial-up. Most pages are no longer optimised for such small bandwidth throughput, not even mobile web pages.
Dial-up users must be sado-masochists who love frustration.
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infliction or reception of pain or humiliation, to very extreme end of the scale referring to dial up... Never thought i would see the s&m used for this hahaha
 
FlashSA said:
Awesome flashback. Reminds me of Telkom R7 weekend deal. Connect at 7pm on Friday night and stay connected until Monday 6:59am for R7
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Remember how upset you'd get if the line got disconnected for whatever reason. There's goes your R7.
 
wabbit16 said:
My old workplace still serviced about 10 or 20 dial up accounts for farmers around Grahamstown, but I doubt anyone in places with ADSL still use dial-up
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The thing is that in most parts of rural South Africa today you are more likely to have cellphone reception than you are to have a working Telkom line so I don't understand the continued need for dial up in rural areas. Even the worst 2G signal will have speeds far superior to a dial-up connection.
 
deweyzeph said:
The thing is that in most parts of rural South Africa today you are more likely to have cellphone reception than you are to have a working Telkom line so I don't understand the continued need for dial up in rural areas. Even the worst 2G signal will have speeds far superior to a dial-up connection.
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There are still places that have bugger-all cellphone signal. Think 50+ km from any tarred road in the middle of nowhere between koppies where Telkom uses those big tower repeaters to push analog phone services :)
 
wabbit16 said:
There are still places that have bugger-all cellphone signal. Think 50+ km from any tarred road in the middle of nowhere between koppies where Telkom uses those big tower repeaters to push analog phone services :)
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I'm not familiar with them, I'm picturing something like the Russian Woodpecker. Do you have a picture for me?
 
Oj0 said:
I'm not familiar with them, I'm picturing something like the Russian Woodpecker. Do you have a picture for me?
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I'll see if I can find one. There is one somewhere near Riebeek East on a dirt road that I drove past last year but I can't for the life of me find it on Google Earth
 
wabbit16 said:
There are still places that have bugger-all cellphone signal. Think 50+ km from any tarred road in the middle of nowhere between koppies where Telkom uses those big tower repeaters to push analog phone services :)
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DECT where yo are lucky to get 33.6kbs...
 
whatwhat said:
lol at your internet connection is "wifi".

Wifi has to connect to something to give you internet.
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I'm hoping they refer to WISPs although it is a bit misleading.

That and using "WAP" to access the Internet!
 
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