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.
 
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.

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
 
Awesome flashback. Reminds me of Telkom R7 weekend deal. Connect at 7pm on Friday night and stay connected until Monday 6:59am for R7

Remember how upset you'd get if the line got disconnected for whatever reason. There's goes your R7.
 
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 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.
 
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.

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 :)
 
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 :)

I'm not familiar with them, I'm picturing something like the Russian Woodpecker. Do you have a picture for me?
 
I'm not familiar with them, I'm picturing something like the Russian Woodpecker. Do you have a picture for me?
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
 
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 :)

DECT where yo are lucky to get 33.6kbs...
 
lol at your internet connection is "wifi".

Wifi has to connect to something to give you internet.
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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