The rise of ADSL and the death of dial-up

The article should be called:
"Stating the obvious: The rise of ADSL and the death of dial-up"
 
Wow, people not using old technology anymore? What is the world coming to?!

Thanks Staff Writer aka Captain Obvious!
 
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Anybody seen the Proposal? That scene where Sandra Bullock has to put dimes in a dialup meter for web access in Alaska! I laughed my ass off!!!! I cannot believe we suffered through that ****! :D
 
antowan said:
Anybody seen the Proposal? That scene where Sandra Bullock has to put dimes in a dialup meter for web access in Alaska! I laughed my ass off!!!! I cannot believe we suffered through that ****! :D
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:D :D :D
 
Read this in the Business Day from a farmer in the Laingsburg area , if you are in the rural areas, you are pretty stuffed getting cheap broadband access,thats where WiSP should be formed at a community level to provide internet access at a cheaper price than VSAT, its all about costs. I hear of a few towns in the USA that have formed their own co-operative ISP also providing voice services

As Geoffrey mentioned in his posting,I wonder what satellite solutions would be viable for rural communities,and if
ADSL is available somewhere local(in the next town via wireless), then utilise a local IS bandwidth package and the satellite for international legs. Not sure of the Gilat Networks pricing available (Telkom is a Gilat customer)
I farm in the Swartberg between Laingsburg and Ladismith, 300km from Cape Town — hardly a remote spot.

But the Telkom infrastructure is so obsolete that my only internet access apart from Telkom dial-up (34 minutes to download FNB log-in page) is Telkom’s VSAT satellite packages. There is also no cellphone coverage. If you want VSAT with 512k speed you have to opt for the three gig per month option at roughly a mere R1700 per month.

Globally, one of the benefits of satellite connectivity is that it is invariably uncapped — not when Telkom has a monopoly.

Down the road from me is a farm school — alas with no internet connectivity — and this is unlikely to change, Seacom or no Seacom.

For rural users outside of ADSL/ broadband/3G etc reach, surely Seacom’s arrival will not change our dependence on the dinosaur Telkom — and in reality the gap between what information access costs the urban user vs the rural user will merely widen.

Surely the whole idea is to make access to information more easily/ cheaply available to the poor and rural as well?

Or am I missing something?

Geoffrey Grundlingh

Laingsburg
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Another waste of time article! Please - dial-up is like LP's, been dead for a long time! We want something interesting to read....something new and that doesn't include SEACOM!! Eish....
 
and Telkom does such a good job of helping to kill it off by charging per second billing, all part of the big-picture-plan too bad that it does not help schools in rural areas, maybe one day they might get a 50% discount
 
I find it funny how dial-up's eulogy is being read every time an article like this comes up. But, it couldn't be further from the truth. Yes, dial-up is still alive and well :D. Although the nubers of people still using it are declining, some industries still rely heavily on it for remote access.
 
cha-ching for myadsl. Advertisers pay per impression, so myadsl just earned more dough because all of us viewed that article.

Dial-up, it gives me nightmares.
 
Yes, dial-up is indeed alive and well! Let's remember that there are a lot of people out there who use internet access only very occasionally, say once per week, for sending and receiving e-mails and perhaps visiting one or two websites. Dial-up is the only financially realistic option for them.
 
RaptorSA said:
The article should be called:
"Stating the obvious: The rise of ADSL and the death of dial-up"
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It has been known to be fairly useful to read past the headline and first paragraph when reading reports about research findings.
 
Ag NEE Man

Garyvdh said:
dial-up? :sick:
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You guys that ALL live in the BIG smoke :sick: , have forgotten how much of SA is platteland.

It is a pity that Arthur does not show us a DEMOGRAPHIC map with all these figures of his.

Would be very interested to see what people in the rural areas are doing.

Tell me -- what do you do when you are out in the sticks with old Telkom pieces of string -- IF you are lucky.

AND

MTN / Vodacom do not think that you have enough of a paying population density to justify 3G / GRPRS / or any form of "tower"


How many people can afford "VSATS" ????? ( OR other costly alternatives )

Come on -- TELL us.


MW
 
MidnightWizard said:
You guys that ALL live in the BIG smoke :sick: , have forgotten how much of SA is platteland.

It is a pity that Arthur does not show us a DEMOGRAPHIC map with all these figures of his.

Would be very interested to see what people in the rural areas are doing.

Tell me -- what do you do when you are out in the sticks with old Telkom pieces of string -- IF you are lucky.
AND
MTN / Vodacom do not think that you have enough of a paying population density to justify 3G / GRPRS / or any form of "tower"

How many people can afford "VSATS" ????? ( OR other costly alternatives )

Come on -- TELL us.

MW
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How about getting a community together and forming an ISP with the infrastructure of a WUG and a connection to the nearest internet link?
 
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