Warning 56k!!

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This is a commmon phrase in the internet community especially when a large file download is involved.
Now, this got me wondering - how many people still use dial up for their internet? Not many i will think as broadband is like tesco now - they are everywhere and cheap overall.
If anyone in here uses a dial up, i will like to ask why, im sure it wont be many, but then why do we keep warning 56k users off before attempting to download a file?
 
Speaking to someone on msn who uses it right now.

I know 8 OcUK'ers on 56k personally, ive only just broken the 512k barrier myself now on 4.8mb :cool:

56K is used by most of the people on my exchange, for casual browsing a 1p per minute 56k can be very economical.
 
I know three people who do. None of them use the net a lot and they are all technophobes who don't understand the diffrence. While fixing someones Outlook yesterday (who ever set it up first time NTLworld is spelt with a L in world!!) I managed to take advantage of the situation and get him ordered up with broadband, seeing as he was paying £13 a month anyway for dial-up!
 
i know a couple of old skool dial up peeps... :p

awesome, 200 ping on q3 tho!! - not bad :)
 
ElRazur said:
Do you know anyone that STILL use one though?
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I know people who use 56k by choice, in BB enabled areas. For lots of reasons;
people who just surf and cant warrant the cost of BB for that purpose (56k from a fiver)
people who just do email.

here's a quote from a neighbour "The way pages load faster is good but i dont download anything so why should i pay 4 times more just to read my email and order some modelling kits?"
 
My Dad and his best mate both have 56k as you can't get BB where they are. His mate has problems getting BT to give him a decent standard phone service let alone BB.
 
I switched to adsl in Jan 2005 from ntl dialup, and I live in London.
NTL Cable wasn't and still isn't in my area despite countless promises, so I was stuck with an ntl phoneline+dialup. BT couldn't install a line into our house due to a technical glitch - we'd had one before but it was removed and they couldn't fit one in.

Eventually in 2005 they managed to get around it. 56k is still very common for extremely light users and broadband means nothing to these people. My boss uses dialup and see's no use in going broadband yet, especially when she hears about all these adsl suppliers changing their T&C's every 2mins.
 
My parents are still using dial up but mind they are in cyprus. Have just got them to place an order for broadband though, i've got 2meg back at my flat at this machine can't connect faster than 38Kbps it's annoying!
 
the bottom end of the estat i live on still have 56k as the bb lines stop at the house after me man i was lucky :D

and i know on or 2 people that have as its cheepers at 1p a min when they only send the odd email

man i rember upgrading to 56k lol

o and we still say about 56k as its like a yard stick every one knows the point where it is but a lot of site still say 28k lol and at college the say that allways put and estimated download time in 28k or 56k as a large amout of people still use it and like i said its just like a yard stick
 
I know of one. He wants NTL but they dont cover this area. He also doesnt want to dump NTL TV and the line and replace it with a BT one just for BB.
 
My GF's parents are still on dial-up as, although they can get broadband, they just have no need for it. They pay about six quid a month for their dial-up access.

I was just thinking of all the speeds I've been through since I first went online at home...

14.4k
28.8k
33.6k
56k
64k
512k
1m
1.5m
2m
4m
10m

So that's a 700+ fold increase in speed over the past 10 years, not half bad.
 
I know quite a few people on modem connections.

However, the type of people that frequent forums such as these, are probably much more likely to be on a broadband connection than 'average' net users.

Anyway the whole "56k beware" thing is generally overused since it's not like you can't simply click stop, or back when using a modem if you don't want to download/view a large file.

Heck, if anything threads with large amounts of images etc should now be sporting *BROADBAND BEWARE!* messages, given the large number of isps adopting usage caps :)
 
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