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Yes, dial up is technically still internet... But do you really get internet that way? Websites these days are made for broadband, some of them coming in at a f
by RedShift1 7y ago
Yes, dial up is technically still internet... But do you really get internet that way? Websites these days are made for broadband, some of them coming in at a few MB just to get to the login screen. Plus you gotta turn off all non-essential internet communication in Windows (telemetry, updates, ...) or that 4 kB/s you get are lost to that. If you're paying by the minute it's going to get expensive real fast.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoIts purpose isn't to be real internet, its purpose is just to do what the postal service does. It doesn't matter if cnn.com has 500MB of javascript because you're not going there, you're just doing email and banking. And nobody pays by the minute anymore.
- RedShift1 7y agoBut even those banking and webmail sites are in the order of megabytes.
- orwin 7y agoYou assume that all these people have AC current. I know for a fact that at least half a dozen american in West Virginia (lincoln county) get there only electricity with solar panels. Yes, they can access their emails thanks to the public library, but how much longer this public service will stay open?