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Wow, outside of a very small handful of sites is the web still usable on dial up?
by jiggy2011 14y ago
Wow, outside of a very small handful of sites is the web still usable on dial up?
- Shivetya 14y agountil my grandparents passed away their entire use for "the internet" was AOL and that only to receive pictures of their grandchildren. I think I may have some other older relatives who use the net and/or AOL simply for email.
- chc 14y agoIf you have an iPhone, switch to EDGE for something roughly approximating the dialup experience. (I think it's a bit faster, but they're in the same ballpark.)
- plorkyeran 14y agoEDGE tops out at over four times the speed of dialup, amazingly enough.
- chc 14y agoBut AFAIK EDGE almost never gets anywhere close to its theoretical speed limit while 56k modems are usually very close, so in practice EDGE might be something like 50-100% faster.