Dial-up internet access du-able?

[wagoneer]

Gotta wireless landline with At&t and getting a dial-up service. I got a lot of time will be taking this on the road in October and let you know.

 

[PastTense]

Try using mobile sites on dialup:
"Still on dial-up?

If so, you know how incredibly frustrating it can be to browse today's high-powered, multimedia-filled websites. Even a good dial-up connection can't support much of the Flash animation, Java script or large video and image files on popular sites.

That's why dial-up users may have better luck browsing mobile versions of popular websites. If you have a smartphone, you're probably familiar with mobile websites--they're trimmed-down versions with reduced graphics and are free of frames, Java and other design elements that make browsing on a slower connection more difficult.

You can often substitute the letter "m" for the "www" in a website's URL in order to access the mobile version."
http://www.socket.net/blog/tech/browsing-mobile-websites-on-a-dial-up-connection

 

[VanLifeCrisis]

i did it for a while at my cabin...it wasnt worth it. just frustration even turning everything off. the net way outpaced those speeds.

 

[wagoneer]

really even ebay or craigs or cheaprv

 

[VanLifeCrisis]

Probably not craigslist, its the same its always been.

 

[caseyc]

Wagoneer, you still using American On-Line from a CD that came in a blue metal container for dial-up internet access? That was my first experience with the internet, and that was many moons ago. Sure was a huge deal at the time though.

 

[riffraff]

Bah.. in my day we had to use Source or Compuserve if we wanted to communicate on our computers across the globe! Well started with 300 baud modems.. some used 110 baud.

Before that we'd just yell the binary across the phone "zero zero one one zero one.. etc."

 

[wagoneer]

thats a good one, you crack me up. I started at the "well" whole earth access. I just got a reminder why I got rid of dial-up People in India or wherever not being very helpful and asking me how my day is going.

 

[caseyc]

I remember when the internet days were young. There were only 2 web browsers at the time (not including AOL). Microsoft's IE and Netscape. Bill Gates in his quest to destroy Netscape put in writing via emails his intentions to decimate Netscape. Those emails later came back to bite his butt. To this day, we should all learn a lesson from Gates. Never put down in writing something that can later come back to haunt you, haha!

As for dial-up, I can't believe I used to pay AT&T for such cr@ppy service back in the day. It was slow and unreliable, plus rather expensive. Plus every time someone called into my landline, my internet connection would get the boot. Nowadays, that would be considered completely unacceptable. My turtle speed 56k connection was soooooooo slow that I was happy just to see a n@ked gurly picture load in less than 60 seconds, haha! I'm talking one single picture, not a bunch!

Nowadays I'm watching online gurly videos in seconds with 4G XLTE and I get uptight if there's even a second of buffering delay. Wow, how times have changed, haha!

 

[VanLifeCrisis]

Netscape lives on as firefox

 

[highdesertranger]

I remember bulletin boards. no internet you dialed the phone number the business gave you and good luck from there, then came Al Gore. before that it was morse code. highdesertranger

 

[sparky1]

I only have dial up where I live---no cell towers, no cable, no nothing.
"yes" sometimes it's very frustrating.

 

[caseyc]

Ahhhh, Al Gore. Before the father of the internet came along, there was nothing, only darkness. I'm sure glad he created the internet (sarcasm intended).

 

[LeeRevell]

Uncle Algore needs to send us some more "Global Warming"....... Gonna be a long cold winter.

 

[ToyotaEscaper]

I used dial up too sorta. I had a local only cheap AT&T and used the fastfreedialup.com service. ISDN is the better way to go escpecially if you can get multiple connections. I try to take the tablet to multiple hotspot locations for the large downloading and extreme banwidth.