Broadband or DialUp

[PigDogg]

[andre459]

I'm on broadband but I've gone over my download limit at the moment and have been speed limited.  I remember why I hate dial-up so much.

[post-op lover]

It takes too long for the poll to show up, but count me in for dialup.

[Guest]

Why would you have dialup these days? Not sure about other places but broadband is very cheap for the most basic of packages in Australia.

[Road Runner]

I have a satellite link    

Well I do at work  -  couldn't afford to pay for one at home.
It's roughly halfway in speed between dial-up and a 1Mb broadband link.

I have a fast broadband link at home and the difference is very, very noticable.

RR.

[mardhi]

How do I answer I pay for a premium broadband service and between rainstorms, some guy knicking my copper phone line and just an indifferent tel com company, I sometimes vary between dial up speed and full blown 512 speed???

Frustrating is not the word that springs to mind for me at least

Cheers
Mardhi

[katoeylover]

(ozzie @ Jul. 06 2007,11:35) Why would you have dialup these days? Not sure about other places but broadband is very cheap for the most basic of packages in Australia.

same in UK, no reason not to have broadband these days.

[SamplerDoc]

Which is DSL  
Thats What I have  

[kempthorn]

(mardhi @ Jul. 07 2007,03:59) How do I answer I pay for a premium broadband service and between rainstorms, some guy knicking my copper phone line and just an indifferent tel com company, I sometimes vary between dial up speed and full blown 512 speed???

Frustrating is not the word that springs to mind for me at least      

Cheers
Mardhi

mardhi: i live full time in thailand. think you do too.
own a condo mid sukhumwit. have dail up ,but have seen several promotions for boadband and am considering buying. did not understand your post. are you saying that broadband in bangkok is unreliable and not very fast? what service do you have?

thanks for any info.

[Guest]

I live lower Sukhumvit and have True broadband and I have found it to be pretty reliable so far.

[mardhi]

(kempthorn @ Jul. 07 2007,08:29)

(mardhi @ Jul. 07 2007,03:59) How do I answer I pay for a premium broadband service and between rainstorms, some guy knicking my copper phone line and just an indifferent tel com company, I sometimes vary between dial up speed and full blown 512 speed???

Frustrating is not the word that springs to mind for me at least      

Cheers
Mardhi

mardhi:  i live full time in thailand. think you do too.
own a condo mid sukhumwit.  have dail up ,but have seen several promotions for boadband and am considering buying. did not understand your post.  are you saying that broadband in bangkok is unreliable and  not very fast?  what service do you have?

thanks for any info.

In the centre of Bangkok I use True and its fine, but I also have another house which is more in the country - its that one that is very indifferent where service fluctuates wildy depending on the rain, if the local thief needs to eat (by stealing my cable and selling it for scrap ) etc.

I think if you stick with True, you would get a good service, TOT and TT&T are not as reliable from what I have seen.

Cheers
Mardhi

[Guest]

Broadband FTW!

[Looker]

I think ADSL..it's that the right name?
It works at 10.0 Mbps, that's what written, no idea what that means in practice

[BAM]

(Looker @ Jul. 07 2007,13:56) I think ADSL..it's that the right name?
It works at 10.0 Mbps, that's what written, no idea what that means in practice  

http://speedtest.net

run the test with the closest server to you and copy and paste the results here......

Cable Modem... typical 8 megs down and only 800K up.


My Private Microwave Radio link to Datacenter with blazing upload speeds.

[stogie bear]

TRUE in bangkok ROCKS! I can download Gigabytes of movies whenever I like and there is NO lame 'fair usage' crap that comes with all the pitiful UK crappy deals.