What would you do if you did not have broadband?

Say you did not have broadband what would be your first agenda to stat to inprove the internet.

1: Team up with a phone company to start your own dslam.

or

2: Continue to operate at your 56k speed.

I don't have it yet :(:(

Is it not in your area? How do you do with out it

We just make do. It's available in my area but I just can't afford the extra expense right now. I'll have it eventually; it's inevitable.

If I were used to broadband, then I could probably not live without it.

If I did not have broadband, I would continue to do the same thing I do now. I wonder how many of the OZZU members remember the 2400baud or prior days. The days of the bbs'!

Actually, many people on the island I live (Okinawa, Japan) don't have anything higher than 56k. The solution: design lightweight websites that load quickly no matter the connection speed.

Broadband is great, but it has the potential of allowing web developers to be lazy and use bad coding practices since download speeds don't really matter--everything is fairly fast on broadband.

So in reply to your question, I"d do the same as I did back when 56k ruled the world: I'd live with it and hope somebody would bring broadband to my area.

omg like 56k owns mucho ass...



Nah.. Im on Cheap dsl or *cough* dual isdn *cough* speeds of 128k, my connection is 528k/256k, but the modem only does 128/76k because its a free modem, sure.. I could buy a modem and get better speed... but then again, I dont feel like spending 200$... :b

I remember the days of 2400 baud and before. My first internet experience was on a 19.2k modem back in '92. Had a unix shell account through a local provider.

I just do as much as I can. I have a pretty good experience at 56.6k.

if i were to tell you there there is a transfer speed of 8,609 megabits per second (Mbps)would you belive me? Well it has been done some time ago 1 year ago. If any of you ever download those 700 mb Linux iso's look at this nice transfer speed article. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ernet.html It would all be good but others upload speeds would limit you so it is not praticle.

Broadband is available everywhere!...

*cough*
well with satelitte atleast.. then again, thats quite expensive
very....very expensive....

*cough*

Unfortunetly we dont have any other option than dial up in my area, even dsl is unavailable which is rather stupid. When my boyfriend moves in I will have to look at other options as he depends on high speed access for his work.

hey you guys don't joke, at university next year I might get lumbered with dialup - half the rooms have a ethernet connection to the campus network, half have just a phone line. Lol on the accomodation application form I begged them to let me have a room with ethernet connection.

In answer to your question - I would cry.....
Broadband is strange, before you have it you can cope, but you can never go back, the frustration is unbearable!

There is no such things as "teaming up with your phone company..."

Generally, they don't want to hear it, and regard you as either an annoyance or a potential risk to their future success. I say this from experience; I had a CLEC license and was planning on starting a broadband DSL subscription service some years ago in a region devoid of any broadband opportunities.
The phone company wanted an arm and a leg for the co-lo of the DSLAMS, not to mention the bandwidth considerations. IIRC, it was on the order of 30k per co-lo at each CO. Nice.
You could multiplex 2 modems together -- my partners and I did this once at a trade show using FreeBSD as the multiplexer device and two USR Courier modems as the 56k connectors. This is course would require yet another phone line though.

Otherwise, you're sunk -- unless you have lots of money. The forget about the DSLAMS, and get a T1 into your house.

Cheers.

Bandwidthaholism... once you start, you can't stop!

Eventually, there won't be dialup, at least not in any 1st world nation. Everything, including telephones, will be run over broadband, either coax, fiber or something, but this arguement will be mute, I bet, in 10 years.

.c

I would move to a place that had it. Plain and simple. It would be like taking a trip back in time to the stone age.

atno, hi,
hahahahahaha atno would even move house for the broad band lol
good on ya atno.
--->atno on the move lol
I have b/band, but i think i could live with dialup should the need arise, hope to god i never have to though..
Amazing how many areas don't have it.
suzie