Posted: 9/30/2009 1:16:43 PM EDT
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What is the nature of your connection to the internet, at least the one you spend the most time on?
I was on dial-up for years and then the lovely wife and I got cable internet a couple of years back. Poll inbound. |
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I am tethering right now. I only get 5gb transfer per month.
AT&T lets me turn it on for a few days, then turn it off and they only charge me for the days I use it. I just can't watch many videos or anything without going over my limit. Typically, I am living somewhere with cable or DSL. |
| For you guys stuck with dial up because of the expense you should keep checking on that. When I was in school (2004-2006), I was stuck with Earthlink Dialup, because there was no DSL here, and Cable was $40 a month. Now they have DSL in the area, starting at $20 a month, and Comcast has a budget offering that is way better than cable for only $15 a month. Either of those would be no more than what I was paying for dialup, and either would be much much faster. Out here in the sticks where I am the best dial up connection was 28,8, I would hit 36.6 once in a blue moon, but the lines in the area are long, and old. |
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Cable at home (fastest of anybody i've ever seen since it goes from Fiber to Coax split at the end of my driveway)
DSL For personal use at work T1 Frame relay circuit (SUCK!!!!) for work at work Verizon "mifi" aircard for traveling or wherever else I randomly need internet. Best of all of them is the cable at home, from there..i'd say the aircard is second. working / working from home without broadband is no longer possible...at least not for what I do. |
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U.S. cellular blackberry tethered to my laptop.
5 gig a month limit. Faster than dialup as long as the cell phone gets a connection. When out someplace the cell phone won't connect I admit that dialup would work if there is a landline you could hook onto. This works for me right now. As nice as cable is I don't feel like paying for it right now. |