I had to move from a cable modem to dial up, I'm sad

[aquaman]

My wife and I moved today to a house in the sticks. I love the house, love the land, but hate the dial up connection. It is sooooooo slow.

[4morewars]

1. I feel your pain !

A house in the sticks is the only way I'd go back to dial-up.

[Occulus]

2. here's what you do

The pages will be out of date only as often as you update.

What you need is a web downloader, a program that will allow you to download the entire contents of sites or pages with all their links intact as files under a directory on your hard drive. I can't recommend any specific one; you'll have to get some demos and experiment a bit.

These apps allow you to view you favorite pages while offline. They're saved to your hard drive, so you could, say, dial in every hour or so, download the pages you want to read, and then view them like you're still on broadband.

This "cheat" won't help your binary downloads. Sorry- you'll still have to wait extra long for your pornos. ;)

Hope this helps, if you're not already doing it...

[sandnsea]

3. I'm so so sorry

:cry: That would be horrible. One of the reasons we probably won't move out of town, even though we always thought we would once the kids were grown.

[Droopy]

4. Have you considered DSL?

Will that work out in the sticks?

[Seldona]

7. Not really.

The relay stations only go so far.

On edit

You could also disable images, flash, and maybe a couple other things in your browser..

Pages would look alot more blah, but if you are going for news etc, it would really speed things up.

[aquaman]

9. No,,,,,,,

DSL is not out here yet. ;(

[Seldona]

5. Ouch.

Maybe save for a satelite connection?

I just couldn't do it.

But I suppose if I HAD to , I could survive.

I might acually go outside on occasion.

:)

[aquaman]

11. We actually checked into a satelite connection.

I heard that it was not worth the money, unreliable, plus we have too many trees. I love trees so it could be worse.

[Seldona]

12. There are two types though.

One works in tandem with a dialup.

And the other is microwave.

Now microwave is very reliable I hear, and is both up and down.

Not that I am pushing this on you. lol

Just offering options.

If you can afford the 800 or so bucks for instalation, microwave is far more reliable than previous technologies.

[madrchsod]

13. a friend of ours has

micro wave-cost around 500-600 where we are at...

[Seldona]

14. A month?

Okay, dialup it would be for me.

At least until we get a Democrat in office.

(Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.) :evilgrin:

[Guy Fawkes]

6. I love my 56k.... please disregard my elongated nose...

Also disregard its growing.

[aquart]

8. You got a modem that works? Shut up.

Sorry, but I have spent the last EIGHT HOURS trying to install a modem driver on a new used pc and it won't work.

I could cheerfully kill everyone in the known universe.

[Guy Fawkes]

10. Are you sure that the modem is compatable with your OS?

[aquart]

15. I moved it from Win98SE to WIN98SE.

It's an evil little HSP Micromodem but the v.92 gets me optimum dialup speed most of the time.

My old beloved pc is a PII 233 and this is a PIII 450 Gateway. It wouldn't take my better video card, and now it's being a bitch about the modem. Are all Gateway's components customized to their specs? Could that be it? In which case could I let out a bitter howl?

[Wcross]

16. Did the same thing- Going to get sat. connection next month

From my investigations, the cost is 59/mo for two way connection. An initial cost of 500 for the equipment. The only downside is you can't play online games with it due to the latency.

Sure, it may be expensive but having NO neighbors is worth it to me!

[enigmatic]

17. Damn....

I'd live in a box w/ cable modem rather than a palace w/ 56k....