On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've happily been on dial-up for decades. > I fondly remember upgrade to 1200 BAUD ;) > My ISP is terminating dial-up connectivity in ~ 6 weeks. > I'm flatout not interested in $%$!$#^ providers who think all > need MEGA*GIGAbytes I had a job a few years ago where I needed to ssh into servers in rural Africa. The latency was really terrible with many radio repeaters, but the bandwidth was still better than 56k. After hurricane Sandy telcos in NYC just recycled all the copper, and replaced equipment with fiber only. I think this is going to be the norm. The only place it won't happen is where nothing breaks, and they have no budget for upgrades. The standard target that rural ISP's are trying to make is the minimum for Netflix instant. There are still some people beyond the length limit of DSL that don't have line of sight to a wireless carrier so I'm sure there are still a few dial up providers in Oregon, but I don't know who. AOL isn't dead yet. -- teknotus (Take Notice) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
