On Thu, May 11, 2006 9:29 am, Malcolm V wrote: > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:51, Dean Hamstead allegedly wrote: > <snipped> > >> alas the internet has moved forward and modems are painful to use now. > > I simply don't agree with this statement. Dialup has the disadvantages of > tying up your phone line (the cost of a second line rental is more then > some cheap "broadband" options), the call costs themselves and the > comparably low bandwidth. Having started on a 1200/300 baud modem, I don't > consider 48000 baud "painful".
300 baud acoustic coupler ? I have a voice/fax gateway using 33600 modems ocassionally, I need to access internet using such a modem maybe not painfull for ssh... but, if not painfull, for web browsing, certainly good character building... > > Of course, most people "serious" about the internet are using some form > of high speed connection (ie: most people in software development, web > content, instant messaging, etc), but for them to dismiss dialup users as > "living in > the past" is merely a form of bandwith snobbery. yes, but: a brand new windoze XP SP2 system will need about 50MB updates out of the box... getting that succesfully down on a dial up is not my idea of exciting afternoon... (weekend..?) not exactly very practical > They are not an > insignificant minority ( *waves to OS/2 zealots, Amiga users* ;P ). here's waving back: still love it after all these years -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
