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Old 04-05-2003, 06:39 AM   #1
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dial up or broadband

what do u use
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Old 04-05-2003, 07:35 AM   #2
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dial up is that still around.....
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Old 04-05-2003, 08:17 AM   #3
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No other option than dialup
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Old 04-05-2003, 09:09 AM   #4
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Old 04-05-2003, 09:44 AM   #5
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im addicted to my cable connection
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Old 04-05-2003, 09:46 AM   #6
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Old 04-05-2003, 11:36 AM   #7
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56K Dial-up Would love to get broadband...when the price goes down to that of a dial-up account
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Old 04-05-2003, 12:07 PM   #8
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Cable for me. Don't know what I would do if I had to go back to dial-up!!
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Old 04-05-2003, 12:09 PM   #9
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Broadband for me and have been for a few years now its great.
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Old 04-05-2003, 01:30 PM   #10
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broadband at home dialup at work but a couple more weeks broadband at work
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Old 04-05-2003, 01:40 PM   #11
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DSL for me.
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Old 04-05-2003, 01:50 PM   #12
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I have cablr rr, hope I never have to go back to dial-up
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Old 04-05-2003, 02:33 PM   #13
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Dial up... no other option here....
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Old 04-05-2003, 03:32 PM   #14
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Cable and I love it :-) Can't imagine life without it.
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Old 04-05-2003, 03:52 PM   #15
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Dialup, and a crappy connection at that. That's what I get for living out in the boonies.
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Old 04-05-2003, 09:00 PM   #16
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cable!!
want T1,T3,or OC3 if possible. Hack,why not OC192?

there are some cable companies that offer about 100kb/s for 30$..
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Old 04-05-2003, 09:03 PM   #17
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DSL and love it
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Old 04-05-2003, 10:46 PM   #18
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Cable here. I don't know what I would do if I had to go back to dialup.
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Old 04-06-2003, 07:30 AM   #19
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DSL here and Love it. Never want to go back to dial-up.
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Old 04-06-2003, 07:37 AM   #20
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DSL....can't imagine what I'll turn to if I went back to dial-up
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Old 04-06-2003, 01:09 PM   #21
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Probably would stay away from the computer much longer if I had dial up...I got DSL, spent 4yrs on dial up and ILL NEVER GO BACK!
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Old 04-06-2003, 01:17 PM   #22
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I've had broadband for about 3 yrs now =)
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Old 04-06-2003, 06:44 PM   #24
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We have cable at home and we use dialup if we are out of town. The cable account comes with a free nation wide dialup so there’s no extra cost.
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Old 04-08-2003, 01:11 AM   #27
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Old 04-08-2003, 01:35 AM   #28
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Old 04-14-2003, 09:26 AM   #29
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DSL here and love it!! It would have to be pried from my cold dead fingers.
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Old 04-14-2003, 12:20 PM   #30
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Cable here. Had to use dial-up for a few days cuz of a screw-up with my account...it was worse than I remembered.

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