Re: Dial-up holdouts ask: Why go to broadband?
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Posted by Peter Pan on September 5, 2007, 5:42 pm
Please log in for more thread options Jeff Liebermann wrote: Funny, you left off the most common answer (and one that I use too).. Why? I pay about $9 a month for dialup, and cable is about $50 a month.... Why spend about $40 a month, just to get junkmail/spam faster? Or how bout I travel a lot, and the broadband will only work when I am at one place, not the 50 weeks a year I travel....:) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Charles Newman on September 5, 2007, 7:54 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> >> There are probably some more excuses I've forgotten. These are not
>> fabrications but real (paraphrased) excuses I've heard over the years. >> Granted, it's a small number of potential broadband customers, but it >> does reflect some real concerns that seem to have escaped the author >> of the article. >> >> Incidentally, the situation was not much different in 1995, when >> dialup was the new thing and internet access became fashionable: >> <http://groups.google.com/group/rec.humor.funny.reruns/msg/cf65ec30ee3d1e33> >
> Funny, you left off the most common answer (and one that I use too).. Why? > I pay about $9 a month for dialup, and cable is about $50 a month.... Why > spend about $40 a month, just to get junkmail/spam faster? Three words: Microsoft Seurity Updates many of them are far too large to download on a dialup line. Why spend over an hour just to download one seurituy update, when can use broadband and download it in seconds. I, of course, am one of those who believes that saving time is more important than saving money. You should change your priorities and put saving time ahead of saving money. >
> Or how bout I travel a lot, and the broadband will only work when I am at > one place, not the 50 weeks a year I travel....:) > | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by (PeteCresswell) on September 5, 2007, 8:56 pm
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Per Charles Newman: >You should change your priorities and put saving time ahead of
>saving money. Bear in mind that it's a big world and not everybody has very much money. $30/month may be small change for some, but it's a lot of money for others. -- PeteCresswell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Charles Newman on September 5, 2007, 11:21 pm
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X-No-Archive: Yes > Per Charles Newman:
>>You should change your priorities and put saving time ahead of
>>saving money. >
> Bear in mind that it's a big world and not everybody has very > much money. > > $30/month may be small change for some, but it's a lot of money > for others. But if it saves time, its worth the extra money. That is why when I was growing up in Marin County, I was willing to spend an extra 50 cents each way to take an express bus, for longer trips in the county, about 40 minutes vs 2 1/2 hours (and more buses without using the express). From a young age, I considered saving time to be more important, whether you can afford it or not. If you are going to use dialup, at least have a second phone line and use two modems and two phones to double the connection speed to about 100K. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Charles Newman on September 6, 2007, 12:46 am
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> Per Charles Newman:
>>You should change your priorities and put saving time ahead of
>>saving money. >
> Bear in mind that it's a big world and not everybody has very > much money. > > $30/month may be small change for some, but it's a lot of money > for others. > -- > PeteCresswell Chew on this, when copper wiring is eventually replaced, dialup will cease to work, and they people will have to choose a broadband offering. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> fabrications but real (paraphrased) excuses I've heard over the years.
> Granted, it's a small number of potential broadband customers, but it
> does reflect some real concerns that seem to have escaped the author
> of the article.
>
> Incidentally, the situation was not much different in 1995, when
> dialup was the new thing and internet access became fashionable:
> <http://groups.google.com/group/rec.humor.funny.reruns/msg/cf65ec30ee3d1e33>