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Posted by $Bill on September 6, 2007, 2:57 am
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Charles Newman wrote:
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> Chew on this, when copper wiring is eventually replaced, dialup
> will cease to work, and they people will have to choose a
> broadband offering.
Reminds me of touchtone phones. I refused to pay for the touchtone
premium and used either a dial phone or a touchtone phone with a
pulse dialer that emulated the dial phone. Wasn't long before I
could use touchtone for free when they threw out the old equipment.
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Posted by Robert Redelmeier on September 6, 2007, 10:19 am
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> Chew on this, when copper wiring is eventually replaced,
> dialup will cease to work, and they people will have to
> choose a broadband offering.
??? even most new (US & world) construction has copper to
the house. Very little FTC. POTS and dialup will be around
for a _very_ long time (50+ years). The justification to
replace it just isn't there [yet].
-- Robert
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Posted by NotMe on September 7, 2007, 10:41 am
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| > Per Charles Newman:
| >>You should change your priorities and put saving time ahead of
| >>saving money.
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| > Bear in mind that it's a big world and not everybody has very
| > much money.
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| > $30/month may be small change for some, but it's a lot of money
| > for others.
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| > PeteCresswell
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| Chew on this, when copper wiring is eventually replaced, dialup
| will cease to work, and they people will have to choose a
| broadband offering.
????
For giggle and grins we hooked a dial up lap top to a VoIP system. We were
able to make the connection and it worked. We did not do any speed test as
this was part of a bar bet.
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Posted by Fred Goodwin, CMA on September 13, 2007, 11:25 am
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> Chew on this, when copper wiring is eventually replaced,
> dialup will cease to work, and they people will have to
> choose a broadband offering.
Dialup is designed to work over POTS (plain old telephone service).
There are millions of analog telephones in service all over the US --
replacing copper with fiber won't change that.
With fiber in the loop, some sort of D-to-A conversion must happen
before the loop hits the jack in your wall, because as far as I know,
your average telephone user has no plans to replace all the handsets
in his or her home. So, as long as you can draw dialtone from the
RJ-11 jacks in your wall, analog modems should work.
I think at one time back in the early 90s, certain subscriber line
carriers would not support modems, but I think those have been fixed.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm mistaken.
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Posted by Robert Redelmeier on September 6, 2007, 10:15 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > Three words: > > Microsoft Seurity Updates
One word: overnight!
I don't use MS products personally, so I'm not sure but
I presume they can run unattended. When I had dialup 5+
years ago, I would occasionally download ISOs overnight.
-- Robert
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