On Sep 4, 1:29 pm, "Fred Goodwin, CMA" <fgood...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dial-up holdouts ask: Why go to broadband?
>
> In these days of $10 dial-up and $15 DSL, the actual costs rarely
> prevent upgrades. In fact, people with a second phone line for dial-up
> Internet can actually save by switching.

Even when dial-up can be had for $5/month and DSL for less than $25,
dropping the usual second line brings the prices very close.

> "I just don't need it." "I don't mind waiting a couple seconds for a
> page to load up." "How fast does it need to be?"

I was using a clients dial-up that was too far out for DSL, and hence
too far out for a "56K" connection. The actual sped was 22 Kbps and
Yahoo and CNN took at least two minutes to load.

>"They show that broadband boosts employment slightly, but it's a minor
> effect compared to factors like education."

Double edged - With a horridly slow connection, you can't do research
for school, but then you can't plagiarize.as easy.