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Is anyone else accessing this forum using Dial Up??
ambro51
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I just switched back. Sick and tired of the high cost of DSL and Xfinity....good ol AOL still alive 'n kicking with dialup at $9.95 a month and Im back online...slower, but online.
Anyone else using Dial Up to talk about US COINS on this forum today? I know Im old school, am I the last of the moheicans?
Anyone else using Dial Up to talk about US COINS on this forum today? I know Im old school, am I the last of the moheicans?
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<< <i>I just switched back. Sick and tired of the high cost of DSL and Xfinity....good ol AOL still alive 'n kicking with dialup at $9.95 a month and Im back online...slower, but online.
Anyone else using Dial Up to talk about US COINS on this forum today? I know Im old school, am I the last of the moheicans? >>
Hey ambro, your damn phone is busy!!!!!
That going to save me six hundred dollars a year on internet. Six Hundred dollars. So, every January I can buy a nice US COIN for six hundred dollars using the money Ive saved in going retro here.
Edit to add: Yet, oddly enough, I don't own a working CD player, my cell phone is good for talking to people and nothing else, our family daily driver was made in 1994, and if pressed I could probably find an 8-Track, cassettes for sure
But, it still posts US COINS pretty well!
<< <i>Hey ambro, your damn phone is busy!!!!! >>
for a back up in case their dsl goes down or what not.
double heck, we even have a website called freedialup.org . if you have a long distance
plan that allows you to make unlimited long distance calling in the USA.. please
go ahead and use us for free dialup. we make money off terminating the phone
calls into our voice switches.
but to help you out.. your ilec should be able to offer you a phone line and adsl
for less then 50 dollars a month easy. the closer you are to the central office the
better your speed in most cases.
thanks for reading. sorry about the plug. edited to add: an ilec is your local phone
company that owns the wires on the telephone poles. everyone else who uses them
is a clec.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
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<< <i>Dial up ? That would kind of be like trading in my car for a horse and buggy!
Yeah, can you imagine buying hay by the gallon!!!!
To get dialup for $10/mo compared to that would be short sighted and suck.
My time is worth something and if you are going to do anything with graphics on the web, then dialup is NOT worth it. My mother lives in an area where she cannot get DSL nor cable modem service. I tether my cell phone to her PC when I am there to get much faster service than dialup.
XFinity is comcast TV/internet cable service...not DSL, right? So, sounds like you are either switching away from DSL AND cable, or mixing things up and you are really just getting rid of your internet cable service? THAT can run $600+/yr, if you don't call back and get pricing adjusted. So, did you drop actual DSL? Did you drop internet cable? Did you drop your TV service as well?
$600/yr, if it brings enjoyment and youc an afford it, isn't that much nowadays for established (non-student, non-beginning) adults, imho, particularly if you participate in this hobby at a level of anything over change.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
So, heres the method...I know this dialup is so freaking slow that for the most part, all those silly trips to the computer (Hmmm I wonder how old Dawn Wells is?....hmmm google, computer, twenty minutes etc etc). now going to the computer will be a calculated effort. One that will not encourage web surfing and long pauses in the work day. Work is meant be be work and dammit I need to get off the computer during the day and work.
So now computer messing about time will be later in the evening, around now....when I usually just lax out after a long day on my feet working....so now intead of silly TV now is the computer relax with dial up...pull up a rocking chair and ease back time.
The computer home is the newest Mac my wife could buy..and it flys like superman. so that is OK for home time, but here....slooowww and and uses sparingly.
When I got my 2400, I thought I died and went to heaven!!!!....BTW, it was $400!!!
<< <i>When I got my 2400, I thought I died and went to heaven!!!!....BTW, it was $400!!! >>
I remember those days. 28K seemed like the jetsons.
There's no going back after cable high speed.
I did lose my land phone line to save money. The cell phones take care of that for cheaper.
<< <i>I'll never forget my Hayes 1200 baud external modem!!!
When I got my 2400, I thought I died and went to heaven!!!!....BTW, it was $400!!!
That's funny, GB. I can relate. I started with a 300 baud acoustic coupler and a TRS-80 with cassette tape storage back in the late 70s.
I would quit using the Internet before going back to dial-up. In fact I'm ready to upgrade our DSL and pay more just because I can't stand the sluggishness and I'm 200 yds from the central office.
Lance.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
<< <i>I'll never forget my Hayes 1200 baud external modem!!!
I started with a 300 baud modem on my Commodore 64. When 1200 came out, I remember people saying that the phone line could not handle that high a speed reliably!
(edited for typo)
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I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
Just think of the coinage you will be able to buy with your savings.
<< <i>Hey Ambro, cell phones are expensive! To stay in the spirit of frugalness ditch the cell phone and get an alpha pager! >>
Why not just get down to the basics?
<< <i>I feel your pain the cost of cable is insane these days. >>
Rabbit ear sales are on the rise too as you can pull in all your local HDTV stations clearer the cable...
Julie and Anthony Bayerl of St. Paul, Minn., love watching prime-time shows on the sleek 50-inch television in their bedroom. They also love that they pay nothing for the programming.
The only thing they do not love is how a low-flying plane, heavy rain or just a little too much movement in the room can wipe out the picture.
“If someone is changing in there, it messes up your reception,” said Ms. Bayerl, a legislative assistant. “We try to stay very still when we watch television.”
The Bayerls are using an old technology that some people are giving a second chance. They pull free TV signals out of the air with the modern equivalent of the classic rabbit-ear antenna.
Some viewers who have decided that they are no longer willing or able to pay for cable or satellite service, including younger ones, are buying antennas and tuning in to a surprising number of free broadcast channels. These often become part of a video diet that includes the fast-growing menu of options available online.
The antenna reception has also led many of these converts to discover — or rediscover — the frustration of weak and spotty signals. But its fans argue that it is tough to beat the price.
“My husband’s best friend thinks we’re big dorks for having rabbit ears and not cable,” Ms. Bayerl said. But when their introductory price for cable TV and Internet access expired this year and the bill soared to $150, the couple halved it by cutting TV. “It wasn’t something we were willing to pay for,” she said.
Many pay TV customers are making the same decision. From April to September, cable and satellite companies had a net loss of about 330,000 customers. Craig Moffett, a longtime cable analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein, said the consensus of the industry executives he had talked to was that most of these so-called cord-cutters were turning to over-the-air TV. “It looks like they’re leaving for the antenna,” he said.
Neil Smit, president of Comcast Cable, acknowledged in a recent call with investors that some customers had dropped cable for free signals. Company executives also said they expected business to rebound with the economy.
Multiple images in a post do sometimes get "stuck" & my browser doesn't have Javascript but it's ok...
Oh yeah... I also don't have cable & use rabbit ears on my tv. ha
I do need to stay away from the computer 99 percent of the time I should be working....but BUT do need it for the times I need to dig out an old email or find an address.
Dial up was the ONLY way I could find to control my urge to web surf and diddle away my workshop time.
However< I do like retro, in all manners and shapes. My phone in the shop is a 105 year old candlestick phone, I do NOT have cable for my TV in the office there, it is only hooked up to a VHS player. My car out front, that I drove over in, is usually a 1958 land rover, and I am busily making wet plate and daguerreotype cameras, using many of the tools formerly my grandfathers, and my fathers....oh, and the building itself is 150 years old!
,,,,maybe thats why I dont collect moderns????
good old aol.
i live in the woods here in texas.
we do not even have dsl to get.no dsl,no cable,and in a dead zone.
so its ether dail up. or hughesnet satellite at $65 a mo.
and i still can't play my game.
:-(....
read this
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10454133-94.html
40% of usa has no broadband
read this
http://www.betanews.com/article/US-sinks-to-15th-place-worldwide-in-broadband-says-OECD/1211388060
usa sink to 15 place in worldwide broadband.
I see highspeed as one more bill to pay. Sure there are teaser rates for other services, but after the teaser, most seem to average $30 on up a month. I know that it is a probably a shock to the mostly deep pocket folks that frequent these forums, but to some of us $20 a month is a measurable amount. The waiting and the workarounds are worth the $200+ a year. If it were $60 a month like Ambro was paying, there is no way I'd pay that. $720 a year vs. $99 a year? That's an easy choice for a frugal and patient person. Over ten years that might translate to $6200 worth of coins or vacations or meals out, or whatever.
That said, I doubt I could convince anyone to give up highspeed or cable TV. Many complain about lack of money, and many spend over $1000 a year on Internet/cable/phone, various packages. Again, that amount isn't much for the deep pocket folks, but for someone living paycheck to paycheck, it is. Over five years or ten years, it adds up to a small pile of money that could be used for something else.
My pockets are deep but my arms are too short to reach it. Tightwad bastid. I'm looking in the mirror as I say that.
roadrunner
It's nice to read about someone thinking of saving instead of spending. There are a lot of people thinking about all the money they spent and now wish they handled their spending habits in a different way. Others have yet to wake up to that day, it's on the way, is not here yet, but it's coming unless more thought and change is made to spending habits.
my early American coins & currency: -- http://yankeedoodlecoins.com/
I used to have over the air TV at my last location. Put an antenna on the chimney with a rotator and got all Phila and NYC channels, which was more than enough, considering all the garbage on TV. Unfortunately, in my current location, the over the air reception is poor, so had to do cable, which I use for Internet, too (about 15M down, 3-4M up).
Ain't no going back for me.
<< <i>Anyone else tempted to post a few large photos on this thread? >>
Mr Grinch don't give Broadstruck any ideas, please.