What should I use...

I'd shell out another 24 bucks a month and use cable or DSL.

Frank- Once you have tried cable, you would never go back to dial-up. The difference is amazing. I would never have the patience to sit and wait for dial-up to load!

Amen Frank...I pay 48 a month and it's worth it.

I agree with everybody so posting so far. I have dial up at work, a fairly nice and helpful local server, and it drives me nuts. At home I have dsl, and really appreciate it. It comes to about $25. more a month, but, among other benefits, my telephone line is not always busy, one's phone still rings through. Then there is the speed. I'd never go back, never never never.

cable frank....worth every dime....

What Panzade said!

By the way Pan, ours is only $44.95 a month (Road Runner)

Get cable, you won't be sorry.

I'm still happy with my $10/month dial-up. Though I'm sure y'all are right, if I ever get DSL, I'll probably wonder what took me so long.

Re: What should I use...


IMO, you should sort out what you want to do for email (non ISP, I recommend buying your own domain for about 5-10 bucks a year and hosting it somewhere for email-only which would cost about 30 bucks a year).

This way, you can change your ISP at will, and not worry about your email being changed as you will have separated the services.

I have never once used my ISP for anything other than an internet connection, I don't want their "portal" features (content/email).

I use SBC primarily (I also maintain an AOL account (among many other ISP accounts) just to be able to use it to debug, since AOL's crappy software and networking means a lot of bugs for web developers).

Frank- Case in point.

This morning, I was writing one of my "brilliant" missives on A2K. I had clicked, "submit". Immediately afterwards, all of a sudden, (as it is wont to do) Tampa Electric decides that I don't need their service for the next second or so, and the electricity goes off.

I knew that I could not reconstruct that marvelous post, with its wittiness and pithiness, and that made me sad. I went back to the thread, AND THERE IT WAS!


I rest my case!

Craven, Mac, Colorbook, Misti, Bear, Buco, Panz, Phoenix....

...thanx.

I'm still deciding.

Damn, I hate doing this because I don't know my a** from my elbow about this stuff.

Maybe...

...I'll throw it into Nancy's lap.


Hummmm....now how to do it so it seems like it is HER idea.....hummmmm.

Go for it Frank, Nancy will be very happy with cable, therefore ..........

or.. dsl. I hear cable can get slow with too many people on it. I have no idea if that is true. My dsl never poops out, but there is probably some neg to that to, that I don't know about.

This is true of all services, DSL providers have just been more successful at sticking it to cable providers.

There ARE certain times when cable is not up to speed. But even when you factor that in, it is still light years ahead of dial-up!

Ah, I didn't know that re dsl. Thanks.

So Frank, what did you decide?

Oh, Frank...how you will love the change!

I'm similar to Craven. I use SBC as my ISP only. I do have an email account there that I unload of junk mail about every two months and that's pretty much it. I have a regular email account elsewhere and of course could maintain any number of others....but dang, that's just too much effort!

oh one not godaddy was recently running youname.info for like $1.99 cheap way to go on a domain name