so currently i have dial up internet. have an older government issue computer which requires an external plug & play modem to connect. i recently moved and at my old house(which was much older than the one i am in now), i always connected at 56.0 kbps9which is what my modem is. at my new apartment, it varies from 4.0 kbps to 23.0 kbps & every once in a while it will connect at 56.0 kbps. also, it continuously disconnects from the net, or says cannot display webpage. i have heard everything from the phone lines are too old to your modem is not working right. i believe my phone lines are fairly new, and as for my modem-if it is not working right then it must be broke because i have tried everything short of plating it in gold. i am fed up with it, so i signed up for high speed cable internet, which is like $30 more than what i am paying for dial up. my question is was this a good idea for me to do this, and is high speed cable internet worth the extra price? Thank you in advance!
2007-01-05 05:12:06 · 6 answers · asked by stazia81 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
i also had dial-up. A lot of problems occurred, though my phone-line worked well. Though i moved to canada few months ago and now i have cable, and it is really worth it....if u have high speed-dial up then i dont think its worth it. In my country the isp i used introduced that and one of my friends used it. And he gets the same speed of 50 which i get on dial-up. If u bought cable(couldnt understand ur question properly thats why) then its worth it....it never slows down....even if it does its still fast enough...anyway ur pc speed also depends on ur memory use....if u have 1GB left in ur computer suppose....ur pcs gonna get too slow...
2007-01-05 05:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you surf a lot on the internet and especially, if you download a lot and visit a lot multimedia pages then I think it's worth the price.
But if you're only checking your mail once a day and visit a few text pages without lots of pictures and music then it's maybe not worth the price..
So if you want to change back to the modem I would let a friend who's good at computers check your network settings because it can also be a software problem if you can't connect properly.
2007-01-05 13:23:53 · answer #2 · answered by crystal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
High speed cable internet access is the best and well worth the price. It frees up the phone line, downloads, and going from web site to web site is so much faster.
The only thing you need to do to get connected is turn on your computer.
2007-01-05 13:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by afox1998 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I definitely think that DSL and or cable is worth the price. if you think about how much you are paying for throughput, you are getting a huge bargain compared to dialup.
So if you think of it in terms of $ per bit, it breaks down like this:
you probably were paying about $20 for dialup, which is MAX speed of 56,000 bps, where as with your cable you are paying $30 for a speed of about 1,500,000 bits per second. You are paying less for a lot more.
2007-01-05 13:36:53 · answer #4 · answered by sm177y 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as you can swing the extra money, you will be happy. It will be much faster.
2007-01-05 13:15:46 · answer #5 · answered by rlh242424 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cable no ....dsl definetly
2007-01-05 13:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by gsaul35 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋