On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:47:03AM -0400, Bisbal, Prentice said:
Scott Silva wrote:
Jim Perrin spake the following on 5/1/2007 4:14 PM:
On 5/1/07, John Summerfield Anyone still using a modem is indeed a poor sod The rest of the intarweb doesn't seem to care about modem folk anymore either. We're just doing what all the other kids do :-P
What's a modem? ;-P
There are still people in Northern New Jersey (less than 30 miles from New York City), who still have no choice but to use a dial-up modem. I was talking to one of them last night.
Up until 2002, I lived in San Jose CA (Silicon Valley) and due to the distance to the CO, only had the option of modem (no 56K due to line quality - I usually got about 23kb) or IDSL which is 144Kb/144Kb for $140 / month + $400 install. I had the IDSL, but work paid for it :-) No cable modem service either.
You don't have to be rural to be unable to get affordable high-speed internet.