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.