I¹m almost certainly the poorest person on this list, and I have Fiber to
the home internet that costs me $60 a month. It is worth the money. I
would go crazy if I had to deal with dial-up. I have VERY little money,
but even I can afford decent internet. You¹re just being dumb and making
life hard on yourself.
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On 2/6/17, 2:13 PM, "olympus on behalf of Chris Trask"
<olympus-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf
of christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the simple reason that I can afford it. Even going to DSL would
>double my cost for internet access.
>
> Early last year I bought a high-gain antenna for wifi frequencies,
>and I hae a wifi dongle that has a short antenna that attaches with an
>SMA connector, same as on the high gain antenna. The idea was to aim the
>antenna towards the neaby street intersection where there are a few wifi
>hubs. I'm going to dig that out and give it a try later. If it works,
>I'll strongly consider abandoning the dialup but keep the Earthlink
>account as a backup plus retain the email.
>
> Yeah, I'm a cheap SOB.
>
>>
>>I still do not understand why you use dial-up. Most people stopped using
>>that about 20 years ago. I think the last time I had to use dial-up (or,
>>more accurately, ISDN) was in Brussels in the second half of the 1990s.
>>
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