I went looking for a free dial-up service a little while back just for the nostalgia of hearing a dial-up modem connect. A trip to Youtube cured me quickly
I sometimes put in Stealth Serial Ports when I find them. Those are vastly more useful to me than a modem, as I actually do have some serial port printers that I use.
So the Americans mainly get their internet via cable providers?
I've still got a landline, need one for ADSL internet, will still require one when we eventually get a VDSL fibre upgrade. I keep a phone plugged in to it, but no-one ever calls as I don't hand out the number.
So the Americans mainly get their internet via cable providers?
I've still got a landline, need one for ADSL internet, will still require one when we eventually get a VDSL fibre upgrade. I keep a phone plugged in to it, but no-one ever calls as I don't hand out the number.
So the Americans mainly get their internet via cable providers?
I've still got a landline, need one for ADSL internet, will still require one when we eventually get a VDSL fibre upgrade. I keep a phone plugged in to it, but no-one ever calls as I don't hand out the number.
So you use the modems in your PowerPC Macs?
Ethernet/Airport. ADSL sends broadband over the phone line. Router has an ADSL modem in it which filters the broadband signal out.
I'm fighting the temptation to try AOL for the hell of it! I'm old to remember the early days of the internet over a 28.8k modem... Broadband was revolutionary when we got in in 2000.
In my experience, I'd say cable is overwhelmingly popular. DSL(which works over the landline) tends to lag a bit behind cable in speed.
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Dial up could be really finicky as far as connection speed...
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OK, so you do get (A)DSL. We've got universal coverage of phone lines from British Telecom who were a state monopoly until they were privatised in the early 80s. They belatedly started rolling out DSL in the early 2000s after a couple of the cable companies started offering broadband. Legislation then unbundled the local loop to allow competitors to install their own equipment in their exchanges a few years later. More recently BT have replaced the network with IP at the backend and are now offering Fibre to the cabinet, again unbundled.
So how do these free dialup services work? Do you need to have an existing telephone service? Or will it work right through the telephone wires even if you don't have telephone service?
You need a dial tone
Or, in other words, you need to have telephone service.
I went looking for a free dial-up service a little while back just for the nostalgia of hearing a dial-up modem connect. A trip to Youtube cured me quickly
I sometimes put in Stealth Serial Ports when I find them. Those are vastly more useful to me than a modem, as I actually do have some serial port printers that I use.
So how do these free dialup services work? Do you need to have an existing telephone service? Or will it work right through the telephone wires even if you don't have telephone service?
I saw a SSP on the bay not too long ago and not that i have use for it at all, would one work in a MDD?
So the Americans mainly get their internet via cable providers?
I've still got a landline, need one for ADSL internet, will still require one when we eventually get a VDSL fibre upgrade. I keep a phone plugged in to it, but no-one ever calls as I don't hand out the number.
As long as you get the correct one for an MDD.
They are somewhat model specific.
not sure where you are from but i know that around here that you cannot simply "plug" a phone into the landline when you have DSL service, You ALSO have to have phone service because it simpley will not work if you have no phone service (or so my phone company told me when I talked to them about their Lifeline DSL Internet service.
It depends on your ISP. If you get it with Optimum, Comcast, or other cable company, it will be a cable modem that has the Internet going through your TV wires. If you have Verizon FiOS/DSL, AT&T UVerse, or similar service from a Phone company, it will come through the phone wires into a telephone modem. I'm not too sure how it works when you have satellite, since I've never had a satellite ISP/TVSP. More the less it depends on availability in your area. For example, in my area, it's Verizon Phone and DSL, satellite, or Optimum. However, a town over has Verizon FiOS, Comcast/Xfinity, Optimum, and satellite.
In my experience, I'd say cable is overwhelmingly popular. DSL(which works over the landline) tends to lag a bit behind cable in speed.
At least around here, many of the cable companies have even branched out to providing for the(dwindling) landline market thanks to VOIP technology.
My parents have good old Ma Bell copper coming into the back of the house(including a South Central Bell marked subscriber box), but it's been out of use for probably close to 10 years now. The local cable company(which is truly locally owned) got broadband to their subdivision a few months before BellSouth got DSL there. Plus, the cable company did it at lower cost and with better speeds. A few years later, when VOIP technology got cheap and reliable, the local cable company went into competition with BellSouth-of course at lower rates.
My parents get high-def TV, a landline telephone, and broadband all from the same provider and all through the same box on the back of the house.
For my place in Louisville, I stick to broadband through the cable provider, have no land line, over-the-air broadcasts for my TV, and my cell phone is provided by good old Ma Bell(AT&T). I actually started out with Cingular Wireless, which was associated with BellSouth, but became AT&T when BellSouth and AT&T re-merged a number of years back. Interestingly enough, Ma Bell has invested pretty heavily in the area in new infrastructure to support a service called "UVerse", and are now offering bundled landline, internet(at better speeds than the cable company), and high-def cable TV for very attractive prices-close to what I'm paying now for just internet. I'm probably going to be switching over soon.