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Keyser Söze

On 2/27/15 4:19 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:39:30 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:12:27 -0500, wrote:

Why should a person who sits there all day watching cat
videos and streamed movies be paying the same price as someone who
just checks their E-mail a couple times a day?

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I've got an idea, let's invent something called "dial-up service" with
a modem.

Or maybe we could design an acoustical coupler for a cell phone. :-)

If all you are doing is text E-mail and usenet, dialup works just
fine. My connection defaults to dial up if the broadband is down and I
barely notice the difference here until I click a link to a web site.
Back when I had Comcast, I was using dial up a lot. Now with my DSL,
it is very rare.

I am sure a coupler would work fine on a cell phone if you could
actually get the speaker and mikes coupled. You might be stuck with
2400 BPS though. I am not sure quadrature modulation would work on the
compressed cell signal. I never even saw a V.34 connection with a
coupler on a land line. The 5x kb v.90 is out of the question. That
requires landline infrastructure that is not in a cell tower.

It might be an interesting hack if I could come up with a
coupler/modem.

As far as the original assertion, a person just looking at E-mail
these days will still be getting quite a bit of graphic content,
before they even get the E-mail client open if they use any of the
services like Yahoo, AOL, MSN etc.
I am still running AOL 7 for my mail, just because there is virtually
no graphic content and it will not run scripts. When I get that script
error message on what looks like an innocuous note, I wonder what they
were trying to do to me.

It must be interesting (not) to live in such a state of "wonderment" or
fear that you make sure you don't get those awful "graphics" with some
of your emails.

I don't use Yahoo, AOL, or MSN for incoming email, but I still get and
accept graphics with emails from a number of those entities that send me
emails.

DSL is broadband? Wow...it must have had quantum leaps in technology. I
always thought it was really slow compared to cable.

We dumped out dialup carrier years ago when we went to smartphones. Once
in a while the cable service goes down and if it does, the cell net
usually is still up and delivering email or web services.

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