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Keyser Söze

On 2/27/15 4:50 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:25:56 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

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.

DSL is 10 meg and the reliability is far better than Comcast, no
matter how fast it is when it works. 10 meg all the time is a whole
lot better that 30 meg that is down at least once a day.
What, exactly are you streaming that needs more than 10 meg?
I think you are probably an audiophool who can hear the oxygen in your
speaker cables too,

If you need an animated graphic of a monkey ****ing a football in the
corner of your screen to read a text E-mail, you are the perfect
internet customer for the people who are going to be metering your
service by the byte.

Once in a while Comcast goes down because a tree has fallen on the
overhead wires that carry its signal before it gets to the underground
wires on our street. If that happens, the odds are DSL will go down,
too, for the same reason.

So, you must get a lot of emails with a "monkey ****ing a football," eh?
Figures.

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