Ray Heindl said:Dial-up is better because you every time you dial in you get the
excitement of not knowing how good a connection you'll get -- sort of
like playing a slot machine.
I once had a job in a Korean airport construction site (doing systems
integration) where the program office was about a mile from the
building that had all the telco equipment in it.
So the "experts" simply ran 40 pair cable from one building to ours
(which had about 50-60 people working simultaneously at any given
time).
Thing is, it seems the "experts" didn't understand the need to use
TWISTED PAIR cable, so basically you could hear at least some of every
phone conversation or dial-up session going on in the entire building
every time you picked up the phone.
And of course, dial-up was the only way we had of getting connection
back to the US... normally the connections were in the sub-10kbps
range. It would take an average of 3-4 attempts to actually get a
working connection, which would last an average of a few minutes at
best before the poor modem packed it in and disconnected.
And of course we had a guy on the program in the US that would change
three words in a 10 Mbyte document and send it out to us all... D'Oh!
It makes me glad every time I do anything online with my cable modem!
Mark Hickey
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