High Speed for Dialup???

Yes, it is faster. I had DSL for awhile that used my phone line to connect to the internet. For reasons not of my doing, I am now back to dial up, which I am thankful that I can still connect. But sure do miss the connection speed of DSL.

I'm in the same situation as you. I cannot get DSL or cable in my area. It really sucks too as it seems everyone else has high speed but me (and you :P). I have heard that satellite is an option for those of us that cannot get any other high speed service, though I don't know if I'd want it as I think it costs more than DSL or cable, so it looks like I am stuck with dial-up until it becomes available in my area.

why you dont try to use a DSL much better than dialup, i have same problem before but i change with DSL much better even my hubby & sister use thier laptops, still i have a good service & we can download easier than dial up, also we can use our phone even our DSL connect to the phoneline.

When I first got the internet I had to use dial up because that is all they had. I would get in the middle of something and my line would drop off. I would get really irritated. My son looked around and finally found internet through the cable place. I have been really happy since I have internet through that. I don't have that service but I can not see how that could be faster than the regular dial up.

I'm sorry to inform you that dial up connection is really slow connection, it speed starts from 36Kbps to 56Kbps only. Check your modem to know the maximum speed of your connection. You can try to use the WAP service of your mobile phones as an alternative it ranges from 300Kbps to 500Kbps depends on the signal. You can also try the wi-fi but it is quite expensive nowadays. Or upgrade to DSL service to get a faster connection.

Oh man! I've been long gone from using dial up. I remember back then using that. I first started with AOL - you think? you think dialup is slow? Oh god back then I had to wait for minutes and hours to pages to load. and going through the times when there was no connection. and when trying to download long files - forget it just to download a 5MB file was like an hour - of course having high speed like what we have now takes less than 5 seconds. I feel your pain and it is shocking that in your area they don't have high speed internet.

I had the "Fast Dialup" as they call it and it was supposed to be 10 times faster. In my opinion it's not any faster. Where I live we can't get cable or phone highspeed so I was stuck getting satallite internet through a company called Xplornet and it is about 100 times fast than dial up LOL You should look into company's that provide wireless or stallite internet.

hmm.. what i'm using now is a wifi connection tru this eee pc of asus that i borrowed from my bordie.. i can say its fast.. and i didn't have a problem about loading the pages.. have you checked your area for the probability of becoming a wifi zone?

Well actually I have internet through my cable company and then I like it fast that way it does not tie up the phone lines.

I knew that Dial up connection is slow not that low as you are talking. I have broadband which is slow sometimes but generally have a good speed.

My type of connection is broadband but in the past i've used dialup and it make me crazy it was so slow and the time I spend with it was too much.

when we first got our computer we had gotten dial up and i remember how long it would take to load pages and it would tie up the phoneline etc...etc..., so we finally switched to cable internet and it is soooo sooo soooo much faster and we love it. the high speed dial up connection you are speaking about ive never heard of so i cant really comment on it. my guess is that its not exactly "high speed" its just faster than regular dial up. just my thoughts.

Well I am lucky I have local cable DSL so I am super fast although my husband says our computer is super slow. I feel like telling him that we should switch to dial up and then compare but he won't...of course...But so sorry that you have dial up. We had it once a long time ago and switched ver quickly. Good Luck

i have never used dial up personally it has always been wireless or all these funny things but the truth is that you cant always have it fast all the time there are times you get slow connections even on a high speed connection this could be as a result of technical hitches but they never last for so long

I hated dial up. We now have DSL and I hope I never have to go back to dial up. It is so much faster. Our DSL goes through the phone lines but also has a box that connects to the internet. I just love it. Some nights, like tonight when we get high winds, it is a bit slower but it still is faster than dial up

The bandwidth on a phone line is wider than you might imagine. Ya just gotta love fiber optic cables. LOL We have to run 4 computers plus the phone pretty hard to max out our bandwidth. Believe me, we have done it. Dial-up was a good service 10 years ago. Now I have DSL and it comes in through my phone line. The advantage is it does not prevent people from calling in. I can be on the phone talking and be on the computer at the same time. I don't know if this can be done with dial-up service or not. It would be worth asking some questions. Ask what are the advantages and disadvantages of their service that they are offering. My house looks like a which-wire-where-scare. The phone line, the desktop, the router, the modem, the 3 wi-fi laptops, the webcams............it will make your head spin.

I have dial-up connection for almost a yr. and now this week my application for DSL has been granted I can say that there is a bigger difference using the DSL ande dial-up now I can work and finish my work only in minutes not ike before I used to stay in the computer ages before I finished.

If you can get the high speed dial up, I wouldsay do it!! It does cost a little more, but your puter will load faster and you won't get booted as often. That's how it used to be, here for me, we could only get dial up and it interfered with the phone. Then it went to high speed and had a seperate line. Now I have cable and it's alot faster! Hope you get something faster soon!!

yes you still use a phone and no its not really faster like it says its slow as malessus I had highspeed dial up b4 i got this cable connection and man i will never go back it was sucky waited five min for a page to load.

Since you did not say what other internet service if offered to you, I can tell you that with my service (AT&T), it does come through on the phone line, but I can talk on the phone while working at the computer. I also have access to my original dial up (AOL)since I have used it for so long and am so familiar with its workings. I still use AOL as my homepage, so everything is still so familiar that even an old lady can still be happy online. Our cable company (Charter) here in the mountains of No. Carolina, offers the same opportunity. Check with your phone company, your cable company to see what is availale. And yes, it is MUCH faster!!!!