Does anyone here still use dial up access?

No I don't personally, but I know a few people that still does, and they hate it *lol* They would get higher speed but its not available in their area.

I don't think that many people still use the dial-up connection (in the developed industrial countries). But let's not forget that in some situations it still can be useful. For example, in Brazil some operators of fixed telephony provide the dial-up connections for free, if you use their other services. So, when we just moved here and didn't have a cable TV and internet yet, we were using the dial-up internet for free from the home phone company.

Saddly I still use dial-up. It is all I can afford at this time.

nope we have cable roadrunner.

No dial up here..Use only broadband...

I'm still on dial up. Out here in the sticks the lines need up grading. I hate it but what can I do????

I always used dial up until recently. In the USA I had no problem with it other than it was a little slow, but here in Nicaragua, I had all kinds of problems with it. The phone lines were not very stable so I had very frequent disconnects. They had also given me a digital phone line when we got phone service which was great if I wasn't on line. It had call waiting and these people had no numbers to dial to disengage the call waiting feature when you were online so if anyone called my number and I was online I got knocked offline and the company said there was nothing they could do which was ridiculous. Now through much manuevering, I have finally gotten broadband and I am sharing it with my neighbor to cut the cost for both of us. I am on my second day of using it and I can listen to music and download things without losing it halfway through. So I have to say I am loving it. It has definitely cut down on the frustration. I actually was offline before for a couple of months just because some lineman had messed with my phone making it too unstable to carry the internet on it.

Nope wouldn't know what to do with a dial up access, seems so slow to be on broadband that I can't imagine going slower.

I'm unable to access broadband unfortunately. It's a pain because I spend a lot of time on the computer and spend half of it waiting for things to load. I looked into satellite but they will limit me to a 500mb download per month and 8 days into this month I already had downloaded over 300mb. They were going to charge me 8cents for every mb I went over my allowed limit. Where I live, we don't even have a mobile phone service.

I don't use it personally. But, still many people have dial up access, as I know.I don't think broadband does not suit everyone, atleast now. It is much economical.

I use dial up. It's still too expensive to get DSL so I'm taking advantage of the unlimited dial up with my phone company.

I am using dial up because my mother is against putting a dsl because she is afraid that by some time we cannot afford to pay it because she is paying for so much bills. The good thing about dial up is being able to change the ip addresses. =)

i still use dial up connection ..though dial up connection is a little slow than broadband connection still its more secure...than any other connection....... dial up connection changes its internet protocol address each time one logs in every time but other connection uses only one i.p address... dial up much secure.......

At home and at work I use broadband. Recently we bought an appartment at seaand we go there every two weeks, so we have a dial up connection there, just for checking e-mails and a few minor thinks. It's so funny when you hear that voice when the computer connects to the internet. Otherwise I can't imagine going back on dial up at home.

I am one of those fools still using dial-up. I hate it! My husband is very cheap, though, and he thinks it's good enough for what I do. There is hope, though. He just got a used computer for himself, and in order to hook it to the internet our son says we have to have broadband. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

We are still on dial-up but have a joint connection with someone else and that is all they can use .... but it is still cheaper this way with sharing the costs .... also on our phone plan we get 50 free phone calls per month which means being able to get online for free at least once a day and for 3 weeks of the month can get online twice a day ..... it is slow but as it only costs a couple of bucks a month and nothing at all for the phone connection, anyone could tolerate the speed.

would anyone use an abacus in this era of computers??? similarly y would anyone want to use dial-up modems anymore!! its speed is ridiculous compared to the broadband modem!

Hello Asylum. I used dial up for a long time. I finally switched to broadband when Verizon Yahoo offered me their service for only $14.99 per month. I have to admit that is it much better. And I like the fact that you can receive phone calls while being online. Plus downloading is much faster. I'll never go back to dial-up. However it did serve me well when I had it. Lloyd

I use dial-up. I don't download anything.

I am usind DSL these days, I used dial up about two years .it is so slow.some of my friends still use dial up connection. well I think after few years , internet user must have at least 512 kb/s. for his connection.