Dial-up or Broadband? (looking for advise/info)

Broadband is a lot faster than dial up service, but it's also a lot more expensive. If you're trying to cut costs, you could probably get by with dial up. If you want to watch videos or listen to streaming music or things like that, dial up can't handle that. I don't know about where you are, but here you could earn enough from Sidetick to pay for the dial up connection. Also, if you don't already have Broadband, they usually charge a fee to start the service while dial up is usually just a matter of plugging in the phone line.

If there is any way you can handle it financially you want broadband or DSL. I have DSL combined with my phone plan. I understand you wanting to pay off your debt, but do you not earn money online? Could you use it for your internet and any extra go into your plans to pay things off? How is your Mylot earning doing? I have missed seeing you around.

If all that you use the internet for is those things tht you listed, then a dial-up connection would probably do all right. But you will need to have a landline connection and you will need to carefully monitor your online time or the phone bill will really begin to stack up. Thats where a broadband connection really scores, (apart from the much faster speeds of course) all that you pay for is your monthly subscription for unlimited online time. I just leave my computer online all the time during the day so that it's avalable to use at any time and it's supposed to be better for the electronics as well. With a dial-up, you are paying for your land line rental, you still will probably need to make a fee to the ISP that you are using, and you will have much higher phone bills to consider as well. Another way to get on-line relatively cheaply is to use a wireless connection to a laptop. There are several cell phone companies that offer this and you'll need to have a look at what is available where you live. You'll need a bit of kit called a dongle, (don't ask me who dreams these names up) and that'll be supplied by the cell phone company.

If you are planning to save some money.. I would suggest you to take a Dial-up, it is slow but if you are using the connection for short period and don't do much of surfing then Dial-up is better as you will be charged for the time you are connected to the internet(depends on the service provider on what basis they charge).. Broadband service is usually faster but is also costlier..

Broadband is the only way to go in my opinion. I have had high speed broadband for a number of years now and could not even begin to imagine trying to operate on dial up speed. If I had to go on dial up, then I would not bother with the internet at all. Most pages have graphics these days that are too hard for dial up to load, so they take ages. Too painful for me!

I will prefer you to go with the broadband instead of the dial-up. With most of the programs you get involved with online really actually prefer you to have a higher speed connection. Therefore, you will not be able to do any kind of work really on a dial-up connection. It takes sooooo long to open a page with dial-up. I hate dial-up cause you really can't do nothing while on the internet. Nowadays they make computers to be more high-speed ready to the point where some programs will not work right on your computer.

When choosing to get connected to the Internet it's always best to connect via broadband as opposed to dial up as broadband is a lot faster. However,if broadband is not available in your area then the only option would be to connect via dialup. I think that everyone virtually hates dialup and this is a really old technology now when it comes to connecting to the Internet. With dialup you have to disconnect your phone whilst you are using the Internet and you cannot receive any calls. However with broadband you can have the phone connected as well and you can receive calls so it's a far more efficient method. When it comes to downloading as well, this can be very slow if you are using dial up and this can sometimes freeze your computer as well. I would recommend that you definitely get connected via broadband. Andrew

Hi! If I were you I would go for broadband. It is a lot faster. Should I say way way faster than a dial up connection. Of course it would be more expensive but it's worth it. Given the application these days it would be a wise decision to go for broadband.

My mom has a satellite internet connection, and its speeds are very comparable to dial-up on a good day. I don't think you will be able to do very much on Sidetick with a dial-up connection. When I was at my mom's this past weekend I had a lot of difficulty accessing Sidetick. The connection kept timing out and pages kept on not loading for me on there. It took me about half an hour to do my daily blog comment/message reading. I saw another member on the first page had commented on the cost aspect of things. I considered downgrading to dial-up to help us pay our debts down faster, but it turned out that we wouldn't be saving much. We would have to pay for a phone line, and then for the internet service. There would have been a one-time fee for a dial-up modem, too, since our computer doesn't have one installed already. In the end we would have saved about $5 on the services, but I would have also been sacrificing the little bit I earn from Amazon Mechanical Turk. I think it's great that you're taking the time to examine all aspects of the situation before committing to a course of action. It's definitely better to have more information than necessary than too little information!

It's almost impossible to use the internet with dialup these days. Sites are so heavily loaded with graphics, flash animations, etc., that dialup connections can't handle them. I went to broadband almost two years ago because on dialup, sites took forever to load and sometimes they didn't even finish loading. The bandwidth requirements are even heavier now. I don't think I'd have the patience to do even half of what I do in the internet if I were still on dialup. You should compare prices of different providers if you decide to stay with broadband. And even the slowest broadband plan would be better than dialup, so be sure to ask about the different levels.

Compared to dial up and broadband, broadband is faster and variety of plans to choose from. Dial up is out dated now a days and as far I know none of my friends are using it.So go far broadband.

Hi. Sorry I can not tell you about this dial up and broadband cause I'm just new of my computer and I'm not also master about this. What makes me interest to join your discussion is about this what you said" fifty cents from Sidetick. What is this all about?Hope to hear from you.

I have a techie friend and he suggested to me before that I get a broadband internet connection. It's better and faster.

A broadband is an internet technology which has speeds in megabit per second while a dial-up is also an internet technology but has a very slow speed and in terms of kilobit per second. See the difference? the mega and the bit...so its about their speeds. If you could remember way back in years, there where cards to be used where you would dial a phone and put those numbers, access codes, passwords stated in the card? Thats the dial up connection type of internet. Moreover, it is a kind of internet technology which utilizes the phone concept, where there's only 1 two-way direction - you dial first and the party at the end responds. If the other end does not reply or is busy, then you can not have a connection and have to wait. In a broadband environment, (Its just a term), you don't have to wait for the other end to reply to have a connection as there are lots of paths to choose. And besides, its already digital and not analogue where you dont have to wait for a person to reply to have a connection. Hope this will help you understand a bit about this two...

I can't say about the fee and installation charges about these two types of internet connection, as which one would be more expensive at your area. I can definitely say that the broad band is much faster to work with when compared to Dial up type of internet! I have been using CDMA since the time I have started using my internet as I am remotely placed from the Urban area and I am quite satisfied with the speed and the wireless modem provided for this purpose! I am paying aboutRs.800/-, which is about 16 US dollars per month for this connection which I think worth while for me looking at the place where I live in and there are absolutely no technical problems I faced so far from this modem! If you are getting Broad Band at affordable price I would advise you to go for it as it is mush faster and it saves your lot of time. If time is no constraint then dial up would be a better option with less cost! All the best! Thanks !

Masihi, I have Broadband and for the last 9 days my service has been completely off. They got me up and running yesterday but I am getting service as if it dial up. It is the worst thing anyone can do is get dial up for any online earning activity as you will get page failures and blank pages way too often so it will not be worth the savings. Although our situation is an exception, I can tell you that it will not work for sidetick as the site itself is slow and you will have issues. Best of luck to you.