If you had to go back to dial-up service...

[zanana1]

Which one will you pick? We're going on a painful budget cut. That includes the computer, television and anything else we don't absolutely need to survive. I can save the computer by going dial-up, but it has to be cheap and halfway decent. Anyone have any opinions on this?

[Kali]

1. I'm on Sitestar

don't really know how it compares to anything else, as I have followed my e-mail address through at least 4 company sales to it. They are usually pretty good on the phone, but their website is kind of old style.

http://www.sitestar.net/

My father (who is just a cheap SOB) uses netzero.

[Denninmi]

2. Well, I think I'd rather just shoot myself.

Netzero probably. Its all the same internet. Really, whatever is cheapest and has enough capacity in my region to let me on at peak times.

[dimbear]

6. Correct sad story. Until they go broke too.

Hate it when services just disappear. How do I complain without service? I asks ya.

[Denninmi]

3. Well, I think I'd rather just shoot myself.

Netzero probably. Its all the same internet. Really, whatever is cheapest and has enough capacity in my region to let me on at peak times.

[BiggJawn]

4. I'd go to the library and use their broadband.

Or go to some fast food joint and nurse a coke for a couple of hours.
Or find a laundromat with free WiFi and have something to wash every day or so.

I can't think of anything that'd kill Teh Intertubes faster for me than having to go back on dial up.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. ^this^

I would rather watch grass grow than go back to dial-up.

[Taverner]

7. Yikes - for my job, I have to be on broadband, even when I'm not working

But to have to use it...

Honestly, I would get a cell plan with unlimited data, and use your cell as a mobile hotspot

[quakerboy]

8. Thats not necessarily

When you really really have to cut costs, $10 a month for dialup may beat 30 a month for data plan.

Of course, $30 for broadband(on a promo deal) plus 10 for a net based phone makes more sense to me than 50 for Phone and 10 for phone based net.

[Skittles]

9. go for the cheapest DSL, zanana

[bif]

10. Heard a piece on NPR about slow internet cafes!

They turn back the clock and only offer dial-up, so people simply slow down. I thinks it's sort of like the tech equivalent to the slow food movement.