With a dial up connection a video call would be impossible to make and if you were lucky to establish connection the video would freeze and the call would be droped.

I think you’re right. We can expect faster connections in the future and I expect that much of them will be wireless – even in rural areas such as where I live.

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JD

You’re absolutely right. Broadband greatly increases our productivity.

I’ve already done more this month than I did in the prior three months, combined, and there’s still part of the month left.

All the best,

JD

I can understand what you’re saying. In terms of Internet connections (and many other things), faster is better.

So, what’s the difference between broadband and FIOS?

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I had dial up back in the stone age.

I had broadband until just recently.

I’ll never go back to either of those again. If I gotta move it’s going to have to be a place that offers FIOS or I won’t go.

Broadband was a required before my husband would commit to taking the job he currently has and the next move… well you get the idea I’m sure.

Dwippy.
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Broadband does make a huge difference in surfing the web — all for the better.

I understand how your Mom felt about trying to buy things on dial-up. I’ve experienced some of the same things and had some of the same worries. Did my purchase go through? Will I get double-charged? Those are legitimate worries.

I haven’t purchased anything online since using broadband, but I don’t expect to see any of those time-out or page-not-fully-loading issues.

Thanks for bringing this up.

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JD

It has made how she uses the net so very different already and with sites loading quickly, she has become more trusting of ordering from sites that accept payments. You see, the few times she tried to make payments using PayPal from certain stores she received the timed-out message where the page took an age to load. This resulted with my mum worrying about whether her payment went through, if she refreshed the page would the payment go twice instead of once, and so on. Now this problem doesn’t exist.

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Karl
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Yes, I remember the first time I put on new glasses and everything snapped into focus. It’s a very similar feeling.

Yes, it’s true that your two main blogs were often difficult to load on dial-up.

(In fact, I can’t load your latest post right now. It looks like a DNS error or maybe your server is temporarily down. I’ll try again, later.)

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JD

I know exactly what you mean about going back to dial-up. I feel like I’ve escaped from a “marketing straitjacket.”

Where I live, it’s hard to get a reliable cell phone connection. At least that’s what my friends tell me when they try. I don’t have a cell phone and don’t want one. I don’t like talking on the phone very much in the best of times and don’t want to carry one around with me.

I communicate much better via writing than I do via speaking and I remember what I read much more than what I hear.

My daughter views this subject differently and she uses her Blackberry as a high-speed connection for her laptop, but there are lots of places in this area where it just won’t work for her.

I don’t think I’ll ever take a high-speed connection for granted.

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JD

I know what you mean.

“I don’t want even to imagine such a situation.”

It sounds like a nightmare now.

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JD

Even with everything set at 57K, my connections were more likely to be 14.4K or 16.8K – and that’s really slow!

Over the last few years, it just got more and more frustrating.

I appreciate you promoting my CafePress store! Thanks a bunch.

I designed it. In fact, I did it so long ago that I don’t remember if they offered templates then, or not. (What a dinosaur!)

I’m looking forward to adding quite a few more designs and products in the coming weeks.

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JD