Comment Re:Don't want to pay (Score 1) 538
Broadband saves times. Even the worst system where the connection is not really always on- but is on demand, take no more than 2 seconds to access the net, while dial up connections generally take a minimum of 30 seconds or more.
Rubbish. I have broadband and it can often take more than 2 seconds to check an email. Usually takes 5 - 10 seconds, and occasionally even 20 or 30. Don't know why, but it does. Sure it might be a bit faster than dial up, but not as much as you claim. Not for everybody.
Broadband systems do not block the phone lines, even temporarily. For an e-mail only user this can still make a difference, because when on dial-up then cannot afford to risk checking their email while expecting an important phone call, but nothing prevents them from doing that when they have dialup.
Rarely matters. Besides, we have a mobile when somebody urgently needs to call us. How often is the "Your dad just went to hospital" phone call going to come through when I'm checking email?
Keeping the computer patched is much easier on broadband than dial-up, and don't think that this is not important for those who only connect for short periods at a time. They can most certainly get infected.
Seems to me that there is much less chance of being infected if the computer is not always connected. And for the 10 minutes are day it is, how much chance is there of a bot net detecting its online, downloading itself and causing trouble? Some, but not much. I doubt dial up users are useful to a botnet. How much spam can you send over a dial up connection?
And I ain't getting broadband just so I can "patch" my computer all the time. I don't need new programs or operating systems and if it ain't broke why can't I just let it run as is for a while?
When their friends/family send them email with absurdly large photos attached, it does not take half an hour to download the message.
My family trades CDs and DVDs with videos and photos, by post if long distance. The internet is not the way to transfer large amounts of data, even with broadband.