Speed thrills on the Internet, but how fast is fast enough, really?
Dial-up Internet access is the cheapest. At about $10 a month, it's less
than half the typical $20 cost of entry-level DSL broadband and much
less than $35 to $60 for faster DSL and cable broadband.

But cable TV and phone companies, which are spending billions to turn
their networks into state-of-the-art Internet playgrounds for consumers,
continue to push their fastest — and most expensive — broadband. They'll
turn up the juice even more as time goes by. Few offer home users
ultra-fast broadband speeds, but some are heading that way. Verizon, the
New York-based communications giant, is running fiber-optic lines to
homes with the goal of offering mind-bending browsing speeds of 100
megabits per second or more.

Is dial-up really dead, then, when it comes to Web browsing? Do you
really need to pay more for a faster broadband service?

Bottom line: How fast is fast enough?

The rest of the article is HERE:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-03-25-download-speed_N.htm

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Very interesting article. I had no idea that some folks are still on
dial-up. I see some saying that from time to time but have been on
high-speed broadband for a lonnnngggg time. But thinking back, I do
remember the poky download times highlighted in the article...

Yikes! I don't think I could stand it now! Nope, I would go nuts!

NOTE:

Downloading Mariah Carey's 'Always Be My Baby' can be as fast at 1.4
seconds or as long as 10.2 minutes.

Holy Crap Batman!

lolz...talk about da turtle and da wabbit...lolz

come to tink of it...daz like a wagon -vs- a fawken jet!....

I stil have dial up, I'm out in the sticks and there is no cable out
here it took me a year and a half to get phone service,downloading music
is out of the question I go to my buds house to do it and forget video,
belive me ya don't wanna go back and then there is the joy of getting
knocked off gives you another reason to hate telemarketers

beerrunner, DUDE! You must be waaaayy out. I love the idea of being
waaaaayy out but since my work depends on this 'puter, and it's speed, I
have no choice but to stay in some kind of (or close to) a metro area.

I envy your peace but not your dial up speed!

LOL islandking. I have to agreee!

Its all i could do just to get my dsl box hooked up then it was another
story for me to figure out how to use it. The computer world is always
changing so rapidly i just sit bk and take the advice of people who know
what they are talking about.

Yes Im out there in the middle of nowhere you have to go down 3 dirt
roads to get here but Im on a lake in the middle of an orange grove I
train horses so it works well for me sometimes I don't see another
person for a week or more