[IronJack]

I am part of this deal. My ISP is @Home. I'm not sure I can survive without a high-speed connection. It would be like going back to a party line and a cob stove.

[joyce11111]

Me, too. I am getting @Home on the 11th of December. My phone lines aren't too good in the winter, sometimes I am logging on at 4,000 bps.

[spycatcher]

Cox (hardball negotiators who care little about customers)is now running a blurb on channel 71 saying that we will "likely" lose service tonight. I don't even have a dialup modem in my system and don't plan on getting one. If it goes out they will lose tons of customers to DSL, so I'm betting it will only be out over the weekend at most.

There will also be a renewed push to eliminate the cable company monopoly over our cable lines. Then AOL etc will be able to offer cable access. These people are as stupid as the music companies when it comes to the internet.

[spycatcher]

Check DSL availability here for alternative broadband.

DSL Reports is also a good page for info and reviews

[Black Cat]

No kidding. I can remember when I had dial-up my average d/l speed was about 2k/sec. Nowadays, anything under two hundredk and I start the process over again...

So if I had to, I'd go back temporarily until the cable got running again -- no DSL here -- but I'd be kicking and screaming the whole way...

[gogov]

I am part of this deal. My ISP is @Home. I'm not sure I can survive without a high-speed connection. It would be like going back to a party line and a cob stove.

Dial up is not that bad. Open up multiple browser windows, read what is on one page while the other is loading...and now that all you other people are on high-speed connections, there is less traffic clogging up the dial up connection.

[gogov]

I am part of this deal. My ISP is @Home. I'm not sure I can survive without a high-speed connection. It would be like going back to a party line and a cob stove.

Dial up is not that bad. Open up multiple browser windows, read what is on one page while the other is loading.