People Still Use Dial-Up Internet!

'member when Anthony used to be kewl?

yeah i noticed lots of people getting pretty good internet with mobile hotspots in the country anyway.

i'm sure starlink is better than 56k moden for online gaming.

I live in the middle of nowhere and we had dial-up till very recently lol. but the government invested in fiberoptic for rural areas so now we have fiber and I feel like I entered a whole new age lol

"Runs on plain old phones lines"

*shows an ethernet cable*

Starlink is satalite internet yum

Well, naturally, speaking as a former tech support rep, I can say even today cable and dsl aren't 100% reliable, so it makes sense to keep it around as a fall-back plan for emergencies, if nothing else. For regular use? It'd be okay for text, pics and small music files, but video takes hours that way.

rip anthony

Why has every home water and electricity though? Communism???
video itself is great.

Here is the issue, these rural communities provide a lot for this country, and we need internet just as much as the rest of you, hell we need clean drinking water and health care while were at it. At times living in the USA feels like a third world country. Don't worry though well keep producing food and the many other goods you all love regardless. Unbelievable.

I love that your B-roll of "Rural" was a rusty dump of a barn in a desolate field. And sadly, it's actually an accurate representation of the third world country WITHIN the U.S.

I remember when I first got internet, back in 2003. It was like 60kps and back then, that was fast. Lol

I live in an old development in a small town. No Cable just really old copper. Century Link offered 5mb (max) DLS. Service that was 50 per month if I also had a landline for 25 per month. On a good day I might get 2-3mb per second. T-Mobile came along and for 50 per month, I get 300 plus mb/sec. I went with a VIOP and got 2 lines for 25 per month. Both prices are for life and includes all fees and taxes. Same price as Century Link and 100 times as fast. Last time I checked, getting close to 500 mb/sec during off hours.

When you live in veromt

I was going to joke that owners of Sega Saturns and Sega Dreamcast consoles were keeping dial-up internet alive.

RIP Anthony

“People still use dial up internet!”
Well, of course I know him, he’s me

Satellite seemed great for my parents. It was that or DSL were they lived, and dsl is still unusable. So they went with Viasat, as starlink hadn’t made it to Florida yet, and holy cow, latency made it unusable, and for a semi-decent plan with unlimited 480p streaming it was $200+ per month, with a data cap.

When T-Mobile launched home internet for $70 a month for 100mbps, unlimited, they jumped on it, and have been completely happy with it. I’m used to big city fiber, so I do notice a difference, but it’s still entirely usable, even for gaming. Also, an unusual benefit, during power outages they’ve tended to keep their service. During hurricane (this year, forgot the things name) they lost power for 4 days, but using a generator, kept their internet, and a TV running. The entire neighborhood was at their house.

why has linus not done a vid on playing dream cast online vi 56k but with out aphone line vi a windows pc not a pie

I work in a Unis tech dpt. which is about 10km away from my home. At home we reach about 40MB/s. When I am at work I have 1GB SYMETRIC! i love it 😅

My question in 90S why u just buy smart phones and use internet as your computer use your other phone as internet

My dad's hearing aids sound.

this video clocks in at under four and half minutes and you still managed a cute dig at elon, bravo sir

Yup, I still use 56k dialup, although today it's mainly for backup. But throughout the mid 1980's & all the way up to 2018, dialup was our family's main way to get Internet. Cost was a huge factor, as dialup was cheaper. These days, I use my cellphone 4G tethering & hotspot. I also did use dialup on my C-64 to access QuantumLink (QLink) back in the early 1990's.

Cool sound.

I do not understand how Government can:
a. Justify spending Millions on roads;
b. Not justify spending thousands on Fiber, which may use trenches, right beside roads.

Fiber is the future, and it has shown that is quite resilient.
Hence, I think Governments must take this really serious, in order to:
1. Avoid people moving out or remote regions;
2. Avoid people concentrating in urban setting, which lead to excessive house prices;
3. Promote economic growth and income equality.

We can not trust ISPs in developing our society's future!

Hi Ema

1% of Canadian = 35 000… the mat is not correct sir. There is 40 millions Canadian walking this planet not 3.5 millions😂

parts of texas im talkiing about u

Imagine playing fortnite with dail up 💀💀

Is there no 4G or 5G networks? Dsl and dial up has died from Finland long time ago.

American problems

did not mention fixed wireless services

Im Germany dial Up is still standard

În România u pay 10$ for 940-960 down and 850-950 upload. Everything under 600 is considered low. Now u can hate me.

😂😂😂🤣🤣 me watching this one 10mbps for $40

It still amazes me that my parents live in a small community town in Louisiana but with t-mobile and their so called “Wireless” router I was told they could service the drive way outside my parents house “The road everyone used to get to the lower part of the neighborhood” but not where the house actually sat on their property? That still confuses me

Jetzt soll mal die Telekom nach Amerika kommen und da überteuertes DSL anbieten😂

i dont even get cell service in my town....

...I swear this isn't supposed to be possible. Part of the Digital Broadcast Transition (the one that got rid of analog tv) was supposed to have also gotten rid of dialup entirely... The only reason it didn't is because it can't until broadband infra reaches 100% coverage of every address in the nation, and that part of the bill got defunded.

Throwback

In netherlands no company owns data lines only the state. Each year a company makes a bid to provide services like modems, setting up small fibers inside home etc. The government declines alot of foreign providers because the world shows. Mexico doesnt have best services when it comes to connections but a provider from there wanted to provide internet in netherlands because they are rich lol. People went berserk because the government almost wanted to do it but didnt. They made a counter offer to give them a smaller share and they didnt wanted it.

If it aint state funded they gonna screw around for profits and not better service because there aint no money in it especially if u already own the fibers. Its like holding a whole nation hostage.

I have a 56k modem to access a secure server handshakes while the main link if fiber

i downloaded The Hulk 2003 on dialup it took 2 days lol

Is this guy still alive?

I can't imagine the modern bloated internet would even be usable. I'm guessing an email client and maybe a text base web browser could at least get news and weather

I have to use satellite internet. It’s not terrible except when it rains or snows. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so…

I live in a weird juxtaposition between being well-served and not. I get good Internet at my house, but my friend less than 3 miles away was stuck on very slow Internet for the longest time because they didn't run up there.
It's not just internet, cell service is like this too: I get 5G ultrawide at my house and lower, but 5 minutes down the road you don't get any service, even back in the feature phone days, there's whole patches of no cell coverage, even in towns.

In fact PPPoE is actually a evolution of the dial-up services