We did it, we went from high speed Internet to Extreme.

I remember when we went from dial=up to high speed. We were amazed that we no longer had to wait half a day for a download or having to schedule our internet connection with our telephoning.

Here in Canada, they put a charge on all the blank CDS for the musicians, because they think that we all download illegal music and steal from the artists. Trouble that rather encourages more illegal downloads so more are doing it. So now instead of having the extreme or faster than the high speed for businesses, they offer it to us real people. That's my theory. Anyway I live in a large city and they have to have all these choices.
When we had dial=up though, we did not have accelerated and there was often trouble getting on the phone - too many connections.

We were lucky, our dial up service had a caller id that would tell us who was calling, and gave us the option to pick it up, or send them to voice mail. Even with that, we could stay online for a little while when we were on the phone, something like five or ten minutes before it would disconnect.

We had to pay extra for dial up on MTS, Manitoba Telephone Service, then. You heard of the phrase, "nickel and dime to death?" So when they introduced Shaw Digital Phone that for normal people who had relatives all over the country, and the call ids were free, we jumped right on it. We have not regretted it ever since and even though MTS has tried to get us to go back, we will not. Oh and they did, begged and pleaded, told us that they were better, but they really are not.

We had to pay extra on the phone bill for dial up service when I had it as well, but the lucky thing was it was only $13 more a month, with all the features that I mentioned before included. I didn't mind paying that really.

I suppose with the internet, it was well worth it. It is just that with us, we got so many wrong numbers, that we were also paying for those people who asked if "Bob is home" or this kid looking for Mark. And then there was the telemarketers. When we had dial up, it was just straight dial up, and we could not afford anything better. And when we got cable, it was from a company in the States, but then Shaw took over and I thought, "oh no, we will stuck on Yahoo Canada and not get those bargains," but it worked out, I have my home page on Yahoo.com.

I noticed that when I went to Youtube, the videos lasted much quicker. I want comment on when we went from dial-up to high speed but even from high speed to extreme the speed is fast. You have to try downloading like a video or go to Youtube and watch how fast it loads.

It might be called by a different name. You will have to find out if there is something faster then dsl and whether it is offered to ordinary people. Some of those services might be offered only to businesses.

Oh alright, thanks.

I think to get T1 up here, you have to have a business license, but I am not that sure about that. I never heard of a private person or a homeowner having that, just those businesses that have lots of employees.

We were glad when we no longer had to use dial up. We did not have to worry if someone phoned us and it was emergency. Now most of the time, the phone calls are either wrong numbers or telemarketers, but now the speed is so fast, we can download music files as if I were interested in downloading illegal files - not.

yup broadband is great, i can not wait for all old cables to get exchanged by fiber, that's going to be even better.

You said it right. Plus the speed and connection stability. With wireless though sometimes the signal is not good and I think wireless is worse than dial-up. Well, maybe it depends where you are.

Dial=up is not good here. Broadband is better and we do not get cut off. If you live where there are many phone exchangss, then dial-up might work. If you can get broad band go for it. Even if it is satellite broadband, like in areas with a lot of hills and mountains, that is better than dial up.

I don't use dial-up anymore, we got a broadband now.

I was just saying that wireless is sometimes better than dial-up and this was what I experienced when I was in Thailand.

We have a wireless router, but we do not have any lap tops, but when I get mine, I will have to have my older son set it up. Also I think I need a new desk top. Mine is only a Pentium 4 and even though there is still a lot of space left, it appears that it does not have the power to run all my stuff.

We are not on a contract, but my husband downloads lots of radioplays, and last year or was it a year before, Shaw sent us a warning that he was downloading too many. Actually they sent me the notice first, seeing I am a woman and the obvious villain in this matter. So he had to call them that he was just downloading radio plays and they were in the public domain. Then this year, he found another site and decided to download some more so he decided to go Extreme just in case. Now he has found a free audiobook site. More downloading.

We now have a choice between cable and dsl, and we examined the pros and cons. With cable, we have three choices as to speed, with dsl only one and it is a bit slower than cable. With both we get telephone, but ours is digital. They have this bison as a mascot, a point against them. We also get television as they do, but we got high definition and they have so many little packages designed for the viewer, such as a family package, a children's package, an adult package, a learning package, whereas we have tiers so that someone who wants a bit out of each, can get them. I doubt that there would be action adventure with lots of bloodshed in a family package. Not that I like that, unless it is the hero taking out his pen knife and going after the bad guys who brutally murdered his family by torture.

It is twice as fast and unless you do a lot of downloads, like my husband with his radio plays, and me with my videos, photos, and music (not illegal), for an ordinary person, cable would be fine.

It sure is.