There are some places in the US where the only reason they aren't still stuck on dialup is because of the cellular data network and/or starlink sattelite internet.
Especially at the time it could have been useful as a backup connection. Where I work our network team had to work very hard to get all of our locations a backup connection that didn't go through the same physical "line" as what we already had (so much of the physical infrastructure is comingled). We'd prefer not to have a location shut down because of an errant backhoe.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 20 pts · 1y
hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Gork@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Huh. This company still provides dialup Internet.
But I'm less interested now not because of the slower Internet speeds but because the goat promo code expired.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
How do I get grandfathered in
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
Please don't do the goat
inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Is the goat for mowing the lawns around solar panels?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Dialup? In 2006? Pretty sure we'd had ADSL for well over five years by then, pretty sure everyone had switched where I lived (not USA).
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
There are some places in the US where the only reason they aren't still stuck on dialup is because of the cellular data network and/or starlink sattelite internet.
Especially at the time it could have been useful as a backup connection. Where I work our network team had to work very hard to get all of our locations a backup connection that didn't go through the same physical "line" as what we already had (so much of the physical infrastructure is comingled). We'd prefer not to have a location shut down because of an errant backhoe.