Does it hurt to go from 3 Mbps cable connection back down to dial-up?
101222
A friend at work cancelled his cable six months ago and went back to dail-up because of the cost.  They are putting his cable back in this week.
866535
Connection times out. Unless you have cable - I wouldn't leave it idle for longer than 2-3 hours. Shut it down, save the energy and further headache and frustration. :)
1138476
you can use but you require internal modem for dialup and modem/router for broadband.sometimes you may face problem because when you are connectr as dialup and someone calls you or you want to make some call then you will be disconnected automatically and speed of connection for dialup decreases very much.
290671
is this a babelfish translation ? ;-)\n\ni guess you probably mean what's the difference between dial-up and high-speed internet and what equipment is needed.\n\nspeed\ndial-up: 56kbps\ndsl/cable: 128kbps up to 8Mbps (depends on the internet service provider)\n\nThe necessary equipment for a high speed internet is either a dsl modem (connected to the telephone outlet) or a cable modem (connected to the TV outlet).
1107147
yes you can.\n\nIt is referred to as your ISP, internet service provider. If you want high speed internet access, you can go for other cable companies like comcast. \n\nYou can also get SBC or Bellsouth DSL, depending on where you live. \n\nMost cable and DSL companies has the same price range as dialup these days so I would just stick with getting a broadband connection rather than going back to dialup. Dialup requires a modem on your computer and a telephone, but its very very very slow.\n\nIf you want more providers near you, try doing a search on http://www.google.com and put in the search criteria "high speed internet for <statename>" and replace the <statename> with your own state. You should see a huge list of providers.
718584
Very simple: your dial-up connection has a maximum speed of 56 KB/s (kilobits/second) which is the equivalent of 7 KB/s (kilobytes per second). In your case 40 kbps= 5 kBps.\nnote: 1KB/s=8Kb/s (1 kilobyte/s = 8 kilobit/s )
229370
No, there is lag time involved with your internet connection and it is not a full duplex connection like on the telephone.
728261
This is such a pain \ni don't know where you are from , but i experienced that yesterday ( here in UK) late evening ,\n\n it was so slow, i gave up and shut down , in the end .\n\n May be a fault in the cable system  \n Or Gremlins tinkering with our reception.\n\nMine  seems OK so far  today', thank goodness !!\n\n not sure what the cause is ,\n but it is so frustrating ,when that happens.\n\n Hope you will be back to *normal * very soon \n\n>^,,^<
100174
You can use the DSL download option even when you connect through dial-up. The only issue is that you will get only at dial-up speeds.
372662
you'll need your computer to have a modem installed if it has one then you can use dial up
1086358
Trouble shoot your modem...just a thought
899572
nope, that's dial-up for you. Ask them to convert it to an ADSL line, otherwise you are SOL.
735877
Yes DSL is much faster although cable would be even faster.\nThe difference between 768k and 3mbps is that your download speed can go that high but only if your close to the server. That means that the farther you are from your service provider the slower your speed is going to be.(CATCH MY DRIFT). The same goes for your upstream. So the bottom line is dsl is much faster  depending on how far you live from the server.\nAs for the 20 minute download, It would take approximately 2 minutes for it to download on 768k and approximately 30 sec. on 3.0mbps. I recommend going with cable because its always on and your speed doesn't suffer because of where you live so think carefully. Bye and enjoy..
418302
if your dialup, disconnect and reconnect, if your cable, disconnect for a few days, more or less, or change your mac address would probably cause it to issue a new ip, if your dsl, not going to happen easily generally
1036507
Hey there's nothing wrong with good old dial-up!  Try looking at this site:\nhttp://help.prodigy.net/help/network/prob/slowconnect.html\n\nI know it's a bit heavy for the normal internet user, but if you can identify the type of modem you've got, it should help to try to modify the initialization string as they suggest.  Always remember to make a note of what's in there first!
18366
Forget dial-up, you aren't going to get anything done.  Again this depends on your location so I will say you should go out and see what Cable internet providers are in your area.  Where I live we get Comcast high-speed 6Mbps and Comcast Cable together for about $95 per month, http://www.comcast.com/\n\nMy grandparents didn't want to pay that much so they got Verizon DSL 768kbps for $15 per month, http://www.verizon.com/ and it is fine for their needs, during regular browsing and most internet activities you don't notice the difference but downloads are slower.  If you are looking for value, basic DSL is probably the best.  If you are looking for speed check out Comcast or whatever cable provider happens to be in your area.
755906
In general, no.  From a purely technological and performance stand-point, a modestly performing cable connection will be significantly faster than even the fastest available DSL.\n\nThe fastest available DSL connections, running under perfect conditions, will run about 1.5Mbps.  A cable connection, even with line congestion from excessive users, will generally get at least 2Mbps with many cable companies now running connections over 8Mbps.