Dial up internet CAF

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At least 3 million Americans still connect to the internet using dial up technology. You know, the old 56k landline modem and AOL browser…

The majority of these are people in rural areas where broadband isn’t available.

Do any CAF users still connect via dialup? I personally use my high speed connected 4g LTE smartphone most of the time, or occasionally my DSL broadband connected laptop… I haven’t used dial up since like 1999.
 
Wireless, and I am rural.
Home Landlines are becoming obsolete here
 
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I do remember the 56 k landline modem, gosh that was a blast from the past. Now have broadband fibre, much faster
 
Ah, memories of dialup! I canceled my landline home phone service when the phone bill became outrageously high about five years ago. I wonder how the new CAF format would load with a dial up connection. When I first joined CAF I still had dialup, and it was very slow.

 
I think we had broadband by the time CAF came into existence in 2004. But I do remember using dial-up to visit the Catholic Answers site back in the late 1990s.

I might have come here using dial-up when I was traveling. And I think that before we got our first router and a wireless card, we had to use dial-up for the second computer.

I realize that not all areas have broadband yet but where I live there are a lot of places where the copper wiring to the houses was torn out when the fiber optic cabling or upgraded coaxial cabling went in.
 
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Spyridon said:
At least 3 million Americans still connect to the internet using dial up technology. You know, the old 56k landline modem and AOL browser…

The majority of these are people in rural areas where broadband isn’t available.

Do any CAF users still connect via dialup? I personally use my high speed connected 4g LTE smartphone most of the time, or occasionally my DSL broadband connected laptop… I haven’t used dial up since like 1999.
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I’m trying to think, but it wasn’t that long ago that part of the county that I live in finally got broadband service. They were still on dial-up service, due to their rural location.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are still areas in my state that still have dial-up service. Some parts of Wisconsin seem quite rural and remote, from what I’ve seen of them, in my opinion.
 
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