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Thread ID: 113334	2010-10-15 03:42:00	The joy of dial up.	Cicero (40)	PC World Chat

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1144985	2010-10-15 03:42:00	At freinds place,asked what spyware apps she used,what is that she asked. Any way I am downloading Spybot and it is going to take 4.5 hours. Also she uses incredimail,so it is a joy to use as I am sure you can imagine.	Cicero (40)
1144986	2010-10-15 04:06:00	My heart goes out to you. 4.5 hours! that's terrible. I would kill myself if i had to wait that long. i have forgotten how slow dial up is, as we got broadband mid 2008	goodiesguy (15316)
1144987	2010-10-15 04:09:00	I had the same problem last year. My uncle came around and i installed an anti virus on his pc and i never had broadband yet. Took two hours to download the updates LOL through his dial up. Incredimail (no comment: except it sucks)	Gobe1 (6290)
1144988	2010-10-15 04:50:00	Yeah, my preference is to take them home so that I can attach them to my own broadband in order to update AV definitions and OS updates. Worst case scenario is that at the 2 hour mark your dialup download will time out and have to be started again from scratch... it's just not worth the pain.	Paul.Cov (425)
1144989	2010-10-15 05:18:00	Yeah, my preference is to take them home so that I can attach them to my own broadband in order to update AV definitions and OS updates. Worst case scenario is that at the 2 hour mark your dialup download will time out and have to be started again from scratch... it's just not worth the pain. true - timing out, so I end up using download manger (download them all) to incrementally download over a few or several nights for the total service pack files. But kept the installers on USB. But now on broadband...	kahawai chaser (3545)
1144990	2010-10-15 06:09:00	Ah the ultimate bliss of dialup. the screetching modem, the missed phone calls. the basic and minimal text based layout of websites with links in blue with the only browser (that was practical to the home user) being IE 4, 5 and 6	The Error Guy (14052)
1144991	2010-10-15 06:34:00	Yes, pity help the still significant numbers of rural people, who have no access to anything else...yet we are steaming ahead to improve BB speeds for the city folk first...got to get those streaming movies etc. Really pisses me off the weird set of priorities we have in NZ.	KarameaDave (15222)
1144992	2010-10-15 07:01:00	+1 KarameaDave. Don't think too many city folk actually understand just how high tech farming has become. Not that I'm any expert, but the farm we go shooting on (dairy) has electronic scanning of cows at the milking shed, they can tell down to the shot glass how much milk each individual cow produces. Cows eat grass ... grass needs fertiliser ... different grasses for different soil types ... the list goes on and on. Think about the "big picture" and you can see why the cocky now has to have computers to keep track of everything .... just like any other business ... and some lot bigger than the local dairy !!	SP8's (9836)
1144993	2010-10-15 07:28:00	Exactly, farming is dependent on technology more and more. Yet the farmer must wait hours sometimes just to use various online tools etc they need for managment. Without the contribution these people make to our economy we would be in very dire straits indeed. I think the sensible thing to do would be to follow the Australian example ensuring a decent internet capacity is available to all, even in very remote areas. I realise this would entail 'the many' subsidizing 'the few' but feel it to be worthwhile in the long run.	KarameaDave (15222)
1144994	2010-10-15 07:50:00	I disagree with Karameadave, although he has a point. I think that if we are paying for so called "Fast Broadband" as its advertised, we should be getting fast speeds that are up to play with the rest of the world. Those people in remote area's are just unfortunate. If they needed fast internet for their job, they should of found somewhere where they can access fast internet.	goodiesguy (15316)
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