12 million people in USA still use dial-up

freejoe76 · on Feb 28, 2009

Wow, they just cut and paste that (with no added commentary) from Tampa Bay Online -- and while they give credit at the end ("Source: TBO"), they don't give a link or nothing else. Here's the original article: http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2009/feb/28/ha-dial-up...

vaksel · on Feb 28, 2009

thanks for posting the link, I tried to find the original post which netted that link, but the hernandotoday threw me as someone's personal blog so I never bothered to open it

ckinnan · on March 1, 2009

Many parts of the US still don't have DSL or cable broadband options.

nebula · on Feb 28, 2009

That explains why pretty much all laptops still have that RJ45 telephone socket (and the dialup modem of course). I used to wonder.

thwarted · on Feb 28, 2009

RJ11 is for phone, RJ45 is ethernet. Connecting the telephone system to an Ethernet jack can supposedly break the phone system or short it out or something. You can often plug RJ11 into an RJ45 jack, it will fit and make some contacts, which is often done to save on in-wall wiring costs in mixed networking deployments where you're still using POTS and not VOIP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJ11,_RJ14,_RJ25

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8P8C

nebula · on March 1, 2009

Ooops! Freudian slip.

Thanks for correcting.

kajecounterhack · on Feb 28, 2009

I know someone who still uses dial up because they can mooch off their neighbor's wifi...haha.

est · on Feb 28, 2009

rlslog.net? Didn't expect it appear here.

ddemchuk · on Feb 28, 2009

My philosophy professor still uses dial-up. He says it's because wireless is so unreliable My head almost exploded when he said it because he was using his laptop on our school wide wireless internet while he was saying it.