Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:39:50 -0500, Jason Dodd wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > I was joking. > But it's relative. I, too, didn't think I needed a high speed account. > But when I factored in the fact that a dial up account meant I had to > have a phone line, high is coming down in price, etc. It all added up > to dial up not being fiscally justifiable any more. Then when I tried > high speed, that fact just got even more true. The time savings in just > webrowsing alone is convincing enough IMO. Add to that the savings when > you actually dl files and it's most definitely not economically sound in > my neck of the woods to keep dial up. My dialup is about 5$ per month and my basic telephone service is under 30$ > High Speed worth it? Best $35 a month I've ever spent. The phone bill > plus dial up bill is more expensive here even so it costs me less than > dial up. If I were doing major league downloading on a regular a high speed connection would be worth it or if the costs got down to under 10$/mo. > But, you're right. There is no NEED for high speed. In fact, we don't > NEED computers at all for that matter. but how would we keep the dust off our desks? ;-> have fun -- This mail was written by a user of the Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --