For those of you....

[swedguy]

..who haven't submitted a site over a slow ass modem for while. All I have to say is that it's PAINFUL!

[Smoothie]

Swedguy,

I have felt your pain...I spend my winters in Arizona to keep warm, but since where I live is so far out in the country, the fastest connection I can possibly get is a satellite hookup, which is really just one step avove a dial up. About a month before I came back to Michigan for the summer, yep, my satellite modem went to shit, they wanted like $300 to replace it and I didn't think it was worth it for a month or so, So I just got me a dial up service for the temporary....and good Lord you're right...it REALLY SUCKS! I pretty much gave up on building free sites to submit and just tried to maintain my link site till I got back to Michigan and my cable modem.

One thing I picked up from the experience was the way wesites load for the speed impaired....top to bottom and left to right for tables...something I already knew but kinda forgot to think about when building sites. Lots of people have high speed now but there are stilll an awful lot of folks that see webpages load that way. I know I'll be keepin that in mind when I build sites.....at least for a while till I get spoiled from this instant speed. One thing is to make my enter links a graphic again and not be so lazy.

[DraX]

Hope you get some better connection soon bro

And I know how you feel its arrghh

[swedguy]

Just when I was bitching the most a flyer came in the mail.

" FREE modem + FREE signup + 2 FREE months if you order your cable connection now. "


Talk about good timing hehe. We will get it in a week

[Porn Princess]

I'm feeling your pain right now too. I've pretty much given up submitting anything until the beginning of June when I move. I live in the only area in town that doesn't have any high speed available except satelite. UGH! It's like being thrown back into the stone age...I can almost hear the mini-dinos in my modem.

[DangerDave]

I could never go back to dialup.... It would kill me;(

DD

[Linkster]

Hmmm - Ive always had a 56k modem and have never used a satellite (I was told upload time didnt really get any better than a modem - so kinda useless) and dont have access to cable or dsl or any of the new microwave solutions. Heck I dont even have cell service where I live have to drive 2 miles down the road to get my cell phone to work.

[Cleo]

I went to Jamaica a few years ago and couldn't wait to leave. Dialup only for internet and no cell service.

I would have to leave anyplace that doesn't have cell service and descent internet access, just couldn't do it.

Which reminds me… cable modem is getting installed tomorrow. Looking forward to surfing at double the speed of a T-1 line, but I'm especially looking for to telling bellsouth goodbye.

Yeah lots of people still on dialup. I tell this all the time to site builders.