| It's a high tech, high speed world, and we want | | | | services, so there is no usage conflict. When you |
| our technology fast and furious. Dial-up internet | | | | pick up your phone you can breathe easy |
| may have been a great technological | | | | knowing you will never, ever hear that terrible |
| advancement in its time, but the world has | | | | noise again. You can chat on the phone while you |
| moved far beyond it, and the needs of the | | | | work on the computer, which can be especially |
| average internet user far outstrip the capacities | | | | handy for those who work from home. |
| of dial-up. Free up your phone line and enjoy | | | | The other serious problem with dial-up is that it |
| higher speed, higher quality internet by switching | | | | crawls. It's the 21st century, and you can and |
| over to satellite broadband. If you remain | | | | should expect better than this. Don't waste |
| unconvinced, read on to learn why you should | | | | dozens of minutes a day waiting for downloads to |
| consider making the change. | | | | complete and web pages to open. Your time is |
| As the name implies, dial-up internet really is dialing. | | | | too valuable to fritter it away waiting for the web. |
| It uses your phone line to make the connection, | | | | Satellite broadband internet requires a mere |
| which means that the phone line cannot be used | | | | fraction of the amount of time required by dial-up |
| for anything else while it is connected to the | | | | to download information. For a rough comparison, |
| internet. This means that while you are online, you | | | | consider that a regular 53k dial-up connection may |
| could be missing important calls. And if you forget | | | | take around 10 minutes to download a 4 meg |
| to sign off the internet when you are done, it | | | | mp3 file. Using satellite, the same song could be |
| goes on blocking your calls and racking up the bill. | | | | downloaded in a matter of seconds. It's not just |
| It means that if you are expecting a phone call | | | | downloads that drag with dial-up. Any gamer |
| soon, you know you can't sign online. Perhaps the | | | | worth his stuff can tell you that dial-up is the |
| worst of all, though, is when someone in your | | | | bottom of the barrel for internet providers when |
| household is using the dial-up internet and you are | | | | it comes to playing games online. This is an issue |
| not aware of it, and you pick up the phone to | | | | of both speed and bandwidth. Satellite offers huge |
| make a call - and are met with that abominable | | | | bandwidth and can process many different |
| cacophony of screeching technology that tells you | | | | demanding tasks simultaneously. |
| the phone line is already in use. | | | | If you are still shuffling along with the inefficiencies |
| Switching over to satellite completely eliminates | | | | and slowness of dial-up, the time has come to |
| these telephone woes. Connecting to the web via | | | | take charge and make a change. Get an internet |
| satellite will no more disturb your phone lines than | | | | service that can provide you with speed and |
| does watching your satellite TV - they use | | | | quality, and jump back into the fast lane. |
| completely unrelated networks to provide their | | | | |