Re: A Glaring Lack of the Obvious

On 5 Dec 2007 22:24:22 -0500, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jasper Janssen <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm dialed into my ISP for several hours every day. I've done this
since the 1970s. My understanding is that if I were to have done
this in the UK, it would have cost me a fortune.

You still use a modem? Can you even buy those any more?

It's a lot cheaper than broadband. And given that my modem is already
much faster than my reading speed, I see no point in paying more.

There speaks someone whose only usage of the internet is through text.
Honestly, you're missing out on most of it. *That*'s why you're having
such trouble figuring out the exact price of stuff.

(When I started online, my modem was not only slower than my reading
speed, it was slower than my *typing* speed -- even though I was a
much slower typist in those days.)

(I read the other day in the newspaper that 88% of dutch households
has acces to the internet and 75% has broadband).

That would imply that 13% use modems. So I would assume they are
still for sale. Unless you can think of anything else that's used
by 13% of the population but is not for sale (or available for free).

Laptops usually have one built-in. For the desktop, you can buy PCI cards
or USB dongles, but they mostly gather dust in shops.

Jasper
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