STORM2K

I am so fed up of not having high speed. I do have to quote the provider "high-speed dial-up" which might make my connection slightly greater than 56k.

Would it make no sense for me to download GE or might it be worth it. Might it work but just slowly or not at all?

I run a max of 1200k download, and it sometimes takes several minutes to load the image down at the lower levels, so it could be several times more for what you would do. If you're doing it for much broader maps, go ahead, but if you're trying to see if your car was in the picture that the sat took, you could be waiting awhile.

I had that 3g Netzero as fast as DSL stuff and it is not. We are on bellsouth Lite DSL and it is perfect. I would not try it. If you have Bellsouth in your area you can get DSL Lite for $24.95. It is well worth it. And no I don't work for bellsouth either. So I am not trying to sell it but just recommending it because it is affordable and fast.

beachbum_al wrote:I had that 3g Netzero as fast as DSL stuff and it is not. We are on bellsouth Lite DSL and it is perfect. I would not try it. If you have Bellsouth in your area you can get DSL Lite for $24.95. It is well worth it. And no I don't work for bellsouth either. So I am not trying to sell it but just recommending it because it is affordable and fast.

Netzero 3G is a scam on promotions it's really 56k with aol proxy compression...

jason0509 they recommend high speed because it would take all day to download items from there network on a slimband modem.

DSL is pretty cheap these days I'm sure you will find something that is for a reasonable price and get 50 times the speeds which you are receiving now.

LOL. Money is not the issue. Availability is. It's not offered in my town even though areas just 3 km away have it.

Same with me. They have it a mile and a half up the road, but not at my house, so I have to use the satellite internet. Stinks when you want to see the radar for the storm over you, but that same storm is blocking your internet!

Jason, same here - small town and I'm on dial-up. I'm
kinda stuck with it......Storm2K, e-mail.....hmmmmmm...
that's about as far as I can go, right now. Maybe by
2010, we'll get a tad faster, here....

I feel your pain. Dial up here and no hope of anything faster in the near future. The high speed stuff is available about 3 miles down the road, but bellsouth doesn't offer it to us....go figure.
Could get directway, but it's too expensive initially and besides that, what good would it do if I can't get online to check out the storm that's over me? Every time it rains, our direct tv goes out and there's a little "searching for signal" message on the tv screen lol.

kmanWX wrote:

beachbum_al wrote:I had that 3g Netzero as fast as DSL stuff and it is not. We are on bellsouth Lite DSL and it is perfect. I would not try it. If you have Bellsouth in your area you can get DSL Lite for $24.95. It is well worth it. And no I don't work for bellsouth either. So I am not trying to sell it but just recommending it because it is affordable and fast.

Netzero 3G is a scam on promotions it's really 56k with aol proxy compression...

jason0509 they recommend high speed because it would take all day to download items from there network on a slimband modem.

DSL is pretty cheap these days I'm sure you will find something that is for a reasonable price and get 50 times the speeds which you are receiving now.

Like I said 3G is not fast like they claim. That is why I went with DSL. I have been biting the mighty dollar for years until now. I figured out what we were spending on internet along with callwave and it is about the same as bellsouth lite dsl. I think dsl was about $3 more and believe it is well worth it. My daughter is able to go to her sites and play educational games without waiting all day to download. I am able to send pictures to my family far away without taking a year to send them. Most of them are on dsl or cable. So it is well worth. I was wondering if Netzero was part of aol. Too many similarities between the two.

LOL guys. I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one suffering from availability issues! It's crazy and what's even crazier is the minute that a competitor bites the bullet and provides service to an area not currently getting it, all the rest will come too and the serious "issues" involved regarding getting the service set up will disappear.