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many of us were familiar with this sound back in the era of dial-up but in this

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age of gigabit fiber connections streaming 4k video and cars that connect

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to the cloud ai in real time seems like dial-up should be a distant

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memory but did you know that people still use old-school dial-up as their

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main home internet connection as of 2021 well over a quarter million

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homes in the united states relied on dial-up and in 2020 it was estimated

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that around one percent of canadians or around 38 000 people also dialed in to

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connect but hold the phone how is this possible

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well it turns out that quite a few folks in rural areas don't have many other

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options the main alternative to dial up in many of these places is satellite

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internet which is much faster than dial-up all you need is a clear view of

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the sky to get a broadband signal so it's available from at least one

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provider in most remote locales but that's about where the advantages end

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although satellite internet is high speed in the sense that it isn't dial up

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it's still much slower per dollar than the average fixed connection like cable

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or fiber basic plans tend to start at around 65 bucks a month just for

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10 to 25 megabits per second plus you

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often have to pay initial and or monthly costs for the equipment

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spacex's starlink promises faster speeds but had even higher rates and an initial

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600 fee for hardware i guess elon has to

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come up with that twitter money from somewhere satellite internet is also

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notoriously sensitive to the weather much like satellite tv and usually has

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high latency making activities like online gaming a real chore but even if

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you can put up with that it's simply cost prohibitive for some folks in

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underserved areas especially considering some dial-up providers now even provide

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a fixed number of hours of internet access for free each month

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the low cost of dial up also means that devices like atms and card readers which

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don't need much bandwidth to begin with still often have a dial up connection at

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least as a backup but hold please

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what about dsl it runs over plain old phone lines and is much faster than dial

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up so why don't people in remote areas just use that we'll tell you right after we

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good although higher speed dsl can run over phone wires it requires specialized

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expensive equipment at each end compared to traditional dial up

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because it's slower than cable or fiber many isps are killing off dsl because

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they don't want to deal with the upkeep costs which has caused some controversy

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since there are people in outlying areas that rely on it to connect to the

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internet at respectable speeds not to mention fiber deployments tend to reach

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wealthier areas first cost is also the reason rural areas tend

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to be underserved in the first place the low population density and vast tracts

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of land mean that cable companies have hang-ups about building expensive

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infrastructure to every home it's the same reason many of these same

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houses can't even get cable tv as if they'd want to these days and of course

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this isn't the late 90s where the internet was a mere novelty or luxury

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it's a practical necessity to participate in modern society so many

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areas with limited options for internet access are losing population giving the

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isps even less of a reason to serve the folks who stay behind

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but the hope is fixed wireless technologies where an internet signal is

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delivered to a home via a cell network could help bridge this digital divide in

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the years to come as large mobile carriers continue to build out more

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towers it'll take time and money but it could

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end up being more cost effective than laying cables everywhere

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and a lot quieter than listening to google dig up your backyard thanks for

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