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    How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?

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    Image of Jesse in Japan Jesse in Japan
    03/02/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    It's not legal to sell your blood in Japan, but if it were, I would do that to pay for broadband.
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    Image of Seiven Seiven
    03/01/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    I would stop eating till it hurt (hell I could use to lose a few pounds anyway), I would sell plasma/blood, stop bathing everyday, and hell probably sell a few vital organs before going back to dial up.
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    Image of TheHeartless TheHeartless
    03/01/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    Luckily, that's not even an issue for me. You see, I use AT&T's award-winning DSL which consistently clocks me in around 47kbps. No, I'm not joking. The past 48 hours have been a consistent nightmare of sub-dial-up speeds, but this is the norm rather than the exception to the rule, and I am missing Double XP weekend on Call of Duty just because I thought to myself, "anyone is better than Time Warner Cable." I was wrong. I was so, fucking wrong. I can give screenshots of my bandwidth speed tests. They've been out to look at it 3 times now and it has only gotten progressively worse.


    I suppose what I am saying is that I just lovey love paying 5 times what dial-up users are paying, for the same service. Yeah...

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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    If I'm switching back to dial-up then I'm also putting my BBS back online.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    Look, I spend too much time here as it is!


    Under dialup you'd have to put me on the Gizmodo payroll.


    You know, so I could afford a broadband hookup again.

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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    I'd just go live in a Starbucks.


    Problem solved.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    I would have to be in one seriously deep financial hole before I'd give up the broadband. I'm sure if it came to that I could find plenty of other things to cut back on in order to keep the internets flowing at my home tap..
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    Image of Aturayd Aturayd
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    If it came down to food and broadband, broadband would take priority.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/01/09

    @Aturayd: Yeah, you could totally survive off of free food samples ordered on the intarwebz a-la Hobomodo.
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    Image of Kenny Banks Kenny Banks
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    Id hope people would give up Xbox Live before giving up broadband.
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    Image of David Reyburn David Reyburn
    02/28/09

    @Kenny Banks: I think you're about to get a rude jolt to your worldview one day.


    On a related note, anyone who would give up internet before xbox live should contact me with your credit card number to sign up for a new Gizmodo Gold account. Just replay to this post with your credit card number, SSN, and PIN.

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    Image of Morgan Breden Morgan Breden
    03/01/09

    @David Reyburn: I think he was trying to reply to something in another comment thread, and failed.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/01/09

    @Morgan Breden: Or he wasn't, and failed anyway.


    One facebooker makes a decent comment and you all start getting cocky...

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    Image of Michael Durkee Michael Durkee
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    i'd sell my computer before i give up my internet.
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    Image of Jamie Boudreaux Jamie Boudreaux
    02/28/09

    I'd give up sex.. oh wait. the sheer fact that I'm replying to this on a Saturday night...@Michael Durkee:
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    Image of Jamie Boudreaux Jamie Boudreaux
    02/28/09

    @Jamie Boudreaux: helzz yeah. i definitely switched up the @ MD. suck it. gizmodo regulars.
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    03/01/09

    @Jamie Boudreaux: You've still got to earn your stripes, pledge. Don't make me give you the drink-a-gallon-of-gin challenge!
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    Image of kickace kickace
    02/28/09

    In reply to How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
    but WHYYYYYYYY.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/01/09

    @kickace: There are hundreds of thousands of people in rural (or other) areas where there is no wi-fi, or where wi-fi is spotty and unreliable. Many people also aren't terribly tech savvy. For those people, a simple dial-up plan will suffice for email, moderate web use, and basic chatting. Compared to the cost of broadband, it may actually be a more fitting use of bandwidth.
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