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switching from cable to dial up due to a move

Nov 23, 2007 1:17AM PST

Hello, we are currently in town here in ohio and have been on road runner cable internet we love its speed, etc. now we are moving into the country here and the only service available there is dial up. my question is can we still conduct online live conferences with people through yahoo with the dial up service?

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It may be difficult.
Nov 23, 2007 1:29AM PST

Dial-up is so much slower in speed, only up to 56Kbs, but normally much lower, that the transfer of data will be so much slower as well. If it is live voice conferencing then perhaps dial-up will not be such a problem, but if you are looking at live video conferencing, then the live images will just be too large for effective video.

Is that the only service you can get? What about satellite tv/broadband?

Mark

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investigating connections
Nov 23, 2007 1:36AM PST

we looked into satelite internet also, i am aprehensive due to all the horror stories and also the expense...for now we are relegated to dial up no other service available out there or so i was told. we thought about wireless but this is also very expensive? not sure that it is even available there. we do video and audio conferences now but if i had to i could do voice only i guess until we got satelite internet, but i was told it is fickle with the weather?

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also comparison shopping is crazy ! for dial up !
Nov 23, 2007 1:38AM PST

Also trying to figure out if any like netzero truly are "faster" with accelerators?

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Not my expertise, but
Nov 23, 2007 1:52AM PST

with wireless you would have to depend on a transmitter nearby. Only you can find out if there is one. If mobile phones work where you intend to live, then there will be a transmitter nearby, But whether that will be just a telephony transmitter or internet capable as well is something I know little about. What about checking the local mobile phone shops? They might be able to say.

With satellite I don't see the weather as a problem. Many hundreds of thousands of people use satellite tv around the world, (if not millions), as their primary source of communication and they use satellites in all sorts of weather. I'm sure there are some weather conditions that will affect reception, but I don't see that as a continuing problem.

In my view accelerators are not worth the time and expense they incur. You can't accelerate dial-up to faster that 56kbs. That's physically impossible. What accelerators do is to store, (cache), web sites onto your computer so that the next time you visit the basic site is retrieved from the cache, and only the 'updated' elements are re-downloaded. They will try and download all pages of a web site in the background when you visit, even if you don't click them all, so the connection is in use all the time. This in itself will slow down your own use of the connection.

And of course, you cannot store conferencing video files that way, because the images will be changing from one visit to the next.

Sorry, but I hope that helps.

Mark

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seems difficult
Mar 31, 2008 5:58PM PDT

For sure this seems very tough..We have 8 MBps broadband connection for conferencing solutions as we have to attend frequent meetings through our http://www.rhubcom.com turbomeeting appliance with clients and have to attend webinars from our niche. So its a must to have high speed connectivity..So doesn't seems any good alternative which provide quality solutions. Yep you can expect things might be different in future with universal broadband whenever it comes into existence.

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No way.
Apr 3, 2008 11:38AM PDT

Its not going to work. IM works, voice might work but....video is impossible within dial-up.

I have a steady dial-up connection of 2/kbs/s....And lets just say...You can do much very too quickly!

Satellite will work, but the speeds still are nothing when compared to DSL. Weather should not prove to much of a problem unless its raining or snowing heavily.