how many people have dial-up?
 

How many people still have 56k dial-up accounts?

When building sites, do you still keep the pages small, for those 56k surfers?

The bandwidth usage & prices are hardly a problem anymore

This is my modem :

http://www.syssrc.com/html/museum/im...dem_noakes.jpg

I've had broadband for 5 years now. Even when I travel, I try to only stay in hotels that have high-speed net access (which explains my sig).

All my stuff is built for broadband surfers.

I just read an article that 51% of US internet users now have broadband. On the flip side there are some people disputing this. Either way, don't go overboard on your main pages, at least. You don't want someone to leave before you page even loads.

wtf is dialup?:glugglug




























:1orglaugh

Still 50%... damn

I've read that South Korea has a crazy % of households with broadband. Like 75% of homes in S. Korea have broadband (or something like that)

Damn you go there before me :1orglaugh

I still use dial up.. I also have roadrunner

and yeah, I try to keep my pages under 45kb w/pics if possible..

45k, wow that's really small. I thought with <100kb I'd be good but I may have to rethink that. Prolly need to look for a better jpeg resampling to cut the pics down even more

I doubt anybody do in the business unless they live too far from town to have high speed .

I don't know any1 on dialup right now personally...

owned :1orglaugh

btw: lmfao @ your custom title

I am sure 90% or so of webmasters have DSL or cable but I am concerned about surfers, specifically US surfers. If 50% dial-up users is true then I really need to cut down my pages a bit more

if you keep your pages an average size it should be ok for the 56K'ers...they're used to waiting

HA! I had one of those in like 1984-5.. thereabouts.

:1orglaugh

damn... your income no good?:Graucho

I have a 56k dial up account as a backup for when Im traveling. Otherwise Im a cable guy

I have dial up still. Also have cable.
Fuck I still have my AOL account for dialup from back when they did not send you CD's but monster fucking grey binders with books in them.

No I do not use bring your own access on AOL.

Of people that have net access? more than 50%
How much surfing is done on dial-up?
A bit less than 50%

ditto on all of the above

do people still use dialup nowdays?

I did however drop my super elite compuserve account in 98.

Yes, lots actually.

can you club s/b to death with that thing also?

I have had cable internet since 1998... with the exception of 3 weeks when I moved and had to wait for reconnection.

I don't specifically build pages with dial; up uses in mind, but try to keep the load time as fast as possible for the surfurs anyways

to be exact
63 million (51%) - broadband
61.5 million (49%) - dialup
home subscribers only.

this is btw first year when broadband took a lead position

I have it as a back up in case my isp is down.

cables here :winkwink:

I always design with dial-up in mind. Try to keep all my tour pages below 70k. It's even better when I get them down below 50k.

Fuck dialup, broadband is taking over so quickly

I am glad I am on DSL :winkwink:

aDSL here..

damn, I get chills when I remember the dialup days. We had to pay $100 for dialup access and that was only for 6-7 hours per day, not 24/7. 24/7 was like $350...:feels-hot

even the adsl I'm on now isn't very fast, 384 down / 128 kbits up (40kb down, 10kb up) but still its much better than dialup, at least you're 24/7 online. Took me 8 years enduring dialup hell! :feels-hot

I don't know about dialup since 5 - 6 years ago...

I'm happy with my DSL..:thumbsup

samuel

/me not.
but of course I try to keep the kb size as small as possible.

What does that have to do with income? lol.

I don't use dial up all of the time, but I do have & use it.:winkwink:

It varies from city to city. Plus studies conflict. I'm sure most webmasters are on broadband and appear to design to it.

One thing for sure is that more people get broadband every day.

Oh, the 56K!! Dream on. Many dialups are actually slower than that. If you're too far away to get DSL, then the line is not gonna support 56Kbps. So figure 28Kbps. For these poor souls, the Internet is a different experience and many don't even understand what the speed brings.

Are there even any webmasters on 56k?

Oh... The horror!

The last report I read, and I'm sorry I can't remember where I read it, the dial up consumers are right around 45-51%. That was as recent as last month.

i keep alternative internet connections for rainy days.

had my internet go down for 3 days, was glad i had my old dial up still available

This is still lot of dialup in the world... I didn't think that... But when I build movie sites, dialup users aren't important for me...

I have a dial up account as a back up but it's all broadband here! :)

dial-up is a thing of the past, since bandwidth in the US is pretty cheap nowadays, i think most of the internet users use mostly dsl connections

just my :2 cents: :2 cents: