Anyone manage without broadband?

[Shimano105]

I can't be bothered with downloading and all the other stuff you are supposed to do online and, to be honest, tend to use the client's net access more than my own.

I was looking at pay as yo go broadband but I'm now seriously thinking of just getting free dial up, freeview box and telling Branson to sod off.

Am I mad (as well as tight)?

[Xenophon]

I can't be bothered with downloading and all the other stuff you are supposed to do online and, to be honest, tend to use the client's net access more than my own.

I was looking at pay as yo go broadband but I'm now seriously thinking of just getting free dial up, freeview box and telling Branson to sod off.

Am I mad (as well as tight)?

Yes, you are mad. Warcraft would be rubbish on dial-up.

[chicane]

Yes, you are mad. Warcraft would be rubbish on dial-up.

Also, you'd have nothing to do on those lonely saturday nights when the missus has gone away for the weekend and you've got the house to yourself.

[Xenophon]

Also, you'd have nothing to do on those lonely saturday nights when the missus has gone away for the weekend and you've got the house to yourself.

Indeed.

[Zippy]

Am I mad (as well as tight)?

I'd say you're not really committed to this new-fangled IT industry

[AtW]

Is not this nice - the guy will pay ridiculous amounts for bloody bicycles (get a car!) but won't pay for broadband, get yet wallet you tigher than a duck pathetic excuse for a man!

[Shimano105]

Thanks, you've convinced me. Dialup it is.

[Xenophon]

Thanks, you've convinced me. Dialup it is.

[gingerjedi]

I couldn't do without it but what pi55es me off is every time we have a big downpour my router won't sync properly (nm 3-5db, normally 20db) and my phone line goes fuzzy, so I ring BT to complain but by the time they turn up its dry and the BB is fine again, then it rains I ring BT... etc, etc ...you get the picture.

[DaveB]

Is not this nice - the guy will pay ridiculous amounts for bloody bicycles (get a car!) but won't pay for broadband, get yet wallet you tigher than a duck pathetic excuse for a man!

Shim, you're not my younger brother are you? I've just dragged him kicking and screaming into the 21st century by getting him to buy a new PC with windows XP on it rather than his old beast running '98. He's been using PAYG dialup and still refuses to get broad band. Even though we had to go and buy him a new external modem to get him back online with the new PC as the old one had an internal ISA Slot modem in it....

He also has around £8,000 of road racing bikes and gear in his garage and thinks nothing of spending £500 on a new pair of wheels.