Anyone else switching to dial up

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Maybe. I always figured kids the same as I played as well especially with the screaming squeaky ventrilo kid videos of WoW. Someone who doesn’t have that specific thing does though just like how I didn’t have dsl back then I considered it a luxury.

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To be fair, if you don’t have something, you might consider it a luxury - and for you it is. For others though it is common. A person fetching water from a well might consider running water a luxury. That does not mean for most people that running water is unusual, luxurious, or hard to get.

That is still a real issue in rural areas and people are forced to go with satellite which is terrible for online gaming. Some areas have no cell coverage either so that is not an option. Always fun to go camping in the mountains and enjoy the break from internet, phones, and everything else, but still happy to come back to my home with those things. Not sure how people who live there full time handle things given how much of life requires online access now. Job applications, access to govt forms, etc.

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Dialup? Nope but i guess i’ll have to limit my router to a 10 mbit connection. That was what i used during Vanilla.

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My in-laws deal with the same thing, They are stuck with satellite because their house is literally ONE HUNDRED YARDS too far for the cable company to wire. It’s pretty ridiculous, imho.

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The ringtone of my childhood calling

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Totally depressing was watching a major cable company run a new high speed line down a major interstate corridor roughly 4 miles due north but with no plans or desire to run a branch line down a straight shot road to their house and the handful of others nearby.

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Haven’t had dial-up internet since 2000 or so. Plus, I wouldn’t want to spend the couple of thousand dollars to have the crappy local phone company install copper cabling from the street to the house.

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Indeed. They ran cable up to where the electrical lines are, and in-laws are one house past the lines, you could probably spit and hit it… but “Nope, too far.”

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I wasn’t using dialup even when I played everquest and that was before wow came out

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Am I the only one that went to the landfill to dig up my 2001 rig?

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If you really wanted to recreate that Classic experience, you’d switch to dial up and Windows Xp/Vista…as both Xp and Vista are no longer supported and will infect your computer and your entire network the instant you decide to switch back to Vista/Xp, I’m going to say “No, thank you.” My family will kill me if I try and switch back to Xp.

I’m already having enough fun with the bandwidth in this house…I’m sure that’ll be enough Classic nostalgia for me…low bandwidth and very poor service from my ISP.

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I managed to survive Y2K so I rewarded myself with DSL.

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We had dial-up when I first started playing EQ…

… that first phone bill convinced my parents to both ground me and get cable internet :rofl:

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Umm … I had broadband well before WoW came out … granted the speed wasn’t even close to what it is now, but it still wasn’t dial-up.

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Well I’ve had broadband since 2003, so ummm yeah.

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Nah, finally had the cable Internet come here when Ultima Online came out.

This was in Nebraska, which might seem kind of odd to you. If you think about it, the Internet goes right through here (being in the middle.) So it actually made sense, that it seemed kind of “early.”

The additional cost, to the Cox cable TV bill you already had, was actually pretty low ( especially taking into account how much unlimited dial up cost, at the time, if you even had it as an option.)

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This is the truth:

When I started playing WoW (in 2008), only dial-up and satellite were available in my area. We had satellite. The lag was real.

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isn’t that relative. i don’t like what i’m paying now.

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in 2004, most people had cable or dsl… Dial-up mostly died off at the turn of the millennium as DSL began to take over in 1999 and also cable internet became a thing offered by more and more cable tv providers.

In 2004, I had Charter cable internet service which was around ~25mbps at the time of Vanilla’s launch, which grew upwards of 50mbps during the lifecycle of Vanilla…
Then during the lifecycle of TBC, ~2009 I had Verizon Fios internet service, which was around 75mbps which over the years and as of today has grown to 300mbps.

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Gotta get that 5 seconds per frame rate going.