Disk up in 2019?

[M4tthewd]

Hello, 

My wife and I recently bought a house in a remote area in Manitoba. I am looking at internet options, and obviously satellite would be the quickest. But I also had the thought of dial up. I remembered watching the ltt itels bonded episode and was curious if anyone knows if dial up internet would work with this. I am completely aware at the craziness of the idea. I'm more interested in figuring out a way to have internet where the utilization of current infrastructure of phone lines can be made. Dsl is currently not an option from my understanding. We take possession at the end of the month and I would love to come to some sort of insane agreement that dial up internet is possible, and which way would get me the fastest. (Note I can run multiple phone lines) for those that want to play along with my crazy idea, I will be posting updates. (Also Note, I am aware that I can just dial a number and have internet now, I am more interested in the bandwidth limitations of phone lines). (Third Note, helping me with dial up specifically is in all likelihood helping more than just myself)

[Metallus97]

I guess that will be way to slow and complicated to setup.

Simply not compatible with today's web  

[Electronics Wizardy]

If you have a phone line can you get dsl? DSL is much faster than dail up.

 

Also how much do you want fast internet? You might be able to run your own fiber line to the nearest isp hookup.

[M4tthewd]

I have been told that dsl is not an option currently in our area. As well as fibre. So basically my two options are dial up and satellite. Before I can actually make a educated decision I would have to be educated on which option is more sustainable. A third option is if I were to use the internet that I have with my cellular provider. Which is unlimited everything, I have traded by mts to bell go telus and everytime the deal got better and now I'm grandfathered in. I could set up a home hotspot with my cell. I know a while ago they made 3g hotspots using celluar data. I would have to check the limit on tethering though. Off hand i can not recall, it was 200mb originally in 2011. But like i said every time I got traded it got better and better. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, M4tthewd said:

I have been told that dsl is not an option currently in our area. As well as fibre. So basically my two options are dial up and satellite. Before I can actually make a educated decision I would have to be educated on which option is more sustainable. A third option is if I were to use the internet that I have with my cellular provider. Which is unlimited everything, I have traded by mts to bell go telus and everytime the deal got better and now I'm grandfathered in. I could set up a home hotspot with my cell. I know a while ago they made 3g hotspots using celluar data. I would have to check the limit on tethering though. Off hand i can not recall, it was 200mb originally in 2011. But like i said every time I got traded it got better and better. 

Cellular is probably gonna be better than dailup or cellular by a good amount.

 

 

[Metallus97]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Cellular is probably gonna be better than dailup or cellular by a good amount.

 

 

YEASSSS

[Donut417]

5 hours ago, M4tthewd said:

Hello, 

My wife and I recently bought a house in a remote area in Manitoba. I am looking at internet options, and obviously satellite would be the quickest. But I also had the thought of dial up. I remembered watching the ltt itels bonded episode and was curious if anyone knows if dial up internet would work with this. I am completely aware at the craziness of the idea. I'm more interested in figuring out a way to have internet where the utilization of current infrastructure of phone lines can be made. Dsl is currently not an option from my understanding. We take possession at the end of the month and I would love to come to some sort of insane agreement that dial up internet is possible, and which way would get me the fastest. (Note I can run multiple phone lines) for those that want to play along with my crazy idea, I will be posting updates. (Also Note, I am aware that I can just dial a number and have internet now, I am more interested in the bandwidth limitations of phone lines). (Third Note, helping me with dial up specifically is in all likelihood helping more than just myself)

Dial up is 56K, so it would struggle on most of the internet. Satilite will be faster BUT latency will be insane and you may have daily and monthly usage caps. LTE would be a better choice is available. 

[Bombastinator]

6 hours ago, M4tthewd said:

I have been told that dsl is not an option currently in our area. As well as fibre. So basically my two options are dial up and satellite. Before I can actually make a educated decision I would have to be educated on which option is more sustainable. A third option is if I were to use the internet that I have with my cellular provider. Which is unlimited everything, I have traded by mts to bell go telus and everytime the deal got better and now I'm grandfathered in. I could set up a home hotspot with my cell. I know a while ago they made 3g hotspots using celluar data. I would have to check the limit on tethering though. Off hand i can not recall, it was 200mb originally in 2011. But like i said every time I got traded it got better and better. 

Satellite  is dialup for upload, or it used to be anyway.

[Donut417]

3 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Satellite  is dialup for upload, or it used to be anyway.

Yeah. Its not that way anymore. HughsNet one of the US satilite providers say they can do 25/3 service. Dialup cant do 3 Mbps so, Yeah. Id have to say they no longer user dialup. 

 

Thought the usage caps are insane. 10 gigs, 20 Gigs, 30 Gigs or 50 Gigs and if you go over they reduce your speeds down to 1 to 3 Mbps. Hell to the NO. Id rather not even have internet at that point. 

[Bombastinator]

Most of the continental US by area if not population is still on dialup.  Mom and pop ISPs still exist in some rural areas.  LTE may be possible but there’s a higher than average possibility that if it does it’s Verizon only (they have a system that uses longer range antennas)

Sometimes old school GSM.

it’s quite rare for there to be more than a single service provider.  Everything else will be outlandishly expensive roaming charges, and data for GSM is only 9600k. The astounding roaming charges can often be mitigated by picking the exact correct carrier though.  Some areas don’t even get OTA television.   The only remaining constant is radio.  There is a HAM standard for packet data but it’s fearsomely complicated to set up and may need a HAM license.  Also it’s more or less point to point.