dial up nonsense

country_gurl

Right! I'm officially p***ed off! I am sick of dial up so it is now time to turn to broadband! Does anyone know where u can get the cheapest broadband connection and is there any you can get without a phone line. Im just so fed up with dial up taking an age that i cant research it as i'll only throw the computer out d window!
Also i only have windows 98 does this effect me getting broadband. I'm putting it in the boardies trusted hands! To the rescue guys n gals.

Ruu_Old

Moved from After Hours.
Where are you located? Using Windows 98 probably won't be that much of an issue.

country_gurl

kilkenny city

Ruu_Old

Don't know what their service is like but Digiweb have a selection of options available, lowest at 29.99 eurons per month I think. You'll have to find out if your line is enabled for broadband of course. Check here. There are probably better offers other than that available elsewhere.

Adam

There's plenty of options! Some of the more popular ones availible in your area:

Services in the Kilkenny Town area

country_gurl

thanks guys/girls fingers crossed

Foxwood

country_gurl wrote:

Right! I'm officially p***ed off! I am sick of dial up so it is now time to turn to broadband! Does anyone know where u can get the cheapest broadband connection and is there any you can get without a phone line. Im just so fed up with dial up taking an age that i cant research it as i'll only throw the computer out d window!
Also i only have windows 98 does this effect me getting broadband. I'm putting it in the boardies trusted hands! To the rescue guys n gals.

If you're using the phoneline for anything else, then BT is the cheapest deal for broadband - €35 for 1Mbps broadband and line-rental - effectively €10.82 for the broadband and the usual €24.18 for linerental.

You'll need to get an ethernet card installed in the Win98 machine - even if you have USB ports, you really don't want to be adding any extra drivers, and ethernet drivers are about as lean and mean as they come - USB drivers will eat a lot more resources.

But start saving up for a new PC. All those flash animations that the advertisers are using these days are going to eat that old machine up.

Rb

Wow..I didn't know there were people out there still on dialup..

smellslikeshoes

rb_ie wrote:

Wow..I didn't know there were people out there still on dialup..

That is either pretty inapropiate sarcasim or you havent ever steped foot outside of dublin.There is a lot more people who cant get broadband than you would realise.

EKRIUQ

rb_ie wrote:

Wow..I didn't know there were people out there still on dialup..

A lot of the country haven't the option of broadband and only have dial-up I suppose its the case ignorance is bliss:rolleyes:

hobie

Wow..I didn't know there were people out there still on dialup..

Oh to live in the "Metropolis" .....