Giving Up Broadband is Too Hard

Asaf Buchner | August 18, 2006, 05:51 PM

To get even with my broadband provider increasing the monthly fees to $45, I switched back to dial-up at a mere $7 a month. I thought dial-up would not be so bad. Besides, I relied on my neighbors’ benevolence to supply me with cheap (free) and fast WiFi connection. However, as mooching is proving unreliable (and is probably posing me some security risks), I find myself dialing often to my ISP. And to my “astonishment” dialup is really slow… I don’t think I can bear it much longer. I don’t know if we ever asked consumers whether they switched back to dialup but I expect that the numbers will be very low.