Another thing you can do is turn off the graphics in your mail reader. I
am on a dial up and use Thunderbird to read my mail. If I want to see
the graphics, I turn it on. I also leave attachments on my ISP's server
until (if) I want to download them.
The only way I can get broadband here is via satellite, or via a
wireless of over 10 miles. I am probably going for the wireless
connection, but not at rally high speed until I verify that it is solid
or not. If it is, I will up the speed and swing my phone service over to
that connection also. (We have 2 metro lines, which cost almost $100.)
Zingotel charges only $6/month for their service, so I can apply the
difference in phone charges to the wireless connection costs.
Peace,
Pat
pethier@isd.net wrote:
>>It depends. I used to have a 28K dial up connection. I'd
>>get about 300 emails a day, about 75 real and the rest
>>spam. Sometimes it would take a hour or so to download
>>the daily email, including the spam. Sometimes it would
>>hang 45 minutes into it, and it would have to be started
>>all over...
>>
>>I was forced to get a broadband connection at home just to
>>cope with the spam. Now the downloads happen stupidly
>>fast, and the filters and anti-spam software catch most of
>>it. But I also had to upgrade my system to a faster one,
>>simply because with all the extra anti-spam, anti-spyware,
>>and anti-virus (and all the automatic updates to said
>>software) software running, the system was too
>>sloooooooooow...
>>
>>Not that having broadband and a faster machine isn't nice,
>>but the old one was doing just fine, and it was an expense
>>(and a recurring monthly expense) that was forced on me
>>because of the spammers, etc.
>>
>>Tim Mullen
>>
>>
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