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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Remember to keep an operating system and maye even a computer handy on which that software will actually run in 2061  |
Including my own?
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Hm, OK.
In the Netherlands, you *can't* buy your own modem when you're on cable. (You can with some forms of DSL.)
We have only got one cable provider left, AFAIK (Ziggo), and the problem they often face is people complaining about the Wifi range. People (still) expect a single router to reach the entire house. That was probably possible in 2001, but not in 2016.
Wifi is so hard to get stable around here, especially when you're in an apartment, that I only use cables for everything, except for my phone, tablet, and laptop.
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Actually, a single router works for us. We only got the second one to insure a good range in the garden
(but we pulled cables to every single room in the house when we were rebuilding so all "fixed" devices have a "fixed" connection).
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
In the US there are entire swaths of the country that rely on dialup; rural and very small towns. (Low population density.)
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This reminds me of a remark I heard (again) just this morning on a Dutch radio show: the USA is still a developing country!
I wasn't sure, but apparently there are still 5 providers in the Netherlands that actually offer dialup... (one is a major one, the other 4 I've never heard of before).