Been on dialup at home since beginning of July. Always connect at just over 50k. It's painful, but I live. It was unavailable (BB) at the time, but since August it's been available and that month basically refocused me on things such that, although I hate dialup, I don't quite hate it enough to pay the extra $30/month for broadband. most of what i do on the net is banking, anandtech, news, etc. so other than kazaa downloading broadband isn't THAT much better. I do bemoan my existence when I download multiple pages and surfing is definitely slower, but you'll get used to it. I have BB at work.