Dial-up Woes
Believe me when I tell you that we sympathize with folks who have only a dial-up connection available for access to the Internet. My brother-in-law was able to get high-speed Internet access around 1996 where he lives in Massachusetts and we had to wait until 2002 before our little New Hampshire town was wired for broadband. The wait seemed like an eternity!
Anyway, it appears that a number of folks who are on dial-up have been trying to download the video and not having a whole lot of success unfortunately.
The download page does include a warning about trying to download the video using a dial-up connection, and although we discourage it, people are welcome to try. It will take a very long time, so if you do want to try, you might want to try starting up the download some night just before you go to bed and let it run all night, as long as you don’t mind tying up your phone line all night and you have an “unlimited” access account that will not result in extra chages for staying online so long.
Staying online so long with a large download does not guaranty success however. Anything that goes wrong between the server and your PC can cause the download to abort and then you would have to start all over again. Very frustrating when you have spent 9 hours downloading and the download aborts with only 45 minutes to go. Been there, done that!
On a good-quality, high-speed connection, the download can take as little as 5 minutes.
Unfortunately, there simply is no good, reliable and efficient way to make our video available to dial-up users. We would have to put the video on a videotape, CD or DVD and then ship it out and although that it something we would consider in the future if there is enough interest, we are not able to do that at this time.
We wish we could do more for our dial-up connected friends, but right now there just isn’t a way to do it. Stay tuned to this blog however. If anything changes, we will post it here.
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