Topic: I have dial up. - page 2. (Read 1844 times)

Some allow you to control your private keys - this would be the best solution. Also, if you are mining it should work fine because of the low bandwidth requirements (for the most part) of a miner. I would be interested however to know how well this actually works over dialup.

On a more serious note: if you're in the middle of fraking Amazonian Forest, a thin client might be the solution for you. The blockchain remains in the cloud and does not have to be downloaded and synced.
Naturally, there are security implications to this approach as nothing in life is free.

While it is true that the RFC for IP over Avian Carriers never tackled environmental issues like your -20°C weather, heavy snowstorms, hunting season, and the like, our ground-breaking proprietary extensions to the protocol should make the delivery possible: we send your bird carriers with FedEx!

Implementing out protocol extension, the transmission link will be established...
Unless it won't, see this guy's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpkbYL7wFA&feature=related
That may or may not have been one of our ostrich messengers sent out to deliver an urgent marriage proposal made by one of our clients via Internet Messaging.
126 bytes sent, 0 received, and we never saw that bird again. As a matter of fact, I don't recollect hearing from that particular client again either...

Should your organization prove unable to implement our extension for any reason, we also offer reliable, if somewhat slower, solutions based on the vanilla version of the standard.
Please use the mii-tool-avian to reduce the desired link speed and we'll send penguin carriers right away.
Persistent buggers, those penguins. Just make sure to have enough fish when your blockchain is received

Cool story bro. What state are you from?

It's a tragic legend unfortunately true.

I live far away from fellow Linux hackers and the concrete jungles that sport 100 Mbps downlinks. To get to here you must to venture into the mountains and rally down dirt road to where the wireless signals come and go. If you ever feel curious enough to come out this far, don't be alarmed by the smell when you stop. It's just the fresh cow dung smoking off your exhaust.

I've attempted to get started with Bitcoin before. Bit Faucet had graciously donated 0.05 BTC to me many months ago that I've been eagerly waiting for to appear in my client. And no, I haven't been downloading it all this time. In my fleeting interest I rightfully lost determination in downloading the entire block chain over my slow connection.

Now the block chain is an order of magnitude larger.

So determined again I've began redownloading the block chain. It's received roughly 200 MB so far (if you have a 10 Mbps connection, that's like waiting for 35 GB). In a few weeks it should be fully downloaded. Anyway, this is long enough. I just wanted to dispel the legend that dial-up is dead as disco. Or am I the only one that sees horses and code as part of a normal day?

P.S. An idea for you entrepreneurs: a service that mails the block chain on DVDs to would-be users with impatience or slow internet connections. And I do mean mail and not IP over Avian Carriers. It's -20 C right now.

P.P.S. As I finished writing this the transaction has showed up in my client with 400 confirmations. Perfect timing!