I have Dial up. I have no problems with it and can watch my tv shows, music videos and movies for netflix, hulu, abc, nbc cbs fox, pbs, TLC, even some shows on things like lifetime, usa, tnt. Ive had dial up now for about 3 months and havent had a problem at all with it. it is slower than broadband, dsl, highspeed what ever its called in your area. but overall I get the same performance as I did with high speed other than its slower and its lighter on finances. is it worth it. in my opinion yes for me it is. anything you should know, if you can work a computer on high speed then you can work a computer on dial up. so you pretty much already know everything. oh yea I dont have trouble with missing calls when Im on my computer. here the telephone company has options like three way calling call forwarding, voice mail, call waiting, caller ID. when a call comes through and Im on the computer it doesnt interfere or shut down my dial up. the call is routed to my voice mail just like it is when Im not home to answer the phone or just dont want to drop what Im doing to answer the phone. when I get off the computer I just pick up my phone and there is a special tone that lets me know I have voice mail messages. I call the voice mail number and enter my pin and listen to my messages then decide if I need to call anyone back. so theres no need for me to worry about how much time Im on line nor whether Im missing a call.