Contrary users may choose to remain on dial-up simply because the slow speed and intermittent connection provides a bulwark against the fast-moving online world.

保守的用户之所以坚持选择拨号连接的理由很简单，就是较低的速度与间断的连接成为阻隔瞬息万变再现世界的一道壁垒。

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We are going to be installing several software packages that will require several hundred MB of free disk space and may take hours to download if you are using a dial-up Internet connection.

我们将安装几个软件包，这需要几百 MB 的空闲硬盘空间，而且如果使用拨号互联网连接的话，可能要花几小时下载。

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You are going to be installing several software packages that will require several hundred MB of free disk space and may take hours to download if you are using a dial-up Internet connection.

我们将安装几个软件包，这需要几百mb的空闲硬盘空间，而且如果使用拨号互联网连接的话，可能要花几小时下载。

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"If you think about a dial-up connection to the Internet and I was to get a very big file -- a huge file -- something that normally would take me on a dial-up connection 10 hours to download, I would download using this at one second, " explains Terabeam CEO Dan Hesse.

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It works regardless of whether I'm on the Net via a dial-up connection.

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Even then most users got to it via a slow dial-up connection.

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