The next time you get frustrated because a website refuses to load instantly, or a streaming video has to buffer for a few seconds, think of the surprisingly large number of Canadians still on dial-up.

National Capital FreeNet executive director, Ross Kouhi, right, says many people choose dial-up internet because they can't afford high-speed. (CBC)
According to a few different estimates, there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians still travelling the information superhighway in the slow lane, who only get online after waiting for a series of bleeps, piercing shrieks and blurts of static to be belted out by their dial-up modem.

And that?s just the beginning of their waiting.
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