Dial-up Modems no longer supported???

[Alfred]

Hi: Ubuntu made it more and more difficult to use Dial up modems with 
all the newer distributions of Ubuntu. Strange thing though, almost all 
the repositories for Ubuntu software, have download speeds that are much 
slower than Dial-up, at 53K per second. It's not real cost efficient to 
use Ultra high Speed Internet and then have to wait hours to download 
even a little file. Maybe this whole issue needs to be looked at again. 
Telus now claims 50 megs per second, download speed, but the servers at 
repositories are only a very small fraction of that speed. Those servers 
are most of them still at Dial -up speed.

Alfred!