DSL ponderings - Page 2

lol

the weather is lovely right??

Just this war thingie in the air is making me uneasy...

Nice to meet another fellow orange but your nick was making things more than a little obvious hee hee

Cant wait till Adam hauls ass here...I'll be waiting in Sarasota - but he hasnt given me the address yet lol...

Yeah, I talked with him briefly about the area the other day when I ordered my Laptop. We'll have to hook up and do a LT LAN party or something. Maybe a few of us here could play on one team and another group could form a team somewhere else.

Jeff

Oh, there is a company in Tampa that offers "Bonded" DSL lines using a Cisco router. You can bond quite a few together to exceed the speed of a T1 but at less cost (and sometimes less reliability).

Jeff

This is definately off-topic as far as "Other than Sager Tech Talk," but on-topic as far as Florida goes...

I have never been to FL, but would like to (if only to visit Ybor City in Tampa) - anyway, when is the best (read cheapest) time to go from CA to FL?

I realize that this is not a popular flight, as why would one want to leave one sunny state for another, but there it is.

-myrkat

i regularly get a 144KB a sec with my dsl. Cable was just too expensive in my area... i'm suposed to have "up to" 1.5 Mbps connection but that never happens! my friend has at&t broadband cable and got like 400KB a sec. I was in awe!

Dsl really cant touch cable modems. The dsl has its own bottle neck because of the size of the pipe. Its not going to go much over 2.5. Cable modem uncapped can do around 9.0 downloads, and nearly the same upload. If you dont believe that find an optimum online customer, and ask them. Im with comcast, and pay for the proplan. I get 3500dls, and 384 up. I normally have download speeds, to give you the other figure, of 400- to 500 KB/s. It really all depends on providers available in your area. For instance if cox is the cable provider, go for the dsl. lol If optionline, comcast, and a few others are the cable provider go cable. Im not well versed on dsl companies, as I steer away from it. The only nice thing about dsl, is usually your upload speeds tend to be faster than most cable companies standard plans. If I didnt have the pro plan, Id be at 1500 dl, and 128 up. Not acceptable to me hehe. Oh and the only advantage of a t1 for me would be if I were running a server. T1 speeds are 1.5 up, and 1.5 down. Other than that not worth it for a residential customer. The price is way out of line for what you get. Good luck.

I have cox, and they SUCK, its always down, its never fast, it just sucks, they've been "upgrading" for the past 2 years to a digital signal....their customer service sucks, the only reason they do business is because they are the only people offering high speed access in nova, it REALLY sucks, comcast is in VERY few places, and DSL isnt availible yet either, mostly because of the fiber being in the lines. Its terrible, but next year im living in richmond, anyone live in that area know any good companies? thinking of getting 7.1down1.5up for splitting with a group of friends.

imo, i've had adsl for about 4 yrs 768/128 kbps. I do have a few complaints but nothing major. There is Verizon DSL and Charter Cable in my immediate area... Even though DSL has it's limited range it beats cable hands down. I rarely get slowdowns compared to cable (remember in my area).

If you were looking into a dsl connection definatly keep a eye out for "SDSL" Currently ntelos on the east coast offers it for about 39.99 monthly with a 2 year contract... (768/768kbps) Very good deal.

good luck in the broadband search... anything is better than 2400 baud modems... *daydreams.*horrible screeching sounds*
*kringes
god bless broadband!

I just couldnt live with anything under 2500 dl speeds, or 300 upload. Dsl aint gonna cut it lol. Been there done that, got cable. hehe

Just a note

IMO it totally depends on where you live and what kind of service you can get. For example, I used to have cable internet and I was always above the 2MB for downloads which was smoking and then the cable company switched from @Home cable internet to their own Comcast internet. When that happened my speeds dropped to about 1.3MB almost overnight AND I lost my static IP address for my home pc. This really sucked because I host an FTP server, web server, etc so that I can access my files at home while I'm at work and at school. Anyway, I called the local phone company and found out that they would give me a static ip, the same 1.3MB download with a faster upload than I was currently getting with my cable company and all for the same price. So I switched. Is my DSL better or worse? Well, it's worse than my original cable service but better than what was being offered after the switch from @Home. So, I think the best thing to do is just shop around and maybe ask some people that have the services what they think.

PS - As far as the whole, "As more people get on the service the slower it gets with cable," in the year or more that I had the cable service I never experienced a slow down. 2MB all the time and I live near downtown Fort Wayne, a rather heavily populated area. FYI.