anyone use dsl
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- BonSeff0
dynamic ip's is a dsl advantage
- Donvitoviti0
It all depends on what you pay for.
I pay for 3 megs down and 386k up.
My acctual Speeds are 2.8 megs down and i get 510k up... go figure.
I have the SBC 44 Dollar Package.
It really smokes.
You cant really compre Cable to DSL unless you know the Specs behind them. Cable tends to be faster when you compare the lowerend packages.. but DSL prices are coming down for higher speeds such as mine.
Compare the Speeds... and compare the prices.... If they say 1.5.. most likely it will be 1.2-1.3
and the upload will be what they say.. or greater.
anyway..
- atomica0
Got the 1.5mbps dsl for 26$ a month here, and it can reach that. Depends who i'm d/l'n from... But it usuall stays around 1.2mbps... which is still way better than anything else for 26$ a month.
- enobrev0
i've always found cable to be far more reliable.. at least in nyc.
I've had dsl from providers in the past 3 years, and all of them had intermittent problems where i'd be down for at LEAST 15 minutes at least once a day. Sometimes that stretched to 2 hours and soemtimes to 3 - 5 times a day. So I've never actaully paid for dsl, as I wouldn't pay for the shoddy service.
2 of those 3 times I moved to cable and I've had NO problems (besides one outage for 10 minutes a few months back. That's after 8 months and now this time for over a year.
dsl can be faster depending on the plan yo ucan afford, but for home service, watch what you get. For instance, Verizon owns the lines in NY, so even if you go with earthink ,etc, they go throug Verizon.
Who cares, right? Well, it turns out Verizon limits all dsl to 768 / 384 insted of Earthlink's advertised 1500 / 384. Another reason I switched to cable, which is twice as much but 1/10th the hassle.
- fate0
Uh, industry73, cable doesn't have "fiber optic" in it. It has a larger bandwidth, simple as that. I mean just hold a co-axial wire to the phone line...notice anything?
- sexypixel0
i love my dial-up account, its so fucking retro
- kodap0
ahah
- paulrand0
I love my 2 cans and a string
- qaddisin0
damn. just got my dsl connection up and running and all i can say is zoooom......