DSL or cable? What's your choice??

Yours Truly | June 25, 2003 | Yours Truly

[El Conservador]

I use Charter Pipeline, and I'm pretty much satisfied...

What's your choice/opinion???

One of these is my link to the world.

[oyez]

Been using TW's RoadRunner. Good system. On the other hand their Digital TV is the absolute pits. Time Warner can not supply what they advertise. I expect RR to follow suit whith their digitalTV. Their customer disservice department is almost non existant.

[epow]

My son has cable, my brother-in-law has DSL. I have used both quite a bit, and I prefer cable 10-1 at least. Cable is faster and more reliable. My b-i-l's DSL is fast enough when it works, but it seems every other time I visit him his connection is down for some reason.

Maybe it's just his local phone company. I haven't had any experience with DSL by other companies.

[ApesForEvolution]

Cable got bogged down here after everyone took the promo, so who knows.

[isthisnickcool]

I have a linksys and can't get it to work beyond 40 feet!!! Even with their booster which did absolutely nothing for 100 dollars !!!

I use the Linksys too. The 2.4. I added the booster a few weeks back too. It didn't seem to do anything for me either. Hmm.....

[CobaltBlue]

1.169 Mbps (149.63 KBps) now that the rest of the family and the neighbors are asleep.

[CobaltBlue]

1.274 Mbps (163.04 KBps) on retest.

[wardaddy]

Cable for me is about 20% faster except in high volume time periods.

My ADSL at work is a bit slow cause I've got an old rig and I'm at the tail end of the line from the nearest switching station in an industrial area....I barely qualify but it's still way way beyond ISDN and less "breaks".

Cable (comcast) is much worse about bugs, horseys, and worms and just general crap. I run every free defense known and some still creep in. At work....I just spybot and no wall and have never had anything worse than the usual cookie flags in 5 years.

It'll probably crash tommorow.

I had a Kleg worm at home last month sneak in....bitch to kill.

I'm an amateur naturally, some of you guys write the programs I'm sure and enjoy watching we little people jump around..lol

[Buckwheats]

I love WildBlue satellite service....KA band....20-30 GHz...JK...but, I might when they finish building the damn thing. Oh yeah, then they've got to launch it in 2004. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[wardaddy]

33.6K Modem: 16-27K
56K Modem: 34-45K
ISDN/I-DSL: 100-120K
Your throughput: 1536 K
Cable/ADSL: 229-950K
T1: 1078-1300K
Kbps:


That was TOAST run I just pulled a sec ago on Comcast with a homemade job. 19 gig hard drive, 1.2 AMD chip, and scant voodoo

...not too shabby.

[cherry]

I have directv and no cable..though I suppose I could get it brought in from the road....

I have Quest for telephone......can I get verizon dsl thru that?

and how much would that cost?

[scott7278]

I made the mistake of going for a $19.95/mo DSL offer for 3 months with no obligation to continue. I was hooked and still have it one year later! I knew there was a reason for them doing that...

It is expensive, but I can never go back. My office is still dial-up and it frustrates me to no end.

[wardaddy]

19.95 for DSL is a good price.

[Pro-Bush]

Cable...All the way!

Don't waste your time & money with DSL.

[scott7278]

Well, for 3 months it was. Then it went to $49.95/mo but they already had me snagged.

[RockyMtnMan]

Yeah, cable rocks!

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[visualops]

Cable, as DSL, can be tiered, it isn't that one is inherently faster.

[visualops]

Started out on @home, they were taken over by Charter, Charter then put everyone on the "pipeline" crap.
My other gripe with cable, is their pricing.
I was paying around $45 for internet(sans fees & taxes), but if I dropped cable TV, my bill would go up $20. Essentially they'd charge me the price of basic cable if all I wanted was internet. I had a package deal that "saved" over purchasing seperate, but we don't watch much TV so I eventually dropped that.
Cable TV has gotten more and more expensive annually for the last umpteen years. I'm sick of it.

[Total Package]

in Toledo ohio SBC DSL for $29

[lentulusgracchus]

When I got my new Dell PC, I signed up for Yahoo-Broadband at the same time.

They'll collect your cookies and profile you, and sell the profile out the back door. Yahoo Broadband is doing a deal with Southwestern Bell: formerly Sow Bell DSL was a standalone, and now they've wrapped a Yahoo Broadband wrapper around it. So it functions like AOL, in that you're surfing Yahoo, not the Net. And they are with you every step of the way, collecting precious information about you. SW Bell has been running creepy ads to the effect that, with Yahoo Broadband, "they log onto you." Yeah, right -- I double-plus bellyfeel broadband.

One day I was on a 100 MHz computer and a 28.8k modem, the next day I was running at 1.8 GHz on a 12mbps BB account.

I'm still on dialup. Lousy SowBell-engineered, nailed-up 26.4K Baud on a circuit that I've since found out has been uprated to provide aDSL to my neighbors -- so why am I not getting the full 53KBaud? Wouldn't be that Sow is holding my head under water, waiting for me to crack and fleet up from $5.55 local measured service telephone (+ $9.95/month for dialup access to my ISP) to their $45/month aDSL service?

I've looked into ISDN, Sprint satellite service (no can do -- trees), DSL, and RoadRunner. I have the sinking feeling that broadband is like cable TV 40 years ago. If you're old enough, you'll remember the original promise of cable: good signal, good service, and NO ADS for only $6/month! (In 1965 dollars.) Now look at it.

No, I don't want to feed a monster, so I don't want the Baby Bells or AT&T or MCI/Worldcom to have my business, nor the Mouse, nor TIME/Warner AOL, who own RoadRunner. Warner Cable owns a monopoly here in west Houston (carefully arranged by thieving local politicians, who wrote laws to create turnstiles for themselves, which they sold to the big cable companies), so why should I feed a monopoly? And Sow Bell has already raised underlying DSL rates once -- they are charging the other DSL providers now what they were charging the public two years ago.

So I'll wait for the arrival of BPL, which is already being offered in places for $30/month. And go with the smallest, most-innocuous outfit I can find that isn't likely to turn into a swollen, oligopolistic monster specializing in bad service, gratuituous charges, and asymptotically rising rates.

I have never had more fun with my clothes on than this!

Well, just hang loose -- your broadband provider will be around with a jar of lubricant in just a little while.

[JustAmy]

I live in a rural area and am unable to get either DSL or cable. I am looking at the satellite option. It is very pricey ....... $580 to start-up and then $60 per month. This is the Direcway price. Earthlink's price is $800 plus $70 per month.

Has anyone had any experience with satellite internet? I need to make a decision soon; my dial up connection is getting worse every day.