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DSL or cable? What's your choice??
Yours Truly
| June 25, 2003
| Yours Truly
Posted on 06/25/2003 6:24:12 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: broadband; cable; dsl; faq
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To: El Conservador
I think cable is worth money, personally.... I am paying $45, but I wouldn't be without it... my phone lines give me about 19K.
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posted on
06/25/2003 6:43:04 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Not all those who wander are lost)
To: Senator Pardek
>>You live in Iowa's capital?
You tryin to be an intelligent posterior? Well, I do live in Iowa's Fun Capital.
42
posted on
06/25/2003 6:43:37 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Tag line produced using 100% post-consumer recycled, dropped ethernet packets,)
To: El Conservador
Cable is almost always better.
43
posted on
06/25/2003 6:44:21 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: El Conservador
To: isthisnickcool
What kind of wireless network do you use? 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 !!!
45
posted on
06/25/2003 6:45:25 PM PDT
by
Froggie
To: kylaka
Same here - it's great - they sent me an e-mail saying the new price is retroactive, but I did not see it on my phone bill.
To: Cultural Jihad
47
posted on
06/25/2003 6:46:07 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Not all those who wander are lost)
To: El Conservador
We have cable and it has been great. It has changed companies three times now, from Media One to ATT,and now it is comcast. Fast, efficient, and I wouldn't go back to dial up ever again!
48
posted on
06/25/2003 6:47:39 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
(The left have blood on their hands.)
To: El Conservador
Got one of them, no complaints.
About 10 hours of down time that I know about in over 2 years for $30-35 a month.
49
posted on
06/25/2003 6:49:00 PM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: El Conservador
In general, then numbers seem to favor cable.
50
posted on
06/25/2003 6:49:00 PM PDT
by
jlogajan
To: Mannaggia l'America
Ditto, a lot of folks can't get DSL, especially here in Indiana.............
51
posted on
06/25/2003 6:50:01 PM PDT
by
mrb1960
To: Mannaggia l'America
Ditto, a lot of folks can't get DSL, especially here in Indiana.............
52
posted on
06/25/2003 6:50:28 PM PDT
by
mrb1960
To: HairOfTheDog
But to admit to still using AOL in public is truly a cry for help.
Judging by what my peers here on FReep say, I'd guess you're correct - but, for whatever dumb luck is involved, I get as close to zero as you can get, in the way of spam...maybe one unknown sender every two months or so. I gather, from the angst shown by the techies here (I'm a Kindergartner, computer-wise)this is worth at least two points.
53
posted on
06/25/2003 6:50:54 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Bumperootus!)
To: El Conservador
It depends on where you live - there is no single right answer.
My parents have a cable modem, and they live in a suburban neighborhood with not many homes. The download speeds are unbelievably fast, and for the last three years, there has never been an outage that I've known about.
I, on the other hand, live in a densely populated student area. I had a cable modem for 6 months, and it was hell. Download speeds plunged at night, and the connection cut out on a regular basis because the company was over-amplifying their signal. So I switched to DSL.
SBC DSL has worked out great. I'm 500 feet from the CO, so the connection is fast and strong. Plus, the minimum bandwidth means that I can actually download large files between the hours of 6pm-1am.
If I recall correctly, SBC has a $29.95 a month deal right now for their slowest speed DSL provided you sign a 12 month agreement. But you've made the first good decision -- get away from dialup!
54
posted on
06/25/2003 6:51:03 PM PDT
by
July 4th
To: El Conservador
I got DSL because it was cheaper than cable. $29.99 vs $44.95
Also, the cable terms of service prohibited networking the connection. If you want to network it is an additional $15 per month. DSL had no restrictions on networking.
On the other hand, cable is much, much, much, much faster. 384kbps vs 2mbps. I could get a 1.5 mbps DSL, but it isn't worth the extra money to me. If I needed the extra speed, cable would be cheaper than DSL, but there is still the networking restriction.
I have had no outages with either Cable or DSL and installation was equally easy.
To: El Conservador
Time Elapsed:
1.375 seconds
3.409 Mbps
(436.37 KBps)
Cable is the way to go
ComCast works well.
To: El Conservador
I've had both. DSL speed varies greatly depending on how far you are from the telco office. I was downtown and got 1.5 Mbits/sec regularly. Very reliable, no complaints. When I moved I couldn't get DSL, so switched to RoadRunner cable. Even better -- sometimes got 2.5 MBits/sec at night. Also very reliable. Moved again, got Comcast cable. Fast enough, but frequent DNS outages for several minutes at a time... makes web use impossible. Same complaint as above re email... sometimes times out without getting messages. Many more routing problems. Sometimes cannot get to sites in certain areas of the country. This hardly ever happened with RoadRunner or the PacBell DSL. |
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posted on
06/25/2003 6:55:26 PM PDT
by
Nick Danger
(The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)
To: El Conservador
Cable all the way. Was on RoadRunner for three years @ $45/month and never a problem. After I moved into a new home across town, got Wide Open West cable @ $35/month and it's been excellent.
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posted on
06/25/2003 6:56:36 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Plus de fromage, s'il vous plait...)
To: Sub-Driver
Mine is cable......for speed check here's another URL. It's all a point in time... I'm on cable and happy as a clam, after being on a 22KBPS rotten phone line.
I tried your link and it told me that I have over 8MBPS download and over 1 MBPS upload. I don't believe that, but I'll not argue. It's sure better than 22KBPS.
However, in the two years I've been on cable, I've had to replace my Network Interface Card twice. DSL is not an option in my neck of the woods, and never will be.
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posted on
06/25/2003 6:57:42 PM PDT
by
jackbill
To: Cultural Jihad
I want to switch from earthlink dsl to verizon but they are saying I'm going to have to get disconnected first and have a period of downtime, up to 2 weeks. Is there any way to get around that?
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