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.

[smalltown]

How's this from McAfee:

Your Internet Connection
Speed Results

File Size: 2.9297 MB
Time Elapsed: 0.081 seconds

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289.352 Mbps
(36.169 MBps)

[HairOfTheDog]

I'll race either of ya... ;~D

[Dubya]

I been using it quite a while. Just found out that Dish network was billing me 80.00 a month and I am not on Dish N. I have always been on Starband. I am fixing to turn them in to who ever and get it lowered to 69.99. Its all I can get where I live. I get DSL at my office in Ft. Worth for 29.99 a month.
Thank you very much for the info.
Dub

[SSN558]

DSL is $39 in my part of the woods, but I'm too cheap and waiting for $20. Besides you can use the fast connections at work or school. Folks living just a few more miles east on the Appalachian highway are still stuck with 1950's switching equipment and 26k.

[WatchOutForSnakes]

The worlds most incompetent customer service?? Did you have Charter Pipeline by any chance? I had Charter Pipeline for a while and it was horrible. Constant outages, sometimes for a week at a time and virtually impossible to get thru to anyone at customer service. I know some people haven't had that problem with Charter but that has been my experience with them. I now have DSL thru a local internet provider in my small town and it has been terrific. Much faster and very rarely any outages at all and when they occur it is for a couple of minutes at the most.

[sharktrager]

Add in a second phone line, and you are pretty much paying for a cable modem without the speed. Without the second line you have to deal with missed calls and family complaits.

No contest to me.

[BrooklynGOP]

cable is much faster.

[kms61]

Not me. One line, one dialup account, twenty bucks. If the line's busy, they can send me an email. I'm not going to pay more than that for intenet access.

[gitmo]

1063.28 Kbps on Bellsouth DSL.

[daviddennis]

DSL allows you to get a fixed IP address, which lets you run a web server on your computer(s). That happens to be very important to me, so that's what I have.

Cable is generally faster, as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, but they usually have rules against servers.

So if you have a home business and want to run your own server, you need DSL with a static IP. This costs me $65 a month from Pacific Bell (ahem, SBC), and the service has been pretty trouble free over the year plus I've had it.

D

[RealEstateEntrepreneur]

Comcast isn't AT&T changing their name.

AT&T sold their broadband business to Comcast, an established competitor.

[StopGlobalWhining]

Verizon DSL just became available in my neighborhood, and I signed up for a 30 day free trial that started today. The price is $34.95/month which includes no installation cost or DSL modem charges.

I'll try it tomorrow on my XP test laptop, and if that works will try to see if I can make it work on my old reliable Debian 2.1 Linux system, along with a Mac 8 and Mac 9 OS.

I also have a Redhat 8.0 system along with an old reliable Windows 98. My Debian Linux (circa 1999) has long been the workhorse of the bunch, so that is my main priority. Kids and wife do the Mac and Windows XP stuff.

If after 30 days I can't make it work the way I want, I'll cancel it.

I don't want it for speed purposes as much as I want "always on" capability.

I'll report back after getting some experience with it.

[potlatch]

Hey, you got a new pal!!

[potlatch]

I still use dialup." "Oh, by the way,...er, um...I'm an AOL subscriber"

LOL, are you sure you're HERE!??

[billbears]

I've had cable for over three years and I wouldn't go back to dial up for any amount of money. DSL? Heard it is good but a little more expensive and not worth the difference. But I guess it's what you like

[ApesForEvolution]

Wireless High Speed!

[ApesForEvolution]

I have DSL at the lake home and it's light years better than cable...especially when the children in the area are out of school...cable gets slower than molasses on a cold day in January. $50/month for DSL and worth every steenking penny IMO.

[MatthewViti]

cable here, VERY fast! 39.99 a month with cox.

[MatthewViti]

Oh, and I have T-mobile wireless internet on the laptop.

[billbears]

Thanks for the info. I'll look into it. I know cable is dependent upon the number of people in the area with it, and I thought about changing however Time Warner is doing a deal now with their TIVO systems that the modem is practically thrown in