any body have ADSL?

cowdoc · May 2002

i can get ADSL for the internet now is it worth the extra $20 a month for it... my dial up is a lot faster now that my telephone co plowed in fiber last fall in the rural areas. now just how muck faster is dsl? with dial up i get on at @45k now.
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badboybob · May 2002

45k is slow

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gunnut · May 2002

You should be amazed by dsl service compared to dial up. I have satilite internet "starband" as I live in the sticks. Its 700k down and 128k Up. Still much slower than dsl or cable in town! Hope this helps.

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pikeal1 · May 2002

I have ADSL and I love it. It's almost as fast as my connection from work. It opens up a whole new door to the internet. pages open up almost instantly, and you can download programs and music in a flash. I have had it for about two years, and although I rarely use my computer from home anymore...I still pay for the service. Its one of those things that once you try it, you will be amazed how you have gone so long without it.

besides all that, if you are paying for a second phone line for the internet, the cost will be about the same for the dsl.

I used to pay $20.00 for dial up and about $25 for the second phone line...with Dsl its about $45, so its still the same price for a lightning fast connection.

hope this helps.

Alex

DarkStar11 · May 2002

I've got both DSL and cable (and dial-up -- I'm required to have back-up connectivity). I use the DSL as my primary connection. The DSL is much more consistent than the cable. With DSL, I get 1.5 mb/s down and upstream is something like 365 kb/s. The cable bounces around between 600 kb/s and 1 mb/s down and 128 kb/s up. The thing about DSL is that it is really dependent on the distance you are from the telco central office. I'm literally just down the street from it. A coworker also has DSL and he only gets about 345 kb/s, because of the distance from his house to the CO. Still, 345 kb/s sure beats a 40 kb/s dial-up.

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travelor · May 2002

I have DSL, and when I got back from vacation last summer, I was amazed at rate my email downloaded...500+ messages in about 3 minutes tops...

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Varmintmist · May 2002

OK, ADSL is ALWAYS faster than dial up.

The speed depends a lot on how it is marketed to your area.

Some telcos use the fire and forget method, you order ADSL, they cut your line to it, and you get what you get, like darkstar explained. That way they can push the distance a little more if the cable isnt loaded (treated for loss, analog voice lines over 18kft have to be treated) deloading pairs costs money, and after they are unloaded they cant be thrown to move service.

The other way is its sold by speed. You order a 512k down 128k up line, you will get a minimum of 512 to the box outside from the telco. This is distance limited, approx 18000 feet cable lenth from the telco. ( see loading pairs) Mostly your options are 512k, 1.5M, and 3M service.

The phone co I work for does the second option, and we boosted the rate by about 10% to gar. everyone a min of 512k, I get 570 at the demark. Its faster than the LAN at work.

The rate in my area is 45 bucks for a 512k, that includes the ISP. Its stable, your speed wont vary, in 2 years we had 1 outage in our network here. It is secure, unlike cable where your info can be pulled down by anyone on the physical cable that you are on with a sniffer program, no big deal for the home user but is you do biz or a lot of credit card xfers over the net, its somthing to think about.

William81 · May 2002

I have a T1 line at work and a 56K service at home. The difference is night and day. An example of download time difference amazed me. I down loaded a Anti-virus upgrade both at work and at home. It took 7 minutes and 28 seconds at home. It took 49 seconds at work.

drawn · May 2002

Here's a site to test your speed amoung other things.
http://www.pcpitstop.com/

cowdoc · May 2002

ok i did some looking into dsl here. I can get 256k for $40.00 up to 768k for $60.
I am 20 miles from town where my teleco is at but i am about 50 ft from one of them big white boxes that the main fiber cable is located.
for living in the sticks my teleco offers a lot more services than a lot of big towns get, like the state capital Pierre doesnt have nearly the service that i can get. my teleco is a locally owned coopertive but covers a pretty good chunk of eastern SD mostly rural areas and small towns.
thnaks for the replies and info
doc

quote:
OK, ADSL is ALWAYS faster than dial up.

The speed depends a lot on how it is marketed to your area.

Some telcos use the fire and forget method, you order ADSL, they cut your line to it, and you get what you get, like darkstar explained. That way they can push the distance a little more if the cable isnt loaded (treated for loss, analog voice lines over 18kft have to be treated) deloading pairs costs money, and after they are unloaded they cant be thrown to move service.

The other way is its sold by speed. You order a 512k down 128k up line, you will get a minimum of 512 to the box outside from the telco. This is distance limited, approx 18000 feet cable lenth from the telco. ( see loading pairs) Mostly your options are 512k, 1.5M, and 3M service.

The phone co I work for does the second option, and we boosted the rate by about 10% to gar. everyone a min of 512k, I get 570 at the demark. Its faster than the LAN at work.

The rate in my area is 45 bucks for a 512k, that includes the ISP. Its stable, your speed wont vary, in 2 years we had 1 outage in our network here. It is secure, unlike cable where your info can be pulled down by anyone on the physical cable that you are on with a sniffer program, no big deal for the home user but is you do biz or a lot of credit card xfers over the net, its somthing to think about.

I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!
I know where my beef comes from.do you know where yours comes from???....mexico,austraila,the UK,south america...???? dont know do you, demand country of origin labling for your food!!!!

any body have ADSL?

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