WAH WHO! DSL!

[Beezer]

As usual, there doesn't seem to be a clear cut winner. I imagine it depends a lot on location. Either way, it's got to be better than dial-up. Thanks for the insights....

[Mark F]

Yup, let price and availability be your guide. If you don't have braudband not, you'll be surfing much happier (when they work).
As for cable slowdowns, hey for less money you probable will not see speeds below DSL guaranteed speed, and always faster than POTS.
While ultamatly one may prove better than the other, at the moment you shouldn't make a wrong choice.

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

Ahh! spent the weekend playing Quake 3 with a ping of 39 so that's what the rail gun does
jim

new name, same great taste


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Microsoft's new feature: computer will restart every 10 minutes which will greatly cut down on crashes requiring you to reboot the computer

[xortam]

D*mn you!!! I'm still in 56K hell (with a crappy gaming ISP to boot). Which speed option did you go for? Is that about the ping you get all the time? Do you notice any disadvantage playing a 20 ping opponent?

P.S. Have you done any of the IP tweaking yet?

[This message has been edited by xortam (edited 15 February 2000).]

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

I got the 384k with 128k up, yes I put the rwin up to 32000 or something like that, it was a file that I zipped to the registry
jim

[This message has been edited by DuRaNgO[MU] (edited 15 February 2000).]

[ObiBen]

Cable or ADSL? Well, I've been using a CABLE connection to the internet for almost two years now, and I'm pretty happy with the service. There were a couple of times my service went down for longs periods, which prompted me to sign up for ADSL a few months back. Although I'm on the waiting list (Hmmm, I should give them a call to let them know I'm still alive) for ADSL, I'm still enjoying my CABLE service, as long as it doesn't go down on me. Once you go high-speed, there's no going back to modem, that is, unless you move to an area where there is no support for high-speed internet connections.

With only one IP available to me with my subscription and 3 computers, I use one of the computers as a gateway/router using SyGate. Any NAT based routing is better than a proxy solution, in my opinion. Right now, linksys has a router/10/100 switch with built-in DHCP. Check it out at http://www.linksys.com. My co-worker ordered one so once he has tested it out, I'm gonna send an order for one.



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Regards,

Ben

Config: AOPen AX6BC Pro II Millenium Edition, P2 400@500, 128MB PC133 RAM, SB Live!, Netgear 10/100, Adapted 2940U2W SCSI adapter, Seagate Barracuda 4.3GB UW, Quantum Atlas III 9.1GB U2W, Yamaha 4416S writer, Pioneer 36X SCSI CD reader, STB Blackmagic V2 (SLI) - removed after new TurboGL, Matrox G400MAX, Viewsonic PS790 and G773, Win98SE

[Mark F]

Just thought I would share this:

I am watching the live stream (300K) of the W2K roll-out. WMP is showing 307-309K in stats. AND at the same time as I'm watching the video smoothly, I'm on the forum reading and posting.
Gotta love it!!!

Mark f.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
and burped out a movie

[Jammrock]

I hooked up my computer to my friends DSL yesterday. I really like DSL, it is damn fast, even with 3 people on it at the same time it was very fast.

Another thing I did was swap out their 8 port 10 Mb hub with my 5 port 10/100 switch. Apparently (according to the residents) that sped up the response time quite a bit. I found that rather interesting, so I kept my computer there so I could do further 'testing'

Jammrock

[Freakie]

I'm sorry Jorden,

but I don't think ADSL will be here that soon.

[Dilitante1]

Listen to this one.....2-way cable internet is finally available (time to sign up?) BUT there is a catch....I am only allowed 1gig of transfer over the connection before I get charged .05$ per meg of traffic......quite the paradox......speed but a download limit......AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!


Oh well, praying for DSL now........commercial only in the area....


-Dil

[Himself]

Ordered it yesterday.

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

just wanted to say, not one outage since signing up, d/ling tons of demos (big ones too ) AND when my bill showed up this week, instead of costing $150 up front, they rebated the whole amount! go figure, should I call and tell them they screwed up ? BWAHAHAHAHAHA
jim

[DentyCracker]

I'm happy for you, I really am NOW STFU ALREADY
Just jealous really considering I don't know when we'll get DSL here. Although in theory it shouldn't be too hard since most existing cables run less than two miles to the exchange, and (most) are of good quality. I'm stuck at *sob 28.8 until they change this line out. I drool at the thought of DSL.
They have (illegal) cable modem out here somewhere but I'm not into that.

[xortam]

The frustrating thing for me is that I mooch off of the wife's DSL (pretty fast SDSL, never checked how fast) but its behind the company's firewall. Its just my gaming and private mail that causes me to fall back to the modem. I can't imaging trying to keep up with all of the driver changes and huge Win98 updates, etc. w/o something better than 56K. Kinda tough for me to justify another DSL just for gaming but I suppose I should stop mooching anyway (before they insist).

BTW, DentyCracker, what was all that gibberish in your previous message? I have a pretty good idea except I'm really stretching it on the first "word".

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

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