WAH WHO! DSL!

[xortam]

I was guessing that it ultimately translated into "I" but eye didn't pick up on the interim text. Haven't been grinding up the G400s and smokin' them lately.

[DentyCracker]

The really frustrating thing is that I just spoke to one of the most knowledgeable people in Telecoms out here (Jamaica) and she says exactly what I thought was the case. That is that the infrastructure is already in place for DSL but the telco is not interested in that (being a backward set of morons, plus they have a monopoly {and don't even get me started on that}). Well with the new act that was passed they shall soon have competition so that may encourage them to do things like DSL [he says with fingers and toes crossed]

[xortam]

Speaking of smoking ... Jamaica!!! Pass the splif mon! No wonder you post in code.

Have you thought about using satellite for internet access? Not the fastest but probably better than what you've got. Speaking of monopolies ... my happiest day was telling the cable company to take a hike when I got my big dish.

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

Was in Vancouver recently and smoked some of the best *G400* ever while there



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Abit BE6
P-3 620 (5*124)
128mb ram
14.6 gb Maxtor ata66
G400 vanilla 32mb @ 168/210
384k DSL
Windows 98se
DX7a
3dMark2000 = 2956

[DentyCracker]

Yes we do have some of the best weed out here. Don't smoke it myself, just drink a lot of Red Stripe Beer. Apparently the TelCo guys have been smoking a lot of it though based on their actions LOL

[jms]

Check this out: http://prodigy.excite.com/news/bw/991221/edsl-networks

Nice huh?
Jan.

[kidspot]

Free DSL Anyone? Check out http://www.freedsl.com/ They say they will not be up and running till April, buy we've waited longer than that for MSP 6.0 & the RT2000 right? - It's supposed to be available anywhere dsl (or adsl) is currently offered.

[This message has been edited by kidspot (edited 23 February 2000).]

[MotherDawg]

Hi all

Here in Montreal quebec canada, we got Bell High Speed and Vidéotron 2 way cable. Their both at $39.95 cdn.

I chose Bell for reliability. It's supose to be 1.28kbps down stream and 320 up stream. then in the modems specs they say 960kbps. I often get downloads at 88k. Not bad at all.

It was $129 up front, huge box with 4 phone filters. All in all... I'm very satified and it did cut my surfing time by at least half.

Going to try the new Rwin values though. For that, I'm using a software called MTUSpeed.


Cya


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Celery 366 OCed @ 446(81), Soyo 6BA+III, 64MB SDRAM, Millennium G400 DualHead (486 cpu fan), SB Live! Value, FBall KA 13.1Gig (7200rpm), Mitsumi CR-4804TE CD-RW, Intel based 21140 10/100 NIC, Nortel Networks HSA1300 1-meg ADSL modem and also a ModemBlaster DI5630... enough!

[MotherDawg]

Hi again

MTUSpeed doesn't let you change the RWIN value for a network adaptor.

Anybody using something better?


bye now

[MotherDawg]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh...

Scratch that, re-read the posts at a slightly lower speed...

Thx Rich!

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

I use PPP-Boost if you're interested
jim

[Himself]

Finally got DSL installed today, the bastards.

Any tips? (Got the RWin one)

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VXD\MSTCP]
"DefaultRcvWindow"="65535"

[Rick]

I found that a RWin value of 32120 works best for me, it's basically trial and error. I'm also using PPP Boost, set my MaxMTU at 1484, was at 1500 but when Bell Sympatico went to there PPPoE system it added some overhead so I had to drop the value down.

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ASUS P2B,Celeron 366@550, 2.26v with Golden Orb, 128mb PC133 Crucial RAM, G400 DH, Maxtor 7200rpm 10GB, 4.3GB Fujistu, Creative 24x, Creative X-Gamer, NIC (DSL baby!), ISA Modem

[Sasebonian]

I went from cable to sdsl and back to cable.

I tried it to test some questions. My friend had sdsl and hyped me up about it since we can see the pac bell building from our backyards so that means we are really close. I was paying for 384 k/sec since it was the same price as cable. Uploads speed don't matter to me since I don't run FTP or game servers, and my online games still run great. Suffice it to say I went back to cable. The download speed of dsl is NOT gauranteed. They gaurantee that 384k is the max (for the package I chose). Think about this, since this makes sense. That DEDICATED line is bs. It's dedicated only to the switch or router. Then it goes out from the phone offince to the isp. Dsl is a tier 3 server whereas cable is a tier 1 service, so they have their own connection to the atm backbone. At least that's how it is here for my area. I bought my own cable modem so I pay less then I used to. 29.95 a month and I get really great speeds even when it's busy. My friend plans to discontinue sdsl and go with cable.

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Abit BP6 Dual Celeron 366@550
256MB PC-100 RAM
G400 32mb MAX DH Mode
Voodoo2 with hacked win2k drivers
Hollwood + dvd decoder
20.5 GB IBM HD Win2K Pro Swap Drive
9.1 GB IBM Hd Win2K Adv. Server Swap Drive
10.0 GB IBM HD Win98SE Swap Drive
20.5 GB IBM Internal Seconday Drive for file storage.
Toshiba SR-8485 6X DVD-Rom
HP 7200i CD-RW
SBLive! Platinum.
Netgear 310TX 10/100
Ethernet card
Cable Modem connection. (I hated the DSL 384k dl. I hit 350k average day when everone is on, and 625 at night EVERY day with cable modem! Slowest I've gotten on very busy time is 160K.)

[Himself]

Rick, thanks for the input, I think that above a certain point there are diminishing returns.

The DSL vs cable thing depends greatly on what is being offered in your local area, I get 55KB/s down with the cheap package (512/128), a buddy of mine with cable gets around 80KB/s down, but I am paying $15 less, I can get (1024/512) for another $15 so it would probably round out to about the same. Lucky bastard that he is, he found some cheap Alcatels on EBay and his monthly cost will be around $30 when he switches, I am stuck on a contractual montly plan. Thing is, sites like ftp.cdrom.com get slow enough for it not to matter much above ISDN speeds anyway.

(Prices in CDN dollars)