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4 years of DSL and very consistent—after an initial 7 months of hell.

[It's strange getting 1200/109kb/s on the same 15,000 feet that would not get 33.6k on dialtone.]



[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 04-10-2003).]

Have to agree with all that has been said. CABLE MODEM. It is $30 a month. Subtract the cost of a dial up of $21 per month the cost of an additional $9 per month is well worth it.

Scott

Dial-up at 28.8Kbps (usually at a realistic 26,400 bps)

I saw 33,600 bps once... musta been a really good day...

Considering the two-way sattelite receiver...

No other broad-band options exist here in the sticks.



[This message has been edited by sparky66wv (edited 04-09-2003).]

DSL for over 2 years, seems almost as fast as the 100 Mbps/T1 connection I have at work. Hate being on the road and having to use dial-up, it is tough to get close to 56K in a hotel, most of the time it's about 33K to 49K.

I got a cable modem last November.

i have both cablemodem and dail up but the dsl is super fast and more cleaner and dont have to wait for long down loading myself and my wife have 2 computers at home and we alway compare both and we like cable modem alot better than dail up and dail up feel like forever to get it he he he ( to log in it take me about 2 to 4 depend on dail up.cable modem it take less than 45 sec for whole work come up !!)


merci marc

DSL and boy do I love it

Cable here road runner, $30 a month man i wish i pay $48 but i love it

Cable. Cost nearly $60 here, but when we were still on 56k we paid easiliy twice as much, we got per minute fees here, no basic per month charge, only online time.

Just installed a dedicated KU band dish for downloads and dialup for uploads. Cheaper than DIRECTWAY satelite which can go both ways. KU is ok(400 to 500kbs) which far exceeds my dial up and you hardly up load anything when surfing. When you live in the weeds Cable is a no go as is DSL. Having 3 satelite dishes is a little much though

Go here if interested www.Cband.net