Dsl

[RJN]

I was thinking about getting DSL and getting rid of my dialup ...Is one service provider better then the other or are they all the same ? which upload and download speeds should i be looking for..

Help i really know nothing about this

thanks again

[Kayz]

If you are going to spend the extra money for DSL, you may want to look into cable service while you are at it. I had DSL for a year and liked it, but my new cable connection blows my DSL out of the water.

Right now, on large files, I typically download at almost 400K/s.....which is about twice as fast as i was getting with my DSL connection.

[novicebb]

Originally Posted by RJN

I was thinking about getting DSL and getting rid of my dialup ...Is one service provider better then the other or are they all the same ? which upload and download speeds should i be looking for..

Help i really know nothing about this

thanks again

This is what I have learned so far about both. Both cable and DSL have its benefits and limitations.

Cable is actually usually faster and you can get faster speeds than with DSL becasuse commercial DSL isn't totally digital due to the fact you are still transmitting data via copper wires that you make your regular home phone calls from. Plus DSL is limited to how far you are from the local DSL switch station and the farther away you are the slower the speeds. Commercial dsl is actually called Assymetric DSL or something like that because the data leaving your computer is digital, switched to analog(just like dial up) and then when it gets to the DSL switching station it is switched back to digital and transmitted to whatever server you are accessing. Where as dial up your computer and modem itself has to change analog data to digital.

Cable is usually faster because all data sent and recieved is digital and the coaxial cable is truly broadband to allow thorough data throughput. The problem with cable is that it is usually more expensive then DSL or have shorter so called deals. Also cable modem speeds is based on "community usuage". Meaning that the more users that logon in your localized cable broadband service community, the slower the speeds are going to be. Too make your choices easier DSL usually top speeds that you will experience is 150kbps to 550kbps where as cable is usually around 275kbps to 750kbps. You will almost never reached the "so called theorectical throughput of both dsl and cable. Both claim that you can get up to any where from 3-5mbps but you will be lucky if you can get half that speed. Plus the more theorectical speed that they claim you can experience the more expensive it will be. I hear that Verizon is coming out with a broadband service based on thier 3rd generation networks that can reach theorectical speeds of up to 15mbps and should be available in select cities starting in Houston in 2005. This is some that I am interested and I hear that it won't be all that much more than current cable and DSL broadband services.

[Massive690]

i guess get mine from the cable company. works great, fast as hell and not too expensive. well worth it bro