DSL vs. Dial-Up

I've been doing more reading of posts than posting here lately. It's good to see all the newbies so enthusiastic about their N's.

Anyway, I just thought I would let you-all know that after 4 years of dial-up internet service, I finally brokedown and got DSL hi-speed internet. And, so far, I like it a lot. It is much, much faster than dial-up.

I tried to tell myself I didn't use the internet enough to justify the slightly higher cost but now I got the DSL for just a few more $ that dial-up.

I guess this is a good thing since I am always in a hurry.

Best regards to all,

Rick H. Ga.

About six months ago, we switched over to a new-to-the-area WiFi (wireless) service, which has been great. Speeds are better than Satellite, nearly DSL. Cost is about $35/month (vs. $21/
month for dialup). We are at the very edge of their service area, but I have not noticed any performance problems...

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Wireless internet has just become available (maybe), but the installation will cost $749 minimum... maybe more, assuming the signal is good enough to work.

We are at the mercy of !#$%^ SBC.

Faster speeds would make it more pleasant to moderate the tractor groups I serve.

George Willer

Just my 2 cents.

I have not seen any downtime with my DSL here for the 5 years I've had it.

TOH

Imagine your internet connection is like driving your car on the highway. With dial up, my car was going 50 mph, with DSL my car traveled 1,500 mph, and now on cable my car travels at 6,000 mph. He understood then :-)

They shifted all their ISP customers to Peoplepc ISP. I initially paid $9.95 for basic service and upgraded to the so-called accellerator option for $16.95 per month. It was OK to start with but it seemed like my internet service got slower and slower. I did have anti-virus, spyware and firewall software.

I changed to the BellSouth DSL for $24.95. I figgure it will cost me $10 to $12 more dollars a month with the hidden fees, etc...

Regards,

Rick

Also upload speeds on DSL are typically 1/10 the download speed. I get 1.72Mb down and 176Kb up on my service. So your website content is going to be slow to load on the client end. New customer offerings here are now 4Mb service but I have not yet inquired what it's going to cost me to get upgraded to that speed. I'm betting it ain't $0.00. Still no FiOS in my neighborhood 8-(

My service was installed about 2 years ago and at that time Verizon was providing Westell 2100/2200 modems which provide NAT, DNS query forwarding, and a primitive firewall. I simply plugged a 6 port ethernet switch into the modem and ran 100Mb ethernet to all the systems in my house. Sweet!Verizon also provided an expurgated version of the Westell manual which omits discussion of features they want to discourage you from using. I downloaded the unexpurgated version from the Westell site.

TOH

Jim

=Vic=
Bear Gap, PA

Get the DSL and never look back !!!!!

Link is http://www.2b-safe.org/

• High speed maybe

I"m currently on a Broadband Microwave setup. There are a couple of providers in the area that provide that type of service. They install a small antenna on the roof pointing to their access point. For ±$20.00 more than what I was paying for my dialup connection (local phone company gave me an occasion 28.8 connection with my 56K modem), I have 512K download speeds. I"ll never go back to dialup. Don't know what type of speeds you can get out ot DSL, but it"s a mute subject out here as there is limited availability of DSL in my area.

Bottom line.... Do some checking around. A "wired" DSL from the cable or phone company may not the only way to get better access speeds

Richard

I would love to get that service with the small antenna, but it seems to me that the ones provideing it in this area are way over advertizing what and who they can provide.

Like most people out in the boonies, no highspeed dial up, no cable, no nada, cept dial up, 28,800 at that.

Oh well, maybe with the second Coming something will open up.

Side bar note, pray for me!!! My new kick b**t Dell computer arrived yesterday!! Got it running, but shoot, since my memory robbing stroke couple years ago, having problems moving stuff over and getting it working right. I did get it on the network enough to make one of my network printers work, but can not for the life of me get it to see my old computer so I can copy over all my good stuff. :-(

May have to break down and call in a geek.

Good luck!

Joe

We couldn't get that kind of service out here, and our phone line was far too poor to use dial-up; it literally wouldn't stay connected. (I had dial-up of 28.8 in TX and it was WAY worse than that.) So we had to go with Agristar, which does satellite broadband for computers, mostly for agri-business. It's pretty darned expensive, but we have ALL our machines on it and can do different things at different times. And it's essential for the web work our non-profit does. But I'd hoped the standard companies were cheaper. :-(