Phil, John, and anyone else interested,
I have had DSL from Pacific Bell now calling itself A T and T for
about five years. Although it likely is slightly slower than
Comcast cable, the difference in price is well worth it for me.
I pay a bit more than $19 per month and consistently get
throughput of more than 300 kb per second as measured in internet
explorer. I download the newsline each week, and the download
consistently takes me no more than 15 seconds. I can download a
full copy of Jaws in not more than 4 minutes.
In short, the service has been good with very few almost no
outages. And the download speed and reliability have been more
than enough to meet my expectations. The modem is mine as I got
it with the initial one-year contract, and the same Westel
external modem has been consistently performing like a champ
during all that time.
Don Roberts
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: DSL Question
DSL is a little slower but if you don't do a lot of downloading
you =
shouldn't notice much. Find out what speed the DSL is though,
some times =
in the real good deals they can drop the speeds to about dialup
speeds, =
they did that to a friend of mine. Not sure what company but they
made =
him pay quite a bit more if he wanted good speed.
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Phil Scovell=20
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: DSL Question
First, let me say from the out set, that I know this has
nothing to do =
with
ham radio. However, since everybody on this list is a ham and
is =
literally
on the internet, does anybody have an opinion about DSL verses
cable? =
Qwest
here in Denver is offering a digital phone connection, direct
TV, =
their best
DSL, and several other things in a package deal that will save
me 100
dollars over all I am paying for right now. I'm just wondering
if =
I'll
notice much difference going from cable to DSL?
Phil.
K0NX
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