telder

Where can you find them???

Looks like their site was hacked or something....I have a copy that I can e-mail to you..

I live in Central Oregon and we have a cablr provider who want's $43 for for cable modem service that's 3mbps down / 900 kbps up.....then we have various DSL providers. I went with a DSL provider that gives me a 8Mbps down / 1.5 Mbps up speed for $49 per month. So it definitely depends on where you are at and what the competition is like. Also Cable is shared via Nodes...you can have 5-300 homes on the same node. The modem service got bogged down so much on some days that it was at almost ISDN speed. With the DSL i've never had that problem because it goes from my modem directly to the DSLAM and then out via another dedicated connection...each DSL user is basically their own node and they don't share that node with 300 other users.

I've tried those and I think the speeds I'm getting are going to be the best that I'm going to get.

I tried the smarttest and the individual test and they all came out around the same score...wish I could get up to the full 1mbps for upload so if anyone ahs a suggestion let me know. There's also just a handful of people in the city that have this service so far so I kno it's not an overload issue.

The advertised speeds are 5mbps down and 1mbps up for $49 a month

I go through a local small telecom here in Bend, OR and they have killer DSL... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 5986 Kbps about 6 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 731 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1) Test Time:: Mon Aug 08 2005 16:22:51 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Bottom Line:: 107X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.4 sec Diagnosis: Looks Great : 17.12 % faster than the average for host (bendtel.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-WPTDE6SLU :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 769 Kbps about 0.8 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 94 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1) Test Time:: Mon Aug 8 16:23:58 PDT 2005 Bottom Line:: 14X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 10.89 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 21.1 % faster than the average for host (bendtel.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-B9ZW23NU0 These aren't bad speeds for a small telecom that runs their own DSLAMS and bandwidth.