jay173 Posted September 15, 2005 CID Share Posted September 15, 2005 With allthe outages and problums with needing guy to fix somthing diffrent with www.wavebroadband.com , I am considering dsl, wich i hear doesnt have as many problums? What are DSL down falls and what are your experinces with outages and service? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted September 15, 2005 CID Share Posted September 15, 2005 dsl is great in one way, lets you use existing potus lines to deploy broadband by modulating a high freq signal onto them. the problem lies in the range restriction imposed by the same wires. the cheap low quality conductors can carry the signal only so far, it degrades rapidly. so the farther you are from your telco's switch, the lower your maximum speed you can get. as for outages, you need to ask people in your area how their experience with it is, if your telco is running the dsl, expect about the same service quality. if it's a third party you have no way of prediciting other than polling other customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted Posted September 15, 2005 CID Share Posted September 15, 2005 i never have any problems at all and my ping times are very good along with low hop counts too i also have very consistint speeds and never goes out but i'm about 5,600 feet. if you too far you wont get the best speeds and it will have higher pings but that depends on the line too. look here http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dsl.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay173 Posted September 16, 2005 Author CID Share Posted September 16, 2005 im the one that posted those howstuffworks sites i just wanted to know if anyone has triedboth and what the experince was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted Posted September 17, 2005 CID Share Posted September 17, 2005 no your not the 1 who posted it i knew about this for a while and so did others. also it is on my firefox as a plug- in to go to how stuff works .com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anox195 Posted September 20, 2005 CID Share Posted September 20, 2005 dsl is pretty good, hardly any outages... the only bad thing is, sometimes i get static in my phone line from a wireless phone, so i switched to a wired one and everythings fine...i have been outage free for about 4 months now...but dsl gets pretty slow speeds compared to cable anyways... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted Posted September 20, 2005 CID Share Posted September 20, 2005 dsl is pretty good, hardly any outages... the only bad thing is, sometimes i get static in my phone line from a wireless phone, so i switched to a wired one and everythings fine...i have been outage free for about 4 months now...but dsl gets pretty slow speeds compared to cable anyways... none of them are better than each other its all where you live and that depends on the service. EX-- optimum online is 1000 up 10000 down and in some places in the middle of no where you can get that speed but come to my town and get optimum online and you wont even get 5000 down and 700 up and high pings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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