[ale] Re-send: Opinions on Cable versus DSL

[Michael Smith]

	I had both in parallel for about a month(Charter Communications and
Telocity) and believe it or not, the cable was up more than the DSL.  I
think most of the issues were with Telocity(DNS Servers) themselves, not the
lines.  If Bellsouth offered a static IP with a router similar to Telocity
for around $60 bucks, I would be all over it but since they don't, I'll
stick with CC.....at least until they pull the static IP's which they will
do once you have problems with your modem....

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Thornton [mailto:leonard at intelis-inc.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:19 PM
To: horus at larp.com
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Re-send: Opinions on Cable versus DSL


Jay Finch wrote:
> 
 
> I'm looking at ADSL right now.  (1.5 down and 128-384 up)  I would never
go
> from a Cable modem (1.5 down and 128 up) to IDSL... *shudder*

> 
I probably was not clear in my last post, so let me try to make up for
that:

I'LL TRADE MY FIRST BORN FOR ADSL OR SDSL!!!!!!

(he's 21 and pisses me off regularly.....)

Unfortunately, I'm 20,000 ft from the closest pop.  It took mt almost 4
years to get a cable modem installed even though the neighborhood next
door (less than 500 ft from my house) has had cable modems the whole
time.  I even offered to buy the spool of wire for them, but no luck.

I have spent up to 4 hours on hold, been lied to, have had the entire
house rewired, had the modem replaced and finally was told that "Oh,
yeah....we have a noise problem on the lines...".  Duh....

For me, it's a choice of so-so broadband or 33.6 dial-up (best I could
get this far out...).  Life sucks.

> 
> Well, here's the rub.  I'm paying ~$60/month for my cable modem service,
> and I'm looking to get something more reliable.  Example: Whenever it
> rains, the Cable Modem goes down.  (Or else it goes up, down, up, down,
> up ... oh is it gonna stay... DAMN it's down again.)  I will sometimes
> get "unscheduled outages" in the middle of the day .. or from 10:30pm
until
> 1:30am.  I will sometimes get bad routing from the DNS server -- Using any
> of Charter's DNS servers.  Or their gateway will be down for some
> inexplicable reason, or else their chosen backbone will be suffering the
> shuddering "no can route" syndrome.  Bleah.  My annoyance factor is
getting
> high...
> 

Sounds like a compelling reason to move.  Just be aware that even DSL
providers have less than stellar service.  No one's perfect and for the
most part, the broadband providers just don't give a damn.  They don't
have to...They have a monopoly (remind us of anyone else???) and can
pretty much say take it or leave it.

But I'm not bitter.....well, maybe a little.....

> The speed is good when I have it, but the service is beginning to suffer
in
> reliability.  I've had this service for almost 3 years now, and lately
it's
> just sucked.  I want other's opinions of DSL before making that leap so I
> don't go from the frying pan and into the fire.
> 
> 
> Thank you. :~)  I'll my 1 cent and we'll have 3!  Whoo hoo!
>
and now we are up to a nickel...WOO HOO!!!!
 
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Intelis, Inc
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