yeh, comcast is ok . . . its what i have

 

it depends on your distance from the CO and line provisioning. It also depends on the wiring in your house(kind of like your TV problem). cable and DSL are both susceptable to EMI.

I have only ever used DSL in the last 5 places I have lived, never a problem with the actual line.
the issues you can experience with SBC are with their PPPoE servers be down, sometimes core router outages that limit you to only sbcglobal sites.

I have been with DSL Extreme for almost 2 years, have had about 5 outages, 3 of which were out between 12am and 2am and I happened to be awake. Those turned out to be scheduled maintenance times.
The other DSL company you can't go wrong with is sonic.net, I have several friends using them and have had great service.

btw, I will pickup an IDE controller card for you this week, work is just keeping me late.

 

I use everything - I think I like the download speed of cable Internet the best - generally twice as fast as DSL.

If you can get in on one of the fiber deals, then that is much better, but they don't have those often, the cost of houses skipped is very high.

 

Comcast where I am (Noe Valley) is 6MBit down, 384k up right now. Its pretty blody quick.

 

Another happy comcast customer here. I switched from dsl extreme which was good, but wasn't nearly as fast as my cable now. I used to DL torrents around 80-150k, but w/ cable I get anywhere from 100-500k.

 

it also depends on what speed you pay for. DSL is usually 384Kb/sec to 1500Kb/sec Download, 256Kb/sec upload. This is usually $15-$25 a month and gets you a PPPoE login.

I pay $60 a month, get 5 static IP addresses, 6000Kb/sec ( your download speed in IE or P2P apps would show at ~720KB/sec ) and 700Kb/sec Upload ( 75KB upload in IE or P2P apps ).
I find that I have more issues with other peoples connections not keeping up with mine. DSL Extreme has very good peering setup and has extremely low latency from what I can see.

 

same here...

 

Can't beat $14.95/mo SBC DSL 1.5mbps down/ 384kbps up...

 

Sure I can. $0 for 6MBit down and 384up.

My employer pays for it .

 

sbc dsl $15 package: d/l speed roughly 135 KBps
sbc dsl $30 package: d/l speed roughly 250 KBps

 

this will also help the intraweb n3wbs in understand what you are being sold, and what you technically receive.

b = bit (little b)
B = byte (big B)

The calculations is based on:
In the cases when used to describe data storage bits/bytes are calculated as follows:

* 1 byte = 8 bits
* 1 kilobyte (K / Kb) = 2^10 bytes = 1,024 bytes
* 1 megabyte (M / MB) = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes
* 1 gigabyte (G / GB) = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes
* 1 terabyte (T / TB) = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
* 1 petabyte (P / PB) = 2^50 bytes = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes
* 1 exabyte (E / EB) = 2^60 bytes = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes

The period (.) is used as decimal separator.
Data Transmission conversion (kilobit):
In data communications, a kilobit is a thousand bits, or 1,000 (103) bits. It's commonly used for measuring the amount of data that is transferred in a second between two telecommunication points. Kilobits per second is usually shortened to Kbps.

Some sources define a kilobit to mean 1,024 (that is, 210) bits. Although the bit is a unit of the binary number system, bits in data communications are discrete signal pulses and have historically been counted using the decimal number system. For example, 28.8 kilobits per second (Kbps) is 28,800 bits per second. Because of computer architecture and memory address boundaries, bytes are always some multiple or exponent of two.

 

Thanks for all the responses. Comcast sounds cool and all but they are still uncertain about whether or not it will work in my place, and it's more expensive anyways.


Ah yes now I remember that you were saying something about the distance from the CO last week, is there any way for me to find out that info?

Don't worry about the IDE, whever you have time is cool . I haven't gone into panic mode yet cause my replaytv still has plenty of storage, assuming my GF stops recording so many charmed episodes

I will go look up the other DSL providers, but I am assuming that they will be more expensive.

Thanks

 

check out this page for a fairly acurate loop distance check. Just need a telephone number and address:

http://www.dslreports.com/prequal/distance

 

Nobody likes a smarty pants

 

I have speakeasy.net DSL 3.0mbps/384kbps (i think) and the connection speed is hell of fast and I get good pings to servers across the nation.. very pricey though