back on cable.. aaaahhhh.
 

unplugged the dsl today, back on time warner. damn, this shit is sooo much faster than dsl. i don't know why i didn't do this sooner.

i just hope it stays as reliable as my dsl finally became..

musta had shitty DSL

Cause I gotta tell ya, if I got the chance I would be back on my 1MB SDSL link in a heart beat. Pings of 10ms in games and only 3 hops off the (then) Exodus backbone in IL. Was a SWEEET setup. unfortunately the SDSL industry realized that it needed to make money to stay in business, just a tad too late. With the death of NorthPoint, I was relegated to never have DSL again :(

and now where I live there isnt a CO close enough to get it if I wanted and the cost for such a package as I had before is now almost 300$/month which is insane. ( you can get business class T1's for 400$ a month in some locations)

in my new place all we can get is adsl, (and had to switch apartments to even get that) and it's slow as hell, compared to my old att/comcast cable connection.
although it probably doesn't help that it has to cross an ocean.. but thats besides the point

I've got ADSL and usually its fine, but its been acting up the last few days; one of the times I ran the sisoft internet benchmark and it reported response times upward of 1100 ms. stupid qwest.

i had alltel dsl, from the shittiest franchise in the world. it took me about 10 hours to get the line to work. first, they sent me the wrong equipment. so, then i had to scrounge up the right equipment to get the line to work. then, of course, all i could find is a cisco 675 on short notice. the 675 only runs on CAP, not DMT, which is what they use now. so, instead of the tier 1 DMT 768/128k line, i was stuck with the older 384/256.

most of the time i never got anywhere near 384. 350 tops, and that was on a good day. it even went clear down to 75k at one point.

but, now back on the cable line, 2mb down 384k up. i used to be able to pull 3.5+ speeds, but now it looks like it's been limited to the 2mb/184k. but it's still a hell of a lot faster than dsl.

and i'm going to love calling alltel today and telling them to suck my ass. after all the time they spent, they STILL wanted me to sign a 1-year service contract to get a free modem i couldn't even use. i told them to **** off when they asked that.

i love cable. this is SO much faster! whee!

The "756/256" dsl where I live translates roughly into "300/2" for all intents and purposes. DSL isn't the greatest option unless you really have a crappy cable company ... at least in Washington and Idaho, from what I've seen. I've never encountered a DSL line faster than a cable line out here unless there is a severe overburdening of the cable node or you're paying out the nose for your DSL connection (and are living nextdoor to the CO).

exactly :)