Dsl

[HBombToo]

FINALLY! no more dial up... life was suck.

and I kicked sassers ASS

HBomb

[Strong Bad]

Welcome to the world of high speed broadband.

Sasser...PAHHHHH...I laugh at thee!

[brettw22]

Cable modem is still better.......(but at least you can say you're rid of dial up......agreed that dial up = true hell) :D

[amulford]

I don't know. I had cable, now I have DSL. The difference in speed is negligible...

[cfrizz]

Way to go Henry. Now that you have it you will never be able to go back to tolerating regular dialup modems. Have fun.

[Shizelbs]

Originally posted by amulford
I don't know. I had cable, now I have DSL. The difference in speed is negligible...

Same here. If anything, I would say my old DSL was faster.

[disneyjoe7]

Way too go HBombToo DSL is king IMHO...

Glad to see that you're on broadband, I personally wire 5 to 10 DSL daily, in a phone company central office.

BTW hope you paid / or the phone company came out to install the line. If they did I think they should have installed a DSL line filter at the Dmark. This filter will remove that hiss on the line as the DSL is on another pair in the house. The filter is nice because with this filter the add on “Filters” on every phone in the house is not needed.

[RuSsMaN]

Dsl SUCKS, and so does John Kerry.

Cheers,
Russ

[disneyjoe7]

Hey there's another area for this..

>> and so does John Kerry <<

Now about the DSL sucks, you think cable is better? I say not.

[HBombToo]

Originally posted by RuSsMaN
Dsl SUCKS, and so does John Kerry.

Cheers,
Russ

Kerry can toss my salad but dsl is at least better than I had:D

1/4twin

[RuSsMaN]

It does / did around here anyway. I did a stint for Ma Bell installing, and, well, it sucked.

Give me cable, or nothing at all.

Cheers,
Russ

[HBombToo]

I'm seeing 3meg downloads....


I'm not sure what it is actually because it is on coax(rg6) though comcast.

1/4twin

[PolkWannabie]

The fastest DSL I've seen is in the neighborhood of 1 mb/sec. Cable here is 1 mB/sec.

HBomb,

If you don't have a router already, get one and maybe a free copy of ZoneAlarm as well.

Additionally, there are other simple tweaks to increase speed a la TCP window page size etc.

[HBombToo]

Originally posted by PolkWannabie
The fastest DSL I've seen is in the neighborhood of 1 mb/sec. Cable here is 1 mB/sec.

HBomb,

If you don't have a router already, get one and maybe a free copy of ZoneAlarm as well.

Additionally, there are other simple tweaks to increase speed a la TCP window page size etc.

I got my read on so send all suggestions because "I'm ignant over here":p

1/4twin mooving into half time:D

[PolkWannabie]

There's a decent broadband forum here ... http://www.dslreports.com/ ... after you register you'll be able to get to the forums.

You'll find stuff on the variety of carriers ... router and other manufacturers ... decent simple tweak programs like Dr. TCP etc. ... speed testers etc.

I haven't ventured there in awhile, but you'll find the good, bad and ugly about all of it.

[HBombToo]

Originally posted by PolkWannabie


I haven't ventured there in awhile, but you'll find the good, bad and ugly about all of it.

I hear ya... i get burned out on this **** about every other minute. My department collects ~30gig an hour and it is painfull.

any comments about wireless? I have been spending huge time with regard to a data only platform to handle wireless data apps. Infrastructure costs are huge for this type of effort but worth considering none the less.

1/2twin

[PolkWannabie]

I assume you are talking home wireless lan ... great if you got a slew of laptops ... in our own situation we have four towers and three laptops ... two towers are wired to the router direct in home office, two are wired via house phone lines and a bridge from the router to house phone line which basically turns the house phone lines in any room into a network extension. This does NOT interfere with telephone voice communication as they can both be used simultaneously without getting in each others way and of course it kept me from having to wire Cat-5 all over the place. We run built in wireless or wireless cards in the laptops which communicate directly with the wired/wireless router and I have no trouble maintaining 8+ mb/sec transfers from the web from 200+ feet away by the pool in the summer or two floors away at the other end of the house which is 4500+ sq ft. However I did tweak the routers antennas.

[PolkWannabie]

If you are talking about an office/work situation ... I don't think wireless can compare ... 1 gb/sec copper and infrastructure is already here and it won't be long before 2, 5, 10 show up.

[HBombToo]

Originally posted by PolkWannabie

1)
I assume you are talking home wireless lan ...
2)
I have no trouble maintaining 8+ mb/sec transfers from the web from 200+ feet away by the pool in the summer or two floors away at the other end of the house which is 4500+ sq ft.
3)
However I did tweak the routers antennas.

yuppers, but

what if you exceed 200+ feet?

and RF guy at heart eh....

Lucent has a solution to switch you from your home network into the CDMA 3G platform;)

if a market was developed there could be huge profits:D

1/2twin

[VR3]

I have no problems with either.....

My problem is always with......

AOL

&

Time Warner

1) They suck
2) Their CS suck
3) Their products suck
4) They suck
5) THEY SUCK

Ok....I'm done.

[PolkWannabie]

AOL ?! WTF ?

[HBombToo]

Originally posted by cfrizz
Way to go Henry. Now that you have it you will never be able to go back to tolerating regular dialup modems. Have fun.

hmmmm... Cathy it goes something like this, "Theres no Bose in the House:D ".

2/3rdstwin

[VR3]

Originally posted by PolkWannabie
AOL ?! WTF ?

AOL is possibly the WORST browser on the planet.

If any user out there honestly thinks AOL is easy, and fast - then I realllllllllllly encourage you to try other things....lol (seriously)

I use AIM, and that is as far as I am getting to using AOL......

Time Warner just sucks. Their CS dosnt know jack squat. You gotta wait on the line for about 1 hour listening to elevator tunes....

Roadrunner (cable) is ight as long as it works. Same with DSL.

Insomnia Sid -

[cfrizz]

Originally posted by HBombToo
hmmmm... Cathy it goes something like this, "Theres no Bose in the House:D ".

2/3rdstwin

Ok now nobody hurt me but, what is wrong with Bose? You all hate it with a passion but some people seem to swear by it. I've never used any of their products so I'm honestly curious what's wrong with them.

[PolkThug]

Bose speakers suck when trying to achieve 20hz-20khz. There are TONS of threads about this on the Internet if you dig a little. The benefit of Bose is that they are small.

Regards,
PolkThug

[PolkThug]

Here you go. Bose has the worst frequency response curves. Their cubes pretty much die after 15khz.

http://www.geocities.com/p_iturra/Misc_HT_Speakers.html

Regards,
PolkThug

[RuSsMaN]

Originally posted by cfrizz
I've never used any of their products so I'm honestly curious what's wrong with them.

Nothing is per se 'wrong' with the speakers themselves, what is wrong however is the price attached to them.

Most any 'micro' systems are going to involve compromises in performance - even Polk systems.

Cheers,
Russ

[Sami]

Originally posted by PolkWannabie
The fastest DSL I've seen is in the neighborhood of 1 mb/sec. Cable here is 1 mB/sec.

Hmmm, so your cable is eight times faster than the fastest DSL you have seen?

I'll take cable over DSL. It's faster and I don't have to get a phoneline like some DSL companies require. Speedwise DSL is good enough for most users though, and certainly better than dial-up.

[PolkWannabie]

Cable in this part of NJ at least seems to be among the fastest nationwide ... just lucky I guess.

[Sami]

Originally posted by PolkWannabie
Cable in this part of NJ at least seems to be among the fastest nationwide ... just lucky I guess.

I would say so as 8Mb cable is damn fast... ;)