On Thursday 27 February 2003 21:38, res0gny2@verizon.net wrote:
> Hey all...I'm a lurker with somethign to say.
>
> > On Thursday 27 February 2003 20:02, Robert Eanes wrote:
> > > I was intrigued by your description of DSL vs Cable.
> > > erroneous. the cheapest solution from DSL has a
> > > stated speed of 768 bits per second down and 128 bits
> >
> > Odd, when I last checked it was 384 down. Where did you see
> > this?
>
> It's been that way for a while...they changed it sometime last
> year. I have the 1.5M down, and I remember getting some
> literature last year that mentioned this.
Ah, and you are probably in the Tampa area?
> > Today I'd be surpriced to see that. As I said TW knows it's
> > theirs for the taking as long as they don't mess it up again.
> > In the last four years I've been at two different locations and
> > never seen less than just shy of 2K down.
>
> Well, what about Comcast? I had cable along with my Verizon DSL
> last summer and Comcast was quick for browsing, about 1.5-1.8 for
> downloads, but crawled at uploads.
Never used Comcast myself...
> My big problem is that my cable user agreement mentioned that I'm
> not allowed to use NAT, which makes having multiple computers a
> little bit harder...but right on the front verizon.net page it
> mentions you can have more than one computer one your connection.
With RR they know I have a firewall and an unknown amount of
computers. Actually they could not even see my OpenBSD box and
wondered how I could be online (during a tech support call). They
like Unix people as they run it themselves. The enginers I've
spoken with have been very nice. But you have to go through the
Open Ticket option when you call otherwise their entry level is out
of state with less access & know how, to the local cable.
> I'd be more than happy to go with a cable modem and cancel my
> friggin phone line altogether if it weren't for that.
--Steve ______________________________________________________ (This sig has been left open for your imagination.)
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