Vicky! You are letting silly things like facts get in the way! Tom has spoken...DSL is better it doesn't matter what you've actually experienced. There are no other factors...Tom's word is law! I'm calling all my poor sap cable modem using friends who are actually getting 20mbit right now and telling them to switch to DSL because at any moment now Qwest could go from 1.5 to 85mbit! Well, in theory.
Mike On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Vicky Staubly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For a few years, we had a farm in Maryland, and our only broadband > choice there was Verizon DSL. It worked reasonably well, though > the maximum bandwidth (640k down, 90k up) was less than we're > getting with Comcast (which does vary, but the local (our end) > variation seems less than the remote (server end) variation). > > That said, my criteria for getting internet service would be a > combination of factors: total bandwidth, bandwidth per dollar, > reliability (which is a combination of the physical media and > how well it's maintained by the provider). Unfortunately, that > last factor varies from cable company to cable company, and phone > company to phone company, and even within a given company's territory. > So, you just have to go on word of mouth, from people as close > to you as you can find. > > And, of course, "bandwidth" is measured in "really available" > bandwidth, not "advertised bandwidth". And that can be even > harder to find accurate numbers for, even more so than for > "reliability". > > Errr... I'll stop babbling now... All I meant to say was "FiOS, > not DSL". > > -- > Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
