I have USW and been a DSL customer since July of 1998. I have had 256 kb up and 640 kb down from the start. From what I heard, they cannot slow down your download speed, it is line limited. But they can control the upload.
If they give me 640 kb upload, then I will be impressed!;-)
I had no outages for a whole year, then this year I had 5 in 2 weeks. They do not tell you about the outages in advance or explain post un-scheduled outages after they happen. That really bothers me.
My ping to other severs has degraded by 40+ milleseconds. I haven't changed anything with my network. I noticed it after I switched from bridge to PPP mode.
Otherwise it has been positive. I know I can never live with out high speed net access...
>So what's the moral of the story? Find yourself >a medium that you control, don't depend on >renting space from other companies. How you >do that is up to you.
How do you get a message out to the net without *renting* someone else's resources?
Oh well, back to the soap box on the corner... :-)
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China thought they had a population problem before. Ever heard the phrase, "F like Rabbits."
-Dan
I have USW and been a DSL customer since July of 1998. I have had 256 kb up and 640 kb down from the start. From what I heard, they cannot slow down your download speed, it is line limited. But they can control the upload.
;-)
If they give me 640 kb upload, then I will be impressed!
I had no outages for a whole year, then this year I had 5 in 2 weeks. They do not tell you about the outages in advance or explain post un-scheduled outages after they happen. That really bothers me.
My ping to other severs has degraded by 40+ milleseconds. I haven't changed anything with my network. I noticed it after I switched from bridge to PPP mode.
Otherwise it has been positive. I know I can never live with out high speed net access...
-Dan
>So what's the moral of the story? Find yourself
>a medium that you control, don't depend on
>renting space from other companies. How you
>do that is up to you.
How do you get a message out to the net without *renting* someone else's resources?
Oh well, back to the soap box on the corner...
:-)