Broadband or Dial-Up

[pbwalker]

Gotta love bandwidth!! :)

[The Annoyed Man]

Verizon FiOS.


OTH, I just upgraded my service last night, and it will take about 24 hours to take effect.

[CainA]

From work



-Cain

[TexasComputerDude]

yea yea yea, just rub it in guys..... At least I can walk around outside in nothing but my tightie-whities without the police being called.

[AEA]

Hughesnet

Nothing to write home about, but beats dialup!

[AEA]

yea yea yea, just rub it in guys..... At least I can walk around outside in nothing but my tightie-whities without the police being called.

ME TOO!

[KB5AKO]

[Charles L. Cotton]

Well, that burns me up. Here is the result from my office with a T-1! Of course, the T-1 is being used for our telephone system also and I'm sure everyone up here today is playing games or listening to music.

I'll run this test at home.

Chas.

[ELB]

I got att dsl back in August and use it most of the time, but it has coughed often enough that I have not yet killed off the dialup connection, and still use it on occasion. So I voted 'Both' altho I really use DSL the most.

[CainA]

Home

AT&T U-Verse, which I suppose is some kind of DSL



-Cain

[pbwalker]

yea yea yea, just rub it in guys..... At least I can walk around outside in nothing but my tightie-whities without the police being called.

Trade ya!

[DoubleJ]

work



at the casa, eet eez Verizon FiOS.

[pbwalker]

Here's my home service. Not too bad I guess...

[NcongruNt]

I've got satellite, I've got 1.5Mbps for almost 400 MB then about 1/2 the speed of dialup for the next 24 hour period.

I pay 120$ a month :-(

How's your upload? Being a sysadmin, I could never go for the satellite setup, due to the 1sec+ lag on interactive sessions on a satellite link (such as ssh or remote desktop).

[NcongruNt]

Well, that burns me up. Here is the result from my office with a T-1! Of course, the T-1 is being used for our telephone system also and I'm sure everyone up here today is playing games or listening to music.

I'll run this test at home.

Chas.

Chas,

A T1 by definition is limited to 1.5Mbx1.5Mb. That's 1536Kb x 1536Kb (minus some overhead). The reason it is so expensive is that upload and the fact that it's a commercial line, which means much better support. Your upload is far and above everyone else's here (aside from KB5AKO, but he didn't post the details of his connection). From what you posted, it looks like very little of your line was being used during that test, and what is being used is easily explained by phone traffic and very light usage.

John

For the record, I'd sooner have a T1 line like yours than a 5Mbx512Kb which seems to be pretty common in everyone else's posts. A T1 is more reliable, consistent, and has dedicated bandwidth, and appropriate for many more services than a residential DSL or cable line. In fact, I've had T1 lines running into my home in the past, I just can't afford that anymore (and you can't normally get one in an apartment anyway).