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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:27:13 -0400, "Eisboch"
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This really isn't a comment. Just testing a new, DSL Internet
service from
the music shop.

Eisboch
It worked.
--
John H

Not only does it work, but I am really surprised and impressed. It's
only been up and running for an hour or so, but it is amazingly fast
for DSL. I thought DSL was slower than cable, but it's not the case
here. This DSL is much faster than the Comcast cable we have in the
house.

It could be that although the DSL is on a wireless router, I only have
one computer on it versus 2 or 3 on the wireless Comcast router in the
house. But the difference is very, very noticeable. Hope it stays
this way.

Eisboch

When you speed test the new DSL, what results in kbps do you get?

Try a couple of servers at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

at different times during the day at your house and office.

Typically, we get about 25,000 kbps down and 11,000 up. Sometimes
substantially faster down, sometimes a little bit slower down. That's
with the NY server. The DC server gives much faster results.

Best not to try this at high traffic hours...do it either very early in
the am or very late at night.

Are your results DSL or cable? If DSL, which provider? Just curious?


Cable. Had DSL when I had an office over in Virginia. It was ok until a
water main burst a few blocks away and "destroyed" some telco cables.
Took a week to get phones back, and got an "estimated time unknown" for
restoration of DSL from the local central office. After two and a half
weeks, I added cable internet to the cable service, and never went back
to DSL.

In those days, where my office was, the telco only provided the lines to
third party DSL companies. It was not offering DSL in my area. That
changed. I suspect had the telco been the DSL supplier, the "wet lines"
would have been repaired a lot faster.

I get at least one mailing a month from the local telco offering me very
slow DSL for about $20 a month at the same time it is offering much
faster (and much more expensive) FIOS in the more heavily populated areas
of the state. But even if FIOS were available here, I have no real
incentive to switch.




We had DSL in Florida because the area we were in was not serviced by
cable.
I remember learning that DSL speed varies greatly by how far you are from
a substation or whatever and how many subscribers they had on that
substation. I recall the Florida DSL as being adequate for most of what we
used it for but slower than the cable we had at the time here in MA.
(this was before going wireless with routers, etc., so I don't know what
effect they have on speed).

However, so far the DLS service that started today here in the little
music shop blows Comcast cable away. I am really surprised, because I
never thought Comcast was particularly slow before.

Eisboch


5Mb DSL is readily available down here in Florida now, even in the sticks.
Lot's of improvements over the years. I opted to get 3Mb ($40/month) for my
home which is quite fast enough, At least for an old retired guy.