Re: Direcway is to Slow to Support Me

Ben Hogland wrote:

"Neon John" <no@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There's a bandwidth war currently underway.  One of the cable company
infrastructure engineers was in the restaurant last week and we
chatted about this.  They're at 3/.5mb right now and will be bumping
to 5/2 sometime in the fall after they get the head end equipment
installed.  Planning 10/4 for the first of the year.

Bellsuck is struggling along trying to keep up.  I'm at 3/0.5 right
now.  Rumor is they're  going to 5/2 in the fall, probably early
November.  Whether the thruput will actually keep up with cable's 10/4
on a loaded loop is anyone's guess.

Bellsuck's other typical monopolistic response was to try to sucker me
into signing a 3 year commitment.  riiight.  What it did was make me
start looking at alternatives.  The cable engineer told me that I'd
have a loop all to myself where I'm located so I think bellsuck just
tromped on their spud, so to speak.

The modem stats tell me that my line would do 11.5/6mb unthrottled
which is absolutely amazing over telephone copper.  I suspect that
within a year I'll be unthrottled if I stay with them.

The cable engineer said that they're turning up new 32 wavelength,
10gbit per wavelength fiber at the head end.  There are 10 fiber
bundles entering the building. This is more bandwidth than they know
what to do with, even with digital video on demand and the VOIP
service they're about to start offering.  Hurray!!! an alternative to
bellsuck.

Now if we can just find some web servers that can do

100kbytes/sec....Not meaning to burst your bubble, but DSL is far better as far as reliability AND cost compared to


Hmm..cable? I've been there and done that more than once as far as cable internet. DSL is *MUCH* more reliable IMO. Cable, in the evening, can be so bad as to be a much like dial up (Prime time), depending on where you live.. Cable line shared by many *and* limited by how they place the nodes. If cable goes down, your internet goes down. In my area, that seems to be quite often. You may not like DSL, but it's power is backed-up by the superiority of the phone system which generally has battery bank backup at the CO. I have DSL when power goes out, I don't have cable. Cable goes down very often, (I'd say weekly).

Again, DSL has been far more reliable as compared to cable. It rarely goes down. It's always high speed at the high limit. I learned real quick the consistent speed and reliability of DSL was worth far more compared to the double cost of cable internet bandwidth yet unreliable speed.

I have a far more reliable system than cable internet at a fraction of the cost. 3 meg down and 768 K up is pretty damn good for 29 bucks a month including ISP and it's far more reliable than the 55 dollar a month cable.. You go ahead and subscribe to cable.. I'll stick with my phone companies' DSL any day because it's not only more reliable but it is by far, a lower cost service..

Ben



Ben,

I do not know where you live, but I have had cable for years now and have had very little down time and this is with Adelphia who does not have a very good reputation. Before Hurricane Isabelle we had only a total of 4 hours of down time in three years. After the storm we have had more, but not much. Where I live there is very little difference between the cost of cable and the cost of DSL. Sometimes Cable TV can go down and I still have internet. This has happened a couple of times. I do not know why this happens, but it has. I had always thought that if you lose one you lose both. If we lose cable internet we also lose TV. Maybe some some one here knows why and can explain. The slow down you describe in the evening does happen every once in a while, but not often and there is no way for me to know if it is adelphia or the other servers.

ChrisGW

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