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Offline Lord Nicon
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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2003, 06:58:31 PM »
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That\'s what I had.. AT&T Broadband.  What a pile of steaming feces.


Yeah really. They couldnt get a guy out for the longest, they were really slow, they tried to make me use their at&t at home server (shit) and problems just kept popping up. Really crapy.
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2003, 07:31:09 PM »
I currently have Comcast Cable TV & internet.  They suck plain & simple, I haven\'t had reliable internet for the past 4 days.  Steer clear.  If there were more DSL options with 1.5mbps download I\'d leave Comcast ASAP.

It does depend on the ISP and in my case DSL would be the better option, http://www.broadbandreports.com
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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2003, 09:54:07 PM »
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when you DSL guys ever see over 1MB/sec download, call me.  oh yeah, you won\'t


Thank You. I have DSL now and the max I\'ve seen it hit in a download is 80kb/sec. It is really good if you primarily just web browse and do regular internet activity, but if you want to download big files it can be pretty lame... But nothing, and I mean nothing as horrid as 56k.
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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2003, 02:29:27 AM »
i think THX said it best

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It does depend on the ISP


but genereally speaking, cable is better
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« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2003, 02:33:26 AM »
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but genereally speaking, cable is better
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Really, "better" depends on your needs. If you need to download 2 gigs of porn every night, then yeah, cable might be better for you. If you need rock solid and stable performance then DSL might be better for you.
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« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2003, 03:10:46 AM »
my cable is "rock solid and stable" AND lets me download 2GB of pr0n everynight, oops...i...didn\'t mean the second part   :)
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« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2003, 05:02:56 AM »
yeah my cable hasn\'t gone down yet since i\'ve had it, which has only been a month.  I nearly always download in the 150k - 300k range, falling to the lower end of my scale during peak times.  I can never go back to 56k again, broadband spoils me so....
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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2003, 05:42:41 AM »
I used to have cable. Always downloaded at 150k to 300k. They changed the plan so i left it. Now it\'s 500k but with a stupid cap.
Only limit is the server u connect to.
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2003, 09:41:38 AM »
I have cable and I love it! it goes down about once every 2-3 months for about 2-3 minutes.....and those weather emergency tests knock it down while it is running (that is Time-Warners fault) but it is up in less than 10 seconds after it is over......I am usually over the 1MB limit consistently. it takes about an hour and 10 minutes for 600MB and that is from fileplanet.


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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2003, 10:27:36 AM »
Yea it\'s true, I absolutely love cable when I\'m downloading multiple things in the afternoon at 335kb/sec for my biggest download.  However when it\'s late at night and I\'m on my clan server having a huge sniper battle in MOH and I suddenly get cut off I curse my ISP to hell. :rpissed:

For me DSL would be best.. I don\'t download entire movies, games, etc...  I wish @home was still in business around here, only had 1 dropout after 2 yrs of use, that\'s the way it should be.
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« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2003, 02:43:03 PM »
I sit on adls at 2.5 Mbps down and 0.7 Mbps up. The cable I can get here is from a shit company called Telia ;) and they only offer max 1 Mbps for their cable modem users. A company is now offering  vdsl @ 10Mbps in Stockholm, Sweden. That is pretty sweet :D
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« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2003, 06:32:15 PM »
You smalll Euro countries have all the fun when it comes to real BB, inexpensive and easy backbone to setup.  One of the advantages of being a small country.
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« Reply #27 on: May 21, 2003, 10:05:36 PM »
I have ADSl and that\'s fine for me, I download at 60kb constant 99% of the time. My ping in Counter Strike is only 20 so I couldn\'t give a shit what cable has, I\'m not greedy and I\'m not loaded.
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« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2003, 04:03:14 PM »
i guess i\'m lucky when compared to some of you ADSL users, i get an average of 145k/sec download speed which is pretty consistent, but my upload sucks balls, lousy 12k/sec.  i would have bought cable, but it wasn\'t offered in my area at the time, so still using DSL, its good enough.
on a side note, at my parents hotel, we have the "advanced" DSL from SBC, wow, if i test my bandwidth at broadbandreports, i get an upload of 330k/sec, and a download of 5200k/sec, not all that bad ($100 a month service however, free modem and install).
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« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2003, 07:57:14 PM »
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