Jack, On Friday 19 November 2004 13:37, Jack Malone wrote:
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im getting 6m dsl down here at work in couple weeks if it turns out to be that fast. with 416k on upload side. we are only about 5000 feet from the central office. about 6 blocks or so.
Your situation is very similar to mine. I get a very solid, reliable 6Mb/s inbound and 600Kb/s outbound. I, too, am just a few thousand feet from the CO. If the wiring in your area is good, you should have no problem.
not able to get dsl at home so have to go with cox cable that has a slow 1m on download side. they want up here in tyler to any faster speeds an they have plenty of room to do so.
There are other issues with cable Internet, too. Many service providers disallow servers on cable links and static addressing can be pretty hard to come by. My DSL provider has no such restrictions and offers me up to 8 statically assigned IP addresses at this service level. Both servers and static addressing are necessary for me, since this is a home office and my business partner must be able to access servers at my site.
jack
Randall Schulz