The following is just my opinion. Your mileage may vary
Cory wrote:
> With my company, we've had good success (and bad, two lines, to locations)
> with rio. Rio serves up the DSL. The last mile is owned by qwest (last
> mile from office to QWest's CO.
Steer clear of Rio if you can.
> At home, I have cable, and have been very pleased with it. They were able
> to come where DSL couldn't. (but it varies depending on the area). Try
> www.att.home.com $40/month. up to 3000kbit/sec they claim. I usually can
> get 150kbytes/sec downloading. This is a little less than full t-1 speed
> (~197kbytes/sec).
> With my experience with the two, I'd say DSL is FAST! But I quickly hit the
> top speed (32kbyte/sec). Cable is a little slower than DSL, but has a much
> higher top speed (for the money).
Cable is SLOWER than DSL? No way. on _uploads_, maybe (128K versus
256K) but
on downloads, DSL is slow slow slow.
I just got cable and I don't look back at DSL at all.
james wrote
> I know that there are some people on this list who work for local isp's,
> so maybe someone can help me on helping a client. I am hosting a client's
> web page on my Linux server, but they don't have a dialup service right
> now. I might have them use Netzero or Juno, and they also have the free
> temporary AOL account. I'd like to give them DSL connectivity, but both
> their home and business numbers aren't serviced by Qwest (out of range).
Cable modem if possible, otherwise dialup. Don't bother with idsl (isdn
speed)
it's not worth it.
> Who are the best isp's in town for paid dialup service? Is there anyone
> else I can go with for DSL speed, besides Qwest? And how do I check to
> see if they can get DSL through anyone other than Qwest?
they won't be able to, at this point. iDSL is possible, but not really
worth
the bother.
As for who to use: Willamette.net has been very good to EUGLUG, so I
recommend
them.
Seth
