On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 08:34 AM, John Stone wrote: > I've have had DSL from Bellsouth since it was available in my > neighborhood 2-3 years ago. And would VERY HIGHLY recommend it. Where > we leave in St. Matthews, the cable was always going out when they > predicted any kind of weather, phone was always there!
The television portion of the cable going out does not mean the broadband connection will go out. Several times last summer, the television portion of the cable went out, but I was still connected to the 'Net. I think weather got in the way of their satellite dishes or microwave relays to kill the television signal. I've had a cable broadband connection for quite a while now, and I can count the downtime over the last year in minutes. My experience has been very good with it. I can't comment on their tech support because I haven't had to use it. A neighbor has his connection through DSL, and I helped him set up his home network. The only difference I noticed was the startling drop in download speed. The DSL connection seems to be capped at something under 1.5 Mb/s while I regularly get twice that speed off the cable connection. They both seem to be the same on upload. Either speed is more than enough for Webwork and e-mail. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
