If the phone company / DSL provider has their termination equipment in your backyard, you should be able to get 24 Mbit DSL (provided it is DSL2+). If it is "nearby" then you may get 16 Mbit, then speeds drop with distance out to 0.5 Mbit at about 3 miles. Find out where exactly the termination point would be, measure the line of sight distance from there to your house and add 50%. That should give you an idea of expected speeds.
Andy On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: > What kind of download speed can you get over DSL? > On downloads I regularly get over 1000 kbps, and this is on Comcast's lowest > speed plan. I used to have their top speed plan and could get 1500-2000 > kbps on downloads. > I was under the impression that DSL tops out at around 6 mbps. Comcast has > cable service up to 16 mbps (and higher, I've heard.) > Chris > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Perkins, Jerry <je...@jperkins.us> wrote: >> >> Chris McQuistion wrote: >> > I would stick with Comcast. Their service is MUCH faster than DSL. >> It has been my experience that DSL is faster. This is from 6 years >> of experience using both systems. In fact on big downloads DSL is >> always faster EVEN when I am connected via X-Forwarding which puts DSL >> at a disadvantage. >> >> -- >> Jerry Perkins >> Home Page http://www.jperkins.us/ >> >> + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
