Ok so I have had cable for a few months and its great and everything its just I have this advertisment for 6meg dsl for 27.99 as opposed to 3meg charter cable which costs almost 50$(thats including modem payment). The numbers look undeniable but is this too good to be true? What would you guys recommend? AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Residential Service
I have a 6 megabit ADSL package through SBC/AT&T, but the upstream is only 768 kilobit. What's the upstream on your cable package?
wow dsl technology got up to such speeds these days? I had no idea... I thought they were still groveling in the dust of like 1Mb max lol Dang, that's an awesom deal though if u already use a telephone line. My cable is ~80 for both tv and internet so i guess like ~40 for internet (up to about 5 Megabits). Too bad this wouldn't work for me since me & my roommates all use cell phones... And btw, watch out for the fine print: it says at the bottom it's for 12 months only? So I guess after that they can change the price on u? lol EDIT: why does the upstream matter? that's only important if u host a server isn't it? For online gaming its all downstream only that counts, right?
Any downstream traffic will incur some upstream overhead. And the more responsive the upstream, the more responsive the downstream. But if you'll notice the link in my sig, yes, I am hosting a server. Even if you're not hosting a web or file server, wouldn't it be nice to be able to host your own game servers, upload quickly, etc?
im not sure what my upstream is. How do I find it out? And I did notice the "for 12 months" but I can just switch back if its too expensive after 12 months. So wut would u do? and btw if upstream is just for hosting gaming servers then im thinking of that as a bonus not something i need
Agreed, that's how I feel too. I've never had a game server yet lol, and it doesn't look like I will anytime soon. So if I were u I'd sign up for it. But u gotta have an ADSL modem. Only thing is ... isn't all dsl kinda dependent on how far away u are from the ISP's servers or whatever u call it? I thought remember reading something like that ... isn't it kind of like how a cell phone works? If u're far away from a tower u're gonna have low signal, and isn't it a similar deal with dsl? So u may be unlucky and end up with significantly lower speeds than advertised if that's the case. But I could be totally wrong, someone correct me if I posted a bunch of b.s.
Someone plz tell me hes wrong. lol. And if hes not can someone help me find out how close the nearest tower is or w/e, and how it will be affected?
Lol, looks like I'm right after all, at least partly. Look what happened to Rusty S in his thread started just today in this section also. I think, however, it usually shouldn't be a major problem. When I went to the website u linked in your first post, it has at the top of the page that thing to check your availability. So I think what that means is that if you come up as "available" then u're not too far away. I think -- if they're honest, anyway -- and your house is too far away to get anywhere near the advertised speeds then they'll list u as unavailable. So I guess the question is how much of a gap between advertised and actual speeds are considered acceptable to them. So bottom line is that u will probably get speeds close to what's advertised (but not fully that) unless u just get unlucky. At least that's how I understand it and I'm not too certain on this ... again, someone correct me if i'm wrong or confirm if I'm right because I wanna know for sure too if I'm understanding it right.
