DSL Finally
 

Woohoo (in best Homer Simpson voice).

After being told by several people that I would never get DSL in rural Georgia, I finally have it.

Not only that, my local telephone company stated that the max speed would be up to 512kps. But when the guy installed it all, he was surprised as me to find I have a 100Mbs connection :D :D

Now I can get all my music files uploaded.

Woohoo!!!

Re: DSL Finally
 

Congratulations. But shouldn't you be out mowing the lawn? I can hear it growing from here.:D

Now you can wire your PC up to your stereo and listen to the bbc all day on the wireless without tieing up the phone lines

Re: DSL Finally
 

Bugger!!!

:D

The lawn is now a Saturday schedule (although with the rain we're having, it should be every 3 days).

They don't have a tier pricing system for bandwidth?

Nope. Free DSL modem if you sign up for a year and $49.95 a month. It's more expensive than Yahoo's deal but they don't cover my area. The telephone company we use are the only ones that could do.

Still, I'm not complaining :D

the installer got a bit confused - you have a 100 mbit network connection on your pc.... this is not your dsl speed.... your DSL downstream speed is between 256k and 3 mbps, depending on what plan you have

a good test is go to microsoft.com and download a big file like media player, if you have 512k it will download at about 60 kiloBYTES (not kilobits) per second

Nice, I got it down here for $20. But thats only for 256 up.

Did that. It reached 212KB per second and it downloaded in 30 seconds.

Also on my connection status (flashing minotor icon), it says:

Speed: 100.0Mbps

Beats the hell out of me, but I'm not complaining. It's still faster than my ol' dial up :D

I never understand all that ..I am on a cable connection
testing it on http://tech.msn.com/downloads/speedtest.armx
I get a reading of 3195.8 kbps today... seems quick to me..experts tell me ..bad ..fair..good ..

Just hoping that someday f**king BellSouth or the cable company hangs some new lines here in the country in East Alabamastan. 28k modem connection might have been ok in '91 but I think it sucks. Guess I could splurge $800 for the Direct TV setup and $78 monthly for 100Kbs satelite conex.

If they are just introducing it to your area then probably you have the whole pipe to yourself, it could probably be faster but your limited to 100Mbps because of your Network card.

I know DSL will degrade as more users join.

in that case you have 1.5 mbps downstream - 3 x faster than specified! cool :D

ray has a 3.0 mbps connection this is very fast downstream - comcast just upgraded everybody in my area to this

dsl can't actually go more than 7mbps right now...

to put it into context, if i plug one laptop in via the network cable its says 100 mbit, if i use wireless it either says 11mbit or 54 mbit depending on the network card i use

to be honest, anything over 512 is fast - when i got upgraded to 3 mbit from 1.5 mbit i didn't notice the difference

Re: DSL Finally
 

100mbs connection you are dreaming. On what planet?

You must mean 1mb per second right?
If I were you I go to http://www.bandwidthconnection.com/speedtest/
Comcast promised me 3MB per sec only getting 1Mb per sec. Been chancing them all week.

Re: DSL Finally
 

DSL speeds always confuse me. The speed on my status screen says 100Mbs but the test I did on the site you gave me said 3Mb per second.

So why does my Internet Connection say 100Mbs but in actuality, it's only 3Mbs?