dsl0r

[Testin da Cable]

I will be getting dsl soon as I'm sick of chello, my cable isp. They haven't really been doing anything wrong lately, but due to past idiocy I've lost all confidence in them.
It's going to cost though, as I do everything via cable. Anyhoo, once it's been done in [I hope] three weeks or so I'll be on cloud nine. I'm expecting a week of offlineage though

 

[Dial-A-Rez]

You could run the two concurrently for a month and stay online, its not going to cost that much more.
xDSL installations are prone delays and even if the ISP says your exchange is enable you yet fail the line test.
Even then, assuming everything goes according to plan you may find teething troubles geting your machine(s) connected to the 'Net via the DSL link.

My advice would be not to throw the baby out with the bath water and keep your cable connection until you are 101% confident you can run your existing setup via the DSL line.

 

[Testin da Cable]

yeh, well I'm calculating three weeks extra time for the whole thing. I've just ordered the phone line to be installed on the 19th, while the dsl can only be ordered after the line has been installed.
[installed meaning that someone in the phone company double-clicks a pictogram with my addy on it heh]

 

[~YuckFou~]

I'd stick with cable. Especially for online gaming, all the cable guys have 30/40 ping, the adslers' seem to be 60/80 generally.

2c
in
put

 

[Embattle]

Yuck, Cable here is a lot better than in other countries, DSL tends to be better in other countries than Cable and Chello is the big suckor.

 

[Testin da Cable]

as emb says.

 

[old.Jas]

I've just moved and have got cable (NTL), I used to have ADSL (BTo) - download speed seems better but ping is slightly worse I have found

 

[~YuckFou~]

Originally posted by Embattle
Yuck, Cable here is a lot better than in other countries, DSL tends to be better in other countries than Cable and Chello is the big suckor.

Bloody foreigners

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Bollocks is ping worse, I'm on BTO (Who are generally acknowledged to be shite) and I ping 20/21 on the BW servers rising to 30 at the worst of times

 

[Will]

It's can vary from user to user, DSL tends to give slightly more range of ping, but the upload being twice as fast balances that out for me. I've gone for cable for one very good reason...



...it's totally free.

 

[Testin da Cable]

did I mention that the dsl I'm getting is 7,5Mbits worth of sweetness?

 

[Will]

No. Are you going to now then, and turn us all green?

 

[Testin da Cable]

I should move to denmark. The word is they get 10Mbit up there...the cunts


btw, it's 7.8 Mbit to be precise

 

[Will]

*glares*

 

[Shocko]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
I should move to denmark. The word is they get 10Mbit up there...the cunts

That and Danish bacon?

 

[Testin da Cable]

rah!

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
did I mention that the dsl I'm getting is 7,5Mbits worth of sweetness?

How much that costing you silverfox?

 

[Testin da Cable]

mmm iirc 110 euro per month.

 

[.Moriarty.]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
mmm iirc 110 euro per month.

It costs 110euro per month for 512/128k ADSL here in Ireland. And thats with a 3gb/month download cap. Sweet, eh?

 

[Testin da Cable]

gotta love it heh


still not installed btw :|

 

[xane]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
Anyhoo, once it's been done in [I hope] three weeks or so I'll be on cloud nine.

I thought they went bust from a DDoS attack ?

 

[Testin da Cable]

nah: that was me getting the prices down

 

[old.Jas]

All this talk of ADSL vs Cable - surely the difference is so minimal (10-15ms)that nobody can notice.

As long as there is no packetloss of course.

 

[old.Jas]

Just read this - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26732.html

In China, Ethernet-based broadband services are available for less than $20 a month with connection speeds of 10 Mbps.

Sweet Jesus! 10mb!

 

[Wilier]

China = Internet heaven

Who would have thought. Its their next step in taking over the world. Think about it, they have infiltrated every city, town and village in the country.

Still, at least I know where my next house purchase will be.

 

[xane]

Well its ethernet based in China to force you through the government firewall, which basically filters out around 90% of the web

 

[old.Jas]

I'm sure there are ways around that though

 

[Testin da Cable]

*not fill in proxy*

 

[Shocko]

What's the point in going to China for uber-1337 broadband, and then having to surf the web via a proxy ~100ms away, that proberbly has less bandwidth than you?

 

[old.Jas]

P2P within the country would still work right?