I was just curious as to what sort of connections y'all were using.

Mine went down for about five minutes right when I was getting ready to do the wirthling retrospective from one of the other threads, so I tried an old dial-up just to tide me over so I wouldn't have Lowpass withdrawal.

I connected at about 38K and it took about three minutes to load the main comic creator page, and an assload of time to pull up separate strips. And most of these images are probably cached on my machine.

Anyhoo, I got impatient and quit to find that my other connection (784K DSL) was working again.

Life would really suck without high speed access. I had a cable modem in NY, and when I moved here no one was offering cable or home-use priced (<$50) DSL. So I suffered along with a 33.6 modem for a year. And it sucked.

I think the worst part was having been to the promised land and then been kicked out. If I'd never tasted the sweet, sweet lovin' of a blazing fast connection I'd never have known what I was missing.

So whatchoo got? Modems? DSL? Cable? OC-3?

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Ohmigod! You were without fast Internet access for 5 minutes?! Is everyone OK?

I have cable (Comcast@home). It rocks, mostly. I'm currently experiencing intermittent service outages (recently, it's down more than it's up), probably due to my neighbor's driveway repaving job done in April. When it is working, however, it's as fast as the T-1 at work...

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

I surf at coyote-evading speeds. Yay roadrunner!

For our 2-computer household in Lincoln, NE, cable access is faster than the T1 at work. Of course, cable access in a more internet-savvy area, like NY or Chicago, would be horrendously slow.

Sam and I decided to go with whichever came to our area first - DSL or cable.

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I took DSL instead of cable only because we don't use cable TV - barely watch the drool box at all. DSL was cheaper in that instance. And before DSL I always had 2 phone lines, so I balanced that expense vs. plummeting DSL charges and came up fairly close.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

That's my take on the matter. If you're on the internet all the time, having a dedicated phone line makes sense. Figure at least $20 for the line, plus $20 a month for and ISP, you've got $40, which is the price of a lot of DSL/cable internet services. So why not?

For most things, I can't really tell a difference between my DSL and work, which I think is a T3. Unless I actually have to download something big, in the dozens of MB. Then work smokes my PC.

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Sam and I decided to go with whichever came to our area first - DSL or cable.

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Sam the butcher? I thought he was sweet on Alice.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

You can test the speed of your Internet connection at the following site:

DSL Reports Speed Test

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

This is actually a timely discussion. I am in the process of buying a new house, and I am trying to decide if I want to continue using Comcast@home (which will be available in the new neighborhood) or if I should go with DSL instead. And if DSL, do I want SDSL or ADSL? (I assume SDSL is too pricey.)

I am tempted to stick with the cable access, because I know it works well (usually) and I am familiar with how to network it with my other PCs. Is it any more difficult to network using DSL?

I know a lot of people point out that cable access is less secure, but I have a software firewall that takes care of that. Also, it has been pointed out that with DSL you have the whole bandwidth dedicated to you; with cable you share the bandwidth with other cable customers (not that that has really been a problem yet).

Are there other things I should consider?

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

I think that's most of what you'll have to worry about. I think for the majority of what the average person does, you wouldn't notice a huge difference between the two.

I've heard the discussion of shared lines for cable equipment, and I suppose that if you move into a congested area it might become an issue. But I think there are a lot of people that just don't care enough to get high speed access (suckers!) just yet, so you may not have to worry for a while.

I've had cable and DSL both now, and been happy with each. I had problems with my DSL for about a month, but that was the ISP dicking things up.

In regards to networking, I can tell you that I did so with the DSL with no problems. They company says you can't use it on more than one PC, which I think is code for 'you can't use it on more than one PC if you're too dumb to buy an extra network card and a hub'.

I bought a home networking kit from 3Com that had two NICs, a 4 port hub and some software from MS. The software, rather than installing anything, basically walked though setting up internet connection sharing and mapping network drives. Which must not have been too difficult since I did it and my networking skills are equal to that of my dog.

The hardest part was drilling a hole through the floor to get the cable into the basement. If I were going to buy again I'd spend extra and get wireless. Then I could drag a laptop around the house and surf anywhere I wanted to. Like on the roof.

Which leads me to another question I was going to ask earlier. Though it has nothing to do with broadband, I don't feel like starting up yet another thread.

How many of you own homes? Or rather, live somewhere where yardwork is a priority. 'Cause having a house is sweet, but I'm really getting sick of mowing the lawn and trying to keep vegetation from dying.

I want to hire some of the ubiquitous retired men from my neighborhood and have them keeping everything looking tidy. I haven't reached that point in life yet where I'm at all interested in making my yard look nice.

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Yard work bites toads. I have a bit over a 1/4 acre and we never keep up with it. We planted veggies this year and we have berries, so gathering food is cool. But the lawn and flowerbeds suck. I mow, but I leave the flowers to my wife. Fortunately for me, I have mild allergies - gives me an excuse.

We're thinking about moving soon and I'm recommending we shrink down to about 5 or 7K Sq Ft.

Most of the old guys in my hood don't do plop. Their wives keep up the lawns.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

56k at home, T1 (I think) at work. I'm only recently out of college and am just about to move to a new apartment. They didn't mention anything about expecting me to help out with the groundskeeping. I may look into high-speed access there, depending on the cost.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

God damn, you people ARE colossal geeks.

Anyway, I work at a university, and I have three computers on my desk, all hooked up to some kind of commie government fast fast connection.

When I go home, I am not usually interested in the internet. To make sure I stay that way, I refuse to upgrade my P-90 and crap modem. It is for emergency use only.

No internet at home? So what in Beelzebub's nutsack do I do for fun? Well, last night, I drank a bunch of whiskey and rigged a tarp in the living room. The cat was quite stoked over it.

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God damn, you people ARE colossal geeks.

Anyway, I work at a university, and I have three computers on my desk, all hooked up to some kind of commie government fast fast connection.

When I go home, I am not usually interested in the internet. To make sure I stay that way, I refuse to upgrade my P-90 and crap modem. It is for emergency use only.

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It's good to know that the hours you spend wasting away on this site are being funded by your university.

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No internet at home? So what in Beelzebub's nutsack do I do for fun? Well, last night, I drank a bunch of whiskey and rigged a tarp in the living room. The cat was quite stoked over it.

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And upon adding some couch cushions and a few blankets, the fort was complete. At which point the good lady Boorite was invited inside and a snogfest ensued.

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I wish! She fell asleep in the middle of Vertigo.

....The MOVIE Vertigo.

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It's good to know that the hours you spend wasting away on this site are being funded by your university.

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You sound like you've been working in the private sector too long.

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You can test the speed of your Internet connection at the following site:

DSL Reports Speed Test

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Wow, 1538 kbps down and 2367 kbps up. My upload speed is designated "insane."

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You can test the speed of your Internet connection at the following site:

DSL Reports Speed Test

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I just ran a test to the LinkLine server in Los Angeles to test my cable access speed (the cable is up at the moment). The results were 724 kbps downstream, 68 kbps upstream. Not too shabby. The downstream speed is actually a hair faster than the results I got at work, where we have a T-1. I was told by the most recent cable tech visiting our home that my upstream bandwidth may suffer due to whatever is causing our cable problem. Apparently, the upstream portion of the bandwidth is in the lower end of the spectrum, which is also where the interference is worst.

Has anyone else tried out the speed test?

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

Work: 872 KB down, 3203 KB up

My home DSL was significantly lower. If I recall it rated around the ok to fast range.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

2.34 TB down, 512 GB up.

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Oops. My bad. I was dreaming.

Home:

Megapath - 506 down; 270 up
Linkline - 440 down; 483 up

What's up with that? This was supposed to be ADSL.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

I connect at 26.4 or, when I'm lucky, 28.8. Thank you very much.

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www.bradsucks.net

I couldn't gain your quality so I went with quantity.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I couldn't gain your quality so I went with quantity.

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I've always been behind everyone else. When everyone was at 2400 baud, I was at 1200. I was at 2400 when everyone had a 14.4. 14.4 when everyone was at 28.8. And now the horrible country phone lines here have kept me stuck at 26.4 and 28.8. For several years I could only get 14.4 in the spring because floods would make all the phone lines buzz. Sad me.

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But look what you've done with it.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

and then theres the waste of a DSL that is me

ive done nothing with my internet life but consume

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