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Offline FlyinFin

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« Reply #45 on: November 13, 2004, 11:06:36 AM »
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Here in Vegas Cox Cable offers 5mb down for 50 bucks a month. No dsl here even comes close. Also, they allocate MUCH more than 5mb of bandwidth to each neigborhood hub. I  frequently see more than 600kbits/sec download which is faster than i pay for.


If you have cox cable TV all you need is the digital phone line.

In my area they offer the "Cox Combo Pakage" If you subcribe to all 3 services cable is 29.95 for 5000/512 connect. For 10 bucks you can keep your phone #. The best part is 3 services all in 1 bill  for about 90-100 a month :) .

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Offline 68DevilM

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« Reply #46 on: November 13, 2004, 12:05:20 PM »
so what is the general feeling with this post?

what is better? cable of dsl?

from what ive read from this post alone it seems it is up to where you live will determine what better service you will recieve.

anyone know how eastern north carolina fairs?
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« Reply #47 on: November 13, 2004, 08:00:33 PM »
With the DSL connection I'm using as i type this (from my parents house) I get 103ms to yahoo.com and that is including a trip across the pond.

At home I got cable, which I, although faster, think performs a bit more unstable and generally with higher latency than the DSL. But the difference isn't big though, and could just as easily be because of local conditions (It's through two different companies)

OTOH if I wanted DSL with my cable's speed it would cost quite a bit more and I've come to love the 4x(+) download speed.

If the price/bandwidth was the same I would pick DSL simply based on my own experience.
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« Reply #48 on: November 13, 2004, 10:26:10 PM »
I have a 6mb down 608kbp up SBC DSL connection. My ping times to the AH areana's are about 60ms I have 8 computers behind a router and that behind a 5100b modem in bridged mode. I don't have any problems as far as support goes I work for SBCIS STS and My wife works for SBC ASI. I have worked on 4 of the 5 broadband techs (microwave, dsl, cable and fiber the only one I haven't done yet is sat) From what I know the best is direct fiber then fiber to the curb these survices are very very limited in availabilaty. dsl and cable are the next best on these depends on available and what survice is like where you live. for me DSL (sbc) rocks and cable blows (charter - best ive gotten was 750 kbps down by 128 up and it was very intermitant). then microwave and lastly sat with sat your probably better off with dail up or isdn. I wount talk about support becuase I'm rather biased However NO ISP is going to support your 3rd party router, your wireless lan, or is going to fix your spywared virused and/or winsock pooched computer.
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« Reply #49 on: November 13, 2004, 10:41:34 PM »
Of course the latest DSL available is 6mb/s, up from the old 3mb/s.
Available here, still deciding on whether to pay the extra $10 for it.
My current DSL is 1.5/768 and I get ping times to yahoo of around 32ms.
DSL or cable, check http://www.dslreports.com see whats best in your area.
I went for DSL because I wanted a static IP.
Rumour is our neighbourhood may soon be getting a 1gb fibre connection real soon.
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« Reply #50 on: November 13, 2004, 11:46:19 PM »
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Of course the latest DSL available is 6mb/s, up from the old 3mb/s.
Available here, still deciding on whether to pay the extra $10 for it.
My current DSL is 1.5/768 and I get ping times to yahoo of around 32ms.
DSL or cable, check http://www.dslreports.com see whats best in your area.
I went for DSL because I wanted a static IP.
Rumour is our neighbourhood may soon be getting a 1gb fibre connection real soon.


Fastest Fiber connection I've seen is 10mb/10mb in sacramento by surewest (used to work there as a field support contractor) it has the capabilaty to goto 100mbps/100mbps funny thing is when you connect for the first time or after you boot up and some one on the service is using the same computer name windows will give you a warning "Computer name already exist on network" I think fiber has more security issues then cable it's realitively new so there are still some wrinkles to be  ironed out.
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« Reply #51 on: November 14, 2004, 03:12:46 AM »
that error message didn't show up because you were using fiber optic cabling.
More like network settings on you ISP's end.
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« Reply #52 on: November 14, 2004, 06:07:57 PM »
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that error message didn't show up because you were using fiber optic cabling.
More like network settings on you ISP's end.


It's becuase the fiber network is exactly that a network. if they opened up the ports for file and print sharing you would see all the other custoemrs computers networks shared files and printers. 8)
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« Reply #53 on: November 15, 2004, 03:34:54 PM »
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It's becuase the fiber network is exactly that a network. if they opened up the ports for file and print sharing you would see all the other custoemrs computers networks shared files and printers. 8)


Yup, Mayhem's right. They are allowing the ports for netbios (ip file/print sharing in XP) through their routers. Bad thing, very bad thing! Cable companies do this also. Never turn on File and Print Sharing unless you have some kind of firewall device on your system.

You should also either put a good password (mixed case letters and numbers) on your administrators account or disable it.

Cable/DSL? As stated it's all a matter of what works the best in your area. I've had both and liked them both. BellSouth p1$$ed me off when I moved so I dumped them. Would probably still be a customer if they hadn't. Now I have cable and don't see any real difference.
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« Reply #54 on: November 16, 2004, 02:23:24 AM »
Mayhem is right about why that is happening.  But you made it appear as though by "using fiber optics", sharing was enabled.


Just, like i said before, it was a network setting on the ISP's end.:D
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