[G4] Speeding up

whshaw whshaw at erols.com
Tue Oct 11 13:14:52 PDT 2005


Tim Collier wrote:

> In my area, Adelphia (going out of business being bought out by  
> Comcast), Comcast and BellSouth DSL are the most common choices.   
> BellSouth offers 3 flavors of DSL the first being only slightly  
> faster than dialup, the second being about 1.5 mb/sec and the third  
> about 2 mb/sec.  Comcast and Adelphia are about equal (what a  
> coincidence!) and you get about 4 to 5 mb/sec.  BellSouth is also  
> flakey and their support down here is notoriously horrid.  Cable, on  
> the other hand is rarely, if ever--even during hurricanes--down.   
> BellSouth goes down with a lightening strike.  I live in South  
> Florida, so that can be a problem.  My recommendation is Cable!  Oh,  
> I also once tried Direcpc--what a mistake!  It was S L O W and very  
> expensive.
>
> Tim
> On Oct 11, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote:
>
>
> Exterminate all rational though.
>
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To show my ignorance, I am asking three questions.
1. Does my email address stay the same?
2.How does the system arrive, through a phone line or through a cable.   
                                     3.If through a cable how does it 
connect to my computer?
Thanks

Wilton


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