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| dae | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:28 PM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00  | i need some advice.. i need to find a cheap cable or dsl provider in manhattan, definately no more than $40 a month, and without too much money for installation, and reliable... get confident, stoopit! | ||||
| Rookie Stature of an Oompa Loompa! | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:35 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Not sure about providers in Manhattan, but if you have the choice go with cable over DSL. It is MUCH faster and more reliable.
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King Shit *board owner* | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:42 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | Cable modems are subject to a wide variance in speed, so try the DSL if you can get it ~Matt/Froy from Jersey The Hell Hole Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post. Also providing total immunity to Fayth | ||||
| SpiderBob | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:44 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | I can't get either so that blows monkey balls, but I would go with DSL. Rangers Suck!  | ||||
| PaintballJoe | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:45 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | In NY u gotta get road runner cuz NY sux and doesnt have Optimum Online.  AIM: PaintballOpAnt19 Im A Racist Prick. I'm Gunna Find You Petrizzi..And Eat Ya. | ||||
| Just Jon | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:46 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | I have a cable modem with no complaints. My friends who tried to hook up dsl have had nightmare experiences. Take it FWIW. -----  E-mail: JustJon@opieanthony.com | ||||
| Rookie Stature of an Oompa Loompa! | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:48 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Some differences between cable and DSL: My DSL service averages 400kbs transfer rate. Up to 500kbps on a good day. My brother-in-law (in the same town) uses Optimum Online cable services and averages 1600 to 2000kbps transfer rate. DSL speed is focused mostly on DOWNLOADS not on UPLOADS. My DSL service only allows 90kbps of upload bandwidth. Cable service typically has no such restiction. It is an open pipe for high speed transfers in both directions. So, in my opinion, cable is more gooder. :)
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| dae | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:53 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | if i get it ima get road runner i think.. but my dads being a dick about it. im willing to pay $30 out of the $40 a month and he still wont agree to it argh.. FUCK i hate 56k this blows.. get confident, stoopit! | ||||
| Redstripe | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 9:56 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | DSL is slower than cable (don't believe the HYPE about 'sharing' your connection with 400 people - it's BS). On top of that, DSL will take you ~1 month to get installed. It too me 2 (TWO!!) months to be told that they couldn't really install it (even though they thought they could at first). Once cable was available, it too me 45 min to go to the wiz, get the modem, come home, set up and be done with it all. If you can't get optimum online, try time warner, but YMMV. Feed me! Long live SU I can't type - I don't care!  http://166.90.143.134:8624 It's the Sound Proof Booth Game! Current High Score: 4963 | ||||
| hornygoatweed23 I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 10:00 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I have road runner, and I have no cpmplaints whatso ever. I've only had one outage for a few hours, but other than that, no problems with pages, downloads, etc - and it absolutely BLOWS 56K away. I've heard, as posted, that DSL is faster and more reliable, but I have two friends that had DSL for about 2 months apiece, and they got rid of it in lieu of cable, as it was nothing but a headache from installation to daily usage. "Groupsex - it does every-body good" Proudly Adopted by Doughboy | ||||
| Lgaia | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 10:36 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | I have a cable modem, and it kicks ass..no problems at all. My sis has DSL and it sux. Besides I work for "Verizon" & I hear all kinds of shitty stories about installation and outages. | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 10:38 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Optimum online here, and its great. Im hitting rates up to 290 kb/s on napster. Thats all i really use it for.... " At the center of the planet, all souls will gather. There, I will ascend to Godhood" - Sephiroth "Hey are you "THE" white guy all the brother talk about?" - Vos E-Mail Me AIM: Hitokiri182 | ||||
| hellspawn warrior G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Brinstar Invasion Team | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 10:38 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Cable rocks. DSL's have hang ups on installation and service. When I had a problem with a weak signal, cablevision was over the next day and fixed the splitter. In the six months I've had cable, I've had only one disruption of service. Just make sure you install a personal firewall after you've chosen either service.  | ||||
| Rookie Stature of an Oompa Loompa! | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 10:41 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | See Seph that's what I'm talking about... 290K/s download rate is like having a 2320k modem. NICE I get about 50K/s which is like having a 400k modem. Nice but not as nice as cable.
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| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 03-04-2001 @ 11:07 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | If you can get either get the best one in your area check out www.dslreports.com for info. I have had Verizion since October or so and at first it was really shitty but it has gotten better. At first the PPPOE software was crappy but when I got a Netgear router it fixed that problem as well as boosting my speed and allowing me to add another computer to the network. When I first had Verizion my speeds were 200/70 which was shitty but now im getting 500/80 which is about 80% what we are promised 640/90 which is what we should expect. Nothing more though. And Verizion is upping their plan to about 780/128 from what I hear soon.  LIKE SCHOOL IN SUMMERTIME | ||||
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