Going from dial-up to dsl at home tomorrow - will it be much faster?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Just wondering what to expect

[Dookus]

1. oh hell yeah...

you can download porn MUCH faster with DSL.

[Benhurst]

8. It's got to be faster than what I've got. I live in a hick town

just below the Bible Belt in America's crotch that has Alltel for its telephone service. The phone service is poor and its Internet service (only local access) is even worse. I'm cruising at 18 bps at the moment.

Enjoy your new service. Must be nice living in the real world.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. Suhweet!!!!!!!!!

:evilgrin:

[sendero]

2. You...

... are in for a real treat. You will LOVE IT!

[Fridays Child]

3. You'll love it and, pretty soon...

...when something slows your system down and you don't get the speed that you will have come to expect, you'll be very impatient--having forgotten your dial-up days, entirely.

Well, that's how I am, anyway. :shrug:

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. How about going from a lame nag...

directly into a Ferrari?

IOW, it's wonderful!!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Wow......................can't...............................wait

waiting..............................waiting..............................waiting..............................waiting..............................waiting..............................waiting..............................waiting..............................waiting..............................:)

[hyphenate]

5. The only problem I've had

is that my RAM can't keep up when loading web pages. If you have less than 512M of RAM, it doesn't translate as excellently as it would. I use Memturbo and it helps some, but there is a drag at times when memory runs low.

As far as downloading, though, speed is good. :)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. Got 704 in my G4!

Oh I am psyched!

[Political_Junkie]

7. You'll never go back to dial-up again!

Hell, it's even faster than the broadband cable I once had.

[denverbill]

9. Mostly likely. It's not T1 but it's good enough.

I've had DSL 3 different times. The first time was all through Qwest and was very good. The 2nd time Qwest stopped being ISP and I had a Qwest connection but a 3rd party ISP. It was HORRIBLE. Only a tiny bit better than dialup. Then, Qwest started being the ISP again and it's back to very good.

Chances are you'll be please with the difference.

[PinkTiger]

10. Oh, shut up.

I'm so jealous. I can't get DSL, don't have cable, and can't afford satellite. So I guess it will be dial up for me forever.

Sob.......

(what I GET for living in the rural countryside...)

[Endangered Specie]

13. BPL is a developing technology, there is hope for you yet

(Broadband via Power Line)

[Sporadicus]

14. It's So Fast

that I saw your post before you thunk it!

[Cuban_Liberal]

15. You'll be AMAZED!

We just got DSL, and I'm still impressed at the speed.

:)

[Old and In the Way]

16. I've go an 65 foot tower about 70 feet from the house.

My dentist decided to get into the wireles internet business up here in Central Maine. I bartered the tower siting (highest point in the county) for free connection. He's been slow on gaining subscriptions, though. He has a T-1 FO line that he shoots from his business downtown and relays the signal from my tower on line of site. So I pretty much have no bandwidth problems. We have 4 PC users in the house and I see pretty much no slowdown on bandthwidth.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. How ya doin with the whole brain cancer thing?

Kidding - that sounds very nice indeed!

[Old and In the Way]

22. Is that the buzzin' between my ears?

:-)

[Nomad559]

17. Check your Internet speed

When you get your DSL connected, you can check your speed at one of these links.

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

http://elkgrove.speedtest.frontiernet.net


My Speed Test

My speed test from here
http://lax.speakeasy.net

[Old and In the Way]

18. Thanks...just tried it.

493 kpbs down / 441 up....56K modem is benchmarked at 62...not bad!

[Bundbuster]

23. Hey-soos! Just tested at 3311 kbps download speed

beyond "very fast."

After 4 years with this DSL (Earthlink), if I were forced to go back to dialup I'd wind up in the bin.

[jukes]

19. ChavezSpeakstheTruth

blinding. you'll be amazed. do you have a quick machine?

processor speed can bog you, too, but i just read you have a g4;

you're in for the ride of your life, bud.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. sweet!

Can't wait.

[jukes]

24. *WAKE UP*

you want to be alert whilst test-driving that new sports-coupe'!

[huellewig]

25. Please tell me you don't use IE..

Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera, OmniWeb, Mozilla all kick IE's ass speed wise. And if you use OS 9 Mozilla 1.2.1 is the best browser with iCab a close second. Enjoy.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. I'ma Safari user

strictly