Home internet connection recommendation?
soulmarcosa
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I have dialup connection at home. Pity me. But tell me what I should get instead. Road Runner? Something through the phone company? Help. I know nothing.
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Cable is generally considered faster, but it fluctuates depending on how many people use it (you have shared bandwidth).
DSL is good, not quite so fast, but still broadband fast. It's affected by how far away from the phone switching station you are.
It also is like 5x faster downloading than uploading.
http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome/channels/fios/HighSpeedInternetForHome.asp
$45 a month for Up to 15 Mbps/2 Mbps seems nice...
yeah, but that's like the equivalent of $60 if you live in NYC
Haha ... good point
Thats for 15/Download 2/upload? Thats a good deal then.
Mine is 3/dl 256k/upload. But it's part of my rent, so I don't pay for it.
Where are the Swedes & people in Asia that pay dirt cheap for 100Mbps/Download?? I wanna know whatcha got. Ur paying like 20 bucks a month for that shit right?
I work at a major uni and we only got 15Mbps down. Eventhough I know there are research labs here with 100/Mbps pipes.
Roadrunner is what I've got right now... shit is like $48/month which is kinda outrageous as far as I'm concerned, but you can download shit crazy fast and load pages like whoa so it may be worth it to you
The DSL you get from the phone company is considerably cheaper- your monthly rate is determined by how much speed you want... I think the last time I had it it was $28/month and it was quite nearly the same speed as cable as far as accessing webpages and graphics and shit... downloads were slower but I'm not entirely convinced the cable is worth that difference... the HD's getting full anyway
BTW, I don't know naan about wireless shit... but apparantly if you have the capability it is easy to find access (and steal it) in your area... maybe not for you out in dirt road country though
Yes yes...ha>0r ur neighbors shit. Jumpin' on open wifi lines is alright to just surf and stuff. But I would never do it with work crap or using passwords/email/banking/etc stuff. Plus, people are starting to get hip around here with lockin' down their shit. The days are starting to go where lines were totally open...
But I see some cities in talks to have totally open free wifi city access. Goggle in talks with San Fran?? WOOT! Free wireless city wide... Nation wide... Will it happen anytime soon?
Yeah your computer hookup is WAY faster than the DSL connection here at the office. I'm really not feeling $50/mo. pricetag but it looks like there's no way around it.
If you're talking about when the PC at my house was in the hallway/closet area, that was the $28 DSL line... I still think about switching back to that...
Big business lobbyists are trying to prevent this from catching on... too much $$$ to be made...
It's easy to set up various encryption on your router. Or even make your network hidden. And 4sure 99.9% of lines that you might jump on, the people have no clue ur on their open line or even what to do to stop you. But I've had a friend who jumped on the wrong line once and dude straight laced him. Changed all his passwords to email and banking. Didn't mess with his accounts. Just changed his passwords. Next day his network's name was "Don't ever go on my line again"
I've always told anyone, if ur not set on a secure network, don't be putting ur shit out there.
Really? But he could just do a hard reset on the router and fix that. As long as ur in control of the hardware.. Ain't no thang...
But I'm sure enough people just hook their router up to their modem and think, ok kewl... I got it working...
Not knowing to set an admin pass on their router and then encrypting their network...
Oh well... Nerdtalk101