Well , after a week or more of getting the run around from eathlink , who has given me no real good answer as to why there has been no DSL service in my area for more than a week !!....I've called today ,and told em to put me back on Dial up !....Im sick of it , Broadbands nice , but really too high for what you're gettting IMHO :? ....so when I get all the crud around here done and get back to playing I'll be 56K 'ing it till the cost comes down to something less that $50.00 a month !...

later all , have a good week ,

<56K> Trigon... :lol: :lol:

MAGGOTTS!!!!

you pay $ 50 for DSL OUCH Have you try your cable company for DSL. I pay $40 a month

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Okay... No more Star Wars movies for me :lol:

Yeah we really are getting gouged. I'm paying $50/mo also, and I'm ready to get something cheaper.

I'm looking around for promos in the Seattle area. I don't think I can ever go back to 56k tho. It is torture.

I am with this proivder:

http://www.dslextreme.com

They have offers as cheap as $29.95/month.

I pay $50 for static IP

N6NU

For that $50 what speed connection do you get, the connection in the uk £34.99==$58.48 is only 1mb down 256 kb up but this is cable
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I get 1300/134 measured - all the time. There is no fluctuation.

By the end of the year it will be 256Kbits on the uplink side.

N6NU

oh wow I pay $40 per month but I got dsl and its just basic dsl so its kinda slow.
we are getting new dsl because my brothers firend said that it was to slow so we are getting a new dsl connection that is way way faster. I cant wait till the contract finnishes :D 8) :P :razz: :wink:

I was paying $50 a month for high speed cable, 3 meg down and uh.... 350? up. I went with the 'lite' (128 both directions)version @ $29.99, and told them to turn off the TV channels which was another $45 a month.
So far they've neither turned off the TV nor slowed down my connection, so I'm very satisfied with the service. :mrgreen: They will hear no more complaints from me either, I'm keeping my mouth shut. :twisted:

Perhaps those of you with cable in your area should investigate this. Maybe you can get the same kind of deal that I am. :lol:

Should I risk it? If I'm wrong then CG will suck big time for a month or however long it takes them to put me back as is. Temtation Island.

you jump in first...know what I mean.

Every apartment in my brother's quadraplex has cable running into it for free, because of the previous tenants. One guy, who has been there the whole time, asked to have his turned off too, so that the bill would stop coming. And lucky for him, the signal kept coming through for him also. I don't understand cable, but it sounds as if it is hard to turn off.

As for cable broadband, how do they cap your speeds anyhow?

I think they have computer controlled, program controlled subnets that dynamically change to enable a certain throughput based on segment usage. That's just a guess.

On the cable they just programme the box cable modem to a certain speed either 150 kb 600 kb or 1mb in my area anyway they just send the signal down the line had mine at 600 and 150 and will be going back to the 600 around christmas
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