[s-cars] RE: Be ready !!!!! [NAC]

[Keith Maddock]

Having had both DSL and Cable in the states, I have to say I prefer Cable too.  Then again my Telocity/Ameritech DSL connection in Livonia MI was pretty far from the exchange, which limited my rates in the 300 kbps range.  However, in that location, Cable-Modem wasnt offered (only in my square-mile, damn Cable deregulation policies)   After a year of that,  I moved to Ann Arbor, and got cable-modem. WOW.  Quite nice!  I think both the DSL and Cable modems had equally unacceptable levels of service outage though.

Now here in Germany, you're pretty much forced to go back to DSL for high-speed access.  To make it worse, if you want to have more than 5gb of bandwith a month (without paying more for your internet than your Audi habit), you can only get the 768 UL/128 DL package wich is adequate download speed but pathetic upload speed.  "Flat Rate" internet access is a relatively new concept over here, but ends up being about 45 EUR a month for the 768/128 speed.   Now we just have to convince them to offer their 1.5 Mbps service with the flat rate option, however even that only has a 192 kbps upload speed... :)

Lets just say it took several hours to upload all those videos to Freddy's website.. :)

Cheers,
Keith

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Keith Maddock, TRW Automotive,  Koblenz, Germany
Slip Control Systems, Systems Design, Traction Control
+49 (0)261/ 895 2474     -    -    keith.maddock at trw.com

>>> "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com> 06:00:25 30.10.2002 >>>
Hap writes:
>
> Lee
>
> You dah mannn. Real men do DSL!
>

DSL? Yecch, pooh! At least my ISDN line was stable. I had a cable modem for
2 years, thought I'd try DSL to see what all the hullabaloo was about. I
found it what it wasn't about...it wasn't about how it wasn't stable, how
the uploads had only a fraction of the speed of the downloads.

I went back to cable. Been on it now for almost 4 years. It's a beautiful
thing :)

Lee (picking my neighborhoods wisely!)


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