fedora-list Digest, Vol 8, Issue 136

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>   1. Re: OT: DSL Vs. Cable (Robin Laing)
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>   3. Re: Upgrade skip (Robin Laing)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:23:26 -0600
>From: Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
>Subject: Re: OT: DSL Vs. Cable
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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>Phillip T. George wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>
>>Made a new topic, because there's so many replies to the other post, I
>>didn't know which one to reply to.  It seems to me that in Tulsa, OK the
>>choice to go with is Cox cable.  Its possible that the phone lines just
>>aren't up to par or there's some other reason as to why DSL is not very
>>good.
>>If anyone in the Texas area uses cable instead of DSL, please reply and
>>let us know how your service has been (especially if you have used DSL
>>before).  I'd like to see the comparison of someone who has firsthand
>>experience at both.  Like I said, in my area (Tulsa, OK), Cox cable seems
>>to be a much better choice.  Most of our customers don't even know where
>>the Cable modem is, where as with our customers that have DSL (cheaper, of
>>course) know EXACTLY where their DSL modem is at :)
>>
>>-Phillip
>>
>>I use a cabel modem in Texas and it is fantastic. It's a little more expensive than DSL but well worth it. My provider is Time Warner Cabel in South Texas. I tried DSL but the installation process was so complex and it is much slower than Cabel. I also tried a competitive cabel company but they did not offer news-groups and their technicans were not very well informed, They did not know what news-groups were. I switched to TWSTX.
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>Service from either may differ on the location.  Cable needs to be 
>segmented or it runs into load problems at certain times of the day. 
>I had Cable and moved to DSL.  During the change over to DSL, I could 
>connect to my Cable providers servers faster via DSL than Cable.  Even 
>talking to the system admin was a waste of time.
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>My experience is DSL is much more reliable.
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>Mileage may vary. :)
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>Talk to your neighbors about their experience.  This would be a better 
>indication.
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