PBMAX
Platinum Member
The wife and I are gettting very discusted with our local dailup service... It was connecting several nights this week at 7.4kbs (NO I"M NOT JOKING /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif )
It happens here and there and no matter how long you try redailing it goes to a max 12.6kbs when it gets like this. which seem to be happening more often of late.
The average speed is 24kbs to 30.2kbs. hovers around 28k
I know from talking with the tech that did the install, we are at the end of the service in our area. WE are even on what was the last pair of a 12 pair cable....the line is easliy 15+ yr old and very noisy. You can really hear it some times when dailing the net...
Was it worth the initial cost??? $99 a month or $600 up front? to no longer have to deal with dail up and all its slooooooooooooooooooow frustrations....
I know it will have its quarks I have DTV but we've only had dail up 4-5 months and it' s been slow and a pain from day one...
We are considering the direcway and then killing the land line which we only use for the net. Simply geting tired of calling the phone co once amonth to have them sweep the line. Killiing the land line and ISP(same co) would also cover 2/3 of the monthly cost of the direcway bill each month.So that helps...leave $20 diff...no biggy there...
YOU folks that have the direcway system are you really enjoying it??? I know I could not do real time gaming on it. Which has always been my one main reason for not doing it.
But if we did due direct way we could both be online at the same time easily and have smooth surfing....any time... Which we were both fusing over this winter when there was nothing on the tv or to cold /wet to go outside..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Funny thing is the wife is just now seeing it because I have stayed after the phone co to keep it up.... this time a let it go for a bit and she is now frustrated to... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif WE SHARE AND SHARE A LIKE AROUND HERE........ /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
So we both decided to look innto it and HERE I AM at my FAVORITE RESOURCE .....
It happens here and there and no matter how long you try redailing it goes to a max 12.6kbs when it gets like this. which seem to be happening more often of late.
The average speed is 24kbs to 30.2kbs. hovers around 28k
I know from talking with the tech that did the install, we are at the end of the service in our area. WE are even on what was the last pair of a 12 pair cable....the line is easliy 15+ yr old and very noisy. You can really hear it some times when dailing the net...
Was it worth the initial cost??? $99 a month or $600 up front? to no longer have to deal with dail up and all its slooooooooooooooooooow frustrations....
I know it will have its quarks I have DTV but we've only had dail up 4-5 months and it' s been slow and a pain from day one...
We are considering the direcway and then killing the land line which we only use for the net. Simply geting tired of calling the phone co once amonth to have them sweep the line. Killiing the land line and ISP(same co) would also cover 2/3 of the monthly cost of the direcway bill each month.So that helps...leave $20 diff...no biggy there...
YOU folks that have the direcway system are you really enjoying it??? I know I could not do real time gaming on it. Which has always been my one main reason for not doing it.
But if we did due direct way we could both be online at the same time easily and have smooth surfing....any time... Which we were both fusing over this winter when there was nothing on the tv or to cold /wet to go outside..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Funny thing is the wife is just now seeing it because I have stayed after the phone co to keep it up.... this time a let it go for a bit and she is now frustrated to... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif WE SHARE AND SHARE A LIKE AROUND HERE........ /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
So we both decided to look innto it and HERE I AM at my FAVORITE RESOURCE .....