FDM80

In addition to dsl and cable, people should start watching out for fiber if they live in Verizon or SBC territory. Fiber can pretty much run circles around both of those 2 types of connections. The closer you live to a big city the faster you'll see it coming to you. Right now it's very isolated to specific suburbs outside some cities, but that will slowly change. Nothing beats it when it comes to the performance/price ratio. Pretty good review.

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Verizon FIOS rules!

scobywhru

My Experience differs then what your article suggests but none the less is spot on.

DSL ends up giving me better latency, I used to get a ping of 20 in HL and its mods on SBC DSL but now that I am on Comcast the best I get in game is 50ish. Not to be nitpicky but it always bugs me but Latency is a measure of time from one point to another but people claim bandwidth as speed but if you have lower latency packets get to and from there point faster there are just fewer of them. Something like a sports car VS a moving truck sure the moving truck is great when you have alot to move you can get it in one trip but the sports car is better at getting the small stuff there faster, like many packets for games but not a constant deluge from a file download. I just want people to stop saying one is faster then the other Its relative to what you are doing.

On another point all I want is Internet and I hate watching TV for 90% of the time but if I go Cable and I don't want Cable TV they charge me $45 for it in addition to my Internet, and if I want DSL I have to have a Phone Line when all I want to use is my Cell, and these are things that do matter to those of use who don't want them

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Judas

you point a fact there scoby.... indeed, actual down/up rates doesn't always translate into speed... typically... it does usually work though that the faster your download rate or upload.. or both, the better your pings usually are. But it varies from ISP to ISP how much of it is actually true...

My DSL ISP touts a 7mb/640kb connection.. however, my pings to the closest server range from 60-90ms...

my Cable Connection.... 5mb/1mb however gets as low as 3ms to the same server... why?

well one being the fact that for the cable connection, my internal cable network conneciton is usually 0ms... or 1ms.... it's damn amazingly fast.... (if i step down on from 5mb to 3mb, my ping would be 35-50ms to the same server due to running on a different backbone for the cable)

Doing traceroutes explains pings.... internet connection be it dsl or cable... as not always, do the same connection route the exact of even similare ways.... my Cable gets to a server in 5 hops.. while it took my DSL connection to the same server 8 or 9 sometimes 10 hops... (3-5 more then my cable)

course it works both way, i've encountered numerous servers were doing a traceroute showed my dsl getting there in 5 hops and my cable taking an additional 3-5 hops to get there.... which = higher pings... more unstable connections/slower speeds...

However, i disagree with the "only want cable internet but not tv or dsl but not phone..."

I can get straight cable internet WITHOUT the tv ... currently i pay say, 100 bucks for my current highest speed cable internet.... and the full maximum channel bundle... for just the net, it's about the same.... bundling the 2 together saves me 10 bucks....

however, were i live... government ones the phones.... no other contenders at all.. so right off the hop.. just for a phone and using the basics.. .i'm already hitting 100 bucks.... if i want JUST the net, no phone, well i could do that.. but it would still put me over 100 bucks due to the extreme cost of the internet through dsl... hell, if we didn't want anything, we still get charged for the damn phone line... and it's not cheap.... (we plan to get our phone over cable as soon as it rolls out here... which as far as i know, it's very soon)

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franciscomprg

hi
i live in angola nd i want to buy a new portable
having in consideration the prices i have chosen a few ones nd if someone could give me an opinion about the best choice to make i'd apreciate
-acer aspire 1694LMi
-Asus A6VM-Q008H PM740/15.4/1GB
-Toshiba Satellite M70-164 PM750/1GB/15,4"
PS.here in angola there aren't as many choises of pcs like in the US so these were the best I found in reasonable prices

digerati

Um?