This is the thread where I dance around because I FINALLY got DSL at the new place

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Title says it all. FINALLY got DSL up and working here.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Grand! I sympathize fully with yer pain of not having it up for a while...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

As someone who is involved with setting up DSL (among other types o' broadband etc) for a living, I know how annoying and stupid it can be to get at all, let alone get working. Well it is in Aus anyway. Thats what happens when you've had a damn telco monopoly for a bajillion years...

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

It was just doubly frustrating because Verizon is the local telco here and they're not forthright with answers (or really much of anything). Speakeasy (my ISP) has been great though.

OK, I'm not leaving home this weekend...

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you pay the $150 installation fee, or plug it into the wall yourself?

― Aaron A., Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I wanna get it now! As of today, I do have my new PowerBook, though. It's oh so nice.

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

We already have broadband in my new house. I've just ordered the cable to get it hooked up to my room, hurrah!

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I did the install myself, however Speakeasy does charge $199 for the equipment. After digging around for a bit I decided to pay a little bit more and go with them instead of Verizon (my local telco) because they were offering 1 static IP instead of the awful PPPoE that most ISPs use. Plus Speakeasy's tech support has been just fanastic (24 hour support and they're pretty competent - first guy I talked to actually knew what ping/traceroute is and knew how to use it.

My next step now is to get an external antenna and hack into my Airport base station. I've got a clear line-of-sight to the beach (only about 150 meters away and even a cheap directional Yagi antenna should be able to reach it.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Broadband rules - the 1MB service from Telewest especially.

― chris sallis, Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Yah, I've had DSL for three years now but couldn't keep the old grandfathered package (5 static IPs for $59/month) when I moved last month (switched Telcos from Pac Bell -> Verizon).

Even worse, after a couple rounds of wardriving the only locally available Wi-Fi sources were the icky T-Mobile Starbucks ones that are $3 for 15 minutes. Yuck! So I've basically been in my office over the weekends just for the net access.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

you can usually make do with the PPPoE crap if you buy a router as well, although I find that my connection still drops at least once a day when I'm in the middle of doing stuff and I have to shut the router and modem off and re-establish the connection.
Honestly I liked the @home cable modem service a lot more, less equipment, faster, and was more or less trouble free, but I had to run from them before they went belly-up.

― kyle, Monday, 10 February 2003 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, so far, knock knock, AT&T Broadband is shockingly being good to me so far. Cheaper and faster than Qwest DSL, though I'm not going for any static IPs or stuff like that.

Maybe Ned's bomb threats helped?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 10 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

They couldn't have hurt.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 February 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Whooo, zippy interneting!

I know a lot of people who've switched to cable from DSL, and they seem pretty happy with it. I think unless you're in a big apartment complex where *everyone* uses it, it's just as fast, and cheaper.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I just installed DSL today (SBC Yahoo) and it was just a matter of clicking through the menu, no problems. Do people us etheir real email addresses? I am getting > 100 spams a day on my old address and I want to avoid that in the future.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 10 February 2003 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

first guy I talked to actually knew what ping/traceroute is and knew how to use it.

Have our expectations sunk so low? "The tech support was great; the first guy I talked to knew how to turn a computer on!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Do people use their real email addresses?

I only use my SBC Yahoo email account to send email from a different domain. I receive email via a web hosting company where my business website is hosted.

I use a Hotmail account at places where I fear that exposing my address would result in spam.

― No One (SiggyBaby), Monday, 10 February 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty much had to go with DSL because I don't have cable. (went with a satellite dish)

Dan: Yes. I'm surprised that front line tech support can even chew and swallow their food, much less turn a computer on.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 10 February 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Chris. Dan, trust me -- the people I was dealing with at AT&T would have made you cry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 February 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

HUMANITY DOESN'T DESERVE TO LIVE.

Oh wait, I forgot about that lollipop picture:
http://www.nottinghamevents.org/goosefair/images/lollipop.jpg

YAY MANKIND!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I have it! I have it! Hurrah! Alright, it seems incredibly slow (sub-modem, and I have been used to using the Uni's network recently), but it woiks!

No more staying at university all day for ILx.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Ok, here's what I'm wondering. I've always had a cable modem. It's fast. Occasionally mind-blowingly fast, just whatever the bandwith will allow. DSL, I know, has stricter bandwidth limits. SBC was offering both an "Express" and a "Pro" package, promising that the Pro package is as fast as cable. I'll take that, please. Oh, wait, we see that the PRO is not available in your area. My area? You mean smack in the middle of the third largest city in the United States? What the fuck area IS it available in? I digress.

So I have the Express package, $15 a month, nice and cheap. But I'm wondering, how fast is it? I've never even heard of two different speed categories for DSL. And I have to figure this out quick, because I have two days after they install it to decide I don't like it, and then it's a one year contract that will cost me $200 to break.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Go here and run a speed test and report back.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I too am installing the same package (SBC) today! I switched from the horrendously expensive Comcast Cable Modem.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Are they selling ADSL2 or ADSL2+ maybe?

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty pissed off at Bells0uth these days -- four blocks from the telco central office, and they tell me I can't get the 3 mpbs flavor of DSL.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

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