DSL Woes

From: James L. Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Sat Jul 21 13:24:05 2001

Here in Dallas, Southwestern Bell ISDN service is flat rate, no time
charges at all. I have two lines at my house, one router goes to the
internet, and one to my office in downtown Dallas. That one I use to
connect to our lan and through there, I bounce out to six remote sites
as well.



Bill Pechter wrote:
>
> > DSl won't be offered in my suburban area (21 miles from DT Dallas) until
> > 3rd Qtr 2002, so I opted for ISDN. It was insanely easy to set up, it
> > costs about the same as DSL, but it never goes down. The download speed
> > is slower than DSL or cable, unlike most of the DSL or cable subscribers
> > around Dallas, the speed is a constant. My brother-in-law, who lives to
> > play TribesII or Unreal, has a cable modem that slows down drastically
> > at night when everyone is home and online. I'll probably get business
> > class DSL (5 static IP's and a dedicated router, 1.5mb dl. 384 up)when
> > it becomes available here, but I may keep the old reliable ISDN as a
> > backup anyway.
> >
> > James
>
> The problem is the ISDN in NJ can run you hundreds of dollars in
> time charges... where DSL is flat rate per month.
>
> Bill
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 13:24:05 BST