> B Scott
B Scott
My DSL service has a bit faster down load speed than yours, but similar up
load speed. It is rock solid, and great for hosting GPL. You should be able
to host a full field with the speeds you mentioned. See Bart Westra's page
for more details:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~westrab/gpl.htm
Kevin Caldwell
Calgary, Canada
> > DSL service just became available in my area. The only service that I
> > can afford is one that provides a higher downlink speed (768 Kbps) than
> > uplink speed (384 Kbps). My main interest in DSL is for online racing
> > -- my modem just doesn't cut it. Does anyone have experience with this
> > type of DSL? Will it work for racing online, or will the differing
> > uplink and downlink speeds cause problems? Thanks for any advice.
> > B Scott
PassedYa
> My DSL service has a bit faster down load speed than yours, but similar up
> load speed. It is rock solid, and great for hosting GPL. You should be able
> to host a full field with the speeds you mentioned. See Bart Westra's page
> for more details:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~westrab/gpl.htm
> Kevin Caldwell
> Calgary, Canada
> > oops ... I of course meant upload and download speeds -- not "link."
> Still
> > need advice, though ...
> > > DSL service just became available in my area. The only service that I
> > > can afford is one that provides a higher downlink speed (768 Kbps) than
> > > uplink speed (384 Kbps). My main interest in DSL is for online racing
> > > -- my modem just doesn't cut it. Does anyone have experience with this
> > > type of DSL? Will it work for racing online, or will the differing
> > > uplink and downlink speeds cause problems? Thanks for any advice.
> > > B Scott
Dave Ericson
MomoBoy online
JDB Racing
>> All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than
>> down load speeds.
>This is simply not true. ADSL (Asynchronous DSL) has differing download/upload
>speeds; however, SDSL (Synchronous Digital Subcriber Line... and also known as
>XpressDSL) has the same (synchronous) download/upload speeds. I recently
>upgraded from 56K dialup to 768Kbps SDSL, which means my download AND upload is
>768 kilo-bits per second (notice it's bits, not bytes... many people say this
>incorrectly). Needless to say the equal high rate for download and upload
>makes for excellent hosting capabilities! The down-side is that the SDSL
>offerings don't get as high of download speed as ADSL or cable offer. But for
>my purposes, I'd rather have a smooth race online than download files
>quicker... :-)
>Dave Ericson
>MomoBoy online
>JDB Racing
Brian
I am 20 miles north of Pittsburgh, PA in a town called Gibsonia. My phone company
is North Pittsburgh Telephone Company, and my ISP is Stargate Industries. I paid
$100 in order for NPTCO to program SDSL(XpressDSL) on my line and for the modem
(Paradyne MVL modem). I saved the $95 modem/network card installation fee by
installing them myself. I bought the network card seperately (less than $25).
Stargate waived their $25 setup fee (since I was already a Stargate customer).
NPTCO charges $39.95/mo for the SDSL service, and Stargate charges an additional
$10/mo for internet account (waived the $10 fee for the first 3 months).
Summary... $100 setup, $39.95/mo for first 3 months, $49.95/mo thereafter.
I recently upgraded my home network from a 10Mbps Hub/Nics to Fast Ethernet Switch
(100Mbps, no bandwidth sharing) and Nics. I use W98 ICS (Internet Connection
Sharing) over TCP/IP and it works very well. Only thing I'm worried about at this
point is hackers getting into my network. I've read somewhere that I can share
files over NetBui (instead of TCP/IP) and have a little more security on my internal
machines, but short of installing a firewall of some sort I don't know how else to
prevent hackers.
Regards,
Dave Ericson
MomoBoy online
JDB Racing
> >> All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than
> >> down load speeds.
> >This is simply not true. ADSL (Asynchronous DSL) has differing download/upload
> >speeds; however, SDSL (Synchronous Digital Subcriber Line... and also known as
> >XpressDSL) has the same (synchronous) download/upload speeds. I recently
> >upgraded from 56K dialup to 768Kbps SDSL, which means my download AND upload is
> >768 kilo-bits per second (notice it's bits, not bytes... many people say this
> >incorrectly). Needless to say the equal high rate for download and upload
> >makes for excellent hosting capabilities! The down-side is that the SDSL
> >offerings don't get as high of download speed as ADSL or cable offer. But for
> >my purposes, I'd rather have a smooth race online than download files
> >quicker... :-)
> >Dave Ericson
> >MomoBoy online
> >JDB Racing
> I agree. How much is your SDSL? Where are you?
> Brian
>>This is simply not true. ADSL (Asynchronous DSL) has differing
>download/upload
>>speeds; however, SDSL (Synchronous Digital Subcriber Line... and also known
>as
>>XpressDSL) has the same (synchronous) download/upload speeds. I recently
>>upgraded from 56K dialup to 768Kbps SDSL, which means my download AND upload
>is
>>768 kilo-bits per second (notice it's bits, not bytes... many people say
>this
>>incorrectly). Needless to say the equal high rate for download and upload
>>makes for excellent hosting capabilities! The down-side is that the SDSL
>>offerings don't get as high of download speed as ADSL or cable offer. But
>for
>>my purposes, I'd rather have a smooth race online than download files
>>quicker... :-)
>>Dave Ericson
>>MomoBoy online
>>JDB Racing
>I agree. How much is your SDSL? Where are you?
>Brian
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