Finally - hard to believe

limey said:

DSL has finally arrived in our neck of the boonies. We've been advised we
can install it after 6 p.m. this evening but the heck with that. Tomorrow,
tomorrow.....

DSL speeds are directly proportional on how far you live from the CO
(central office). The farther, the slower. Do some research before you
buy. It may be you are so far from the CO you will get speeds no faster
than your current dial-up speeds, yet pay much more for them. The DSL ISP's
charge the same no matter the speed. You can learn everything you need
to know here:

http://www.dslreports.com/

If you still have some questions, I'll try and answer them.

nb

notbob said:

limey said:

DSL has finally arrived in our neck of the boonies. We've been advised we
can install it after 6 p.m. this evening but the heck with that. Tomorrow,
tomorrow.....

DSL speeds are directly proportional on how far you live from the CO
(central office).

We have some sort of "booster" just down the street. It took them weeks
to figure out it was there (ours wouldn't work without it) and kept
telling us it wasn't working because of a lamp or something emitting
electromagnetic fields. They came so often the dog got to know them all
and would let them in when we weren't home. They finally ran a wire
"straight to the dragon's mouth" (I found using the lingo of the
repairment meant the staff believed us on the phone) and decided it
wasn't in our house. One of our usual 3 was out, a replacement came and
he said 'oh there is this booster down the street and we need to run
through that' Immediate cure, almost NO hassles since. That was 1999.

notbob said:

DSL speeds are directly proportional on how far you live from the CO
(central office).

I would say they're inversely proportional rather than directly
proportional, but then, I'm just a nerd about these things.

S.

On Sat 08 Jan 2005 09:54:08p, notbob tittered and giggled, and giggled and
tittered, and finally blurted out...

Quoted message said:

limey said:

DSL has finally arrived in our neck of the boonies. We've been
advised we can install it after 6 p.m. this evening but the heck with
that. Tomorrow, tomorrow.....

DSL speeds are directly proportional on how far you live from the CO
(central office). The farther, the slower. Do some research before you
buy. It may be you are so far from the CO you will get speeds no faster
than your current dial-up speeds, yet pay much more for them. The DSL
ISP's charge the same no matter the speed. You can learn everything you
need to know here:

We've just set up DSL a couple of weeks ago, having waited for its
availability for some time. We're either lucky or quite near the CO, as we
are getting excellent speed and reliability. Setup was a breeze, including
adding the wireless card for the 2nd machine.

We couldn't get hi-speed cable as our community is serviced by only a local
cable company and they don't offer it.

I was desparate to get a hi-speed line as my office allows us to work from
home 80% of the time if we have it.

Wayne

Wayne Boatwright said:

We're either lucky or quite near the CO, as we
are getting excellent speed and reliability.....

dslreports has wizards that will tell you how far you are from your CO and
what kind of speeds you can expect.

nb

On Sat 08 Jan 2005 11:51:12p, notbob tittered and giggled, and giggled and
tittered, and finally blurted out...

Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

We're either lucky or quite near the CO, as we are getting excellent
speed and reliability.....

dslreports has wizards that will tell you how far you are from your CO and
what kind of speeds you can expect.

nb

Thanks, nb! Interesting site. My estimated distance from the CO is 11,040.
My speed tests were excellent.

Wayne

One time on Usenet said:

DSL has finally arrived in our neck of the boonies. We've been advised we
can install it after 6 p.m. this evening but the heck with that. Tomorrow,
tomorrow.....

Congrats! I remember when I finally got DSL (Oct. '03); the difference
can be amazing...

--
J.J. in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"I rule you!" - Travis of the Cosmos, ATHF

Gal Called J.J. said:

One time on Usenet said:

DSL has finally arrived in our neck of the boonies. We've been advised we
can install it after 6 p.m. this evening but the heck with that. Tomorrow,
tomorrow.....

Congrats! I remember when I finally got DSL (Oct. '03); the difference
can be amazing...

True, DSL is a great improvement over dial-up. If available though I
would check out cable. I have Optimum Online and average 8.5Mb download
speeds wireless.

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"

"Steve Calvin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Gal Called J.J. said:

One time on Usenet said:

DSL has finally arrived in our neck of the boonies. We've been advised
we can install it after 6 p.m. this evening but the heck with that.
Tomorrow, tomorrow.....

Congrats! I remember when I finally got DSL (Oct. '03); the difference
can be amazing...

True, DSL is a great improvement over dial-up. If available though I would
check out cable. I have Optimum Online and average 8.5Mb download speeds
wireless.

--
Steve

Well, tomorrow arrived (this morning) and we installed DSL for better or
worse. It seems pretty darned quick after dial-up. Maybe I erred? - I
considered cable but our cable service goes out so much that I felt the same
would happen to the computer - was I incorrect? I usually am. ;-(

Dora

limey said:

"Steve Calvin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Gal Called J.J. said:

One time on Usenet, "limey" <[email hidden]> said:

> DSL has finally arrived in our neck of the boonies. We've been
> advised we can install it after 6 p.m. this evening but the heck
> with that. Tomorrow, tomorrow.....

Congrats! I remember when I finally got DSL (Oct. '03); the
difference can be amazing...

True, DSL is a great improvement over dial-up. If available though I
would check out cable. I have Optimum Online and average 8.5Mb
download speeds wireless.

--
Steve

Well, tomorrow arrived (this morning) and we installed DSL for better
or worse. It seems pretty darned quick after dial-up. Maybe I
erred? - I considered cable but our cable service goes out so much
that I felt the same would happen to the computer - was I incorrect?
I usually am. ;-(

Dora

Dora, I don't know who your DSL provider is; mine is my local telephone
company (BellSouth). Everyone I know who has cable complains about how much
it goes out. Then it takes days or weeks for them to react to the problem.
I don't think you made a bad decision. In my area, when DSL goes out it
normally means the phone service isn't working either and they jump right on
it. The speed is also very, very good (at least here).

Jill (got your new email addy, thanks!)

limey said:

Well, tomorrow arrived (this morning) and we installed DSL for better or
worse. It seems pretty darned quick after dial-up. Maybe I erred? - I
considered cable but our cable service goes out so much that I felt the same
would happen to the computer - was I incorrect? I usually am. ;-(

Dora

Nope, if you're cable goes out often then so would your system access. I
guess we're lucky here. I can only recall once in 3 years that our cable
when out.

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"

"jmcquown" wrote in message >

limey said:

Quoted message said:

Well, tomorrow arrived (this morning) and we installed DSL for better
or worse. It seems pretty darned quick after dial-up. Maybe I
erred? - I considered cable but our cable service goes out so much
that I felt the same would happen to the computer - was I incorrect?
I usually am. ;-(

Dora

Dora, I don't know who your DSL provider is; mine is my local telephone
company (BellSouth). Everyone I know who has cable complains about how
much
it goes out. Then it takes days or weeks for them to react to the
problem.
I don't think you made a bad decision. In my area, when DSL goes out it
normally means the phone service isn't working either and they jump right
on
it. The speed is also very, very good (at least here).

Jill (got your new email addy, thanks!)

Thanks, Jill - you've eased my mind and confirmed my fears about cable.
It's a local company and notoriously hard to deal with.
In the 18 years I've lived here I've only known the phone company to go down
once - in a severe ice storm. Our lines are underground, but older lines
aren't and gave the phone company fits in that storm.

Dora

Steve Calvin said:

Quoted message said:

Well, tomorrow arrived (this morning) and we installed DSL for better or
worse. It seems pretty darned quick after dial-up. Maybe I erred? - I
considered cable but our cable service goes out so much that I felt the
same would happen to the computer - was I incorrect? I usually am. ;-(

Dora

Nope, if you're cable goes out often then so would your system access. I
guess we're lucky here. I can only recall once in 3 years that our cable
when out.

Steve

Our cable is very unreliable. Some days it goes in and out, in and out.
A big fee for very poor service.

Dora

limey said:

Steve Calvin said:

Quoted message said:

Well, tomorrow arrived (this morning) and we installed DSL for better or
worse. It seems pretty darned quick after dial-up. Maybe I erred? - I
considered cable but our cable service goes out so much that I felt the
same would happen to the computer - was I incorrect? I usually am. ;-(

Dora

Nope, if you're cable goes out often then so would your system access. I
guess we're lucky here. I can only recall once in 3 years that our cable
when out.

Steve

Our cable is very unreliable. Some days it goes in and out, in and out.
A big fee for very poor service.

Dora

Ours doesn't do that <knockin' on wood> I couldn't tolorate that at all
as I frequently work from home and need high speed and reliable
connections for the graphics that I work with.

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"

"Steve Calvin" wrote in message >

limey said:

Quoted message said:

Our cable is very unreliable. Some days it goes in and out, in and out.
A big fee for very poor service.

Dora

Ours doesn't do that <knockin' on wood> I couldn't tolorate that at all
as I frequently work from home and need high speed and reliable
connections for the graphics that I work with.

Steve

Right now, I'm busy going bonkers. We have a second computer in another
room and I'm trying to get it set up to work with home networking instead of
dial-up. I think I must be missing a necessary part. All the phone
company rep said was, "No problem - we'll send you a router." Sigh.

Dora

limey said:

Right now, I'm busy going bonkers. We have a second
computer in another room and I'm trying to get it set up to work
with home networking instead of dial-up. I think I must be
missing a necessary part. All the phone company rep said was,
"No problem - we'll send you a router." Sigh.

A router's a good idea. It is possible for two computers
to share a broadband connection without a router, using
Microsoft Home Networking and an extra ethernet card
in one of them, but in my opinion it'll go much smoother with a router.

Steve

"Steve Pope" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

limey said:

Right now, I'm busy going bonkers. We have a second
computer in another room and I'm trying to get it set up to work
with home networking instead of dial-up. I think I must be
missing a necessary part. All the phone company rep said was,
"No problem - we'll send you a router." Sigh.

A router's a good idea. It is possible for two computers
to share a broadband connection without a router, using
Microsoft Home Networking and an extra ethernet card
in one of them, but in my opinion it'll go much smoother with a router.

Steve

Yes, I have the wireless modem/router and an Ethernet cable in the first
computer but I can't get the second computer connected. Am I missing an
adapter? I'll call their techies. My head's not working anymore.

Dora

limey said:

Yes, I have the wireless modem/router and an Ethernet cable in
the first computer but I can't get the second computer connected.
Am I missing an adapter?

Assuming you have either a wireless adapter in the second computer,
or an ethernet cable leading from that computer to one of the
wired ports on the wireless router, you're not missing any hardware.

Good luck. 🙂

Steve

Steve Pope said:

limey said:

Yes, I have the wireless modem/router and an Ethernet cable in
the first computer but I can't get the second computer connected.
Am I missing an adapter?

Assuming you have either a wireless adapter in the second computer,
or an ethernet cable leading from that computer to one of the
wired ports on the wireless router, you're not missing any hardware.

Good luck. 🙂

Steve

Dora,
As Steve P. queried: do you have the second system wired to the router
with an ethernet cable? If not, what kind of wireless router are you
using, what kind of pcmia wireless card and what are the symptoms?

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"