My solution exactly. I have just such a system through VISI.com and USWest. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian <marshmallowmateys at email.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service > ------Original Message------ > From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Sent: June 29, 2000 5:53:04 PM GMT > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service > > > I haven't checked - but I am willing to bet latency sucks with Charter as > well - which is a major reason for Broadband. > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > > Charter in general has latency problems. In St. Cloud we basically have 2 > choices, either Charter or Astound. When I had a cable modem, I was using > Astound and their downtime was unbearable. They were constantly having > routers dropping out, and usually no techs that knew enough to > reboot/reconfigure them. My friend has Charter and although has never > experienced a second of downtime, has noticed major latency problems. I > think Charter may have some misconfigured routers upstream that are slowing > things down (routing loops and what not). My solution to this whole problem > was getting ADSL :-). 99% uptime, 256k minimum speed at all times. There > really is no substitute in my opinion. Ok, a T1 would be nice but $800/mo > is a bit spendy :-) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <andy at theasis.com> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:34 AM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service > > > > That may not be great -- may be a bit oversubscribed, or just not > > optimized. But it still beats the hell out of ISDN, and is > > presumably cheaper. > > > > Andy > > > > > A friend of mine is using Charter in Apple Valley. It is much faster > than > > > dial-up - but he is seeing 18KB/s downloads - which is far slower than > what > > > they advertised (I believe it was advertised as 400Kb/s ~= 40KB/s). He > is > > > getting less than 50%. > > > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Perry Hoekstra <dutchman at uswest.net> > > > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:20 AM > > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service > > > > > > > > > > Ben Lutgens wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:33:05AM -0500, Jared Sprague wrote: > > > > > >Hello, > > > > > >Does anyone know of a highspeed internet provider that has service > in > > > Eagan? > > > > > >I just moved there and both my cable(MediaOne) and phone(USWest) > dont > > > offer > > > > > >service to my street yet. > > > > > > > > > > With DSL, the high spped phone line has to come from us west. IF > your > > > area > > > > > isn't coverd you are out of luck. Unless this has changed and other > > > telcos can > > > > > offer DSL phone lines. > > > > > > > > Do you have a choice on cable? I live in Lakeville and Charter > > > > Communications offer cable modems. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Perry Hoekstra > > > > Consultant > > > > Talent Software Services > > > > dutchman at mn.uswest.net > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > ----------------------------------------------- > FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com > Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org