Actually I get pretty good results with DSL here. At my other house I had three PCs all running the speed test indicating about 2 MB/sec.simultaneously. I've gotten even better speeds on P2P. In fact I just checked it now with the Cnet test and it came out over 2.4. Hardly dialup.
What really gets me is that both houses have very old phone wiring. Apparently it's not the factor it's made out to be.
I think the DSL carrier operates like LVDS (low oltage differential signaling)so it works OK with these old wires. Probably when you get too many all squished together for too long a run it slows it down. That would be in a trunk cable.
So you got the distance from ma bell's substation as a factor, and not to forget the number of subscribers. That is becoming an issue in some areas asthey themselves only have so much speed.
Let's put it this way, if your state only has one area code, you might get slow DSL. (sounds like Jeff Foxworthy huh) But here it works pretty well. Ican understand it being slower in some areas, but I don't get why it wouldcost three times as much.
And don't kid yourself about cable either, I hear when they get too many subscribers they slow down as well.
About the P2P thing, when I get on a website and download a print or something, it gives me usually about 100K/second and change. Rarely 200K. This isobviously not my limitation. When on P2P to get those fantastic speeds youneed to be downloading from multiple sources. The client software does that and when you get like 20 sources at once it flies.
So in the end, how much speed do you need ?
I still say if the DSL is that expensive then just go with totally wirelessfor fifty a month. Four bucks less and you have to screw around with filters and all that. In fact with a Magicjack you can drop ma bell altogether.
J
