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Message: [QUOTE="Danman, post: 212898, member: 20488"] I'm on @home and still here. No servivce interuptions. They must have cut there backbone to a different IP or paid some of Excite's bill till they find another ISP. I can proably get DSL, but it would cost more. Install and monthly. In might be out of range. Plus, if I move I might not be able to reuse my equipment with another provider and I'm locked into a yearly contract. With the cable modem I can go from month to month and with DOCSIS compliancy you can use your modem on other systems( not like there is another provider around here anyway). DSL is headed in that direction with a "standard", but in my area I don't think its happend yet. I think its called G-lite. A Cable modem is not that slow in a busy neighborhood if the network is designed correctly. If some is running some server that gets high traffic in you neighbor hood you are going to be slow, because they will hog all your bandwidth. DSL is not that much faster IMO, but is a tiny bit faster. The only difference is that with DSL you get a single connection to the central office and then from there its shared bandwidth were as with a cable system its shared from you modem to the backbone. The saying your are only as strong as your week comes to mind. If the back bome is not big enough it won't matter what you connect with the office it will still be slow. With that single DSL connection you are also limited to a certain bandwith. With a cable modem you can hog bandwidth as much as you can alocate (good and bad because you neighber can to). Cox spells in there agreement that you will have a certain amount. I'm not sure if thats enforced or not. Cable modems and DSL both have there strong points, but in realy depends on the quality of the provider and there design IMO. As for the sattelite I have never tried it so I don't know. The installation should be easy other than running cable (always a nasty job) I looked at it and I think it was about 499 for the equipment. If you live in an area that does not have DSL or Cable modems I would do that or if you have the dough and no other options go for it. Just check out provider and ask them a lot of questions because once you buy the equipment it yours and will not be able to use it with another provider. [/QUOTE]

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