Ahhh high speed
Ahhh high speed
just made the move from bellsouth dsl(capped at 150k down) to comcast cable =)
you should have checked to see if BS Extreme DSL is available to you.
http://www.fastaccess.com/content/consumer/products.jsp third item down
http://www.fastaccess.com/content/consumer/products.jsp third item down
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Comcast has crappy tech support here in ATL, they couldnt even tell me what a NAT Router does. much less how many people can populate a Cable node at a single time. BS has stupid techs too, but at least i can figure out my problems with BS on my own. Comcast TV is the suxor, only channel i watch is SciFi.
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man thats some shitty DSL 3mb down 384up here i can get 3mb down 1.5mb up for about 130AceCombat wrote:you should have checked to see if BS Extreme DSL is available to you.
http://www.fastaccess.com/content/consumer/products.jsp third item down
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That's because you aren't running PPP or PPPoE, so you don't have to "connect" to the internet like you do on dialup and most DSL connections. If you're worried, then shut down your computer at night, and get a router. I've got several computers that are always running and have never had anything go wrong that I didn't cause.AceCombat wrote:actually i have experienced cable. and ive seem more people on cable get hacked, than DSL and DialUp
Cable prices are so much better than DSL prices, at least around here. I get 3000/384 for $45/mo, when to get something similar through SBC, it'd be $150/mo. (Plus I'd have to completely rewire the house, since we can't even use dialup since our telephone lines are horrible.)
And with SBC, I have to deal with morons who have been proven to: (1) have high prices and try to give "special" deals that are only less high (but still too high), (2) can't reproduce a simple telephone line issue that the customer can reproduce himself in about 5-10 seconds, and (3) don't even have a clue who their customers are (a girl came by talking to SBC customers letting them know that there's a new "special" price since everyone complained about high bills -- we're with AT&T, not SBC, and pay a lot less than SBC's "special" price).
uhhh.....Plebeian BellSouth DSL is nothing but PPPoE.Plebeian wrote: That's because you aren't running PPP or PPPoE, so you don't have to "connect" to the internet like you do on dialup and most DSL connections.
now you were saying i havent experienced true BroadBand, ive experienced Cable. plenty of friends of mine and my brother use Cable....it plain sucks
Exactly why fewer people would be getting hacked, if they're not always connected. I haven't ever used PPPoE, though, so I'm not sure of timeouts or anything like that, or if many people would be disconnecting themselves when they're "done".AceCombat wrote:uhhh.....Plebeian BellSouth DSL is nothing but PPPoE.Plebeian wrote: That's because you aren't running PPP or PPPoE, so you don't have to "connect" to the internet like you do on dialup and most DSL connections.
By "you", I didn't mean you, I meant it in the philosophical sense. I should've put "one" instead, but I don't talk like that, and it sounds all stuffy.
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