What kind of Internet connection do you use?

[asleepathewheel]

DSL

I preferred cable, but oh well.

[Ming]

Had DSL, but was on the outer limits of the central office switch... Cable has been much better and more dependable.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Well then, how the hell did you post this?!

Keypad phone and a pair of thimbles.

[BeBMan]

I'm using DSL

[Flip McWho]

2mb DSL at home in wellington.

56k at mums. God you feel it too

[Ted Striker]

Of all these technologies, the BPL is the most promising.

This is because electricity lines exist in more places on this planet than anywhere else. That means no new infrastructure to build.

There are even companies like Sony, that are joining forces to create a PowerLine Appliance. The goal of this is that, gone would be the days of having to buy a modem, or connect your electronic machine into the phone, or the cable line, etc.

Basically, the goal would be to embed the broadband device, which exists in the power plug of the game console, tv, computer, and virtually any other electronic device. All you would need to do is plug the electical plug into the wall and you're good to go.

The benefit for power companies is that they can monitor the service of their electrical networks. Currently they cannot monitor remote devices, only major installations. So if a street has a group of these PowerLine devices go down, the electric company will see that and be able to respond. Instead of waiting for someone to call them up and tell them about the problem.

BPL still has speed issues, as the other technologies are more mature, but I'm sure these can be circumvented as the technology is more widley adopted.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by VetLegion
DSL, finnaly DSL after 6 long years on dialup. Death to Dialup!

Did you cave in to teh evil fascist Deutsche Telekom? Or to other fascists?

As for me, go DSL! Go Deutsche Telekom.

[Wernazuma III]

DSL - since about a month

[laurentius]

T1 since 1999

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


Did you cave in to teh evil fascist Deutsche Telekom? Or to other fascists?

I use DT, yep. They're not fascist, they're just exploiting the monopoly the government gave them. Hopefully not for long, there is some competition from cable and wireless providers already

As for me, go DSL! Go Deutsche Telekom.

I heard they're lowering prices in Germany - 15 Euro / month for flat rate 1024/512

Here I pay 15 Euro /month for 384/64 with just 2 GB download included, over that I pay 4 Euro for every additional GB

Well, at least it's moving forward and I'm not on dialup anymore

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Of all these technologies, the BPL is the most promising.

This is because electricity lines exist in more places on this planet than anywhere else. That means no new infrastructure to build.

There are even companies like Sony, that are joining forces to create a PowerLine Appliance. The goal of this is that, gone would be the days of having to buy a modem, or connect your electronic machine into the phone, or the cable line, etc.

Basically, the goal would be to embed the broadband device, which exists in the power plug of the game console, tv, computer, and virtually any other electronic device. All you would need to do is plug the electical plug into the wall and you're good to go.

The benefit for power companies is that they can monitor the service of their electrical networks. Currently they cannot monitor remote devices, only major installations. So if a street has a group of these PowerLine devices go down, the electric company will see that and be able to respond. Instead of waiting for someone to call them up and tell them about the problem.

BPL still has speed issues, as the other technologies are more mature, but I'm sure these can be circumvented as the technology is more widley adopted.

I'd imagine this would be great for an intra-house-net, but for broadband to the internet DSL or upcoming wireless technologies seem to have more potential.

[Zopperoni]

3 Mbit ADSL

[Last Conformist]

10 Mbit cable broadband.

[Traianvs]

my broadband at uni is crap
most of the time loading a page takes ages, online gaming is totally ruined, unplayable so all in all it's junk

sad thing is there is no way i'll ever be able to switch over to something else. I am teh doomed

[BlackCat]

2 Mbit ADSL