From: Jane Loyless (jloyless_at_netbox.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 20:13:02 EST
At 06:55 PM 02/06/2002 -0500, Computer-Guru wrote:
>I am considering getting a high-speed Internet connection
>The two available services in my area are:
>
>1. Bell South DSL.
>
>2. ATT Broadband Cable Connection.
>
>Which service would you all recommend? Which is the most reliable? Fastest?
>
Well, I can't get either one since I'm 1) 22,000ft from the CO meaning no
DSL and 2) 650ft from the cable source meaning no cable modem (although
there's still hope there - the construction people are still debating
whether or not to extend it to me). But I do have data from two of my
relatives' experiences.
My cousin lives in New Orleans. He lived in an old apartment in the Garden
District and was one of the first there to get BellSouth DSL. He loved it.
Worked great from the beginning with only minor hiccups in getting it set
up. Then he moved across the river into a relatively new neighborhood
where there was no DSL scheduled for several months and switched to a cable
modem. He had nothing but problems with the cable modem, gratefully
switched back to BellSouth DSL when it became available in his neighborhood
and has had annoying intermittent problems with it from the very beginning.
My sister lives in Charlotte, NC in a very new area. She has had BellSouth
DSL for well over a year now, and it has been a headache from day one with
outages on nearly a weekly basis. They're considering trying a cable modem
since their neighbor's has been rock solid.
So the point of this is that the answer is... it depends.
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