Author: Baldomero Garcia, Jr.
Date: 22:06:42 03/29/01
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On March 30, 2001 at 00:03:57, K. Burcham wrote: >if you have cable----can you tell me some of your pros and cons. I have cable TV :) >if you have dsl------can you tell me some of your pros and cons. I have DSL with Pacific Bell. They offer two different types of services. I chose the cheaper one, so it's not as fast as the fastest (whatever that means). Overall, the change between dial up and DSL is significant. Your download times and also the loading of web pages is much faster. I wouldn't go back to dial up. However, it's not 100% perfect. On occasion I get booted out (this is rare, though... I have gone for months without a problem, and then one day all of a sudden I can't connect... but after a few hours the problem fixes itself). Customer service for Pacific Bell DSL can vary, depending on who you talk to. When they started their promotion, it took them more than a month before they came to install the DSL account. Very slow. Then when I had problems and had to call their customer support I had to wait for a *long* time (we're talking hours). That was about a year ago. Since the influx of new DSL customers has slowed down, if I ever need to contact their customer support it takes me only a few minutes to talk to someone about my problem. >which is faster and more dependable for online gaming? I don't know. The only online gaming I do is at the chess servers. But I think you're talking about regular video games online, and I have no idea. >i have heard that cable gets slow in the evening and on weekends when the >traffic is higher? how much slower? is this true for you? I don't know about cable. But with DSL, on occasion there are "hang-ups", where it's trying to load a webpage, but it takes a while to get going. But once it starts loading the page it's pretty fast. These "hang-ups" are random, so they don't happen due to heavy traffic (or at least I don't think it does).
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