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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by HighIron2003ar [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by cacole At least you were able to solve your problem. I have heard some real horror stories about DSL service being degraded during certain hours of the day, weather conditions, moon phases, whatever. Another factor is distance from the telephone company's switch. My house is over five wire miles from the central office, so I was told that I can't get DSL at all. Cox Digital cable has no problem reaching me, even though their central office is further away, so I don't know why Qwest can't. I think digital cable systems are faster than DSL, anyway. [/quote] DSL will not reach more than 3 miles and some change. Cable will reach a bit further. One day coming soon, FTTH will arrive at your local Telco. These can reach 180 kilometers to your house without need for repeaters and have 10's of gigs of bandwidth. DSL, Cable will be made obselete the instant you are "Lit" at your house. I am not sure if emeraldisle is trying to run 4 computers to one DSL Telephone Number with a total of 3 meg bandwidth that must be shared.... or 4 computers with 4 DSL lines (4 telephone lines) at 3 meg each. Surge protector? I dont know that DSL lines had those. I use a Cyberpower 1500 AVR Battery Backup that is capable of operating my computer for 43 minutes in a real world black out. More than enough time to shut down safely. If there is a lightning strike, the DSL Box will take the hit, what's left gets into my motherboard and it's time to upgrade anyway. I dont think Telco's intentonally degrade service. Both parties have signed for DSL service which should at least approach minimum levels of bandwidth 24/7 barring internet problems. I do a great deal of online gaming which requires a connection to the server of about 70 ms or less on my Yahoo and have yet to experience problems. I am about to light a second computer for the wife to use onto my line and have no worries about bandwidth. [/quote] I'm running one computer on a 3meg connection at a distance of one mile from the C/O and yep, I'm on copper cable so a surge protector is a must, even on the incoming phone line. My UPS is made by APC and I was using the built in surge protector on it but have since moved the phone line to my other surge protector on a power strip. Seems to have licked the problem. I also read on the Phone CompaniesTech Support Page that EMF from power sources can cause a problem so cable routing can present some challenges. Grayfox..FTTH is "Fiber To The House".Local phone companies are already gearing up for this. Most have had test bed communities running on it for 3-5 years with great success. Cost was the major factor for a while, but then the Co-Locator/Reseller issues came up and the incentive to deploy the technology was no longer there because Local Phone Companies would put in the technology and then have to turn around and lease it out to competitors at below cost. Thats no longer true now so lookout Cable TV, FTTH is on the way. Once deployed DS3 to the house is just a matter of time. BTW, I've heard through the Grape Vine , that 4-wire 6 megs is due out by years end or early in 2006.
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