@home..

Natural · Post by **Natural** » Sun Nov 25, 2001 3:29 pm

I've had @home for about 2years. I was very happy with it untill about 7months ago. I've talked to just about every technician possible in their section located around my area. About 7months ago I started getting various slow downs during peak times, or other times, and horrible ping times randomly throughout the day. They said it was due to noise and they were fixing it. That night they said they fixed it and my cable line was absolutely perfect for about a week, then it started up again. The technicians are no help, and if they don't know what to do they just send out another technician and he knows just as less as the one over the phone. DSL lines within a 5mile radius of me ping better to servers and websites than I do, and are much more stable. I'm really confused if I should take the plunge to DSL or try and work this @home stuff out more. PLEASE HELP!

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Sun Nov 25, 2001 3:43 pm

xDSL will almost always have better pings. Stability depends on the ISP. Downside is $$$ to throughput ratio. Cable is the best download for your money. If you are heavy into gaming, you are uploading almost as much as down (or more if you're serving) and a SDSL (symetric) connection will be MUCH better for your needs. Also cost a bunch. I have a 786/786 connection to my home office and mu company pays $229 a month. 8 statics ips and 99.99% uptime SLA. You can find them starting at 384/384 with a static for a little over a hundred.

Skye

BoGGy · Post by **BoGGy** » Sun Nov 25, 2001 3:48 pm

thats cable for you, more people start using it

Natural · Post by **Natural** » Sun Nov 25, 2001 4:07 pm

I never said anything about a company, and I'm sure as heck not going to pay 100 bucks for freaking DSL. I pay 55 right now for Cable and DSL would be 45 in my area, and it's looking better than Cable. I'm just looking for suggestions on what I should do.

eddiec · Post by **eddiec** » Sun Nov 25, 2001 6:54 pm

Here's an odd way to start, but are you set up DHCP or static?
I've mentioned on other posts that ISP's can change your node upon lease renewal if you're set up dynamic, but you can be stuck in a crowded node if you're static. If you are static, try changing to DHCP and check your initial IP address with winipcfg. If the gateway changes, you should be on a new node.
By the way, is it "freaking DSL" or "friggin DSL"?

Natural · Post by **Natural** » Sun Nov 25, 2001 11:14 pm

it'd definately be freakin DSL.. lol

illestdynasty · Post by **illestdynasty** » Sun Dec 23, 2001 4:10 pm

Actually and i don't quite understand why, but in the last 7 months my connection has actually gotten faster. I mean about 4 months ago we switched from a RCA(Crappy) modem to a SB4100 motorola cable modem, and thats the only major change i've undergone.

HalfLifer · Post by **HalfLifer** » Sun Dec 23, 2001 5:16 pm

Im 14000 feet from telco, and I can only get IDSL, and the ISP doesnt even want to let me have it. Its 160+ a month anyways. Cable is the best option, and at 45/month, never lost connection, great speeds, great pings (best out of all my friends which have DSL and cable).

master7 · Post by **master7** » Sun Dec 23, 2001 9:06 pm

Are you sure about that Halflifer? I'm 22,000 feet away, and I have 1.5/256 ADSL paying 45/month.

MikeyMan · Post by **MikeyMan** » Sun Dec 23, 2001 9:41 pm

Bell South will roll a line up to 25k feet.

Ameritech won't touch anything past 13.5k even though their service can hit 18k.

*shrug*