OT -- Modelhawk is finally back on line!

Doink!!!!!1

sorry you didn't make it...this must just be your computers cache acting up...

Hey this is a binarie group. Pictures of cows and daisies only ;-) Welcome back! I hear cable is better anyway.

Rich

Hi

Welcome to the wonderful world of broadband.

Screw DSL, comcast blows it away, and being a gamer myself, it's the best thing possible for me :)

Surfing the net will never be the same !

AM

I get a consistent 2.5MB throughput from SBC/Yahoo! DSL for $24.99 a month. I dunno if Comcast around here is faster but it sure costs a lot more.

Hi Al,

Might you have intended to say that your DSL service gives you 2.5 Mb -- i.e, 2.5 mega*bits* per second, which corresponds to approximately 0.3 MB (0.3 megabytes, or 300 kilobytes)? I've never heard of a reasonably-priced DSL service that advertises -- let alone delivers --

2.5 mega*bytes* per second.

Charles Metz

Hi Al

7 mbps, with an average of 4 - 6 for a whole day. But yes, twice what you pay :(

AM

Sorry, Charlie - I should have typed '2.5Mbps'. Damn pedant... ;-p

;)

i get 1.5 down and 768k up here in podunk. tw is 3 time more for only double that.

If I may, check out

on the left side of the page under the "TOOLS" tab, you'll find a battery of tests that will give you tweaks to improve thruput/transfer rate, in addition to a speed test. Broadband reports will also explain the difference between speed and thruput to include transfer efficiency. It's a great test resource and it's free. is another good site for checking thruput, it's not as busy and there are more servers available to test your system. As with the above, toast is a free site. HTH, Bruce

both are known to me and have been used. no way to get more out of verizon with more cash or fibre optics. no fb in this town and they get all they're getting out of me.