------Original Message------ From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Sent: June 29, 2000 5:53:04 PM GMT Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service I haven't checked - but I am willing to bet latency sucks with Charter as well - which is a major reason for Broadband. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net Charter in general has latency problems. In St. Cloud we basically have 2 choices, either Charter or Astound. When I had a cable modem, I was using Astound and their downtime was unbearable. They were constantly having routers dropping out, and usually no techs that knew enough to reboot/reconfigure them. My friend has Charter and although has never experienced a second of downtime, has noticed major latency problems. I think Charter may have some misconfigured routers upstream that are slowing things down (routing loops and what not). My solution to this whole problem was getting ADSL :-). 99% uptime, 256k minimum speed at all times. There really is no substitute in my opinion. Ok, a T1 would be nice but $800/mo is a bit spendy :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: <andy at theasis.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service > That may not be great -- may be a bit oversubscribed, or just not > optimized. But it still beats the hell out of ISDN, and is > presumably cheaper. > > Andy > > > A friend of mine is using Charter in Apple Valley. It is much faster than > > dial-up - but he is seeing 18KB/s downloads - which is far slower than what > > they advertised (I believe it was advertised as 400Kb/s ~= 40KB/s). He is > > getting less than 50%. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Perry Hoekstra <dutchman at uswest.net> > > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:20 AM > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service > > > > > > > Ben Lutgens wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:33:05AM -0500, Jared Sprague wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > > >Does anyone know of a highspeed internet provider that has service in > > Eagan? > > > > >I just moved there and both my cable(MediaOne) and phone(USWest) dont > > offer > > > > >service to my street yet. > > > > > > > > With DSL, the high spped phone line has to come from us west. IF your > > area > > > > isn't coverd you are out of luck. Unless this has changed and other > > telcos can > > > > offer DSL phone lines. > > > > > > Do you have a choice on cable? I live in Lakeville and Charter > > > Communications offer cable modems. > > > > > > -- > > > Perry Hoekstra > > > Consultant > > > Talent Software Services > > > dutchman at mn.uswest.net > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org