Lunatech
Premium
join:2002-04-25
Charleston, SC
|  As good as it gets????
Unfortunately, cable is not available to me (even though the actual Comcast cable runs North past my house about 75 feet away...that's another story) so Windstream's DSL is my only (realistic) option. I HATE it. I'm supposed to have 6Mbps service and NEVER get above about 1.5 Mbps-- and that's only at 3 am; most of the time it more like 80-150bps. I realize the 6Meg is a "theoretical" maximum never to be seen in practice, but why the *&%*&^% should I accept 80bps for the price I'm paying. In your review you say "I get 260kbps down of raw data on a 3mbps service, which from what I read is about as good at it gets". Why do you consider this OK?? At my previous address (about 20 miles away) I had ComCast (aka ComCrap) cable service and although there were problems (frequently had to reset modem & router, no connectivity for hours at a time, etc) at least when it was working my speed was generally >3Mbps... Why is Windstream's paltry 200bps acceptable when you have 3M service??? |
