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Stone Age
join:2009-01-19
Brookings, SD
| Swiftel DSL and Vonage in eastern SD I want to switch from dial-up to high speed internet, and, with what is available to me, the most cost effective plan would be to get DSL (with 2 year contract) from Swiftel, cancel my phone service and get Vonage. Now, the problem with this is that, according to my Dad who has Swiftel's DSL, the connection gets really slow sometimes. I am in the stone age when it comes to technology things, so I don't really have the vocabulary to describe things so well. Just bear with me. I talked to a guy at Vonage who says that the "bandwidth" has to be 90 kilobites per second and this thing called latency has to be 100 or less in order to be able to use the service. If I already had the DSL I could apparently run a "speed test" on it. However, if I get it, I'm stuck with it for two years whether I like it or not. So, I don't really know what to do.
Does anyone have any experience trying to combine Swiftel's apparently less than wonderful DSL with a service like Vonage? | |
|  | | rosscraig
join:2007-10-29
Trenton, ON
| Vonage also has a 2 year contract once you pass the 30 day free trial.
Don't forget to have DSL you need a phone line, unless you get DSL without phone line which could be more money. You should find out if they offer dry or naked DSL before you get Vonage.
Is there anyway you can get highspeed internet through cable instead? | |
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norky
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join:2002-12-02
Lithia, FL | You should be able to get midcontinent up in brookings | |
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