Brendan
Warr Guitar is here
join:2000-07-14
Littleton, CO
|  reply to wesm
Re: DSL - from the installer
You don't understand, Colorado Springs is a city of 800,000 people.. it's not a rural area. And, it's located only 70 miles south of Denver, Qwest's headquarters. It's the second largest city in Colorado. The point being, there's absolutely no reason for this entire city not to have DSL (except for a certain monopolistic telco).
About IDSL, it delivers at 144k, approximately 2.5 times that of a 56k modem. It's basically ISDN that uses all three pair and isn't dialup. Big deal... I'll stick with this 56k modem until something more convincing actually makes it to my area, which will be quite awhile I'm thinking.
*Pissed In Colorado* |
djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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| ISDN/IDSL only uses one pair. However, you cannot line-share it as you can with ADSL, you'd need another pair for voice.
I would wholeheartedly agree that it's far better than two 56k modems combined. A 56k modem only gets about ~42k, and even then it usually suffers from a lot of retrains and high latency. ISDN-56 was WAY faster especially for web browsing.
If you can get IDSL at a reasonable price I'd go for it. |
