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Reddwyng,

My review is at http://www.dslreports.com/comments/361.

You might also consider switching to @Home cable.

I have 608/128 with good pings. Since I was stuck off-line for about 5 months, I did a lot of research. If you check out Dr. Ping in the Tools section of DSLReports
http://www.dslreports.com/beta/doctorping/VA

you'll see that I scored an average ping of 62, however, the majority of people who have @home in our area have lower average pings. Not only that, @Home offers 1.5M bandwidth and it's cheaper ($40/mo.)

Unfortunately, @Home is not scheduled to upgrade the cable internet services in my area of Arlington until early next year. Currently, cable offered in my area is about 400K down but I would have to use a 56K modem over the phone line for upload, which sucks, cause then I'ld need a second line anyway, plus it's $50/mo. Go figure.

Anyway, Good luck.

Thanks for the updates. I'm in Alexandria, and in the same boat for Cable Access. Cox is "in the process" for getting Road Runner to my neighborhood, but it is supposed to be soon.
I currently have 416/416 SDSL from NorthPoint and like the higher upload speed, especially for gaming, even though I've had less time to do that lately
Telocity will be a month to month deal, with the same speed for $49.95, so we'll see how that goes for a couple of months.

Here's what I get to yahoo now:

Tracing route to www4.dcx.yahoo.com [216.32.74.53]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms d83b6a01.dsl.flashcom.net [216.59.106.1]
2 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 216.32.90.98
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms dcr04-g2-0.hrnd01.exodus.net [216.33.203.25]
4 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms bbr02-g3-0.hrnd01.exodus.net [216.33.203.94]
5 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms bbr02-p2-0.stng01.exodus.net [209.185.9.78]
6 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms dcr03-g9-0.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.96.145]
7 9 ms 9 ms 17 ms csr21-ve240.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.98.2]
8 31 ms 8 ms 9 ms 216.35.210.122
9 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms www4.dcx.yahoo.com [216.32.74.53]

and a decent Dr. Ping:
Your Score: 46.5
(all-user average score is 90.9)

I'm hoping to hang on to these numbers for a while.

[text was edited by author 2000-12-19 07:31:31]