Is DSL Really Broadband?

Remember Mossberg was asking for more definitive classification of broadband since us avg is 5mbs & global is closer to 100mbs

http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20080403/ftc-should-stop-verizon-from-calling-dsl-broadband/

well DSL is mostly asyncron and means ADSL if you have SDSL you have a syncron speed for up and download. So is DSL a Broadband. I think one of the interessting thing is a radio data transfer. It is not local and you have a speed up to 150MB/s. That fine. Good luck!

1.5mbps here on DSL. Not ideal but no real option. Uploading kills my connection though.

I’m in the deep south and MediaCom is the fastest in my local area, DSL is so God awful bad It should be outlawed.

We had DSL for a long time. We switched over from Time Warner cause they kept screwing around with us. We had no problem with it until we moved someplace that didn’t have access to the higher speeds. Then we got fios. Hope we never have to switch back!

DSL in my area is as bad as dial-up.

The cable companies have put in fiber-optic (WOWWAY has it to the homes, Comcast has it to their neighborhood boxes, copper to the homes.) Our DSL lines are a conglomerate of rusted out phone lines that the best pair my phone company could find for my home were in a mess of water & squirrel damaged wires.

The telco guy that was at my house took two or three hours to get us a good pair, back & forth from the pole to the switchbox & every time I talked to him, he was irate about how hard it was to find a good pair.

I have a 7mbp/s DSL connection without a cap. It’s the best I can get since comcast started implimenting their cap.

Comcast is Comcastic, so long as you enjoy being throttled when you use a human amount of bandwidth.

DSL is a bit slower out of the gate, but provides consistent speed AND does not block ports for stuff like LEGALLY downloading Linux torrents.

In my home however, we have Verizon FiOS. Personally, this kind of fiber in my diet is doing wonders for my household. :)

I would use coffee shop wifi before using Comcast again for any product – TV, Internet, Phone – no thanks.

I don’t like my dsl, since it likes to stop working correctly when I do a lot of downloads.

I had charter Internet and their customer service was so nightmarishly horrible I had to switch to bell south DSL

How could I put a twitter poll like this on my blog?

It’s Dial-Up on Steroids, simple as that. I have about 5000 KBPS download, 500 up. no good, for a person who uploads a lot of videos and photos.

I myself am not a fan of DSL mainly because everyone I know who has it has a cheap package and it is very slow. Now DSL does have more expensive packages which can be faster then cable but if your going to pay more you might as well just pay for cable. I pay about $40 a month for my cable connection which currently is 10mbits down and a lousy 384kbits up there is a turbo package which is $10 more and that is 22mbits down and up to 2mbits up I would really like faster upload.

As someone the has worked with almost every type of internet connection there is. I can honestly tell you that if your looking for speed. Cable is the way to go.

Cable is always connected, the cable companies are usually pretty good on making sure there are enough nodes so that everyone has ample speed. However most companies will block port 80 as to prevent people from starting up their own servers and running their websites from their own computers, that would slow the network down considerably depending on the number of people that did it and the traffic their sites generate. Thus the invention of paying extra for a static IP which wont change and also opens port 80 up. This allows the company to monitor the network in the area, in the case that there is a need for more nodes.

DSL, is ok, but not nearly as fast as cable. Yes the ports are all open, but do you really want people taking what little bandwidth you have so that they can view your website… there are plenty of web services out there that can be accessed through cable to allow you to have a web site. I personally don’t like DSL. It is to slow, I like to have my internet there when I need it and not wait to have it connect. However if Cable isn’t available in your area…DSL is the better choice.

DIal-up, well what can I say it’s dial up… slower than a turtle, has problems with TCP IP. Again.. only good if it’s the last resort.

Vios, is the newest connection available, I have not worked on the provider side of things. I have hear good things about it, if it’s available in your area. It also cost a fortune. If it’s available in your area and you have money you don’t know what to do with, then I would suggest this for a service.

Satellite internet, has been growing in popularity over the last few years. It is a nice alliterative to cable, however cost a little bit more. It does use a phone line line for upstreaming. If I was unable to get cable this is how I would go, before getting DSL. I don’t know if it’s available in every country, but it is in the USA. All you need is a phone line, a clear view of the sky and $60 a month.

Also, understand that connection speed vary for a few reasons. One is the computer your on is slow, your internet protocol is old or set up incorrectly or corrupted, the phone or cable lines in your house or local area are old or substandard. There are a slew of different reasons those are the most common.

I get a chuckle when I hear people from California bashing Comcast. It’s really not Comcast’s fault that those people have computers that are slow. The cost of living is so much higher out there who can afford a good computer, so I don’t blame the people either. Obviously Comcast isn’t the issue or it would go out of business, it’s only a select few that have issues with them (for connection reasons). Now I am impartial to whatever cable internet people have, but Comcast is not the issue for say.

I worked for this one company that would purchase the rights to the cable network in a given area… They would then offer all these broadband services to the people in those areas. Those people would always have connection issues, and not just some….ALL…. The reason?……….. The company I worked for would buy the rights to the network area, and never upgraded the wiring to handle the added bandwidth, It just so happens I know that this is NOT the practice of comcast. Oh and the company that was doing this…… is also no longer in business, now that should give you a big clue because they were one of the largest internet companies in America, that when out of business about 4 or 5 yrs ago…I refuse to mention their name.

But that’s the scoop on internet service, from someone that has worked both sides of it… believe me, don’t believe me, it’s up to you… but I never lie.

–Eric

We’ve only got two choices here, unless you want dial-up…it’s either cable or DSL. And neither really is worth anything. Cable is overpriced and seems to drop out when the weather gets cloudy, and the DSL is slower than it should be. But, at least it’s moderately reliable and doesn’t block anything. our DSL provider’s biggest issue, other than speed, is that I’ve found them throttling bandwidth after my kid spends several hours of online gaming, which leaves him hounding me to reboot everything so he can start gaming hard again.

BFLETS in Japan is a type of DSL that offers great speed up to 50MB. But most rural areas can only pay for up to 20MB. BFLETS is much faster then ADSL, However FIber Optic is the way to go if you have it available in your area. $60 a month for guaranteed 100MB up and down.

I have Verizon Online DSL since Cablevision (our cable provider in my area) uses traffic shaping for BitTorrent (which can be used for legitimate uses.) and a FIOS isn’t available in my area I’m living in. At least it’s better than dialup!

ADSL (A is for asymmetric, btw) is pretty fine service. It is ATM over copper phone subscriber line. This means packets are being sent both ways constantly, whether they carry a “payload” or not. This means that your data is more likely to get into the “network” faster than having to listen to the wire and wait for a lull that you can get your data in (or out), since cable service is basically a CDMA implementation. They are both broadband, imho.

Yes; DSL is broadband. I hopethat the education stimulus will enable me to get at least DSL. I’m approx. 1.5-2 miles from the nearest broadband drop from the local Telecoms here in Tennessee.

I’m using DSL and get 8mbit/1mbit so I’m pretty happy and I personally would consider DSL, broadband.

you americans are lucky i only get 1.5 meg a second at my house but at my nans i get 128 kbps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3:41 AM 4/6/2009
Is DSL really Broad-Band?
I don’t know if DSL qualifies technically as Broad-Band(B-B) or not & to most people B-B meens Coax-Cable-Wire just as DSL meens Phone Lines & Filters. So just what is the real B-B criteria? Is it protocols or speed? Well Ithink to most people B-B means High-Speed so I guess the most popular answer will be (No DSL is not B-B)
But more importantly the question: Is Your B-B really High-Speed? Or better yet is High-Speed really High-Speed all the time?
I ask this question not to be a smart-elleck or to rant,but to show that DSL is just as deserving of being called B-B as any other ISP, which as it turns out really isn’t all that much these days, LOL.
So if You want to know why I feel DSL is deserving of being called B-B then read on otherwise back out of My rant now with a Yes answer to the question: Is DSL really Broad-Band?
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I ask You, will Your ISP let You use the speed You buy at anytime in anyway & for as long as You like? If not then it’s really not High-Speed all the time,is it?
And why whould that be? Well because Your ISP really can’t supply what it advertises.
Certian Ports are emerging as favorites & as such they exhibit higher traffic flow than the rest & it’s being noticed & squeezed shut by ISP’s, why? because the ports demand as much bandwidth as the ISP’s have sold to us & because the ISP’s cant keep up the pace,they throttle those ports,via Traffic-Shapping.

Traffic-Shapping Hardware & Bandwith-Throttling:
This all has to do with a bandwith-throttling issue I found within a couple of local ISP’s Comcast & Clearwire, I would add that it’s been My experience that the local retailers sell advertised speed,then they refuse let us use it as We see fit.
(Sounds Illegal don’t it?) I meen if I sold a car like that I be arrested.
There’s a Hardware tool that ISP’s are using called Traffic-Shapping Hardware & it actually comes with bandwith-throttling Software installed on it’s chip much like a router has Firmware installed on it,anyway it allows an ISP to enable & or shape all throughput on any given port or on any type of packett flow they see fit to restrict or assist.
Please know that where bandwith-throttling is concerned the advertised speed is irrelevant!

Case-in-Point: Comcast/Clearwire:
I used to pay Comcast for the rite to use a “Blazing Fast Always-On High-Speed Internet Connection” but truth be told Comcast never came close to giving Me that kinda Speed,especially when & where I wanted it the most. Why? Because in reality the purchased speed is only applicable where the ISP will allow it & I found out realy quick that neither Comcast nor Clearwire will allow advertised speeds on all ports. As a matter of fact there’s a list of ports that Comcast & Clearwire squeeze so tight that they’re almost completly closed off & guess which ports are on the top of they’re list? Yep You guessed it,they’re the ports that I use the most! So as such on a good day I was very lucky to hit Comcast B-B DL/Speeds of 200MB/s where as normally I’d hit 100MB/s or less & as for Clearwire B-B well “Forget about it” I had the Usual poor Download speed of 12MB/s when the rated DL speed was 1.5MB needless to say there’s a whole lotta Bandwith-Throttling goin on at My local Clearwire & Comcast retailers & in My neck of the woods that leaves one ISP (AT&T) DSL.

(AT&T) DSL
However I found out that My local DSL(AT&T) doesn’t throttle the ports where I require the most speed & even though DSL’s advertised speed is Inferior to that of Comcasts, DSL turns out to be faster than both Comcast/Clearwire “In that particular area”. Now I’m not saying that DSL is faster than B-B across the board, but what I am saying is that in the area where I needed Speed the most, Comcast/Clearwire B-B got dusted by AT&T’s DSL Point Blank!

This is all Due to Comcast/Clearwire’s Bandwith-Throttling aka Traffic Shapping
So to answer the question Is DSL Really B-B? I guess technically I might need to say No, but in B-B current state it’s just as flickin good & in many case’s even better!!!
But then again I think the better question would of been is Broad-Band really High-Speed ?
Because untill ISP’s provide Advertised DL/Speeds on any & all ports, I’ll be lookin for one that will & it’ll be that ISP that is deserving of Me calling it a High-Speed ISP,untill then it is My opinion that they’re all(ISP’s) breaking the law(False Advertising)
But most likely before that happens ISP’s will provide specific speeds on specific ports!
Good Luck
~X~

i’m using dsl , but the speed is very slow, and then i downloaded dsl speed (it’s a software for speeding up) , and i have to say it really works somehow

if u wanna boost ur dsl , u may try dsl speed