[NTLUG:Discuss] Which dsl isps will survive? ( Directlink.net is going out of business )

[Fred James]

What I am hearing is: "what is available in one's own area is the best
one, so go with it."

Mom & Pops, having shown that there really is a customer base, are being
squeezed out so a commodity product can be marketed, and delivered, in a
profitable manor.  So, as the turf is carved up the customers will hear
that there are alternatives, but will only find one product available
where they each live, at an affordable price.

I could relate my own history (DSL - too far away; Cable - had to wait
forever but it is here; ATT Digital - I run Linux; wireless modem -
"construction" wasn't, and isn't, complete in my area), but complaining
seems a waste of energy.  Until I can afford a private connection to the
Internet (and who knows if that will ever happen), I'll just have to go
this way.

My current thoughts are toward a "Web Hosted" site, but I'll have to
scrape together a few more pennies and some justification for that.


Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Fred James wrote:
> >
> > I have heard various arguments, and I would be very interested in your
> > opinion on why DSL instead of Cable?
> > A kind of pro/con thing, please.
> 
> The second most important reason (for me) is that with DSL, you have your
> own connection right back to the ISP, with cable, everyone else in your
> neighbourhood is on the same chunk of cable.
> 
> Hence, at "peak hours" you and your neighbours are competing over a limited
> resource.  With DSL, you should have the same amount of uasable bandwidth
> 24/7.
> 
> For me personally though, the number one reason is that my home is 300 feet
> from the nearest road and from the end of my driveway, it's another 200 feet
> to the pole with the cable tap on it.  500 feet is more than the maximum
> distance that the local cable TV company will support.
> 
> I suggested that I could put up a garden shed up near the street with a
> PC in it and they could deliver service there...but they were unimpressed.
> 
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