I lived in Kingwood and had Sprint DSL for a few years. I was about 6,000 from the CO, and I would get speeds around 60kbps. Switched to cable with Kingwood Cablveiviosn/Cebridge, and my speeds jumped all the way to about 260/kbps. I moved to Atascocita about 2 weeks ago and switched to RoadRunner, and now I'm getting sppeds upward of 400/kbps. In short: cable by a longshot.
It's been a while, but something like 40 or 50 Gbit/sec... I don't recall. I don't even know if anybody's using it yet. I think even the biggest backbone providers usually run multiple OC-48's or OC-192's, but my knowledge about this stuff is about 4 or 5 years old and I don't work in the industry anymore, soooo.... When I worked for Fujitsu, we got to play around with OC-192's. Yeah, a geek's dream. Transfer gigabytes of files across a dummy network in a blip.
Yeah, that came with the package. I think I just have a weak phone line to begin with. It only cuts out for a split second every once in a while when I check my Call Notes. I'm thinking about getting a cable modem and just doing away with my phone line period. Just going wireless.
Great idea. Land lines are pretty obsolete now in my opinion. We cancelled our phone service several months ago, and it sure is nice to have that extra $50 every month.
That's what we've got. I haven't had a land line since I got married. We have a family plan for our cell phones, and cable internet from Comcast.
I pace around when I'm on the telephone too much to just have a cell phone. My cell phone will cut out at various points in my house. Not to mention that the cell phone itself really isn't designed for longer conversations, in my opinion. It's unlikely I'll ever get rid of my landline.
The only reason I still have a landline is for my DirecTV. My receiver says that it needs to be update periodically through the phoneline. I'm not sure if this is even necesarry, because I don't think it download's the program schedule through that method.
I'm pretty sure the phoneline is necessary to get pay-per-view stuff without having to call in and incur the $5 per order charge.
If you go wireless, let me know. I have an extra wireless router lying around that Ill give you a good deal on. Ill have Charlotte bring it with her to your closing. BTW, you gonna have a house warming party or what?
Hey that sounds great! I only have one question....what the hell is a wireless router? Pardon me, but I'm pretty clueless on all this crap. House warming party? As long as no one minds sitting on the floor since I'm going to be furniturely-challanged for a while!
A router is a device that allows you to connect two networks.... basically it will allow you to have wireless internet access and probably about 4 wired ports.
nah, it allows m,ultiple computers to interact on a single network. Think of a router as a cable splitter. It splits your internet to allow the same connection to be shared on multiple computers. The wireless part of it means that those computers can share the connection without cumbersome wires via a special card adapters, which are pretty cheap.
No you are wrong. A router lets two or more different networks talk. The two networks that are talking are the internet and your home network of computers. The routers that you use at home are like play toys compared to real routers. It just seems like a splitter because of how you use it.
He was talking about a wireless router...which will give him what he wanted wireless internet, by his comment saying that he was thinking about "just going wireless"...it seemed to me that drummer2k didn't want to know exactly what a router was but what it does for him. A router does not "split" the access. A cable splitter only contains downstream analog signals which is not interpretted by the splitter, with a router by comparison processes both down and upsteam digital data which contains information about both where it was sent to and from...and does much more....far from a cable splitter.
