the question

Shadow Assassin · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 6:23 pm

DSL or Dial Up I want one.

Adbot · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 6:23 pm

Dan · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 6:25 pm

LOL. Neither. Both are horribly slow and outdated. Dial up? What is this dial up of which you speak? Does it even exist anymore? Same with DSL.

Fiber Optics is the only way to go, though cable internet is still decent.

MattVortex · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 6:41 pm

DSL is far better than Dial-up. I use DSL. In England, we haven't got anything better. Our internet sucks

How fast are Cable and Fibre where you live, Dan?

Dan · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 6:57 pm

MattVortex wrote:

How fast are Cable and Fibre where you live, Dan?

Fiber is 15 Mbps Down / 2 Mbps Up, and Cable is 5/1. Hopefully one day we'll catch up to Asia and all have 100 Mbps running to our homes

MattVortex · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 7:38 pm

Dan wrote:

MattVortex wrote:

How fast are Cable and Fibre where you live, Dan?

Fiber is 15 Mbps Down / 2 Mbps Up, and Cable is 5/1. Hopefully one day we'll catch up to Asia and all have 100 Mbps running to our homes

...What

I thought you said DSL was slow?

In England, we can get 24mbps down / 4mbps up ADSL. Cable is 8/1. And only huge institutions like universities have fiber, but that's huge, and gives them gigabit up/down.

I have 5.5/0.4 ADSL, which is still plenty fast for me.

Christopher · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 8:09 pm

Dan wrote:

LOL. Neither. Both are horribly slow and outdated. Dial up? What is this dial up of which you speak? Does it even exist anymore? Same with DSL.

Fiber Optics is the only way to go, though cable internet is still decent.

I speak of dial up (my parent still use it when I'm home for the summer).

Fiber is coming to houses in the very near future...lets just say streaming video will be a common occurrence everywhere.

Adbot · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 8:09 pm

Mr Pink · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 8:27 pm

I use DSL, it isn't bad I have Verizon and never had problems with it being slow. It's much better then Dial-Up if you compare those two. But to be honest get Cable if you can.

Dan · **Posted:** August 23rd, 2007, 9:05 pm

MattVortex wrote:

I thought you said DSL was slow?

In England, we can get 24mbps down / 4mbps up ADSL. Cable is 8/1. And only huge institutions like universities have fiber, but that's huge, and gives them gigabit up/down.

Apparently it differs much on location. America loses

zvono · **Posted:** August 24th, 2007, 6:11 am

DSL came to my country 1 and a half year ago. :S

Mikhail · **Posted:** August 24th, 2007, 10:21 am

Optic Fiber internet is about 1.500, i used T3 a few times pretty nice, and Optic Fiber takes about 8-12 weeks to install.

jrdgames · **Posted:** August 26th, 2007, 6:09 pm

I have DSL here although occasionally the connection goes down to dial-up speeds, it's usually alright. But fiber optic is supposed to be coming through sometime in the next 6 months (hopefully).