An idea for those like me that don't have a telephone or DSL whatsoever and
instead of that just a smartphone with limited data amount per month - just add
a sign to the headline telling "including photos" and I'll read the thread when
having connection to WiFi. Maybe ¡ip! or so...
Thanks
Uwe
Am 02.06.2016 um 03:17 schrieb Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>:
Supposedly DSL is not load/traffic dependent unless you provider throttles
Not the case with cable internet
Around here with old infrastructure, the limit for DSL is 10 MB
(asymetrical), which is what I now manage since they reran all the copper
from my house to the local junction box. The DSL modems they typically supply
are also topped off at 10 MB
Eric Goldstein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:12 PM, `Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I don't know exactly where it becomes fiber but not too far. The line
went out a while back and I had AT&T come and fix it. They had to climb
poles. Same thing with my POTS phone (which I will keep as long as I can),
they found the line grounded somewhere. I don't think the telephone
infrastructure (I hate that word) is very well taken care of these days.
The DSL and WiFi router belong to my landlady who lets me use it. She is
not here most of the time but is in the publishing business so has deluxe
service. The 20Mb rate is maximum and it is often slower, depending on
traffic and maybe also weather. Anyway, most web sites load instantly.
On 6/1/2016 6:02 PM, Don Williams wrote:
At 07:42 PM 6/1/2016, Richard wrote:
I belong to about twenty mailing lists. Nearly all now allow binary
attachments including JPGs. Most modern mail clients can be set to ignore
posts over a certain size or eliminate attachments. Until a year or so
ago I was on a dial-up, very slow so attachments were a PITA. I am now on
a DSL with about a 20Mb download rate so attachments don't bother me.
That is remarkable for DSL. (Copper all the way?)
Actually I think DSL has a copper distance limit, forgot the number, bet
Dick knows. ATT DSL sales guys come by every few months and I ask them
"Where is the fiber-to-copper transition?" They haven't the slightest idea
what I'm talking about but I know it's far beyond the standard distance
DSL copper limit. Every slightly technical person in this relatively new
development has gone from cable, to DSL, to satellite, and then returned to
cable.
In my case I just down-sized my Cox cable speed to save a few bucks because
I don't need what they offer. Three of the 4 computers in this house are
on a wireless router working through walls, etc, and they still get 20-30
Mb/sec downloads.* Upload is slower but that's generally transparent to
me. A lot of the uploads run in the background anyhow.
The slow lists are those that retain, on line, everything that has been
posted, and you have to wait for a full thread to download before you can
start doing anything, lucky we don't have that version.
DAW
*Notice the lower case "b".
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Richard Knoppow
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
WB6KBL
