What is your internet connection? (at home)

[hbdragon88]

I'm curious to see who has what at home. I say home because I know that people have super-fast lines at work.

I have aol and msn, both dial-ups. Aol for three free months and msn being paid for. Both of them are headaches, especially AOL. Until 8.0 it didn't even have an auto-redialer, and I've had incidents where I was jetted offline.

MSN doesn't have the same flexibility as AOL and has its usual microsoft ways.

Vote in the poll please.

 

[kring]

I have Cable, but if it keeps raises its rates every few months, then DSL will be cheaper.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

DSL all the way. It does not suffer from slowdowns when lots of people are using it like cable does.

 

[Jeratain]

DSL

 

[Zwelgje]

Dial-up.
I was thinking of getting ADSL a few months ago, I was on the internet so often it would be cheaper to have ADSL. But then I decided it would be even cheaper to be shorter and less frequently online. It cost me quite a few places on the spam list over here but it saved me lots of money.

 

[Pillager]

Good ol' Freeserve dial-up.

In fact, it's not good, it's hopeless, but at least it works.

In fact, it doesn't really work very well, but at least I can connect to the internet.

In fact, quite often I can't connect to the internet. Maybe I should look at getting cable...

I'd just like to remind everybody of this though:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=646827#post646827



Hey, it makes me feel better.

 

[Mikoyan]

Crappy cable @ 0.5 mb/s.
It resets itself a lot too.

 

[cgannon64]

Cable. Usually around 300-500 kbps. I don't make the decisions around here, and the cable here seems to be more relaiable and cheaper than DSL. Hey, its better than 56k.

CG

 

[Wolfe Tone]

Dial-up, not by choice mind you. I wouldn't mind getting ADSL but I live way out in the country and I don't have access to it yet.

 

[Grisu]

ADSL but only 256/65 but still it's a lot better than my old dial-up crap

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Good old Freeserve Dial-up. Top speed of 5.6kb/s

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Free dial-up.

 

[animepornstar]

10mbit/s lan

 

[yaroslav]

Free dial-up.

 

[The ANZAC]

Cable and I get pretty good rates for it because I own cable TV.

 

[bhiita]

Was free but.......
I opted to pay the $9 a month to free up some resources

 

[Perfection]

56k, We tried setting up our own ISP for all employees, but we couldn't get a good connection rate so now we just use Earthlink which I hate

 

[Civanator]

what's the difference between DSL and Cable? or DSL and Dial-up?

 

[Jeratain]

DSL is digital subscriber line.

Cable is like cable TV but you get internet access through it instead. The problem (at least it used to be a problem) with cable is that a lot of people share the same connection. So since they share a connection, if alot of people are on simultaneously, they will experience lower connection and lag. However the cable companies claim not to have this problem anymore.

DSL is switching your phone line to a high speed internet connection. Depending on how far away from the service provider you are you can get a really high connection (faster than cable) or sometimes you can get a little less (a little slower than cable). The lag problem that Cable has is not a problem however because each line is private and for your own use. You use a regular phone line to connect and you get ultra high speeds. And you can talk on the phone and use the internet all at the same time. This doesn't require the cable company to come and install the cable, it just requires the phone company to flip a few switches and convert your line to DSL and they will mail you the modem to use.

Dial-up just sucks.

 

[hbdragon88]

Yup, too many connections on cable and the whole thing slows down. You should have seen those old Pacific Bell (now SBC) commercials They were a few years ago. They'd have a friendly neighborhood that would be at ends with each other because they shared the same cable. People shouting "I was only one for 20 minutes!" and when a new family was looking at a house people were trying to scare them off by lettering "LOG OFF" on the lawn, putting police tape all around the property.

DSL can't go through any fiber-optic lines and over distance the signal deteriotes. If you live too far away from the phone company you're out of reach for DSL.