Cable Internet Service?

[Drunk Bob]

I recently moved back home to help deal with my elderly parents health problems( 83 and 84}.

Where I used to live only dial-up was available.

[SackUp]

You might want to consider DSL if it is available. SBC is dirt cheap (26.95) and runs faster than most of the options you listed.

[MelchyBeau]

what are you using the connection for?

if you are only playing poker on it and nothing else, the top end speed might not be worth it for you

Melch

[TobDog]

Pay the higher price, you can brag to your friends how quickly you can download illegal stuff like porn, music and movies.

[emonrad87]

If his parents are 83 and 85, im guessing he's way beyond that stage in his life.

[mosta]

cable sucks for poker. it may be faster than dsl (or maybe not), but it tends to get congested and so can be very prone to brief interruptions--timing you out of hands. specifically, Cox HSI where I am and in many other places is crapola.

[Yobz]

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cable sucks for poker. it may be faster than dsl (or maybe not), but it tends to get congested and so can be very prone to brief interruptions--timing you out of hands. specifically, Cox HSI where I am and in many other places is crapola.

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I'm on cable here at college and at home and have never had these issues (Optonline and RoadRunner)

[Starrkitty]

I love my cable modem. I have Charter and besides some brief downtimes for repairs or upgrades late late at night I've never had a problem. Very fast and have only been disconnected from a table ever once in a blue moon. I can run three or four tables with no problem.

[holeplug]

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cable sucks for poker. it may be faster than dsl (or maybe not), but it tends to get congested and so can be very prone to brief interruptions--timing you out of hands. specifically, Cox HSI where I am and in many other places is crapola.

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I'm on cable here at college and at home and have never had these issues (Optonline and RoadRunner)

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Cable and DSL quality all depends on the ISP. Both are fine to use though.

[WLVRYN]

FWIW, I have DSL (SBC) and would prefer cable myself. Cable here is priced ridiculously without a cable package. I had cable in my old place, but the wiring in my new place was so messed up that the DSL was almost unusuable for a month until I rewired all the connections. I still have problems sometimes when people are on the phone, which is annoying as hell. I'm not sure how old your parents place is, but if its old or has an alarm, you might be better off with another option.

[Deathbear]

I'm on 6 down/768k up for $55 ahhh ya.

[goodguy_1]

I've got both Comcast Cable and BellSouth DSL ..whenever one goes down I just enable the other LAN connection and voila I have a backup..It has saved me probably a dozen pots having both.

[TobDog]

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If his parents are 83 and 85, im guessing he's way beyond that stage in his life.

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Never assume ANYTHING in life!

[WLVRYN]

To be fair to SBC, they do have a dial up connection that I could use if I lost connection, but its really slow. I'm not sure that I play enough to warrant spending $100 a month for internet.

[CountDuckula]

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the wiring in my new place was so messed up that the DSL was almost unusuable for a month until I rewired all the connections. I still have problems sometimes when people are on the phone, which is annoying as hell.

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Do you have DSL filters on all of your phones? The phones should not be affecting your DSL at all; if they are, it means that they're sending random signals on the wires used by the DSL.

I have Verizon DSL, and I love it. I seldom have any outages at all, and only once or twice in the past 5 years has one lasted more than a few minutes. The thing that worries me about cable is that you're sharing the bandwidth with the whole neighborhood; this is fine when you're the only one around with cable Internet, but what happens when everyone has it and uses it extensively? You don't have to share DSL bandwidth (except possibly for others in your own household), and I like it that way.

-Mike

[astroglide]

the cable neighborhood aspect is pretty blown out of proportion. i used to beta test cable for charter back when it wasn't even bidirectional (you used a dial-up connection for everything you uploaded) and had it for some time afterward. the neighborhood issue was a big deal initially. right now i have a condo in a community of *1400* (seriously dense population). dsl is more or less unavailable, so everybody with broadband uses cable. i never have problems with it. i also used speakeasy/covad dsl for years and was very happy with it. issues like this break down to local service coverage and isps, it can't be spoken about generally service-wise.

[WLVRYN]

Yeah, there are filters on all the phones. The phone that causes problems is a cordless, which I understand happens from time to time due to the frequency the phone uses. There's info on DSLreports about this. The problems now are pretty rare, but it was very frustrating when I first got it.