Is DSL/Cable really worth it?

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patel j

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I just recently got hooked up to DSL/Cable for faster download speeds from 56K dial-up and I must say that I am not sure that it is worth the extra cost. The download speeds are just a little bit faster but not anywhere near the speeds that I was told about. It still downloads at 2KB/s or less even with the high speed connection. Is this right? I don't think so.
 
Well, it's not going to make as much difference on a P2P network as it would if you were to connect to an FTP or SSL site. You might have DSL, and the person you are connecting to might have DSL but you can still get only 2kb/s from them. This is because their ISP might throttle their upstream bandwidth to approximately 20kb/s. Say they have 10 slots open for you and others to download from. That would wipe their upstream bandwidth out. Then you have to consider that they might be downloading or searching, or browsing the web - all of this uses a portion of their available upstream bandwidth.

However, you might connect to someone on a T1 or T3 line, and you'll get respectable download speeds - or you might only get 2.5kb/s, but you might be downloading 10 different files simultaneously each that speed - so your cumulative speed would be much higher.

Edit: corrected typos
 
Hello, I am on DSL running a 5 computer network with all of those have internet and I can download songs, my max is 70KB per second. It may be who you are getting it from, they not provide you with the bandwidth you need.
 
There is always a price that's specially for you. I have the slowest DSL available here (256/128 Kbps or 32/16 KBps), and it's a thousand times better than a 56Kbps connection that uses my phone line, costs telephone pulses and gives me a slow connection.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"
 
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