IDG -- I'm spoiled. I admit it. Working and playing on a T1 line will do that to you. No matter how much you want to sit at home and experience what the rest of the world calls a fast modem connection, you can't hack it.
Would you trade in Neve Campbell for Joan Collins? I don't think so. So after two years of suffering, I gave in and decided to get a fast connection for the domicile. But which to get? No way. I'd rather spend those thousands of dollars on a new car or a down payment on a house.
Possible, but those per-minute charges suck and installation costs are still high. Cable modem? Now we're talking, but TCI. That left one other option-one that, surprisingly, had just become available in my metropolis-asymmetric digital subscriber lines ADSL. Never die! Gain secret powers! More games reviews at Games. Let IDG. ADSL is a high-speed Internet connection in which you have two specialized modems on either side of a copper telephone line.
Unlike normal modems, this is a true digital line-meaning there's no conversion from digital to analog signal and back. The asymmetric connection is pretty fast- "asymmetric" means you can have different speeds for uploads and downloads, although some ISPs like Concentric offer symmetric lines that provide an average speed for uploads and downloads. One more neat feature: ADSL can run on one phone line, handling voice calls simultaneously with the digital connection, with no interference or loss of speed during a call.
You don't have to rewire or add another line for ADSL. What you need for speed Everything from a on up is all the computer you'll need.
Although you can easily get the ethernet card on your own, buying an ADSL modem at CompUSA isn't a likely option, nor is any inside wiring that may need to be done. So for these, you're pretty much at the mercy of your ADSL provider and the requirements of their technology. Where's the catch? As far as service fees are concerned, I didn't experience any hidden demons in opting for an ADSL connection.
The installation process didn't go any more smoothly for San Francisco filmmaker Ronald Levaco , who also ordered a digital subscriber line, which offers superfast Internet access over conventional copper phone lines. After they left, Levaco said another program wiped out his settings.
Levaco hasn't been able to use his DSL since. But SBC Communications of Texas, which owns Pac Bell, says it is on the verge of making DSL installation so simple that most customers can install the line themselves in 30 minutes to an hour. Customers in the Bay Area will be able to install DSL themselves starting late this month or early next. US West says more than 6 out of 7 customers handle the task themselves. Pac Bell customers often gripe about taking time off work to wait for technicians, who sometimes show up late or miss appointments altogether.
And eliminating visits could save SBC tens of millions of dollars a year. But Pac Bell customers who've had trouble with DSL installations doubted the phone company could make the process smooth enough for the average customer to handle alone. Levaco also complained that Pac Bell's current manual is simply "a thrown-together series of stapled pages.
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