Whats is a high speed?

[Champane Flight]

What is high speed in wireless? Our local internet is advertising 256k high speed wireless dsl, is this as fast as most? Been thinking of going that route.

 

[Crazy Horse]

I used to hook up on my old dial up at between 45,000 and 49,000 every time. Within the last 6 months I decided to get the cable hook up. 256 is way faster than dial up. Here in Alaska the local company bumped the speed up to additionally to 512 in our house because sometimes we are feeding 2 computers. And it didn't cost much more per month.

 

[klenger]

256K ain't bad. it's the baseline for DSL service. We have about 640k download with our Covad DSL, but 256 would work fine.

 

[Dane]

I couldn't get DSL out here in the woods ever since it came along for consumers. I went with DirecPC for about a year. Much faster than the 26. 4kbs I was getting with my dialup.



About 3 months ago the local telephone company calls and says they have DSL available now in my area. I gave it a shot and am VERY impressed



1. 2mbs per www.dslreports.com speed test



And thats with my crappy cat3 house wiring. Apparently there's a new DSL technology "Pronto" that is responsible.



Even if you only get 256K it will amaze you compaired to a dialup 56K modem.

 

[Philip]

If they are wireless. They have it caped at the 256k setting. Wireless is faster than cable connection is. With cable my connection speed is 3. 0mbs by dslreports also. We have wireless here. They are connecting at 3. 5 to 4. 0 mbs. My ping time to www.zone.com is 100mls. The wireless setup is around 40mls.

 

[Todd G]

Speed is out there. I just did the DSL Reports test and got 2474k. Your 256k is nothing unless it's wireless.

 

[Champane Flight]

It is.

It is wireless DSL. I am signing up for it. Will be connected Monday. It should be a whole lot better than 44K dial up. It is with the same company, so my e-mail address won't change. I keep my anti-virus up to date, is there something else I need to do to keep the hackers out now? Thanks for all the good info.

 

[klenger]

Make sure that file sharing is turned off in the networking properties. You don't need it unless you have multiple computers networked at your house. As far as I know, this one setting should keep most intruders out. Someone please chime in if I am incorrect on this.

 

[Philip]

Do a search on"802. 11b". That is the protcall that it will use. There are some issues with the security. I haven't read up on it. So I can't say what you need to do.

 

[Will24]

I have reliably seen 800+ kb/s (around 105 kB/s typically) on my little local ISP/cable company cable modem, wouldn't give it up for ANYTHING!

 

[RADdodge]

DSL, depending on provider, is typically 128 upload and 1. 2mb download. 802. 11b is a wireless protocol that has a maximum bandwidth of 11 mbps and increments down on signal strength problems or interference (besides other things). 802. 11a has higher bandwidth (54mbps, some are pushing more but that is the spec) and some vendors are supporting both protocols out of the same access box. Typical Cable Modem is 256mpbs and some are pushing 512mbps now. Fiber Optic cable backbones will allow many providers more backbone bandwidth, but basic subscriber speeds will remain about the same (so they can support more subscribers). Cable Modem or Cable Networks suffer performance problems with the more people on the local cable. DSL doesn't suffer from this. I. e. the more people in your neighborhood on a Cable Network, the slower it will become. If you are hooking up via a RJ45 or RJE connector to your computers network interface, you are not wireless. Wireless is best used for laptops with a remote access node nearby (150’ or less). There is indeed a security issue with 802. 11b, but for personal use, it’s not a big issue. More so for enterprise networks.

 

[Champane Flight]

Wireless?

This wireless has a node/antenna they put on your roof for the signal. Also installing Ethernet card.

 

[Crazy Horse]

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