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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2001 12:15 pm
by blade_146
Finally my back woods living ass can get some cable going!! I just called em and my up/down speeds are 256k/2048k. Does that sound good? Well anything is better than what I'm getting with dialup. Only 29.95 a month. Oh yeah they want to come hook everything up. Puulease!! They aint touching my box. they let you rent the modem which the lady didn't have a clue what brand it was. Is that gonna matter or should I look into buying my own? What NIC should I get? Is one better than another? I'm so excited I think I'll go home tonight and give the wife a good, well I better not get into that. Cable cable everywhere, its so fast we don't care.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2001 1:26 pm
by Wolfman
WOW...2048 downspeed....
I only get 512k and I'm very happy with that...
I rent my modem and I've got a D-Link PCI Network card which cost all of £15 and it works great....
Make sure it uses a network card though..some companies use USB modems and they suck bigtime....
I pay £33 ($48) a month but it's well worth it, especially if you play online games a lot...
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2001 2:54 pm
by Viperoni
Setup yourself with a nice 3com or Intel server NIC
But really, anything Intel/3com/Netgear will do ya just fine.
Make sure it's PCI though, ISA's are significantly slower.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2001 5:57 pm
by Koo Koo Mouse
Providing you have reliable service youll love it!
I have 1500k down service here.
Another nice thing is not having to dialup and wait for the connection to establish.. Always connected always ready.
As for nic's I can't say anything bad about Sohoware for 19.95 a card. I'm running one in each comp and no probs after pulling a faulty netgear out of one. (nothing wrong with netgear BTW.. We run tons of em at work without problems.. I must have got a bad one)
Really, any properly working nic should do..
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2001 9:19 pm
by tunis5000
Yeah whatever they give you should be OK, if it works nice and fast when they set you all up then you'll be basking of the glory that is cable and will very very happy... I still remember the day I got it with fondness...
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2001 9:31 am
by blade_146
W00T!!! THey're coming Tuesday morning to hook it up. I got the digtial cable for the tv with all the channels(hbo, cinemax, etc) the digital converter box, the 2mbit internet connection, modem and everything for 89.95 a month. Not bad considering I've been paying $60 a month for my DSS and $20 a month for DU. Now I get to wait......