DSL Express vs. Pro

[hammondegge]

i have had both. but since i got rid of my telephone land line i have been with rr. i havnt had any problems with the cable but i would like to hear about anyones satelite experiences.

[tony]

i have had both. but since i got rid of my telephone land line i have been with rr. i havnt had any problems with the cable but i would like to hear about anyones satelite experiences.

satellite is going to have extremely high latency

[brewercm]

I had one way satellite and it was alright if you have no other option. I'm with DSL now and much happier.

[brewercm]

Oh yeah, and satellite is extremely expensive but if you have no other options I guess it was alright.

[hammondegge]

thanks

[pilot_bell777]

When you share a loop, you get fast sometimes and slow others.....

What they don't tell you is that the 100mbps they advertise is for the enitre loop as a whole and your caps on your router is set to 356kbps which is about the same as the Express package!

When I lived in Garland (and had the older router) I hacked into the router and removed the Caps statement......it flew then! LOL

There is truth in their advertising, but they left some parts out! LOL

[Dozer]

I have always heard that it's the way that Pilot is explaining it- but I won't pretend to have first hand knowledge of the technical details in this area.

In all honestly, since both companies are constantly begging for new business, why not try both? I have a feeling that it's like a lot of things in life, "it depends". Road Runner broadband works great for me, so I'll go with it. It's flaky for Tim where he lives, so he'll give SBC DSL a try. I think both of these technologies still have more regional/geographic issues than they admit (for obvious reasons). Probably the only way to really be sure what will work best in your neighborhood is to try both, stick with whichever works best until it's starts being flaky or they want to raise your rates, then try the competitor again. It's the benefit of living in a Capitalistic free-market society so we might as well take advantage of it .