DSL

DSL is a "Digital Subscriber Line" and can be either:

• 1 Very fast, reliable and great

or

• 2 Unreliable, expensive and annoying.

Depends on who you get service through.

             --Ari

• Fast, reliable and great ;) ~Erin

What's the scoop on Cable vs. DSL? Which actually is faster and or more reliable? Adrian

Neither. Depends on your provider. Cable, in the Corvallis area, is far faster... fewer users, the like. I have DSL so I get a static address and gauranteed bandwidth, not just 'hope it works' (Heh, contractual obligation ;-) ). Cable's wires are faster, but the backbone they connect to is what matters.

I've got ADSL, is it related? -JoyfulGoddess

• ADSL stands for "Asynchronous DSL". Most DSLs are Asynchronous, meaning they don't use the network unless they're transmitting or receiving... most companies have dropped all the prefixes. I'm on SDSL (Actually something called "MVL", buuut...). There's IDSL and ADSL and xDSL and... It's all about the same.

dsl story: we subscribed, and a person came to install it. last monday. said we weren't "in sync" after he stuck something in our phone jack. says he'll come back in a week. computer begins to act strange for mysterious and unknown reasons. tried to contact dsl people. haven't heard from them since.

-Mari