Does ADSL lead to faults?
Michael
Been hearing whispers that going on ADSL certainly can be followed by
string of problems either with ADSL itself or with the phone service.
Is this true or not?
Further, if I'm just a home surfer, not running a business or
anything, is it really worth doing ADSL or is it just an unnecessary
toy? OK you can load web pages and download faster, and you don't have
to wait say 30 seconds for dial-up, but is that it? Excuse me being
ignorant, but it doesn't seem much for the money. Am I just missing
something here??
solebanana
Tris
"Michael" <soleb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Further, if I'm just a home surfer, not running a business or
> anything, is it really worth doing ADSL or is it just an unnecessary
> toy? OK you can load web pages and download faster, and you don't have
> to wait say 30 seconds for dial-up, but is that it? Excuse me being
> ignorant, but it doesn't seem much for the money. Am I just missing
> something here??
It depends what you want from the Internet, only *you* can make that
judgement. If you can, try someone else's connection and see if you like
it.
For example, watching the last shuttle landing on NASA TV a few days ago was
excellent. At 56K it is painful and very poor resolution - via ADSL it was
superb.
koorb
If you are not sure wither you want ADSL then its probably not for
you. People that can benefit from it usually know they need a faster
connection.
And yes by setting up ADSL people have been known to have problems,
but that's because the DSL connection just shows up any excising
problems. Its usually other stuff like a Sky digital box that stuffs
things up, not the connection its self.
Paul
Expensive no ..... look at it this way my 24/7 dial up isp was charging me
£15.99/month add to that the £9.99+vat that it was costing for the second
line, so in total for a dial up it was costing me £25.98.
Compare that to what I am paying now £22.00/month for ADSL with Force 9,
plus I cancelled my second line so I am now £9.99+vat a month better off, it
don't think you can complain ok there was an out lay for connection and a
new router once you have it you have it and can move isp hopefully if the
new isp migration thing comes off.
The net has become alot more fun user friendly and less frustrating as
everything loads straight away, if you do your own web sites you can upload
your site with out it taking an age.
just my 2p
Paul
"Michael" <soleb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Paul Marshall
I have had Adsl installed having upgraded from a dial-up service (anytime).
It is like night and day and has changed how I use and view the internet,
It's not like going from black & white to colour TV, it's like going from am
radio to digital surround TV. Plus it's always on and doesn't interfere
with your phone. It has saved me so much time (I do a lot of resesarch) and
IMO has paid for the monthly subscription in time savings alone by the end
of the first week of the month
It's beaut and it's changing my working and hobby practises, I should have
done it ages ago.
HTH
Paul
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"Michael" <soleb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Jack
How much is my current Internet access costing ?
How much time do I spend downloading stuff ?
If you don't spend a lot of time on-line and the costs to date are
under what you'd spend on ADSL then ... it's not for you.
I ordered ADSL because I was spending approx. the same amount on dial-up
and having to spend lots of idle minutes waiting for downloads.
Hope this helps.
In article <7a5ab551.02062...@posting.google.com>, Michael
<soleb...@hotmail.com> writes
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Jack
Michael
> but that's because the DSL connection just shows up any excising
> problems. Its usually other stuff like a Sky digital box that stuffs
> things up, not the connection its self.
Now let me get this right. If I have Sky and therefore a Sky digibox,
it is NOT a good idea to have ADSL as well? Is that right?
How likely is it that I would have trouble due to Sky? Certain? Very
likely? or just a small chance of it?
solebanana
Tris
"Michael" <soleb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> How likely is it that I would have trouble due to Sky? Certain? Very
> likely? or just a small chance of it?
This is a red herring. So your Sky box makes a phone call now and then, to
send back pay-per-view stuff. That shouldn't affect an ADSL service one
jot.
koorb
You need to have it routed through a filter, but many, many people
have managed overlooked that.
kráftéé
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Sorry but you are wrong, the problem is/was that some of the digi
boxes do put strange conditions on the line, which can & do fool the
BT test systems. It has nothing to do with the calls made.
Also as another poster has pointed out many people forget to put a
filter in line which can & does cause problems.
B-)
Ken Odlum
my ADSL connection.
There is one filter in the master socket where the phone line comes
into the house. All the extensions come off that MS.
Ken Odlum
bid-4-us
having sky digibox with ADSL causes no problems what so ever.
if you normal voice calls are working with ADSL then you should have no
issues.
BT reduce the gain on your phone line so that there is no interference on
the ADSL line,so you might notice a reduction in connection speed (over
analog).
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John Underwood
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>I have two Sky digibox's in the house and have no problem at all with
>my ADSL connection. There is one filter in the master socket where the
>phone line comes into the house. All the extensions come off that MS.
My understanding is that unless you feed the extensions from the
analogue output of the filter, you need to put a filter on every
extension to which you connect a telephone.
Logically, if you don't need to use a filter on an extension, then you
can't use that extension for ADSL (even if you put one on it to get the
socket - the line will already have been filtered so the ADSL won't
work).
That is what is said in the installation instructions of every ISP I
have seen.
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S!cjokE
> Now let me get this right. If I have Sky and therefore a Sky digibox,
> it is NOT a good idea to have ADSL as well? Is that right?
No it isnt right....not from where I am sitting anyway. I have Sky and
ADSL, heck I even moved the Sat down lead so it runs up the side of the
house right next to my ADSL cable and both are fine.
ADSL is reported to suffer from noise from external sources on a larger
scale to its cable counterparts, but it has never been an issue during my
time using it.
The outages are usually at the home gateway end :(