[Coco] OT Nightmare of DSL

[Steve]

Simmon,

With DSL, distance from the central equipment is the key getting good 
bandwidth.  If you are 3 or miles from it, then this would explain the 
poor quality of service.  I my part of Los Angles, we have a very old 
phone network with very long runs to the central equipment.  About 25% 
of the homes can not be wired for DLS because the lines are too long.  
For those people, cable internet is there only option.

In your case, I'm sure you put DSL filters on all the phone devices (but 
the modem).  But if you are on the outer limits of DSL range, that would 
explain low bandwidth and dropping of the service.   Try talk with your 
DSL company again.  If they can not fix the problem, they should let you 
out of their service contract.  After all, they are not holding up there 
end of the service contact.

For me, I lucky that I have three Internet services where I live. DSL, 
Cable and FIOS.  I'm with FIOS and get 50 mbs up/down with a ping so low 
that it does not even show up on the standard test. (Ping is 0 ms.)  
That's only second level of the service with other options of 100 mbs or 
more.  I get great skype group (HD) video calls when I'm the center of 
the hub.

The only service that would be better is Google's at 1 gbs. (That's 
1,000 mbs)  But have to live in one the smaller cites that has their 
service.

Steve

On 1/24/2014 10:41 AM, Simon Jonassen wrote:
> If my posts are sporadic, it's because I have a very flaky DSL line at the
> moment.... It stays online for 1..2 mins before trying to reconnect....